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Obama: Time of crisis can be 'great opportunity' (AP) Posted: 07 Mar 2009 03:30 PM PST AP - Trying to buck up a dispirited nation, President Barack Obama on Saturday promised that prosperous days will return and cast these bleak times as nothing less than a "great opportunity." Packing some heft with his hope, he defended his fast-moving and expensive agenda.

Analysis: Obama recovery plans raising questions (AP) Posted: 07 Mar 2009 02:10 PM PST AP - President Barack Obama offered his domestic-policy proposals as a "break from a troubled past." But the economic outlook now is more troubled than it was even in January, despite Obama's bold rhetoric and commitment of more trillions of dollars.

Obama hopeful about peeling away some in Taliban (AP) Posted: 07 Mar 2009 02:32 PM PST AP - President Barack Obama is holding out hope that U.S. forces in Afghanistan can peel away elements of the Taliban and possibly move them toward reconciliation.

Obama gently departs from Holder's race comment (AP) Posted: 07 Mar 2009 12:07 PM PST AP - President Barack Obama says he would not have used the same language that Eric Holder did last month when the attorney general declared that the United States is a nation of cowards on matters of race.

Obama takes rosier view on economy (Politico) Posted: 07 Mar 2009 12:16 PM PST Politico - For the first time since taking office, President Obama is suggesting that some Americans may be overreacting to the nation's economic woes by dramatically ratcheting back their spending.

Obama Turkey visit to focus on Iraq, Afghanistan (AP) Posted: 07 Mar 2009 02:52 PM PST AP - For one of his first foreign visits, President Barack Obama will call on NATO ally Turkey, an overwhelmingly Muslim country viewed as critical to aiding the U.S. pullout from Iraq, turning around the Afghanistan war and blocking Iran's nuclear ambitions.

Pelosi, Reid learn about life in Obama's shadow (AP) Posted: 07 Mar 2009 03:41 PM PST AP - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi didn't lose her temper. But she unleashed a bit of sarcasm when someone suggested, yet again, that she's a thorn in President Barack Obama's side.

Time to set clock ahead an hour at 2 a.m. Sunday (AP) Posted: 07 Mar 2009 04:13 PM PST AP - Time to set the clock forward by an hour.

IRS shifts away from private debt collectors (AP) Posted: 07 Mar 2009 02:45 PM PST AP - So much for privatizing the federal government.

Obama says will do all necessary to boost economy (Reuters) Posted: 07 Mar 2009 03:23 PM PST Reuters - President Barack Obama promised on Saturday to do everything necessary to boost the economy out of recession and warned, in an opening shot at critics of his budget proposals, that the country had tough choices ahead.

No mortgage pinch for Obama and team (Politico) Posted: 07 Mar 2009 02:49 PM PST Politico - As mortgage foreclosure rates hit record highs, one small group of homeowners remains relatively immune to the pressures confronting millions of other Americans: those at the highest levels of the Obama administration.

Obama says no certainty economy to rebound this year (Reuters) Posted: 07 Mar 2009 02:31 PM PST Reuters - President Barack Obama said he could not assure Americans the recession-mired U.S. economy would start growing again later this year, The New York Times said on Saturday.

Consensus bid could be derailed by health overhaul (AP) Posted: 07 Mar 2009 02:13 PM PST AP - The search for agreement on health care may be short lived.

Obama mulls reaching out to moderate Taliban: report (Reuters) Posted: 07 Mar 2009 02:11 PM PST Reuters - President Barack Obama is open to the idea of reaching out to moderate elements of the Taliban, The New York Times reported on Saturday.

Obama to visit Turkey (Politico) Posted: 07 Mar 2009 08:13 AM PST Politico - ANKARA, Turkey—Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced here Saturday that President Barack Obama will visit Turkey, a Muslim nation with close ties to the West, including the United States.

Obama's weekly address (Politico) Posted: 07 Mar 2009 04:34 AM PST Politico - Balancing mounting concerns on Capitol Hill about government spending with those of many Americans about the nation's economic prospects, President Barack Obama used this week's Saturday address to stress the net reduction in domestic spending in the budget he introduced—but also to tout the money he's spending to turn the economy around.

Jindal's Kenneth problem (Politico) Posted: 07 Mar 2009 03:58 AM PST Politico - Bobby Jindal has a wunderkind resume: a Rhodes Scholar appointed assistant secretary of Health and Human Services at age 29, elected to the U.S. House at 33 and governor of Louisiana at 36.

Afghan president says to stay in office till polls (Reuters) Posted: 07 Mar 2009 02:51 AM PST Reuters - Afghan President Hamid Karzai said on Saturday he would accept the national consensus for presidential polls to be held in August but would not step down before the election took place.

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