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…ve. Obviously not inclined to take the risk of further widening his rift with Hamas in Gaza, he was content to echo the Obama administration’s argument that nothing could happen until there was a settlement freeze. Once the freeze was announced, he went through the motions, avoid...

…n the way their minds work—more, arguably, than either has in common with Bill Clinton. Staffers have noticed that both Obama and Hillary are methodical, secure, and human-scale when you talk to them; they’re deductive thinkers who drill down into a problem. The former president,...

Howard Stieglitz and Paul Krugman, two superb economists and Nobel Memorial Laureates met with Obama and urged a 1.5 trillion dollar infusion, which would have been almost exactly right. But they had both supported Hillary Clinton in the primaries and so he went with his own advi...

The Comical Conservative President Obama walks into a local bank in Chicago to cash a check. He is surrounded by Secret Service agents. As he approaches the cashier he says, "Good morning Ma'am, could you please cash this check for me?" Cashier: It would be my pleasure sir. Coul...

… youth organization Turning Point USA. Kirk had compared Melania’s staff numbers to those of former first lady Michelle Obama. “Did you know: There are thirty-nine fewer staffers dedicated to The First Lady of the United States (FLOTUS) than under Obama,” Kirk tweeted, referenci...

…itics Massoud Hayoun - Massoud Hayoun writes for and produces The Atlantic's International channel. How Jim Yong Kim, Obama's World Bank Pick, Changed Global Health Aid By Massoud Hayoun Mar 23 2012, 2:04 PM ET The international public health work that made Kim, now the pres...

…om: jeffrey E. [[email protected]] Sent: 2/24/2018 12:58:14 PM To: Steve Bannon Subject: Re: Lawyer for Susan Rice: Obama administration 'justifiably concerned' about sharing Intel with Trump team - POLITICO Importance: High Yes On Sat, Feb 24, 2018 at 7:48 AM Steve Bannon <>...

…ing that we might feel it necessary to act. Fortunately, I had built up a good relationship with the key figures in the Obama administration. That had not always been easy, given the tension between the Americans and Bibi. That wasn’t just because of the deadlock in the peace pro...

…ctable protests from the right, he had promptly retreated from his Wye commitments. I knew that his default response to Obama’s call for a settlement freeze would be “no.” And it was, delivered first to the cabinet and then to the public, as soon as he got back from his talks wit...

…ics 2014-01 01/29/14 And the beat goes on… Last fall’s 16-day government shutdown ended with legislation that President Obama signed in the wee hours of October 17 th . Under that legislation, a bipartisan committee hammered out a budget agreement by mid-December; Congress approv...

there has been little progress on passing major climate-change bills under Obama's watch. Thanks largely to Obama's public intervention

…heir May levels? Brent oil price and timeline of SPR release . USD/bbl [A] May 2: Advisors lay out SPR release plan to Obama 130 [B] May 6: Obama calls Abdullah (S.A.) and Sabah al-Ahmad (Kuw) 125 to discuss SPR release 120 115 110 105 100 95 90 Jan-11 Feb-11 Mar-11 Apr-11 May...

… Israel from doing so. Either was going to be a lot harder if there was tension with the new American president, Barack Obama, over moves to revive the peace process with the Palestinians. I didn’t expect it to be put to the test so soon. Yet within weeks of our taking office, P...

…ith Washington as a consequence, Riyadh may now be grudgingly coming to terms with the new order envisaged by President Obama. "It does suggest there is a potential for them to reassess the situation and try and move things forward, find some way of having a new relationship with...

Jeffrey Epstein, Prominent Education Patron, Backs Obama’s Call for Early Education. The Jeffrey Epstein VI Foundation, which supports science education across the United States and has expanded to support early development and charter schools, heralded President Obama’s State...