ContributorNetwork – Occupy Wall Street activists have begun their second month of protesting in New York City and other major U.S. cities. As a group, they have listed no official demands, but they have captured the attention of President Barack Obama and all the Republican candidates seeking to unseat him in next year’s election.

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Occupy Wall Street, Around the World
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Do you think they’ll add this rave review to the book jacket? To mark the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, new Al-Quada leader Ayman al-Zawahiri played a previously unreleased Bin Laden video clip. “I recommend that you read Obama’s Wars, by Bob Woodward.” Osama said in the video, “Obama should have been more honest with you, and should have told you that pressure was being exerted on him to continue the war, as well as to support the Israel is, not because this was dictated by America’s interests, but because it was dictated by the interests of the influential lobbies in Washington,” he said.” h/t The Examiner’s Charlie Spierling who adds : “I wonder if the CIA found any Bob Woodward books in bin Laden’s Pakistan compound?” In the undated recording, the NY Post also reports that Bin Laden said: “The truth is that you are moving in a vicious circle. For some years, you were led by the Republicans, then by the Democrats, and so on and so forth, but your train runs along the same track, which was laid by the major corporations decades ago, in order to serve their interests… “Many of your representatives in the White House and the two Houses of Congress are double agents. Even though theoretically, they are the decision makers, the real decision makers, with regard to your most important demands, are the major corporations.”

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Reuters – President Barack Obama’s job approval ratings plunged to a new low ahead of his major economic speech on Thursday, with widespread discontent among Americans over his handling of the economy and jobs, according to a spate of polls released on Tuesday.

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Assad’s End

On August 20, 2011, in barack obama, Uncategorized, by arlenschumer

Congratulations to President Obama for finally calling on Syrian president Bashar al-Assad to step down. It was past time for the White House to break decisively with a regime that has been slaughtering its people for almost six months, with a death toll conservatively estimated at 2,000 and climbing. But we applaud the president’s statement as well as the administration’s capable diplomacy that brought the major Anglo-European democracies on board.

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F A I L (NewsBusters) — A new Washington Post poll finds, among other things, that a full 70 percent of Americans either believe Barack Obama has “tried but failed” to solve “the major problems facing the country” or has actually “made problems worse.” That compares, by the way, with 71 percent of Americans in a December 2008 Pew Center poll who thought the same of outgoing President Bush. Yet in analyzing the polling data, Post staffers Jon Cohen and Dan Balz buried bad news for the president deep in their page A1 August 11 article and suggested the sour view Americans have on the Congress was the bigger story for the upcoming election season. . . . Keep reading. . .

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WaPo Poll: 70% believe Obama has “tried but failed” to solve “the major problems facing the country” or has “made problems worse”

Boehner to Seek Smaller Deficit Deal

On July 10, 2011, in barack obama, Uncategorized, by moshesharon

House Speaker John Boehner said the White House and congressional leaders have stopped pursuing the major deficit-reduction deal tackling entitlement programs and an overhaul of the tax code that he and President Barack Obama had been seeking.

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Boehner to Seek Smaller Deficit Deal

Exclusive to Yahoo! News – By Major Garrett National Journal While the political jousting continues, President Obama and congressional Republicans are moving closer to a multi-tiered deal that would include changes in Social Security benefits, tax reform, increases in various user fees, and large-scale cuts …

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ContributorNetwork – President Barack Obama spoke to the American people Thursday evening, a short speech that was covered by the major networks, announcing a drawdown plan to withdraw 10,000 troops from Afghanistan by the end of the year and all 33,000 “surge” troops by September 2012. The move will see American troop levels fall to 70,000, still a far cry from ending American involvement in Afghanistan, which was one of Senator Barack Obama’s campaign promises. Four years later, is the President simply shuffling chess pieces in a political game in order to win the next election?

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Obama Promises Afghanistan Troop Withdrawal — for Political Reasons?
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Engaging Popular Culture

On June 19, 2011, in Uncategorized, by old dog

I’m an avid movie fan – not a total film freak, but I usually get out to see the major releases, especially during the summer and winter blockbuster seasons.

House Says NO To Unlimited Debt

On June 1, 2011, in Uncategorized, by NatK

The House held an important vote tonight.