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Delhi I can’t be everywhere, but I wish I were going to be home in New Orleans when President Obama finally makes good on his promise to visit and step up his role in rebuilding. Of course from halfway around the world, it’s hard to understand most of what’s happening on the home front. There seems [...] New Orleans Paul Krugman in the New York Times makes the dead-on point that the President needs to be a little more “populist” – appealing to the masses rather than the elites – about the gross excesses of Wall Street pay and reining in the bankers. There his comments would be welcome because the federal [...] New Orleans One of the Obama pop-ups yesterday that was NOT in the news, probably for obvious and deliberate reasons, was President Obama’s drop by at a meeting between Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano and an array of people who are strongly committed to comprehensive immigration reform from business, religion, labor, [...] New Orleans There were technical problems and it was a weird experience, but I have to say, of the millions of conference calls I do in a year, it’s still special to have the President of the United States pop on to one. What a powerful political tool with such huge potential – I want [...] |
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