obama
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It is not uncommon for crisis to define many-a-presidents. What is however uncommon is for a president to define a crisis. Great presidents have been those, who, in spite of the burdens of the time, held an opportunistic view of crisis instead of adversarial. The most mythical of them—George Washington, Abe Lincoln, and FDR—used crisis
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As Mitt Romney accepts the Republican nomination this week in Tampa, Florida, he must be a man at war with two strong emotions. First, he must be very thankful that his campaign is neck-and-neck with the president. But then, just as that thought finishes, he must be very distraught at the perilousness of his situation.