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Obama believers wait and wonder
Washington Times, by Dave Boyer
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Posted By:Dreadnought, 10/28/2012 11:03:59 PM
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| TAMPA, Fla. — Since he began campaigning for re-election more than a year ago, President Obama has worried aloud that his supporters may have lost enthusiasm because of the slow pace of the changes he promised. In 2008, Mr. Obama pledged to put Americans back to work. But four years later, he acknowledges that unemployment and underemployment are still too high. He promised liberals who were weary of George W. Bush’s war on terrorism four years ago that he would close the detention center for terrorism suspects at U.S. Naval Base Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, but it remains open.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
chicodon, 10/28/2012 11:23:33 PM (No. 8970554)
"...more than a year ago"? More than three years ago. Did he ever stop to run the country?
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
luke21, 10/29/2012 1:38:22 AM (No. 8970666)
One of the worst articles in the history of the Washington Times. It reads like the crap from the Compost or the Asspress.
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AG: Same-sex marriage
benefits unconstitutional
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Associated Press, by Staff
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 4/29/2013 11:12:36 PM
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AUSTIN, Texas — Local governments and school districts that offer marriage benefits to same-sex partners are violating the state constitution, Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott stated in an opinion Monday. The cities of Austin, El Paso and Forth Worth already offer some benefits to domestic partners, while Pflugerville, outside Austin, became the state´s first school district to extend similar benefits. Tea party-backed state Sen. Dan Patrick of Houston asked Abbott, a fellow Republican, to review the matter in November. Patrick argued that Texas amended its constitution in 2005 to define marriage as between one man and one woman
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Obama’s campaign finance
reform plans have faded
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Washington Post, by Juliet Eilperin
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 4/29/2013 11:07:43 PM
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President Obama’s once-broad ambitions to clamp down on the influence of special interests have been largely abandoned since his reelection, dismaying longtime allies in the campaign-finance reform movement. The predicament will be on full display Tuesday, when all five members of the Federal Election Commission will be serving past the formal expiration of their terms. The panel’s sixth seat remains vacant. The president has not made a nomination to the FEC, which enforces the nation’s campaign finance laws, in more than three years.
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Mike Tyson: I Was Better Off
under Bush and Reagan
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National Review Online, by Andrew Johnson
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 4/29/2013 9:00:35 PM
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Former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson, who is currently trying to pay off millions of dollars in back taxes, said that he did better under recent Republican administrations than the current one. “My wife, my family, I got one of the biggest liberal families in the world, but I had more money when Bush and Reagan was president,” Tyson told Brian Kilmeade on Fox & Friends this morning. “I shouldn’t have said that, my wife is going to kill me for that,” he laughed. Kilmeade asked him about how Republican presidents “had this idea that you should keep
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A new front for gun background
checks: the ballot
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Associated Press, by Mike Baker
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 4/28/2013 10:50:54 PM
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OLYMPIA, Wash. — After struggling to sway both state and federal lawmakers, proponents of expanding background checks for gun sales are now exploring whether they will have more success by taking the issue directly to voters. While advocates generally prefer that new gun laws be passed through the legislative process, especially at the national level, they are also concerned about how much sway the National Rifle Association has with lawmakers. Washington Rep. Jamie Pedersen, a Democrat who had sponsored unsuccessful legislation on background checks at the state level
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Pentagon Consults Anti-Christian
Extremist for Religious
Tolerance Policy
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Breitbart´s Big Government, by Ken Klukowski
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 4/28/2013 10:46:46 PM
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“Today, we face incredibly well-funded gangs of fundamentalist Christian monsters who terrorize their fellow Americans by forcing their weaponized and twisted version of Christianity upon their helpless subordinates in our nation’s armed forces.” Those words were recently written by Mikey Weinstein, founder of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF), in a column he wrote for the Huffington Post. Weinstein will be a consultant to the Pentagon to develop new policies on religious tolerance, including a policy for court-martialing military chaplains who share the Christian Gospel
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Is Army career over for
radical Islam academic?
