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President Barack Obama has presented his strategy for Afghanistan as a corrective to profound mistakes made there by President George W. Bush’s administration — mistakes including not killing or capturing Osama bin Laden and other senior Al Qaeda leaders, not finishing the job against the Taliban and taking its eye off the ball by going [...]
BOSTON — President Barack Obama traveled here Friday to give a speech boosting clean energy technology — and to give a political boost to Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick, who faces stiff opposition in his battle for reelection.
“Nations everywhere are racing to develop new ways of producing and using energy. The nation that wins this competition [...]
President Barack Obama took what may be his hardest shots yet at the health insurance industry, stating that while a health-care reform bill is close to passage, opponents are trying to “marshal their forces for one last fight to save the status quo” and are running “deceptive and dishonest ads” — and suggested insurers’ could [...]
At a meeting last April with corporate lobbyists, aides to President Barack Obama and Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.) helped set in motion a multimillion-dollar advertising campaign, primarily financed by industry groups, that has played a key role in bolstering public support for health care reform.
The role Baucus’s chief of staff, Jon Selib, and deputy White [...]
