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He had little to show for his work at the Copenhagen climate conference in December.  Congress will soon pass a health care reform bill that remains expensive but has been stripped of critical features liberals demanded--there will be no "public option".

He had little to show for his work at the Copenhagen climate conference in December.  Congress will soon pass a health care reform bill that remains expensive but has been stripped of critical features liberals demanded--there will be no "public option".

Expectations of a Republican revival, a wild pipe-dream in the spring, became more realistic as the party led in the gubernatorial election in Virginia, and the Democrats continued in disarray in New York, Texas and California. 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.

Expectations of a Republican revival, a wild pipe-dream in the spring, became more realistic as the party led in the gubernatorial election in Virginia, and the Democrats continued in disarray in New York, Texas and California. 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]].

==Economic Policy==

==Economic Policy==