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Washington Times, by Rowan Scarborough
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 4/28/2013 10:44:29 PM
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The Pentagon’s top brass has dealt another blow to a decorated Army officer who was fired last year as a war college instructor because of his teachings about radical Islam, his attorney told The Washington Times. A four-star general’s rejection of Lt. Col. Matthew Dooley for consideration for command of a combat battalion likely means the end of a promising Army career of an armor officer who was decorated for valor in Iraq and received glowing evaluations. Last year, Col. Dooley underwent an Army command selection board review after he was transferred
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Rep. Michael McCaul: Boston
bombing suspects had help
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Washington Times, by Sean Lengell
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 4/28/2013 10:42:18 PM
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The chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee says evidence suggests the two brothers accused of the Boston bombings had help planning the attack — and he says he has concerns about a possible “wider conspiracy” stretching overseas. U.S. officials investigating the bombings have told The Associated Press that so far there is no evidence of a wider plot. But Rep. Michael T. McCaul, Texas Republican, told “Fox News Sunday” that the “level of sophistication” of the two improvised bombs made from pressure cookers that killed three and injured more than 260 “leads me to believe there was a trainer.”
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The twilight of entitlement
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Washington Post, by Robert J. Samuelson
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 4/28/2013 10:26:45 PM
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We are passing through something more than a period of disappointing economic growth and increasing political polarization. What’s happening is more powerful: the collapse of “entitlement.” By this, I do not mean primarily cuts in specific government benefits, most prominently Social Security, but the demise of a broader mind-set — attitudes and beliefs — that, in one form or another, has gripped Americans since the 1960s. The breakdown of these ideas has rattled us psychologically as well as politically and economically.
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Defense cuts pose an
economic quandary for liberals
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Washington Post, by Zachary A. Goldfarb
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 4/28/2013 10:24:34 PM
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Liberals are increasingly facing a conundrum as the Pentagon experiences the deepest cuts in a generation: The significant reductions in military spending that they have long sought are also taking a huge bite out of economic growth. Liberal lawmakers and others on the left have argued for years that the military budget is bloated and should be dramatically scaled back. At the same time, they have been major advocates of government spending to help drive economic growth and create jobs. Fresh data on the state of the economy Friday showed that the two goals are coming into conflict.
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Obama Calls Bachmann A Book-Burner
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Breitbart´s Big Government, by William Bigelow
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 4/28/2013 10:23:50 AM
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Barack Obama’s sense of humor fits perfectly with the elitist White House press corps that routinely cover him, and there was never a better example that one remark he made in his series of jokes at the White House Correspondents Dinner Saturday night. Take note of the journalists´ responses from the transcript. Obama, targeting his intrepid foe Michelle Bachmann, said: Of course, even after I´ve done all this, some folks still don’t think I spend enough time with Congress. "Why don’t you get a drink with Mitch McConnell?" they ask. Really? (Laughter.) Why don’t
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Russians wiretaps of Tsarnaevs leaked
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American Thinker, by Thomas Lifson
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 4/28/2013 9:52:43 AM
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Mama Tsarnaev talked jihad with her darling son Tamerlan - the one she named after one of history´s most brutal jihad conquerors - according to 2011 wiretaps by the Russians, which have been recently revealed to American authorities and now leaked to the media. Eileen Sullivan and Matt Apuzzo of the AP report: Russian authorities secretly recorded a telephone conversation in 2011 in which one of the Boston bombing suspects vaguely discussed jihad with his mother, officials said Saturday, days after the U.S. government finally received details about the call. In another conversation
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GOP moves away from
entitlements and toward
tax reform in budget deal
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Washington Post, by Lori Montgomery
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 4/27/2013 10:59:00 PM
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With another fight over the national debt brewing this summer, congressional Republicans are de-emphasizing their demand for politically painful cuts to retirement programs and focusing on a more popular prize: a thorough rewrite of the U.S. tax code. Reining in spending on Social Security and Medicare remains an important policy goal for the GOP. But House leaders launched a series of meetings last week aimed at convincing rank-and-file lawmakers that tax reform is both wise policy and good politics and should be their top priority heading into talks with Democrats over the need to raise the federal debt limit.
