Did Obama's agenda hobble the recovery?

Was it a mistake to shoehorn President Barack Obama's longer-range economic plans into a package intended to jump-start the economy? The economic hard times are so persistent that observers who supported the Recovery Act might be feeling twinges of guilt about President Obama's stimulus package.




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[Thu, 2 Sep 2010 16:04:27 GMT]
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Israelis, Palestinians to meet every two weeks
Israeli and Palestinian leaders opened direct peace talks under U.S. auspices on Thursday and agreed to meet every two weeks to try to forge a deal within a year.

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[Thu, 2 Sep 2010 23:38:57 GMT]
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Army 'birther' loses ruling on evidence
An Army judge rules that proof of President Barack Obama's eligibility to be president isn't relevant to the defense of an Army doctor accused of failing to obey a lawful order.

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Obama declares end of Iraq combat mission
President Barack Obama makes it official, saying in a national address that Operation Iraqi Freedom is over and that the nation?s No. 1 priority is fixing the economy.

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[Wed, 1 Sep 2010 01:19:20 GMT]
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Obama's full speech: 'Operation Iraqi Freedom is over'
The full text of the president's Oval Office speech on Iraq, as prepared for delivery.

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[Wed, 1 Sep 2010 00:19:17 GMT]
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Fact check: Is Iraq combat really over for U.S.?

Iraqi policemen stand guard at a check point in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday. Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said the end of American combat operations Tuesday leaves his country independent and an equal to the United States and he assured his people their own security forces will protect them.Despite President Barack Obama's declaration Tuesday of an end to the combat mission in Iraq, combat almost certainly lies ahead.




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[Wed, 1 Sep 2010 01:49:35 GMT]
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First Thoughts: From 'shock and awe' to a whimper
The president prepares for an evening Oval Office address, marking the end of combat operations in Iraq. Why the administration isn?t declaring victory or "mission accomplished."

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[Tue, 31 Aug 2010 13:22:23 GMT]
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Gibbs: Troop pullout should be permanent
Presidential spokesman Robert Gibbs says he cannot foresee a circumstance in which the United States would have to send combat troops back to Iraq.

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[Tue, 31 Aug 2010 13:36:30 GMT]
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Oval Office gets a whole new look

The image on the left is President Barack Obama's old Oval Office. The image on the right shows the Oval Office on Aug. 31 ? after the makeover was complete.It's out with the old and in with the new as the president's formal workspace undergoes a major makeover, including a new rug, furniture and wallpaper.




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Obama: Too many Americans still out of work

President Barack Obama makes a statement on the economy in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington.President Barack Obama acknowledged Monday that the economy continues to struggle and too many Americans are still struggling to find jobs.




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[Mon, 30 Aug 2010 20:14:48 GMT]
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No 'mission accomplished' in Obama speech

President Barack Obama walks out of the Oval Office to the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Monday, Aug. 30, 2010, to make a statement on the economy.)The White House says there are two words President Barack Obama will not say Tuesday night in his speech about the end of the U.S. combat role in Iraq: "Mission accomplished."




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[Mon, 30 Aug 2010 20:04:59 GMT]
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Obama expands sanctions against North Korea
The Obama administration expanded sanctions against North Korea on Monday by freezing assets of individuals, companies and organizations allegedly linked to support for Pyongyang's nuclear program.

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[Mon, 30 Aug 2010 19:18:30 GMT]
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Obama: I?ll ?make sure we get the job done?

Aug. 29: In an exclusive interview five years to the day after Hurricane Katrina made landfall, NBC?s Brian Williams and President Barack Obama discuss New Orleans? long road back, the state of the U.S. economy, the oil spill and Americans? questions about his religious faith. (Nightly News)President Barack Obama rejected criticism of his response to the Gulf oil spill Sunday, saying in an interview on ?NBC Nightly News? that his administration jumped on the crisis immediately.




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[Sun, 29 Aug 2010 22:54:42 GMT]
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Economic issues loom over Obama's busy week
Those hoping that President Obama would make a hard pivot to the economy after his 10-day vacation might not get their wish - at least over the next two weeks.

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[Mon, 30 Aug 2010 17:16:21 GMT]
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Obama visits New Orleans on Katrina anniversary

Hurricane Katrina survivor Robert Green, Sr., center, who lost his mother and granddaughter in the storm, leads a second line parade through the Lower Ninth Ward. President Barack Obama celebrated New Orleans's revival from Hurricane Katrina on Sunday and pledged common purpose with residents in the continuing struggle to protect and rebuild the Gulf Coast.




