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...“I’m on my own,” Springsteen sang on that occasion — but he wasn’t really on his own in the song: sax player Clarence Clemons shadowed him on backing vocals....
...David Rothkopf, CEO and editor-at-large at Foreign Policy, said it had been standard for years to float potential cabinet nominees to test the response but in this case, the White House may have “miscalculated...
...Almost halfway through the debate and the president doesn’t look comfortable on stage, says Steve Clemons, political blogger at the Washington Note....
...By David Gardner, international affairs editor The US accusations that Iran is behind a plot to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to the US – possibly by blowing up a Washington restaurant he frequents –...
...david.pilling@ft.com...
...Steve Clemons of the liberal-leaning New America Foundation think-tank said this week risked being a “9/11 replay” and urged Congress to stand firm: “We saw abuses of power, the expansion of secrecy and...
...Steve Clemons, a foreign policy expert at the New America Foundation, says the Obama and Clinton camps are “not yet ready” to deal with the reality of withdrawing from Iraq....
...“The McCain camp has made the mistake of assuming the gains from the surge would continue in a straight line,” says Steve Clemons from the New America Foundation....
...When General David Petraeus, the US commander in Iraq, presented Congress in September with his assessment of the surge, 35 per cent of voters felt the Iraq war was the top issue in choosing the president...
...When two Democratic analysts at a centrist think-tank voiced positive thoughts recently about the effects “on the ground” of General David Petraeus’s Iraq troop surge, they unleashed a storm in a very Washington-ian...
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