going to surrender that because of moderate sounding pieties. obama s speech faced krit same because it seemed to some or many to focus on america s failures and a disinterest in democracy, especially in iran. in fact, the washington post editorial page, this is pretty stunning, called this the most morally crimped speech by a president in modern times. what do you think? i think the president completed wi completely ignored in his speech human rights. he has ignored this regime s terrorism, the fact that this regime has been killing americans for years, and he specifically said we re not interesting in regime chance. in fact, the most powerful person in iran, he said that this was not a sign of ben ef
history as the most important peace time prime minister in modern times. she did have a very strong view that was not for the trade unions to dominate the uk economy. when she was elected prime minister we had had the winter of discontent, we had called in the imf, we were essentially bankrupt and she felt that the united kingdom was headed in the wrong direction and she did some very, very tough things, she took on the miners, she took on union, but she also did other things, she spread for example, the appeal of capitalism. across british society in a way that had never happened before. she gave more people a direct stake in the economy in a kind of capitalist way. and that may have had a lasting impact as well. she was a reformer, a transformer, she was very tough, but she knew what she was trying to do. how remarkable was it that she was a grocer s daughter, a woman, not in the she wam from a different class system. from a culture, a political culture that was class-driven.
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no taxes. first-class air fare covered for strauss-kahn and his family whenever on official business. hotel expenses, as well. now, to an issue on the radar of every u.s. president in modern times, the middle east. as you may have heard, live right here on cnn, president obama reset the course of u.s. policy in the wake of the arab uprisings, of the death of osama bin laden of the new palestinian alliance of the nuclear stand-off with iran. yes, i could go on. mr. obama talked about all oef oes things and one more, the conflict between the palestinians and israel. while the core issues of the conflict must be negotiated, the basis of those negotiations is clear. a viable palestine, a secure israel. the united states believes that negotiations should result in two states with permanent palestinian borders, with