May 28, 2012

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Dissecting the Photo of Obama in the Situation Room

Danny Groner | Posted 07.05.2011

Read More: Photos, Photography, Osama Bin Laden Dead, Al-Qaeda, Scott Hall, Osama Bin Laden Death, Slate, Terrorism, The New York Times, John Brennan, Denis McDonough, Bin Laden, Obama, Osama Bin Laden Killed, Obama National Security, Barack Obama, Al Qaeda, Osama Bin Laden, Dave Weigel, Newsweek, Robert Gates, National Security, David Brooks, Joel Achenbach, New York Times, Hillary Clinton, Jon Bernstein, Washington Post, Memes, Hank Stuever, The Situation Room, Newstatesman, Obama Situation Room Picture, Media News

While some have turned the photo into a meme, others have reflected on its significance, particularly Obama's and Hillary Clinton's expressions.

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Lessons Learned From Libya: America Can't Afford Another Autocrat, Neither Can Democracy

Rep. Mike Honda | Posted 06.08.2011

Read More: Rwanda, Yemen, Denis McDonough, President Obama, Vietnam War, Bahrain, Congo, Gadhafi, Congressional Progressive Caucus, Brookings, Darfur, Libya, Peace and Security Taskforce, Qaddafi, Ivory Coast, United Nations, War Powers Act, Gaddafi, World News

Consistency provides America with protection by undermining the criticism used to rally recruits in counter-U.S. efforts. An inconsistent track record -- humanitarian intervention in some cases but not others -- gives fodder to our foes.

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Obama Moved at Warp Speed on Libya

Steve Clemons | Posted 05.30.2011

While President Obama has been criticized by many on the political left and right for moving too slowly in reacting to Libya, there is simply no truth to the notion that he dragged his heels in orchestrating action there. The decisions made by the White House on Libya, whether one liked or disliked those decisions, happened at an incredible rate. Obama has changed the dynamics of response to potential and real mass human tragedy.

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Rebel Celebrations In Libya May Be Premature

HuffingtonPost.com | David Wood | Posted 05.28.2011

Read More: Ajdabiya, Middle East Protests, Bin-Jawwad, United Nations Security Council, Denis McDonough, Brega, Benghazi, Sirte, UN Security Council, Barack Obama, Gaddafi, No-Fly-Zone, Libya, Libya Rebels, Muammar Gaddafi, Libya No-Fly Zone, Ras Lanouf, Libya Protests, World News

WASHINGTON -- Jubilant Libyan rebels racing westward to reoccupy the towns of Ajdabiya, Brega, Bin Jawad and Ras Lanuf are joyfully anticipating the i...

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Un-American, Anti-Muslim Hearings Serve No Useful Purpose

Rep. Bobby Rush | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Rep. Keith Ellison, Sheriff Lee Baca, Weather Underground, Bobby Rush, Terry Nichols, Terrorists, Rep. Peter King, Muslims, Timothy McVeigh, Ku Klux Klan, Arlington National Cemetery, Muslim Americans, WW II Internment Camps, Denis McDonough, Ted Kaczynski, Japanese Americans, Eric Rudolph, Politics News

I want my Muslim brothers and sisters to know that Thursday was not a day that brought honor to the U.S. House of Representatives.

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White House Praises Muslims Ahead Of House Hearing

AP | EILEEN SULLIVAN and LOLITA C. BALDOR | Posted 05.26.2011

Read More: Peter King, Peter King Radical Islam Hearings, Denis McDonough, Peter King Muslims, Peter King Islam, Islam Hearings, Congress Muslim Hearings, Congressman Radical Islam Hearings, Congress Islam Hearings, Muslim Hearings, Obama Islam Hearing, Peter King Radical Islam, Obama Muslim Hearings, Congress Radical Islam Hearings, Politics News

STERLING, Va. — Muslim Americans are not part of the terrorism problem facing the U.S. – they are part of the solution, a top White House ...

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Sudan Bombs While White House Talks

Susan Morgan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Darfur, Susan Rice Un Ambassador, Denis McDonough, Susan Rice, Special Envoy J. Scott Gration, Sudan, Barack Obama, South Sudan Independence, South Sudan, World News

Why is the US agreeing to turn over control of peace negotiations to a government currently engaged in bombings, village burnings, and obstruction of peacekeepers?

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When Seduction Fails: Time for Obama to Make His Own Weather

Steve Clemons | Posted 05.25.2011

The White House missed a bullet by the latest Israeli settlement talks collapsing. This now gives the President significantly more latitude in going back to a broad stakeholder approach to a deal.

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Obama's 100 Day Sudan Countdown

Susan Morgan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Darfur, Sudan, Hillary Clinton Secretary of State, Obama Administration, Denis McDonough, Referendum, United Nations Ambassador Susan Rice, Barack Obama, Icc, International Criminal Court, Darfur Sudan, World News

Sudan Now, a campaign led by a group of prominent anti-genocide and human rights advocacy organizations, has launched an initiative encouraging activists to take action over the next 100 days.