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Rep. Trey Gowdy: ‘Explosive’
Benghazi hearings ‘coming quickly’
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Washington Times [DC], by Jessica Chasmar
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Posted By: JoniTx- 4/28/2013 8:42:12 PM
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Rep. Trey Gowdy, appearing on Fox News on Saturday afternoon, promised that “explosive” congressional hearings over the Sept. 11 attacks on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, are “coming quickly.” “There are more Benghazi hearings coming; I think they’re going to be explosive,” Mr. Gowdy, a South Carolina Republican who is a member of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, told Fox’s Uma Pemmaraju. Mr. Gowdy wasn’t able to give out too many details, but he hinted that the public for the first time might hear from witnesses to the terror attack
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NBC: White House Regrets
Publicly Setting Syrian Red Line
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Weekly Standard, by Daniel Halper
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Posted By: JoniTx- 4/28/2013 8:47:26 PM
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NBC chief White House correspondent Chuck Todd reported this morning that the White House regrets publicly setting a red line with regard to Syrian use of chemical weapons: [Video] "I can tell you there is regret about that red line comment," said Todd, "because if you --" Host David Gregory interrupted, "In the White House?" "In the White House in this respect," Todd continued. "You don´t draw--I mean, they meant it. They do mean it on the chemical weapons. But saying it creates this political conversation. They didn´t want to go public last week
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Michelle Obama Wears Lacy
Monique Lhuillier to the White
House Correspondents´ Dinner
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New York Magazine, by Charlotte Cowles
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Posted By: JoniTx- 4/28/2013 8:39:05 AM
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Michelle Obama did not walk the E!-streamed red carpet before tonight´s White House Correspondents´ Dinner — she was already at home, of course — so our first glimpse of her black Monique Lhuillier gown came later, once dinner started. And damn does she look good. This is a sexier look on her than usual, with a sheer lace panel over her decolletage and a molded bustier-style top. She very wisely chose a dress that photographs well while she´s sitting down, Schiaparelli-style, with elaborate beading along her collarbone and fitted cap sleeves that flatter her arms. Other observations:
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Black pols stymied in Obama era
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Politico, by Jonathan Martin
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Posted By: StormCnter- 4/29/2013 6:09:28 AM
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Over five years after Barack Obama won the Iowa caucuses and demolished the notion that white voters wouldn’t support a black presidential candidate, progress for other African-American politicians remains elusive. Even as the country elected and re-elected Obama, making it seem increasingly unremarkable to have a black family in the White House, African-Americans are scarce and bordering on extinct in the U.S. Senate and governorships. The president is indeed exceptional - but in the wrong sense of the phrase as it applies to other black politicians. Consider what has taken place, or not taken place,
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Dem resolution warns climate change
could push women to ‘transactional sex´
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The Hill [DC], by Pete Kasperowicz
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Posted By: StormCnter- 4/29/2013 3:26:49 PM
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Several House Democrats are calling on Congress to recognize that climate change is hurting women more than men, and could even drive poor women to "transactional sex" for survival. The resolution, from Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) and a dozen other Democrats, says the results of climate change include drought and reduced agricultural output. It says these changes can be particularly harmful for women. "[F]ood insecure women with limited socioeconomic resources may be vulnerable to situations such as sex work, transactional sex, and early marriage that put them at risk for HIV, STIs, unplanned pregnancy, and poor reproductive health,"
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In a First, Black Voter
Turnout Rate Passes Whites
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Associated Press, by Hope Yen
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Posted By: rlwo- 4/28/2013 10:56:39 AM
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Washington - America´s blacks voted at a higher rate than other minority groups in 2012 and by most measures surpassed the white turnout for the first time, reflecting a deeply polarized presidential election in which blacks strongly supported Barack Obama while many whites stayed home. Had people voted last November at the same rates they did in 2004, when black turnout was below its current historic levels, Republican Mitt Romney would have won narrowly, according to an analysis conducted for The Associated Press. Census data and exit polling show that whites and blacks will remain
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White House Correspondents´ Dinner:
Conan O´Brien´s Best Jokes
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ABC News, by Sarah Parnass
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Posted By: ladyhawke- 4/28/2013 12:54:35 AM
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Comedian Conan O´Brien took a break from his late-night show, "Conan," to join President Obama in Washington, D.C. Saturday at the 2013 White House Correspondents´ Dinner. Two hours or so before the festivities began, he sent out a picture of himself behind a podium, sporting a Boston Red Sox hat. "Just rehearsed my routine to an empty ballroom at the Washington Hilton," the comedian tweeted. "The one guy unfolding chairs loved it."
