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David Remnick (New Yorker): …In September, 2001, Obama was an obscure state senator from Hyde Park … little more than a week after the attacks on the Pentagon and the World Trade towers, Obama’s local...
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David Remnick (New Yorker): …. ‘Leading from behind’ …. The phrase ricocheted from one Murdoch-owned editorial page and television studio to the next; Obama was daily pilloried as a timorous pretender...
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**** David Remnick: Going The Distance Obama really is skilled at this kind of thing, the kibbitzing and the expressions of sympathy, the hugging and the eulogizing and the celebrating, the sheer...
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**** David Remnick: The Obama Tapes On Robert Gates “What I do believe is true, not just for Bob Gates and this National Security Council but for every national-security team in every modern White...
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On This Day: President Obama meets with senior advisors in the Oval Office, March 2, 2010 (Photo by Pete Souza) **** The Week Ahead: Monday: President Obama will host Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin...
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