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Taliban leaders are getting rolled up all over Pakistan. Boy, that Obama sure is soft on terrorism.
(And is it necessary–yes, I guess absolutely necessary–to note that the patient diplomacy of Hillary Clinton, Richard Holbrooke, Admiral Mike Mullen, General David Petraeus and National Security Adviser Jim Jones is what has nudged the Pakistanis into taking a far more aggressive posture against the Taliban than they ever did during the Bush Administration?)
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More than five months from Election Day, the back-and-forth about Mitt Romney’s record at Bain already feels played out. Unfortunately, there’s good reason to expect the campaign continues in this vein indefinitely. Neither Barack Obama nor Mitt Romney are terribly interested in dwelling on policy platforms. Romney’s plan to slash spending and keep taxes low on the wealthy isn’t especially popular, at least not at any level of detail beyond a blithe promise to shrink the deficit. Meanwhile, Obama’s signature first-term achievements, like health care, the stimulus and Wall Street reform, are all unpopular or tricky to sell. (The Dodd-Frank bill is the most popular of these, but hyping it means offending wealthy donors.) So what we’re getting instead is a superficial duel about character–and, worse, one that’s based on the largely false premise that the better man can better “manage” the economy back to health.
