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Michael Gerson: Obama’s Economic Irrelevance
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Obama’s Economic Irrelevance
By Michael Gerson
If there is a single moment that symbolizes President Obama’s dramatically altered re-election prospects, it was his visit to a Jeep plant in Toledo on June 3. Obama’s remarks that day were familiar. America had faced the worst recession “in our lifetimes.” His opponents had wanted to do “nothing.” [...]
Michael Gerson: Obama’s Serial Indecision
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Obama’s Serial Indecision
by Michael Gerson
An administration that lacks a consistent foreign policy philosophy has nevertheless established a predictable foreign policy pattern. A popular revolt takes place in country X. President Obama is caught by surprise and says little. A few days later an administration spokesman weakly calls for “reform.” A few more days [...]
Michael Gerson: Obama’s Middle East Test
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Obama’s Middle East Test
by Michael Gerson
I last saw Ayman Nour in a dingy Cairo conference room in 2005 while he was running for president against Hosni Mubarak, Egypt’s military ruler. During a Middle Eastern trip, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice had convened a small group of Egyptian dissidents and civil society [...]