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Cafferty: Will economy shorten Obama's honeymoon?

 

Published 2/11/2009 by Lakshmi Gandhi at CNN Political Ticker

Join the conversation on Jack's blog. “Has Barack Obama’s presidency already failed?” That’s a rather startling question posed in the Financial Times. Columnist Martin Wolf writes how in normal times, this would be a ludicrous statement, but because we’re living in times of “great danger” it’s worth taking a look. He says that right now a lot [...] (link)

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