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10 Dec 2009 01:36

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U.S.: We’re going to use three circles to describe Afghan War support

  • 51% support the idea of sending more troops to Afghanistan
  • 43% prefer to keep the troops we have now – if none at all
  • 6% don’t really care either way because they don’t wanna source
  • For some reason, we had been wanting to play with a style like this on the blog for months, but only got to doing it tonight. Let us know what you think and you might see it more often. (P.S.: Not to be harsh, but if you’re reading this using Internet Explorer, this is gonna look ugly, but we’re OK with that. Maybe it’ll convince you to get a better browser or something.)
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09 Dec 2009 00:56

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U.S.: Obama’s plan for doling out more jobs: Spend some more!

  • $100
    billion     to help with additional benefits, food stamps and health insurance for the unemployed
  • $70
    billion     to create more jobs, except this time with more sprinkles and frosting, we think source
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04 Dec 2009 10:09

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U.S.: Obama puts pressure on the private sector to start hiring again

  • While I believe that government has a critical role in creating the conditions for economic growth, ultimately, true economic recovery is only going to come from the private sector.
  • Barack Obama • Speaking at the jobs summit, which include more than 100 CEOs and other buisness and political leaders, about the private sector’s role in economic recovery. In other words, you bastards have to start hiring again if we’re gonna get out of this mess. source
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02 Dec 2009 10:34

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U.S., World: Daily Poll: Obama’s plan for Afghanistan; is it the right way?


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02 Dec 2009 10:05

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U.S.: The Senate is in the middle of debating Obama’s Afghan plan

  • Success is the real exit strategy, and when conditions on the ground have decisively begun to change for the better. That is when our troops should start to return home with honor, not one minute longer, not one minute sooner, and certainly not on some arbitrary date in July 2011.
  • John McCain • Discussing the troop increase Obama has planned as well as the pullout. The Senate hearings on the event are currently going on, and The New York Times has a pretty thorough liveblog about what may be the moment that defines Obama’s diplomatic legacy. source
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28 Nov 2009 12:18

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U.S., World: The U.S. still has an operational secret prison in Afghanistan

  • The black jail was the most dangerous and fearful place. They don’t let the ICRC officials or any other civilians see or communicate with the people they keep there. Because I did not know what time it was, I did not know when to pray.
  • Detained Kandahar spare-parts dealer Hamidullah • Describing the scary situation he faced when he was held at a secret prison at the Bagram Air Base. Hamidullah, who doesn’t use a last name, faced a windowless concrete cell lit by a single light bulb and twice-daily interrogation sessions – the only contact he had with the outside world. Obama had shut many of these secret prisons down in January, but his order only applied to those run by the CIA. This prison is run by Special Ops forces. source
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25 Nov 2009 17:28

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U.S., World: Obama has big plans for climate change in Copenhagen

  • 17% goal for emissions cuts by 2020 – good luck source
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24 Nov 2009 23:29

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U.S.: Not a good month to be an Obama staffer tied to Gitmo

  • first Gregory Craig, who was in charge of policy for detainees, left the White House. Time has a great article about his downfall here.
  • second Phillip Carter, a Defense Department official in charge of closing Guantanamo, resigned for “personal reasons.” Hmm. source
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24 Nov 2009 19:32

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Politics: New Obama poll: Whites afraid of the scary black man

  • 39% of white people approve of Obama’s job performance
  • 90% of black people approve of Obama’s job performance
  • 80%+ of liberals give Obama some lovin’; whites are the only decline source
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24 Nov 2009 19:24

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U.S.: Obama has to make a big decision. Time for a speech!

  • After eight years, some of those years in which we did not have, I think, either the resources or the strategy to get the job done, it is my intention to finish the job.
  • President Barack Obama • On his Afghan troop announcement, which many expect him to make during a live television address Tuesday – just around the point you should be making Turkey (or Tofurky) soup out of your leftovers. As with seemingly everything in his presidency, he’s either going to piss off his base or piss off the right with his decision. We hope he does the right thing and figures out a way to piss off both sides. Now that would be awesomely presidential of him. source
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