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Really? President Obama: ‘There are better days ahead’

President Obama is mulling a new package of small business tax breaks in hopes of resurrecting the ever-sluggish economy.

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Obama cautiously hopeful as Mideast talks begin (AP)

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas speaks on the Middle East peace negotiations in the East Room of the White House in Washington as President Barack Obama listens, Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2010. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)AP – Under the shadow of fresh violence, President Barack Obama solemnly convened the first direct Israeli-Palestinian talks in two years Wednesday, challenging Mideast leaders to seize a fleeting opportunity to deliver peace to a region haunted by decades of hostility.


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Obama, Netanyahu condemn killings as talks open (AP)

President Barack Obama, with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, after delivering a statement outside the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2010. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)AP – Opening Mideast peace talks under the shadow of fresh violence, President Barack Obama vowed on Wednesday not to allow “extremists and rejectionists” to undercut long-stalled negotiations on creating a sovereign Palestinian state beside a secure Israel.


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Greenman: Obama completes journey from candidate to commander in chief

President Obama behaved like a responsible commander in chief. Let that be a lesson to those, especially on the far right, who seek to delegitimize all Obama says and does.

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Obama opens long-shot talks on Mideast peace (AP)

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, left, at the Mayflower Hotel after his arrival in Washington, Tuesday, Aug. 31, 2010.  (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)AP – President Barack Obama is opening a new round of Mideast peacemaking, bringing Israeli and Palestinian leaders together Wednesday for talks aimed at forging agreement within one year on a two-state solution: a sovereign Palestine and a secure Israel.


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Obama: US combat in Iraq over, ‘time to turn page’ (AP)

In this image from video, President Barack Obama speaks from the Oval Office at the White House on Tuesday, Aug. 31, 2010, about the end of the U.S. combat role in Iraq. (AP Photo/APTN)AP – Claiming no victory, President Barack Obama formally ended the U.S. combat role in Iraq after seven long years of bloodshed, declaring firmly Tuesday night: “It is time to turn the page.” Now, he said, the nation’s most urgent priority must be fixing its own sickly economy.


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Obama ends Iraq combat effort: ‘Time to turn page’ (AP)

U.S. President Barack Obama delivers remarks at Xavier University in New Orleans, Louisiana, August 29, 2010.   REUTERS/Jim YoungAP – President Barack Obama on Tuesday declared an end to the U.S. combat role in Iraq after more than seven years of war, saying the country’s future now is up to its own people. “It is time to turn the page,” said the president, who opposed the war from the start.


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