He did it! During his trip to China, President Barack Obama
mentioned human rights and the importance of free thinking, and China
didn't dump its massive pile of U.S. dollars. America must still have
some sway left in the world.
Perhaps Obama is now on a roll and will score a last-minute deal with
China on climate change reduction targets or revaluing the Chinese yuan
to get the global economic order rebalanced. Not.
A year ago,
Barack Obama was elected to bring change to America. But his efforts to
transform Washington are being stymied by one of the capital's oldest
of political traditions: the Senate filibuster. Ten months into Obama's
presidency, Democrats have passed just one major piece of legislation,
February's stimulus package.
... a serious news network was never a fitting venue for his nativist, anti-immigrant pep rallies,” wrote Andres Martinez of the New America Foundation. ...
"We thought we were getting a man of action. Instead, we got someone
who'll spend six hours chasing a white ball around a park," Joe
Mathews, a senior fellow at the New America Foundation, said, with
tongue planted only partly in cheek. "If voters had known about the
golf, they would have been less surprised by his lack of urgency on
many issues." ... Original Article
Turkey's prime
minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, was expected to come to the White House
on Thursday for a meeting with President Barack Obama. Erdogan's visit
has now been postponed, and the decision to postpone comes on the heels
of the Turkish leader's high-profile visit to Iran this week.
In this week's New America/Politico Live Chat, Jamie M. Zimmerman, New America's deputy director of the Global Assets Project, will be taking questions at ...
Twenty-five years
ago, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Jeane Kirkpatrick famously
lambasted Democrats as "blame America firsters" and a party plagued by
"self-criticism and self-denigration" of America. It was a speech at
pace with an emerging political stereotype that suggested Democrats
weren't quite patriotic enough and didn't love their country as much as
Republicans did. This image of Democratic weakness and self-doubt
became one of the most effective attack lines for Republicans -- and
Democrats' greatest political liability.
Tehran threw
President Barack Obama a badly needed "lifeline" for his Iran policy at
last week's nuclear discussions in Geneva: It promised U.N. access to a
recently declared nuclear site and committed "in principle" to ship
low-enriched uranium, or LEU, abroad to make fuel rods for producing
medical isotopes. If Geneva had been a "bust," Obama would have been
committed to mustering international endorsement for what his secretary
of state calls "crippling" sanctions against Iran -- even though no
Lisa Margonelli, author of Oil on the Brain and director of New America's Energy Policy Initiative, takes questions on the current state of the energy and climate debate in this week's New America/Politico Live Chat ...
Moreover, said William Hartung, director of the arms and security initiative at the New America Foundation, “If the decision ends up putting Patriot ...
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