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The logistics of Obama’s Asia trip

Republican Rep. Michele Bachmann has been ridiculed for alleging that President Obama's trip to India, Indonesia, South Korea and Japan is costing $200 million a day or roughly the same cost of waging war in Af...
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President Obama speaks in Providence

PROVIDENCE -- Final stop for President Barack Obama was a $7,500-a-head fundraiser in the well-appointed home of Arnold "Buff" and Johnnie Chace on the East Side of Providence not far from Brown University. Few...
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Gallery: Barack Obama in Boston

President Obama came to Hynes Convention Center on Saturday to support incumbent governor Deval Patrick and his running mate Tim Murray as they face a tough challenge from Republican Charlie Baker. Blast Ma...
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Obama comments on Coakley defeat

Statement from Press Secretary Robert Gibbs: "This evening the President spoke to both candidates in the hard-fought Massachusetts Senate race. The President congratulated Senator Brown on his victory a...
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Obama urges support for Coakley

As many perceive a tightening in the special US Senate race to replace the late Edward Kennedy, President Barack Obama is urging Massachusetts voters to support her and prevent a 41st Republican vote in the...
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Decency and lies

Consider two scenes. The first occurs during the Army-McCarthy Hearings in 1954, when Joseph Welch, an attorney for the for the U.S. Army asks Senator Joseph McCarthy to provide evidence to the attorney gene...