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Conservatives discovered the secret of organizing mass public rallies, while Obama's famous 2008 grass roots network remains strangely silent. Optimistic conservatives predicted that it will soon be 1994 in America again.  Conservatives cheered--but liberals bemoaned--his strong commitment to the [[Afghanistan War]], where he has tripled the American combat forces.  They cheered as well his Nobel speech in Oslo, where to the dismay of pacifists he proclaimed a "just war" in Afghanistan, insisted on  America's duty to fight it, and explicitly repudiated the nonviolent alternative of [[Martin Luther King]].

Conservatives discovered the secret of organizing mass public rallies, while Obama's famous 2008 grass roots network remains strangely silent. Optimistic conservatives predicted that it will soon be 1994 in America again.  Conservatives cheered--but liberals bemoaned--his strong commitment to the [[Afghanistan War]], where he has tripled the American combat forces.  They cheered as well his Nobel speech in Oslo, where to the dismay of pacifists he proclaimed a "just war" in Afghanistan, insisted on  America's duty to fight it, and explicitly repudiated the nonviolent alternative of [[Martin Luther King]].

Obama's "Recovery Summer" of 2010 provided further disappointment for Americans and a further decline in Obama's job approval numbers.  However, throughout it all Obama was able to maintain a steady schedule of [[List of Obama First Family Vacations|vacations]], parties and weekend get-aways at [[Camp David]].

Obama's "Recovery Summer" of 2010 provided further economic disappointment for Americans with rising unemployment numbers, [[GDP]] growth estimates revised downward and a further decline in Obama's job approval numbers.  However, throughout it all Obama was able to maintain a steady schedule of [[List of Obama First Family Vacations|vacations]], parties and weekend get-aways at [[Camp David]].

==Economic Policy==

==Economic Policy==