'08 and Obama: Door's Open - 'A Bit'
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/?p=419
Senator Barack Obama opened the door a bit to a presidential bid in
2008.
As G.O.P. Mopes, Bush Adds the Duties of Optimist in Chief
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/23/us/politics/23bush.html?ref=politics&pagewanted=all
By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG and JIM RUTENBERG
President Bush and his political strategists are doing their best to
fend off the sense of impending doom within their party.
Crowd-Pleaser From Illinois Considers White House Run
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/23/us/politics/23obama.html?ref=politics
By ADAM NAGOURNEY and JEFF ZELENY
Should Senator Barack Obama run, Democrats said, it would pose a major
complication to Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Obama Says He'll Consider A 2008 Bid for The Presidency
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/22/AR2006102200220_pf.html
Democratic Senator to Decide After Elections
By Dan Balz
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, October 23, 2006; A01
Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) opened the door to a 2008 presidential
campaign yesterday, saying he has begun to weigh a possible candidacy
and will make a decision after the November elections.
"Given the responses that I've been getting over the last several
months, I have thought about the possibility, but I have not thought
about it with the seriousness and depth that I think is required,"
Obama said on NBC's "Meet the Press." "After November 7th, I'll sit
down and consider it, and if at some point, I change my mind, I will
make a public announcement and everybody will be able to go at me."
A Nadir of U.S. Power
By Sebastian Mallaby
Monday, October 23, 2006; Page A21
It's not exactly morning in America.
In Iraq, things get ever uglier, and the old remedy of extra troops now
seems tragically futile. The Bush team has recently tried putting
thousands of additional soldiers into Baghdad, and the result after two
months is that violence there has increased.
Iraq is often seen as a special Rumsfeldian screw-up. But in
Afghanistan, the Bush team quickly handed off to a model pro-Western
leader backed by a broad NATO coalition. And what are the results
there? The government is wobbling, warlords run drugs and the
pro-al-Qaeda Taliban have 4,000 to 5,000 active fighters in the
country.
Reason and Faith at Harvard
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/22/AR2006102200714.html
By John I. Jenkins and Thomas Burish
Monday, October 23, 2006; Page A21
What should a properly educated college graduate of the early 21st
century know?
A Harvard curriculum committee proposed an answer to that question this
month, stating that, among other things, such a graduate should know
"the role of religion in contemporary, historical, or future events --
personal, cultural, national, or international."
Stricter Policy Splits West Bank Families
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/22/AR2006102200853_pf.html
Americans Who Live There Denied Visas
By Scott Wilson
Washington Post Foreign Service
Monday, October 23, 2006; A16
RAMALLAH, West Bank -- The last time Adel Samara saw his wife, Enayeh,
was the morning in late May when she pulled away from their home in
Beit Ur in a taxi bound for the border. Her trips to Jordan had become
routine, never lasting more than a few days.
In order to renew her tourist visa, Enayeh, a U.S. citizen, had left
the West Bank every three months during their three-decade marriage.
For years, Israeli officials had denied her residency applications, so
shuttling across the border to get a fresh visa in her U.S. passport
was the only way Enayeh, 56, could live legally in the place she was
born. This time, they refused to give her the tourist visa.
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