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He has squandered his chance to be a great president with attack on the right and knee jerk obedience to the left!Wednesday, April 29 marks the end of Obama's first 100 days in office. All week long we can expect glowing tributes from the "news" media similar to the cheerleading we saw from them during the campaign. They seem to focus more on what Michelle Obama is wearing than what her husband is doing or more importantly, what he is NOT doing to address key problems in American economic, domestic and foreign policy. To provide some counterpoint to media cheerleading...

WASHINGTON, March 4, 2007 – The commander of Multinational Corps Iraq said today the new Iraqi security plan will take months, not weeks, to accomplish. Speaking from Baghdad during an interview on CNN’s “Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer,” Army Lt. Gen. Raymond T. Odierno emphasized that things are moving in the right direction. “The key is we’re doing this jointly,” Odierno said. “Coalition forces, Iraqi army forces, Iraqi police, we stay together until we get the right level of security and then we turn it over to the Iraqi security forces. “I think that will take some time,” he...

The purpose of FreeRepublic.com's multiple message boards is to limit the topics for each board to particular topics. Posting the same message on all the boards defeats the purpose of multiple-boards for special topics. It is very annoying to see the same message on every bulletin board. PLEASE! DO THE READERS A FAVOR. STOP CROSS-POSTING YOUR MESSAGES!

WASHINGTON -- Many young idealists - liberal and conservative - arrive in Washington "with a pocketful of dreams and good intentions," but soon are seduced by the "natural tendency of any person in a new venue" to want to be "accepted, and to be part of the action." That observation comes from former House Majority Leader Dick Armey, R-Tex. Now retired from Congress after 18 years, Armey defines Washington as "a city of young idealists and old cynics." That is one of "Armey's Axioms," one of the "40 hard-Earned Truths from Politics, Faith, and Life," outlined in a new book...