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Monday, May 7, 2012
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Sunday, May 6, 2012
THE RACE: Hiring slowdown could vex Obama plans
President Barack Obama reaches out to students and parents at Washington-Lee High School in Arlington, Va., after speaking about his efforts to prevent interest rates from doubling on federal student loans, Friday, May 4, 2012. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
President Barack Obama reaches out to students and parents at Washington-Lee High School in Arlington, Va., after speaking about his efforts to prevent interest rates from doubling on federal student loans, Friday, May 4, 2012. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
President Barack Obama speaks at Washington-Lee high school in Arlington, Va., Friday, May 4, 2012. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney speaks at a campaign stop in Pittsburgh, Pa., Friday, May 4, 2012. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
The economy isn't cooperating with President Barack Obama's re-election schedule.
For the third year in a row, an early spurt of growth has started to fade in the spring.
Obama planned back-to-back political rallies Saturday in Ohio and Virginia, his first official ones of the campaign. They are battleground states he won in 2008 but where he is more closely challenged this year. Jobs are a key issue in both.
The economy added 115,000 jobs in April, not even enough to keep up with population growth. The jobless rate fell to 8.1 percent from 8.2 percent, but mainly because people left the workforce.
Look back to 1984, when President Ronald Reagan was seeking a second term. As now, the nation was emerging from deep recession. But the job growth for April 1984 was a solid 363,000, the unemployment rate 7.7 percent, down from a peak of 10.8 percent. Recovery momentum helped propel Reagan to a landslide over Democrat Walter Mondale.
But now, it doesn't look like the economy will turn the corner in time to be much help to Obama in what is shaping up as a tight race.
His Republican rival, Mitt Romney, not surprisingly, saw only gloom. "We seem to be slowing down, not speeding up," he said, calling Friday's jobs report "terrible and very disappointing," a reflection of failed policies.
Douglas Holtz-Eakin, a former Congressional Budget Office director and a top 2008 adviser to Republican John McCain, summed it up as "not many jobs, not much income, and not enough hope for over 300,000 workers who gave up looking."
Obama's team searched hard Friday for something upbeat to say, but there wasn't much there.
Alan Krueger, chairman of the president's Council of Economic Advisers saw "a picture of an economy healing." But, he was quick to add, "We need faster job growth."
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Saturday, May 5, 2012
Is 'Avengers' The Best Marvel Movie Yet?
Joss Whedon masterfully balances larger-than-life characters, portrays conflict and wraps it all up in style.
By Matt Harper
"Avengers"
Photo: Marvel
"The Avengers" is the best Marvel movie to date. There — I said it.
Way back in 2008, Nick Fury made a surprise appearance in a post-credit scene in the first "Iron Man" movie, and with one bold statement, he made a promise that has kept fans waiting with baited breath: "I'm here to talk to you about the Avenger Initiative."
Fast forward four years and four more movies ("The Incredible Hulk," "Iron Man 2," "Thor" and "Captain America: The First Avenger") and not only has Marvel delivered on their promise — they have presented us with the best Marvel movie yet.
Here are three really basic reasons why "Avengers" has excelled where some of the other Marvel movies have fallen flat:
Character Balance
It speaks volumes to Joss Whedon's skill as a master writer/director that he managed to cram so many central characters into one story without it feeling bloated or misdirected. More importantly, every character in "Avengers" feels like they serving a purpose and aren't just added for fan service. Compare this to the bloated roster of characters and story lines in "Iron Man 2" or the Warrior's Three and Sif in "Thor," who didn't seem to be used to their full potential.
"The Avengers" has one narrative, and each character has its own role in pushing the narrative forward. (A caveat, however: Thor definitely pulled the short straw story wise — which is surprising, considering the villain is his brother.)
Film Conflict Vs. Film Villain
Yes, Loki is the antagonist in "Avengers," but the film's true conflict comes from within the Avengers team. Out of all the previous Marvel movies, "Iron Man" is generally considered to be the favorite, and I would argue that this is because there is a really clear conflict and eventual resolution within the character of Tony Stark: Nobody is out there arguing that Iron Monger (Obadiah Stane) was a great cinematic villain. The other movies did their best, but always seemed to fall short when it came to realizing internal conflict.
For those of you wondering, the Avengers' team conflict is more than just bickering. Without giving too much away, things definitely get physical between Earth's Mightiest Heroes.
Third Act
I can't tell you how many times I've been thoroughly enjoying a Marvel film, only to become bored and a little disappointed as the film winds down. Actually, I can: five times. But not so for "Avengers." Yes, the last third is a bit of a generic smackdown in New York City, but it felt big and cinematic, and gave each of the central characters their moment to shine.
