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Distancing Obama By The Prowler on 11.9.09 @ 6:08AM SECURITY CHECK While it is true that alleged Fort Hood shooter, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, never served in an any role for the Obama Administration's transition team, the White House was concerned enough about Hasan's appearance on a list of attendees at a homeland security conference that it ran a check on Hasan before President Obama made impromptu remarks about the shooting last week. "You hate to say it, but this is what it's come to," says a White House source.Not enough about him? Barack Obama skips Berlin Wall ceremonies
This is from the Telegraph. http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/tobyharnden/100016207/not-enough-about-him-barack-obama-skips-berlin-wall-ceremonies/ There was one world leader absent for today’s commemorations marking the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Surprisingly enough, it’s President Barack Obama, who found time last year to give a campaign speech there last year, which Der Spiegel summed up as “People of the World, Look at Me”.Obama calls for new effort for 2-state solution
Associated Press WEIMAR, Germany – President Barack Obama toured a World War II concentration camp Friday after prodding the international community to redouble efforts toward separate Israeli and Palestinian states in hopes of resolving a conflict fueled by the Jewish nation's post-Holocaust creation. "The moment is now for us to act" to achieve Mideast peace, the new U.S. president declared earlier in Dresden, alongside German Chancellor Angela Merkel.Conservatives racing ahead in EU parliament voting
Conservatives racing ahead in EU parliament voting By CONSTANT BRAND and ROBERT WIELAARD, Associated Press Writers Constant Brand And Robert Wielaard, Associated Press Writers BRUSSELS – Conservatives raced toward victory in some of Europe's largest economies Sunday as initial results and exit polls showed voters punishing left-leaning parties in European parliament elections in France, Germany and elsewhere. Some right-leaning parties said the results vindicated their reluctance to spend more on company bailouts and fiscal stimulus amid the global economic crisis. First projections by the European Union showed center-right parties would have the most seats — between 263 and 273 — in the 736-member parliament.Another Perspective
Deficit of Courage By Joseph Lawler on 12.19.08 @ 6:08AM In recent Newsweek article, German finance minister Peer Steinbrück criticized the recent stimulus measures proposed by UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown, remarking, "The switch from decades of supply-side politics all the way to a crass Keynesianism is breathtaking." Brown wasn't pleased. But no one took the barb more personally than the self-appointed champion of Keynesianism, the Nobel laureate Paul Krugman.Obambi's Euro Freeze
Public Post +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ BAM'S EURO FREEZE NEW ICE AGE WITH OLD ALLIES Ralph Peters Last updated: 3:48 am June 10, 2009 Posted: 2:14 am June 10, 2009 WHEN Europeans wish upon a star, they get an American president with a huge Third World chip on his shoulder. Those "sophisticated" Europeans dismissed "cowboy" Bush as a rube beneath their contempt. If the continent's opinion-makers could've changed their voter registrations, they would've flown to Chicago to vote for Barack Obama last fall.Cheney's speech ignored some inconvenient truths
Jonathan S. Landay and Warren P. Strobel | McClatchy Newspapers WASHINGTON — Former Vice President Dick Cheney's defense Thursday of the Bush administration's policies for interrogating suspected terrorists contained omissions, exaggerations and misstatements.German row over Obama speech plan
German row over Obama speech plan A leading German politician is the latest to criticise a tentative plan by Barack Obama to speak at Berlin's historic Brandenburg Gate. Erwin Huber, the leader of one of the main governing parties, said the Democratic White House hopeful had played no part in German reunification. Chancellor Angela Merkel earlier said it was "a bit odd" that Mr Obama should speak at the Cold War landmark.Berlin expecting worst post-war recession
Published: 21 Jan 09 13:55 CET Berlin forecast on Wednesday that Germany will suffer its deepest post-war recession this year just as Chancellor Angela Merkel's cabinet chewed over a historic rescue package aimed at boosting the economy. Germany's economy, which accounts for about a third of eurozone output, will contract by around 2.25 percent in 2009, the government said, as the sharp global slowdown hits demand for the country's all-important exports. "For this economic downturn that we are unfortunately having to predict is without precedent in the postwar period, it is the biggest slump in Germany's recent history," Economy Minister Michael Glos told a news conference.Sarkozy snipes at 'dim' Spanish PM and 'weak' Barack Obama
The Times April 17, 2009 http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article6106250.ece Charles Bremner in Paris The US President is weak, the Spanish leader is dim, the German Chancellor is clinging on to France’s coat-tails and the head of the European Commission is irrelevant. That, at any rate, is the world according to President Sarkozy, who has spent the week airing his unvarnished opinions of Barack Obama and an array of international politicians — abruptly ending France’s honeymoon with the US and needling Washington on several strategic issues. In the latest in a stream of accounts from the Élysée Palace, Mr Sarkozy was quoted yesterday as telling an all-party group of MPs that Mr Obama was inexperienced and indecisive.
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