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U.S. President Barack Obama said Monday he is "very proud of our track record" but the biggest challenge America faces is "fixing our politics." Speaking at a fundraiser at a private home in Washington, the president conceded he has "some bumps and bruises" from political battles but claimed credit for a string of successes. "We were able to prevent America from going into a Great Depression," he said. "We were able to, after a series of quarterly GDP reports that were the worst that we've seen since the Great Depression, reverse it and get the economy to grow again. We've...

Boehner: Talking to Obama Like Talking to Someone From Another Planet By Erick Hamme September 15, 2011 (CNSNews.com) - In a question-and-answer session after his speech to the Economic Club of Washington, D.C, on Thursday, House Speaker John Boehner (R.-Ohio) said that speaking with President Barack Obama is sometimes like speaking to someone from a different planet. The moderator, David Rubinstein, asked Boehner: “So, when you played golf with the president, it didn’t result in your bonding with him, would you say?” "Listen, the President and I have a very good relationship. We get along fine,” said Boehner. “But, we...

CURRENT SITUATION AND ITS EFFECT The United States has a history of launching illegal, immoral and unprovoked wars of aggression and the Bush Administration launched the most recent of those wars in Iraq and is threatening the possibility of war in Iran. These wars have produced catastrophic loss of human life, both civilian and military, as well as physically maiming and deforming and psychologically destroying countless numbers of civilians and military personnel. The United States Marine Corps is being used as one of the means of perpetrating and prolonging illegal, unconstitutional and unnecessary wars of the United States. Military recruiters...