I'll admit that the final confrontation wasn't perfect: For one thing, the army of interdimensional invaders didn't feel very threatening. But seeing the Avengers come together and work as a team was really what we had all showed up for in the first place. To some extent, it didn't matter who they were fighting or what they were doing.
After four years and five movies, fans cashed in on a promise made, and it was well worth the wait.
Check out everything we've got on "Marvel's The Avengers."
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President Obama to mark anniversary of Bin Laden's death
He's responded forcefully to Republican claims that it is a "celebration", criticizing Romney for statements from the 2008 campaign.
President Barack Obama gave a steely defense of his handling of the raid that killed Osama bin Laden and his use of it to burnish his re-election credentials a year later, saying Monday that it is appropriate to mark an anniversary that Republicans charge is being turned into a campaign bumper sticker.
Skip to next paragraphHe then jumped at the chance to portray presumed Republican presidential challenger Mitt Romney as unprepared to make the kind of hard call required to send U.S. forces on that highly risky mission. Without mentioning Romney by name, Obama recommended looking at people's previous statements on the manhunt for the 9/11 mastermind.
Obama's re-election team has seized on a quote from Romney in 2007, when he said it was not worth moving heaven and earth to go after one person. On Monday, Romney said he "of course" would have ordered bin Laden killed, but his campaign criticized Obama for turning the successful death raid to political gain.
"I assume that people meant what they said when they said it," Obama said at a White House news conference. "That's been at least my practice. I said that I'd go after bin Laden if we had a clear shot at him, and I did. If there are others who have said one thing and now suggest they'd do something else, then I'd go ahead and let them explain it."
Obama is using the May 2 anniversary to help maximize a political narrative that portrays him as bold and decisive. Romney has sought to cast Obama as weak and too quick to compromise on other foreign policy matters, including Iran's nuclear ambitions.
Obama and his national security team will be featured in an NBC prime-time special Wednesday night that reconstructs the operation from inside the White House Situation Room. White House counterterrorism chief John Brennan discussed Obama's command of the raid on a Sunday talk show and in a speech Monday.
"The death of bin Laden was our most strategic blow yet against al-Qaida," Brennan said at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington.
Credit goes to the special forces who carried out the raid and the intelligence experts who led them to the hideout, Brennan said, "and to President Obama, who gave the order to go in."
Bin Laden was killed in Pakistan by U.S. Navy SEALs. The terror leader was living in a compound outside the capital of Islamabad, having evaded capture for nearly 10 years.
Obama sent in the U.S. forces with no assurance that bin Laden was at the site, leading to a heart-pounding scene in the Situation Room that was captured in one of the most famous photos of Obama's presidency.
"It's unfortunate that President Obama would prefer to use what was a good day for all Americans as a cheap political ploy and an opportunity to distort Gov. Romney's strong policies on the war on terror," Romney campaign spokeswoman Andrea Saul said Monday. "President Obama's feckless foreign policy has emboldened our adversaries, weakened our allies, and threatens to break faith with our military."
Romney was scheduled to appear Tuesday in New York City with firefighters and former Mayor Rudy Giuliani to help mark Wednesday's anniversary of bin Laden's death.
"I hardly think you've seen any excessive celebration taking place here," Obama said at the news conference with Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda. His voice was taut and his smile thin.
"I think that people, the American people, rightly remember what we as a country accomplished in bringing to justice somebody who killed over 3,000 of our citizens."
In 2007, Romney told The Associated Press that it was not worth "moving heaven and earth spending billions of dollars just trying to catch one person."
In a debate days later, he clarified the remark: "We'll move everything to get him. But I don't want to buy into the Democratic pitch that this is all about one person ? Osama bin Laden ? because after we get him, there's going to be another and another," Romney said.
Romney was critical of then-candidate Obama's vow to strike al-Qaida targets inside Pakistan if necessary. Obama said at the time that he would be willing to launch military strikes inside Pakistan with or without the government's approval.
Ultimately, that's exactly what Obama did to get bin Laden. The decision outraged Pakistan's U.S.-backed civilian government and fanned anti-U.S. sentiment across the country.
Romney and his advisers suggested Monday that the decision to order the raid was an easy one.
"Even Jimmy Carter would have given that order," Romney said Monday following a campaign appearance in New Hampshire.
Romney probably meant that as a jab at the Democratic record on foreign policy generally, but invoking Carter may actually cloud Romney's message.
Carter demonstrated how dangerous and politically perilous such decisions can be when he ordered an attempt to rescue American hostages held in Iran
The 1980 mission ultimately embarrassed the nation, ending with the death of eight servicemen and the loss of several American helicopters. The hostage crisis lasted more than a year and helped deny Carter a second term.If the bin Laden raid had gone similarly awry, Obama would have been badly damaged by a military debacle on top of the country's economic woes.
A spokeswoman for Carter did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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