On a flight from Ohio to Washington on Friday, Obama was asked whether his domestic policies suggested that he was a socialist, as some conservatives have implied.
"The answer would be no," he said, laughing for a moment before defending his administration for "making some very tough choices" on the budget.
Steele calms some RNC members
Barely five weeks after his election as Republican National Committee chairman, Michael S. Steele pacified some of the 168-member panel during a 75-minute conference call Friday with about 100 of them but left a few still angry, according to participants and officials.
The first ladies of the Arab world blaze a trail for women's rights
A large and powerful alliance of leaders' wives is making huge strides in breaking taboos and getting feminist issues on the political agenda.
Obama thinks omnibus earmarks are none of his business."We're way behind the curve in grasping what is emerging in the Middle East in terms of female power, and we underestimate the results that these women leaders are achieving," says Dr Scilla Elworthy, a leading authority in conflict prevention whose Oxford Research Group has been nominated for the Nobel Price
three times: "It's taken them some time to gain traction but they're producing model legislation and ensuring it is implemented. They've gone from chastity belts to contraception in 10 years - it took us 800 years to do that."
[Uh, they were in chastity belts 10 years ago and we haven't been for
centuries. Idiot! --- p]
When it comes to dealing with all those pet projects in the big spending bill before Congress, President Barack Obama's budget chief says wait until next year.
U.S. steps up Iraq troop withdrawal
12,000 out by end of September
U.S. Military may help Mexico fight drugs
"He [Obama] was very interested in what kind of military capabilities may be applied."
Obama will ease Cuba restrictions
The White House has moved to ease some travel and trade restrictions as a cautious first step towards better ties with Havana, raising hopes of an eventual lifting of the four-decade-old economic embargo.
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