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HAITI UPDATE: Bill Clinton Says “Haiti Needs Cash, Trucks Urgently” (Yahoo!)
Former President Bill Clinton — his penchant for public speaking unbowed — called Thursday for more help for earthquake-ravaged Haiti, telling the World Economic Forum that the country is determined to escape its troubled past.
“This is an opportunity to reimagine the future for the Haitian people, to build what they want to become, not rebuild [...]
STORY OF THE DAY: Help Haiti – Bill Clinton Asks For Your Support (Fox News Video)
President Bill Clinton, in an interview with Fox News’ Greta Van Susteren, said the next 10 days are the most critical for the rescue efforts in Haiti after a magnitude-7.0 earthquake rocked the country Tuesday.
For “three or four more days, we can still find people alive,” Clinton, the U.N. envoy to Haiti, said Wednesday. [...]
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: White House Hikes Its Deficit Estimate By $2 Trillion
The White House is likely to dramatically increase its projected 10-year budget deficit estimate next week by nearly $2 trillion, senior administration officials said Friday.
Obama administration officials have concluded the economy was much worse last year — and tax revenues much lower — than they had initially assumed, which means that the estimated budget deficit [...]
Charles Krauthammer / Opinion: Obama’s Nuclear Arms Deal With Russia Is Plumage — But at a Price
The signing ceremony in Moscow was a grand affair. For Barack Obama, foreign policy neophyte and “reset” man, the arms reduction agreement had a Kissingerian air. A fine feather in his cap. And our president likes his plumage.
Unfortunately for the United States, the country Obama represents, the prospective treaty is useless at best, detrimental at [...]
Obama To Protect U.S. Borders Against Mexican Drug Cartels
Story Highlights • NEW: Obama says plan seeks to halt weapons from entering Mexico from U.S. • Homeland security chief says plan tries to prevent “spillover violence” in U.S. • More federal agents, equipment and resources to be moved to Mexican border • Gun control advocacy group says Mexican drug gangs exploit weak U.S. [...]
Obama Says ‘Later’ To The White House Press Corp
At a time when his Washington honeymoon is turning into a hazing, President Barack Obama and his team are launched on a strategy to sail above the traditional White House press corps by reaching out to liberal commentators, local reporters and ethnic media.
The highest-profile moments in the new approach have been well-noted, such as the [...]
Ben Smith’s Blog: Obama backs off on Israel, again – POLITICO.com
President Barack Obama’s controversial pick for a top intelligence post blasted the “Israel lobby” on his way out the door Tuesday, intensifying a debate on the role Israel’s allies played in the latest failed Obama appointment.
Charles W. Freeman Jr.’s abrupt withdrawal from his appointment as chairman of the National Intelligence Council came after he drew [...]
Will Clinton’s Overture Get Iran to Cooperate?
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s announcement that Iran would be invited to a summit on Afghanistan has been greeted as a possible icebreaker in the tense relationship between Washington and Tehran. Iran is weighing whether to accept the invitation, its foreign minister said Friday, and will deliver its response next month. The overture should be [...]
Standing O’s Greet Clinton in Brussels
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton electrified a group of young European government workers and activists Friday in an hour-long town-hall-style meeting in which she promised more cooperation with Europe and voiced regret at Bush administration positions on climate change and other issues.
“Certainly the U.S. has been negligent in facing up to our global responsibilities,” Clinton [...]
Clinton Invites Iran To Conference On Afghanistan
In a sign of the new emphasis on diplomacy, the Obama administration said Thursday that Iran would be invited to a high-level conference on Afghanistan’s future.
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton proposed the session, which could be held at the end of this month, at the same time the Obama administration is reformulating its strategy [...]