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Israel/Palestine and Iran: Linkage Should be Hard Wired by Obama Team

Steve Clemons | Posted 05.25.2011

Barack Obama is occasionally photographed carrying a weighty and important book around with him. One of those books -- which he seemed to carry aro...

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White House Correspondents Dinner: Obama Can Also Be His Own Comedian

Steve Clemons | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Elizabeth Shue, Melrose Place, Sex in the City, Brent Scowcroft, Denis McDonough, Ryan Lizza, Darren Star, Tamara Haddad, White House Correspondents Dinner, John Meacham, Madeleine Albright, Andrew Shue, Ben Rhodes, Joe Scarborough, New Yorker, Larry King, Bradley Cooper, Jon Lovett, The Jonah Brothers, Kari McDonough, Beverly Hills 90210, Talking Points Memo, Newsweek, David Kurtz, Christine Bellantoni, Colin Powell, James Bennet, Jon Favreau, Justin Smith, Barack Obama, Joshua Marshall, Zbiginew Brzezinski, Jay Leno, Lally Weymouth, Hillary Clinton, Mika Brzezinski, Huffington Post, Atlantic Monthly, Ted Greenberg, Millet Israeli, Walter Isaacson, Media News

Beyond all of the indulgence of VIP lists, select tables, black tie and gown, meet and greet stuff at this gathering is that there were real moments of serious policy and political discussion that were not trivial.

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Biden Courts the Non-Aligned on Nukes

Steve Clemons | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Egypt, Npt, Wmds, Derek Chollet, Proliferation, Denis McDonough, Antony Blinken, Start, Joe Biden, Arms Control, Gary Samore, Jim Jones, Iran, Nuclear Summit, Susan Rice, Indonesia, Saudi Arabia, Ellen Tauscher, Malaysia, Israel/Palestine, Tom Donilon, Rexon Ryu, Algeria, North Korea, Politics News

Today, Joe Biden may have helped push a new "global social contract" on international security and safety a bit further by hosting personally at his private residence a unique lunch with the non-aligned state leaders.

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Communications Corruption at White House

Steve Clemons | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ben Rhodes, Howard Kurtz, White House, White House Correspondents, Edward Luce, David Axelrod, Glenn Greenwald, Tommy Vietor, US Foreign Policy, Denis McDonough, Bill Burton, Robert Gibbs, Tom Donilon, National Security Council, Politics News

Many White House correspondents want to write Obama books. But the kind of books that sell need "inside access" -- and this is something that the communications team doles out minimally.

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Core Chicago Team Sinking Obama Presidency

Steve Clemons | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Edward Luce, Valerie Jarrett, Policymaking, ABC's the Note, Chicago, Mike Allen, US Foreign Policy, Denis McDonough, Chuck Hagel, Barack Obama, Jim Jones, Rahm Emanuel, John Podesta, Financial TImes, James Steinberg, David Axelrod, Tom Daschle, Politico, Tom Donilon, Robert Gibbs, Health Care, Gregory Craig, Brent Scowcroft, Fareed Zakaria, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Arianna Huffington, Politics News

Serious critiques of the internal game around Obama have to be read -- because Obama is not winning. He is failing, and people need to consider why.

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Obama Adviser Calls Out Cheney: You Walked Away From Afghanistan (VIDEO)

The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Cheney, Mcdonough Cheney, Dick Cheney, Denis McDonough, Dick Cheney Afghanistan, Mcdonough Afghanistan Cheney, Denis Mcdonough Cheney, Cheney Afghanistan, Video, Politics News

Former Vice President Dick Cheney said he "basically" didn't think he or his old boss held any responsibility for the current state of affairs in Afgh...

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Washington Network Watch: Daschle's (Near) Dozen

Bradley W. Bloch | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jason Grumet, Social Networks, Social Networking, Steve Hildebrand, Tom Daschle, Denis McDonough, Mark Lippert, Dan Pfeiffer, Robert Bauer, Julianna Smoot, Barack Obama, Jennifer O'Malley Dillion, Pete Rouse, Politics News

Daschle alumni constitute their own cluster of critical mass within the Obama network; at least nine senior campaign advisers have ties to the former Senate leader.

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A.P.: Obama "Nervously" Meets with National Security Leaders

Ari Melber | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Sam Nunn, Richard Holbrook, Madeline Albright, Greg Craig, Mark Lippert, Denis McDonough, Jenniver Loven, Barack Obama, Ap, Gary Hart, Politics News

Note the brazen absence of any facts or quotes supporting Loven's "nervousness" storyline, even though it contradicts Obama's own statement about how long the meeting had been in the works.

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