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[Sun, 29 Aug 2010 23:16:28 GMT]
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Obama says he ignored Beck rally


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[Sun, 29 Aug 2010 20:34:12 GMT]
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For Obamas, a (mostly) uninterrupted vacation
President Barack Obama wrapped up a 10-day vacation Saturday that was blissfully free of the news emergencies that have interrupted some of his past getaways.

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[Sat, 28 Aug 2010 19:23:47 GMT]
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Newsweek: Why the 44th president is no FDR


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[Sun, 29 Aug 2010 14:38:58 GMT]
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Rain lifts, vacationing Obamas dine out for lunch

President Barack Obama tosses a golf ball in the air while playing golf at the Mink Meadows Golf Club, in Vineyard Haven, Mass., on the island of Martha's Vineyard, Wednesday, Aug. 25, 2010. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)Emerging from semi-seclusion after four days of drenching rain, a cheery President Barack Obama lunched with his wife and daughters at a wharfside restaurant Wednesday and mingled with fellow vacationers. It was the family's first public appearance together since beginning their Martha's Vineyard stay.




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[Wed, 25 Aug 2010 21:53:29 GMT]
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President's deli choice cited over sanitation

President Barack Obama orders a corned beef sandwich from Dean Fader at a visit to Jerry's Famous Deli in Miami before departing for Washington August 18. The deli was cited Tuesday by a state inspector for critical violations of sanitation and safety laws.The Miami Beach restaurant where President Barack Obama ordered pastrami sandwiches to go last week was cited this week by a state inspector for critical violations of sanitation and safety laws, a newspaper reported.




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[Thu, 26 Aug 2010 23:42:18 GMT]
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Biden: GOP tax cut claims a 'bunch of malarkey'
Vice President Joe Biden says Republican assertions that small businesses would suffer if all of the expiring Bush tax cuts aren't extended are a "bunch of malarkey."

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[Wed, 25 Aug 2010 16:30:26 GMT]
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Obama administration preps stem cell appeal
Justice Department lawyers are preparing to ask a federal judge to put a hold on his ruling this week that blocks awarding further federal grants for stem-cell research.

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[Wed, 25 Aug 2010 18:59:55 GMT]
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Biden to vets: Iraq insurgents have failed

A U.S. soldier from the 1st Battalion, 116th Infantry Regiment, carries his bag as he prepares to pull out from Iraq to Kuwait, at Tallil Air Base near Nassiriya, 185 miles southeast of Baghdad on August 15.Vice President Joe Biden has told a military veterans convention in Indianapolis that insurgents in Iraq have failed in their efforts to undermine elections and the forming of a new government there.




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[Mon, 23 Aug 2010 17:40:22 GMT]
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Vacationing Obama can't shed entourage

President Barack Obama's motorcade makes it's way through Martha's Vineyard, Mass., where the first family is vacationing, Saturday, Aug. 21. Obama's vehicle was one in a 20-vehicle motorcade, which passed through a cordon of Massachusetts State Police motorcycle officers, in a protective cocoon of Secret Service SUVs and agents. President Barack Obama had a simple task for his first morning on vacation: shoot over to a Martha's Vineyard bookstore to fill out his daughters' summer reading list and grab himself a novel.




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[Sun, 22 Aug 2010 17:55:16 GMT]
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Winners in Obama education reform unveiled
More than 13 million students and 1 million educators will share $3.4 billion from the second round of the federal "Race to the Top" grant competition, the U.S. Education Department says.

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[Tue, 24 Aug 2010 19:05:49 GMT]
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Spill bound BP, feds together

BP employees and members of the U.S. Coast Guard in the command center at the Houma Joint Information Center listen to BP Chief Operating Officer Doug Suttles speak about the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in Houma, La., in June.The BP-government partnership raises questions about the government's ability to be impartial in meting out punishment for the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history.




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[Sun, 22 Aug 2010 04:16:04 GMT]
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Obama knocks Republicans on campaign finance
President Barack Obama says Republicans should join him in opposing a Supreme Court ruling that vastly increased how much corporations can spend on political campaign ads.

