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/ Guy Rundle
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Tuesday, 10 May 2011
With the killing of Osama bin Laden, Barack Obama’s presidency has taken a new course — and so has America, and the world.
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Thursday, 5 May 2011
More than a thousand observant Muslims gathered to vent their frustration at the US, condemning Barack Obama as a terrorist and declaring bin Laden a hero, writes Stuart Ranfurlie from Jakarta
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/ Guy Rundle
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Wednesday, 4 May 2011
Obama is now a foreign policy president, a war president. Having knocked the wannabee Republicans out of the park, he is now aiming to take out Gaddafi, at which point, in the American imagery, he will join seamlessly with Reagan.
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/ Harley Dennett
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Thursday, 28 April 2011
Donald Trump’s pitch for the Republican US presidential nomination has been compared to recent media sideshows like Charlie Sheen and Rebecca Black. The better comparison is California’s 2003 recall election that became worldwide entertainment.
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Tuesday, 19 April 2011
Ratings agency Standard & Poor’s has delivered a stunning vote of no confidence in US political leaders to come up with a solution for swollen budget deficits, writes Karen Maley, of Business Spectator.
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/ Charles Richardson
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Wednesday, 6 April 2011
Obama remains an odds-on favourite for re-election. But it looks as if the US will have to endure some bad policy in the meantime.
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/ Paul Barry
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Monday, 4 April 2011
So much for avoiding a bloodbath in West Africa’s war-torn Ivory Coast. It is now clear at least 800 people have been massacred in the small cocoa-growing town of Dekoue, near the Liberian border.
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/ Charles Richardson
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Monday, 7 March 2011
The next presidential election is still 20 months off, but that’s by no means too early for candidates to be shaping up.
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/ Richard Farmer
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Tuesday, 20 July 2010
When a politician fronts up on television around 7am as Tony Abbott and Julia Gillard did on the Seven Network this morning it is not really to influence the hundred thousand or so desperates who like looking at pictures while they eat their toast.
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Monday, 20 October 2008
America is still not sold on Barack Obama, writes The American Conservative.
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Monday, 20 October 2008
The Los Angeles Times has endorsed Barack Obama for president “without hesitation”.
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Wednesday, 27 August 2008
The ex-governor of Virginia who has rejected both the presidential and vice-presidential nominations in favour of quality family time and a bid for the senate.
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/ Bernard Keane
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Monday, 25 August 2008
All Biden does is draw attention to how insubstantial Obama is on foreign policy, writes Bernard Keane.
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Monday, 25 August 2008
He’s old, he’s mates with McCain, he gaffs to the royal standards of Prince Phillip and he’s the son of a used car salesman — but could Joe Biden be the antidote to a young and inexperienced democratic presidential candidate?
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Monday, 25 August 2008
Everybody’s favourite ex-president, Nobel Peace Prize winner Jimmy Carter is the Democrat’s democrat, and despite his refusal to endorse either candidate in January he was clearly all for Obama.
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Monday, 25 August 2008
Michelle Obama, African American feminist power icon/supermum?
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/ Guy Rundle
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Thursday, 20 March 2008
Obama specialises in very minimal phrases that fly straight to the target. Will “not this time” join them? asks Guy Rundle.
