Stig Östlund

torsdag, augusti 11, 2011

A Test for Obama’s View of a One-Term Presidency


President Obama went to Dover Air Force Base on Tuesday
to honor servicememberskilled in a helicopter crash in Afghanistan.


WASHINGTON — It was a year and a half ago when President Obama told Diane Sawyer of ABC News in an interview that he would rather be a good one-term president than a mediocre two-term president.
Now, coming off one of his worst weeks since taking office, Mr. Obama is nearing a decision on whether he really meant that. Is he willing to try to administer the disagreeable medicine that could help the economy mend over the long term, even if that means damaging his chances for re-election?

Read more:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/10/us/politics/10obama.html?nl=us&emc=politicsemailema1

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