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Thursday
Jan212010

Obama Admits He Was Too Optimistic—“Duh”

In an interview published by Reuters today, President Obama admits that he underestimated how intractable the problems in the Middle East are and has not made the progress towards peace that he wanted. Now if he would make the same admission about his goals of reshaping the political process in this country, he might regains some of the support he has lost.

In both these areas President Obama’s strength is also his weakness.

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