How does the American public feel about the war in Afghanistan? In a word, wary.
Analysis: Americans wary about war in Afghanistan
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AIG director named to Obama tax task force
One of the people named this week to President Obama’s new Task Force on Tax Reform is a member of the AIG board of directors.
Officials: Afghanistan strategy formed with great deliberation
President Obama’s unveiling Friday of a new U.S. strategy in Afghanistan and Pakistan was made only after a thorough interagency review of the region with input from several sources, administration officials said. “The president wants to make sure that this mission has a focus and a clear, concise goal,” said Bruce Riedel, who served as chairman of the review.
Obama: Safety of world at stake in Afghanistan
President Obama — saying "the terrorists who planned and supported the 9/11 attacks are in Pakistan and Afghanistan" — announced a new strategy Friday to confront the growing threat in Afghanistan and now Pakistan.
Obama to send 4,000 more troops to Afghanistan, officials say
President Obama plans to send another 4,000 troops to Afghanistan along with hundreds of civilian specialists in an effort to confront what he considers "the central challenge facing [that] country," senior administration officials said Thursday. The president also will call on Congress to pass a bill that triples U.S. aid to Pakistan to $1.5 billion a year over five years, the officials said
The Obamathon: Is the President Doing Too Much TV?
By now you know the problems with President Obama’s media strategy. He’s too somber
TV ad to put heat on Congress to pass budget
After e-mail pleas and nationwide canvassing, President Obama’s political arm has made a TV ad that will air Thursday, urging voters to pressure Congress to approve his $3.6 trillion budget. “America is facing tough times,” the narrator says in the 30-second ad. “President Obama has a plan to get our economy moving again, to cut the deficit in half and create jobs by investing in health care, energy independence and schools.
Questions pour in for Obama’s online town hall meeting
During the Great Depression, President Franklin Roosevelt reassured anxious Americans through his famous fireside chats over the radio.
Turkish party leader missing after helicopter crash
The leader of an ultra-nationalist Turkish political party was involved Wednesday in a helicopter crash in a mountainous region of Eastern Turkey, the state news agency reported. (CNN) — I love Alex Castellanos
Behind the scenes: Ed Henry’s take on exchange with Obama
The most amazing part of the exchange to me is that I didn’t go into the East Room intending to ask President Obama about AIG. WASHINGTON (CNN) — The most amazing part of the exchange to me is that I didn’t go into the East Room intending to ask President Obama about AIG.