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Sunday, July 26, 2009

Barack Obama

Barack Obama

Barack Obama

Obama was born in Honolulu, Hawaii to Barack Obama, Sr. (born in Nyanza Province, Kenya) and Ann Dunham (born in Wichita, Kansas). Barack Hussein Obama (born August 4, 1961) is the junior United States Senator from Illinois and a member of the Democratic Party.

Obama grew up in culturally diverse surroundings. He spent most of his childhood in the majority-minority U.S. state of Hawaii and lived for four years in Indonesia. Obama delivered the keynote address at the 2004 Democratic National Convention while still an Illinois state legislator. Since announcing his candidacy in February 2007, Obama has emphasized ending the Iraq War and implementing universal health care as campaign themes.

As a member of the Democratic minority in the 109th Congress, Obama co-sponsored the enactment of conventional weapons control and transparency legislation, and made official trips to Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. Obama's parents separated when he was two years old and later divorced. His father went to Harvard University to pursue Ph.D. studies, then returned to Kenya, where he died in an auto accident when the younger Obama was twenty-one years old.

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Healthy Debate
By Jesse Stanchak
Posted Sunday, July 26, 2009, at 6:37 AM ET

The Washington Post leads with a look at the evolving debate over health care reform. While previous reform efforts reffered to providing universal coverage as a moral issue, President Barack Obama is instead focusing on reigning in the burgeoning cost of care. Now some experts worry that all this focus on cost may backfire, because the little administrative cuts being proposed fail to address more systemic problems with our health care system. The Los Angeles Times leads with an inside look at the deal making and petty squabbles that turned the state legislature's last-minute work on a budget bill into "a slow-moving train wreck." The New York Times leads, at least online, with a look at the difficulties facing Justice Department antitrust official Christine A. Varney as she tries to regulate a number of industries where large companies are choking competition. In addition to the usual industry opposition, Varney now finds herself having to spar with other White House officials as well.

On the flip side of the health care debate, the WP points out in its off-lead story that as medical costs have grown over the years, treatment has become much more effective. For common problems like heart disease, treatment options and survival rates are dramatically higher than they were 50 years ago, but that care has also become dramatically more expensive. The paper wonders aloud if continued advances in care will devour any savings created by a health care reform bill.

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Jesse Stanchak is a writer living in Washington, D.C.

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Sunday, July 12, 2009

Barack Obama

Barack Obama

Barack Obama

Obama was born in Honolulu, Hawaii to Barack Obama, Sr. (born in Nyanza Province, Kenya) and Ann Dunham (born in Wichita, Kansas). Barack Hussein Obama (born August 4, 1961) is the junior United States Senator from Illinois and a member of the Democratic Party.

Obama grew up in culturally diverse surroundings. He spent most of his childhood in the majority-minority U.S. state of Hawaii and lived for four years in Indonesia. Obama delivered the keynote address at the 2004 Democratic National Convention while still an Illinois state legislator. Since announcing his candidacy in February 2007, Obama has emphasized ending the Iraq War and implementing universal health care as campaign themes.

As a member of the Democratic minority in the 109th Congress, Obama co-sponsored the enactment of conventional weapons control and transparency legislation, and made official trips to Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. Obama's parents separated when he was two years old and later divorced. His father went to Harvard University to pursue Ph.D. studies, then returned to Kenya, where he died in an auto accident when the younger Obama was twenty-one years old.

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Cheney to CIA: Don't Tell Congress About Program
By Justin Peters
Posted Sunday, July 12, 2009, at 3:48 AM ET

The New York Times leads news that, under instructions from former vice-president Dick Cheney, the CIA deliberately failed to tell Congress about a secret counterterrorism program. The Washington Post leads news that Attorney General Eric Holder is considering whether to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate allegations that CIA operatives tortured terrorism suspects. The Los Angeles Times leads a recap of President Obama's visit to Ghana, where he gave a speech exhorting the African continent to take responsibility for its own future.

None of the papers provide any actual material details about the secret counterterrorism program, which apparently lasted from 2001 until early last month, when CIA director Leon Panetta learned of its existence and ordered it disbanded. Two unnamed sources told the NYT about Cheney's apparent involvement in covering up the program, which the CIA claims was never actually operational.

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Justin Peters is a writer in New York, and the editor of Polite.

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Saturday, July 11, 2009

Barack Obama

Barack Obama

Barack Obama

Obama was born in Honolulu, Hawaii to Barack Obama, Sr. (born in Nyanza Province, Kenya) and Ann Dunham (born in Wichita, Kansas). Barack Hussein Obama (born August 4, 1961) is the junior United States Senator from Illinois and a member of the Democratic Party.

Obama grew up in culturally diverse surroundings. He spent most of his childhood in the majority-minority U.S. state of Hawaii and lived for four years in Indonesia. Obama delivered the keynote address at the 2004 Democratic National Convention while still an Illinois state legislator. Since announcing his candidacy in February 2007, Obama has emphasized ending the Iraq War and implementing universal health care as campaign themes.

As a member of the Democratic minority in the 109th Congress, Obama co-sponsored the enactment of conventional weapons control and transparency legislation, and made official trips to Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. Obama's parents separated when he was two years old and later divorced. His father went to Harvard University to pursue Ph.D. studies, then returned to Kenya, where he died in an auto accident when the younger Obama was twenty-one years old.

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Wall Street Wants Help, Democrats Want Taxes
By David Sessions
Posted Saturday, July 11, 2009, at 6:00 AM ET

The Wall Street Journal leads with the preparations for bankruptcy filing at CIT Group after the company failed to obtain a government guarantee to help it borrow. CIT is desperately pressing its case to the government in the shadow of a $1 billion payment due in mid-August. The Los Angeles Times leads with General Motors' emergence on the other side of bankruptcy as a smaller company making promises to innovate and place a "steely" focus on its customers. The Washington Post leads with AIG's request for the government to bless the millions of dollars in bonuses it promised to pay its top executives by 2010. The insurance giant doesn't need federal approval, but is reluctant to deliver the long-promised bonuses without "political cover" from the Obama administration. The New York Times leads with a government review released yesterday that declares the Bush administration's warrantless wiretapping program inferior to other intelligence-gathering methods in effectiveness and timeliness.

After failing to get a borrowing guarantee from the government, CIT Group, a major lender to almost a million small and midsize businesses, hired a law firm to begin bankruptcy preparations. As of March 31 the company had $68 billion in liabilities, meaning a bankruptcy would catastrophically affect thousands of borrowers. CIT is actively involved in a discussion with the FDIC, which oversees the government's debt guarantee program, and has not yet reached a decision on the lending giant's application. The agreement would allow CIT, which currently has a "junk" credit rating, to sell low-interest bonds.

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