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The Brothers Tsarnaev and the Danger
Whose Name we Dare not Speak
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American Thinker, by Clarice Feldman
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Posted By: Judy W.- 4/28/2013 4:58:29 AM
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We now have had a number of terrorist attacks on the homeland -- though the administration often refers to them in ridiculous euphemisms like "workplace violence" -- and the behavior of the administration, including our lavishly funded FBI and Homeland Security Administration, and our richly rewarded media stars remains so predictable I´ve decided to spare you the time it takes to unravel the unending lies and poppycock we are regularly fed about these horrors, lies, and blundering that only increase our danger. This week´s bombing of civilians at the Boston Marathon in which three people, including an 8-year-old child,
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Jets release Tim Tebow
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New York Post, by Brian Costello
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Posted By: Drive- 4/29/2013 8:40:22 AM
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Tebow Time is up. The Jets released popular backup quarterback Tim Tebow on Monday morning, The Post has learned. The move comes three days after they drafted Geno Smith in the second round to compete with Mark Sanchez, David Garrard and Greg McElroy for the starting quarterback spot. It ends Tebow’s 13 months as a Jet that were more memorable for all of the headlines than anything that actually happened on the field. The Jets acquired him from the Broncos in March 2012 for a fourth-round draft pick
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Sanford memorial dedicated for
Trayvon Martin, other families
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Central Florida News 13 [Orlando, FL], by John W. Davis
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Posted By: Scottyboy- 4/28/2013 11:06:44 AM
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Sanford - A new memorial was dedicated Saturday not only for Trayvon Martin, but for 10 other people who were killed in Sanford. Families of the victims used the occasion to share their stories and speak out for closure and justice. The new Trayvon Martin Memorial was established at the Goldsboro Welcome Center on Historic Goldsboro Boulevard in Sanford. It features Trayvon Martin’s name on a headstone and 10 other Sanford area residents who family members say were killed unjustly.
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Can One Iraq Vet
Stop Obamacare?
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American Spectator, by David Catron
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Posted By: garnet- 4/29/2013 6:34:16 AM
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In the lore of the ancient Romans, Horatius was a soldier who single-handedly fought off an invading army. The Etruscans had attacked in order to impose a despot on Rome and, by holding them back while his comrades destroyed the bridge that was the only practical route to the city, this single warrior saved the free republic. Obamacare is certainly the bridge via which the forces of despotism plan to “fundamentally transform” the United States, and a decorated Iraq veteran named Matt Sissel may be the Horatius who prevents them from crossing.
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Christie: Obama ´kept every
promise´ on Sandy aid
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Associated Press, by Staff
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Posted By: abuela10- 4/29/2013 8:55:53 AM
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HIGHLANDS, NJ — New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said Monday that President Obama "has kept every promise he´s made" about helping the state recover from Hurricane Sandy. Speaking on MSNBC´s "Morning Joe" program on the 6-month anniversary of the deadly storm, the Republican governor said presidential politics were the last thing on his mind as he toured storm-devastated areas with Obama last fall. "The president has kept every promise he´s made," said Christie, widely considered a potential candidate for the republican presidential nomination in 2016. "I think he´s done a good job. He kept his word."
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