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Today's Buzz: Obama promotes Rice: Good choice?
Orlando Sentinel Editorial BoardPresident Obama has named U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice to be his national security adviser. Rice has been a lightning rod for criticism since she appeared on national TV after the deadly attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi and wrongly...Tags: Central Intelligence Agency, National Security, Elections, Susan Rice, White House
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Take Benghazi seriously
Maybe I look at Benghazi differently because I am a Marine Corps wife and mother, but there are four men dead who shouldn't have died and I want to know why. Maybe people wouldn't have such a cavalier attitude about it if their son had been one of the... -
Controversies add to Obama's 2nd term frustrations
WASHINGTON (AP) — For President Barack Obama, the opening months of his second term have been a frustrating reminder of the limits of presidential power and the durability of the Washington political apparatus he disdains. Obama has yet to achieve...
Tags: Jay Carney, Polls, Crime, Law and Justice, Parties and Movements, Republican Party
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Conservatives: lose the obsession with Obama
Conservatives have long viewed Washington as one giant, inevitable disaster waiting to happen. For conservative political strategists, part of our job is helping to frame that eventual disaster as President Barack Obama's fault. But conservatives should...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Taxation, Barack Obama, Rahm Emanuel, Justice System
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Can anyone give the president critical advice?
In my professorial days, I had a colleague with such a well-honed naysayer persona that he would interrupt a faculty meeting in progress, shout "No!" and no one paid any attention. He could be depended upon to object to everything, seeing his role as...
Tags: Taxation, Barack Obama, Taliban, U.S. Congress, Fidel Castro
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Are there comparisons between Nixon, Obama?
"I will not comment on a third-rate burglary attempt. Obviously we don't condone that kind of second-rate burglary." Ronald Ziegler, President Richard Nixon's press secretary's response to media inquiries about whether the White House had anything to do...
Tags: Elections, Iran, Gerald Ford, Parties and Movements, Politics
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U.S. House committee issues subpoena for Benghazi documents
ReutersBy Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON, May 28 (Reuters) - The Republican chairman of a congressional oversight committee ordered the U.S. State Department on Tuesday to provide documents related to "talking points" used to discuss September's Benghazi...Tags: United Nations, Democratic Party, Susan Rice, Republican Party, Barack Obama
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Partisan politics, little new information at House Benghazi hearing
WASHINGTON — Partisan politics loomed over a House hearing Wednesday on the deadly September 2012 attack on a U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, as Republicans and Democrats clashed over the meaning of testimony from three witnesses...Tags: Elijah E. Cummings, Wars and Interventions, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Barack Obama, U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform
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Nobody died at Watergate, but it was a bigger scandal than Benghazi
Before Wednesday's hearing into last September’s attack on a U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) said: “If you link Watergate and Iran-Contra together and multiply it maybe by 10 or so, you’re going to...Tags: United Nations, Iran, Islam, Susan Rice, Barack Obama
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Scandals put presidential credibility on the line
When the storm of administration scandals first hit President Barack Obama, he offered a good impersonation of Claude Raines in "Casablanca," expressing shock that gambling was going on in Rick's saloon. His verbal outrage at the snooping of the IRS and...Tags: Jay Carney, Political Corruption, Taxation, John Boehner, Barack Obama
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Could Biden benefit from scrutiny of Hillary Clinton's handling of Benghazi?
If former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton hoped she could segue quietly into private life as she pondered a presidential bid in 2016, that fantasy has been abruptly harpooned in the resurrection of the political squabble over the terrorist attack on...Tags: Elections, Andrew Cuomo, Hillary Clinton, Martin O'Malley, Joe Biden
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Top item on Obama's agenda: damage control
As it must come to all American presidents, it seems, Barack Obama's policy agenda is being crowded out of the headlines by the imperative of damage control against administration scandal. The allegations of incompetence or worse in the IRS' targeting...Tags: Democratic Party, Barack Obama, U.S. Congress, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan
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