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Obama plans ambitious first week, aides say CNN a Wednesday meeting with military brass to map out a change to the mission in Iraq ..... issuance of executive orders on .... the detainment of terror suspects....... the Mideast crisis has shot to the top of the immediate agenda. The aides said Obama has been pushing behind the scenes for quick, decisive action, overriding the advice of some aides who believe getting active instantly may raise unrealistic expectations for Mideast peace. ........ mulling several high-profile executive orders that can change U.S. policy with the simple stroke of a pen, particularly major changes to the approach in the war on terror. ...... executive order that would specifically ban the use of torture on terror suspects. ....... communicate directly with the American people that the financial crisis is likely to continue for a long time -- even if his economic recovery plan is passed into law during the first 100 days. .... "We're going to have a tough year, 2009," Obama told CNN in an interview Friday.
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A conservative hope: Bobby Jindal Signal Jindal, the son of Punjabi immigrants from India, was born in Baton Rouge in 1971. Legend has it that little Piyush was watching "The Brady Bunch," and was so taken by Bobby Brady that he decided to take the name for his own. ..... Bobby attended Brown University and eventually received a master's degree from New College, Oxford, as a Rhodes Scholar. ....... This guy really understands reforming health care...... a conservative with common sense can win in a heavily Democratic region (shades of California's future?)....... At 36, he is also the youngest current governor in the United States. ..... the first Indian-American in the United States to hold a statewide office....... He consistently supports a pro-life agenda, opposes same-sex marriage and voted to make the Patriot Act permanent. ....... Jindal sponsored the Deep Ocean Energy Resources Act (H.R. 4761), a bill to eliminate a moratorium on drilling on the U.S. Continental Shelf, which prompted an environmental watchdog group to issue him an "environmental harm demerit." ..... Bobby Jindal represents a new, young and exciting conservative face for the Republican Party. ....... Treasury Secretary nominee Timothy Geithner's "forgetting" to pay $34,000 in taxes
Obama Inauguration Expected To Break All Records RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
2010: The Year of the Obama Effect? Washington Post inspiring 2010 campaigns ...... the lesson from those campaigns is to have a distinct message that allows voters to define you in terms other than race, and he plans to focus on education and economic issues while framing himself as a change candidate
Clinton's Goals Detailed Washington Post open "America Houses" in cities across the Arab world. These facilities, fashioned after a Cold War-era program, would have Internet libraries, English lessons and stories about Muslims in America. An initiative labeled "America's Voice Corps" would recruit young Americans with language and public diplomacy skills to speak with and listen to people in the area. Completing the package would be a Global Education Fund to provide $2 billion for primary education around the world ....... "deep, verifiable reductions in all U.S. and Russian nuclear weapons, whether deployed or non-deployed, strategic or non-strategic." ..... Clinton and Obama were "committed" to Senate approval of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty and would encourage India to join it. ........ a $50 million U.S. contribution for an international nuclear fuel bank so nations with nuclear power plants did not need to have their own reprocessing facilities. ..... there are more American troops stationed abroad than any other nation
US says NKorea will face tough Obama
