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On the economy i give him a C+ My job is still intact though the money has lessened. On foreign policy He hasn't demonstrated a clear grade, so leave this one for further review. On health care Obama has sounded his trumpet but I expect very little. On leadership of the nation, I'm not very impressed. My positive words are trampled by mistakes and mishaps Obama has made but I keep hoping..

Euro-Bama: Supernews

"Be cool, Joe"

Although Supernews runs on Algore's Current franchise and usually only bashes conservatives, it would seem that this year the writers have developed some intellectual honesty and become more equality-minded in their humor.

Obama has to correct Joe Biden, again, for saying something true

'No green light' for Israeli attack on Iran

Happy 4th, AIPAC.

Obama Wins An Election In The Middle East

Lebanon's voters gave the White House the victory it wanted -- with a lot of help from Hezbollah.

 

President Barack Obama's speech in Cairo last Thursday may already have borne fruit. His call for political moderates in the Muslim world to fight extremism may have helped tip the weekend's parliamentary elections in Lebanon to the anti-Syrian March 14 Alliance. Obama did not explicitly call for the defeat of Hezbollah in the elections, but the Lebanese already knew where the administration's sympathies lay. His speech came three weeks after a Beirut visit by Vice President Joe Biden in which Biden warned at a news conference, "We will evaluate the shape of our assistance programs based on the composition of the new government and the policies it advocates."

 

Read more: http://globaldevelopmentnews.blogspot.com/2009/06/obama-wins-election-in-middle-east.html

 

Tags: Biden, Obama, Salon, Lebanon election, Hariri, Damascus, Global Development news, Hezbollah, Lebanese, Nasrallah, Christians, Sunnis, Samir Geagea, Lebanese election, 

Obama to Accelerate Economic Stimulus Plan

 

U.S. President Barack Obama is stepping up the pace of government spending to stimulate the American economy. The goal is to create or save 600,000 jobs in the next three months.

Read more: http://globaleconomicnews.blogspot.com/2009/06/obama-to-accelerate-economic-stimulus.html

 

Tags: Obama, Biden, Economic Recovery Act, Accelerated Stimulus Package, Summer Youth Programs, Construction Projects, Unemployment, $787 billion economic stimulus package into law, GlobalEconomicNewsBlogspot,

Intelligence

In addition to restoring the credibility of the Department of Justice, much work needs to be done to restore the integrity of our intelligence agencies. The president-elect has been under pressure, and rightly so, to appoint a director of the CIA who is not tainted by the CIA's complicity in unlawful interrogation techniques and other questionable practices during the Bush administration. He surprised many people by choosing Leon Panetta, who has virtually no background in the area.

This appointment immediately came under fire from Senator Feinstein. Perhaps she was just miffed that she was not consulted beforehand, and Joe Biden apparently took care to patch things over in that regard as best he could. But is there any validity to her contention that the director of the CIA should presumptively be someone with background and experience in the agency? Why does she think that is so important? Many other agency heads are brought in from outside the agency that they are called upon to lead. With respect to the CIA, this seems an especially good time to bring in someone from the outside to re-think the agency's role. Could it be that Senator Feinstein and other members of the intelligence sub-committee simply think that they would find it easier to get along with someone who is comfortable with the old ways of doing things, with which they are themselves complicit?