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Obama’s Summer of Discontent

Posted May 21st, 2013 at 8:59 pm (UTC+0)
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Hijacked by Hearings This could be it.  How the Obama White House copes with the next few months could determine whether the president and his people will have a successful second four year term.  If they don’t weather it well, they risk falling in line behind the other recent two-term presidents who lost their way […]

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Obama Besieged on Many Fronts

Posted May 14th, 2013 at 9:12 pm (UTC+0)
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Circling the Wagons at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue The recent history of second term U.S. presidents indicates trouble will come at some point.  You just don’t expect it to come three at a time with roots both foreign and domestic.  But for the moment that is where the Obama administration finds itself. All of sudden last […]

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Early Onset Second Term Blues

Posted May 2nd, 2013 at 9:38 pm (UTC+0)
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Obama’s Leadership Test It was only a few months ago that Barack Obama was inaugurated for a second presidential term with all the pomp and pageantry that official Washington can muster.  There was a time in this country when the early days of a second term were a heady time for a freshly re-elected president. […]

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Jim Malone

Jim Malone

After a stint in the Peace Corps in Swaziland, Jim joined VOA in 1983 as a reporter and anchor on English broadcasts to Africa.  He served as East Africa correspondent, then covered Congress in the early 1990’s.   Since 1995, Jim has served as VOA national correspondent responsible for coverage of U.S. politics, elections, the Supreme Court and Justice Department.  Jim has been involved in VOA’s election coverage since the 1984 presidential campaign and has co-anchored live VOA broadcasts of numerous national political conventions, candidate debates and election night coverage.

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