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[Sat, 21 Aug 2010 16:51:59 GMT]
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Poll: Nearly 6 in 10 oppose war in Afghanistan

"I think we really need to give them an opportunity to economically, socially grow," says Mary Campbell, 56, a Mass. city worker. She joins the growing number of Americans who see no end in sight in Afghanistan.A majority of Americans see no end in sight in Afghanistan, and nearly six in 10 oppose the nine-year-old war as President Barack Obama sends tens of thousands more troops to the fight, according to a new Associated Press-GfK poll.




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[Fri, 20 Aug 2010 18:05:04 GMT]
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Newsweek: Obama wins one in Thailand
The Obama administration is being so heavily hammered politically?with declining poll numbers and out-of-control debates on Manhattan mosques?that officials appeared stunned when the administration scored a foreign policy coup early Friday.

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[Fri, 20 Aug 2010 17:17:37 GMT]
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On vacation, Obama tends to summer reading list

President Barack Obama waves to a gathered crowd as he leaves the Bunch of Grapes book store in Vineyard Haven, Mass., Friday, Aug. 2010, where the first family is vacationing. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)In the first full day of a Martha's Vineyard vacation, President Barack Obama set aside some of the cares of office Friday to work on his family's summer reading list.




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[Sat, 21 Aug 2010 00:05:25 GMT]
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Obama's cruel summer
Summertime has become Barack Obama?s season of discontent.

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[Thu, 19 Aug 2010 13:40:05 GMT]
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The quiet resurgence of George W. Bush?

On Wednesday, combat operations ended in Iraq. And George W. Bush, who intiated that war, was nowhere to be found.Despite enjoying a mini-moment of grudging acceptance, George W. Bush is lying low. Were he to swagger back onto the stage, Republican friends say, the mellowing mood would evaporate ? and complicate the GOP?s effort to win back Congress.




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[Fri, 20 Aug 2010 19:31:58 GMT]
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White House says Obama is Christian, prays
The White House insisted on Thursday that President Barack Obama is a Christian who prays daily.  The remarks came hours after a poll showed that nearly one in five people said they think Obama is Muslim

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[Thu, 19 Aug 2010 19:04:00 GMT]
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Vacation time for the president

President Barack Obama shakes hands with a group of spectators gathered to watch him land at the Cape Cod Coast Guard Station in Bourne, Mass., Thursday, Aug. 19, 2010, on their way to Martha's Vineyard. (AP Photo/Stew Milne)Martha's Vineyard is barely an hour's flight from Washington, but it felt worlds away as President Barack Obama and his family began their summer vacation Thursday amid the island's beaches and quaint farmhouses.




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[Thu, 19 Aug 2010 21:04:15 GMT]
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'No regrets' on mosque issue, Obama says

A vacant building stands in Manhattan where the Cordoba Initiative Mosque and Cultural Center has been proposed.With the controversy still swirling over plans for a mosque near the former World Trade Center, President Obama said he had "no regrets" about his involvement in the debate.




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[Thu, 19 Aug 2010 01:10:35 GMT]
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First thoughts: Not going through the motions
President Obama is on the final leg of his cross-country campaign swing, and he's trying out some new speech lines.

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[Wed, 18 Aug 2010 14:03:21 GMT]
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Obama engaging in kitchen-table politics in Ohio

President Barack Obama greets people waiting on the tarmac after arriving at the Port Columbus International Airport, in Columbus, Ohio, on Tuesday.Pivoting from million-dollar fundraisers to more mainstream struggles, President Barack Obama is sitting down at the kitchen table of an Ohio family for a chat about the economy and a chance to promote his ideas.




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[Wed, 18 Aug 2010 14:03:13 GMT]
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AP Poll: Obama at new low for handling economy

President Barack Obama listens during a talk about the economy, Wednesday, Aug. 18, 2010, in Columbus, Ohio.  (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)President Barack Obama earned his lowest marks ever on his handling of the economy in a new Associated Press-GfK poll, which also found that an overwhelming majority of Americans now describe the nation's financial outlook as poor.




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[Wed, 18 Aug 2010 19:39:02 GMT]
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Obama says recession recovery to take few years

President Barack Obama and Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., left, take part in a roundtable discussion with small business owners at Grand Central Bakery in Seattle, Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2010. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)A campaigning President Barack Obama said Tuesday it will take a few years to dig the nation out of the recession, warning impatient voters that any candidate promising faster results "is just looking for your vote."




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[Wed, 18 Aug 2010 03:45:41 GMT]
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