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/ 10 January 2011
The shooting of Gabrielle Giffords may lead to the temporary hibernation of right-wing rage, but it is encoded in conservative DNA.
Republicans will be out to sabotage the Healthcare Bill while Obama tries to heal the bipartisan rift.
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/ 11 January 2010
He spent a year trying to do things co-operatively. Now he must take more charge and not let Congress call the shots.
The conservatives who now dominate the party of the American right may come to rue losing their moderate wing.
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/ 9 February 2009
Well, it’s already happened. Barely two weeks into the job and President Barack Obama has compromised fundamental principles.
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/ 29 September 2008
The financial crisis ended the Palin circus but the Democratic presidential candidate must buck up
his ideas to exploit McCain’s weak point.
So, bloodied and at least partially bowed, Barack Obama is finally the putative Democratic nominee.
So, round one of the 2008 foreign policy debate goes to … Barack Obama? Improbable as it seems, in the first direct rhetorical showdown of the general election campaign — over a question, foreign policy "toughness", that’s been a perceived Democratic weakness since Vietnam — it was the guy with the thin foreign policy resumé.
The maths is still the maths. But after Hillary Clinton’s substantial win over Barack Obama in Pennsylvania, the maths is now competing with the mo — that is, momentum. Even after Tuesday’s 10-point defeat, Obama still appears all but certain to finish the primary season with more popular votes and more pledged delegates than Clinton.
Even after the turbulence he encountered last week, Barack Obama still seems the probable Democratic nominee for one simple reason. By June 8, all 54 primaries and caucuses will be completed. And on that morning Obama will, unless something really weird happens, be ahead of Hillary Clinton in the count of pledged delegates.