Barack Obama, who won a second term by defeating Republican Mitt Romney after a bitter campaign, will now face many of the same problems that dogged his first four years: persistently high unemployment, crushing government debt and a deep partisan divide. The war in Afghanistan, which Obama is winding down, has dragged on for over a decade. He won an end-of-year fiscal battle against Republicans, whose poll numbers have continued to sag, and appears to have gotten them to back down, at least temporarily, from resisting an increase in the national debt ceiling. And Obama faces a less-dire outlook than he did when he took office in 2009 at the height of a deep US recession and world economic crisis. The economy is growing again, though slowly. But he still faces a daunting array of challenges. Among them is a fierce gun-control debate inspired by a school massacre in Newtown, Connecticut, last month, a tragedy he invoked in his speech. He said America must not rest until "all our children, from the streets of Detroit to the hills of Appalachia to the quiet lanes of Newtown, know that they are cared for, and cherished, and always safe from harm." Obama's appeals for bipartisan cooperation will remind many Americans of his own failure to meet a key promise when he came to power - to act as a transformational leader who would fix a dysfunctional Washington. His speech was light on foreign policy, with no mention of the West's nuclear standoff with Iran, the civil war in Syria <b>...</b> Author: SweetDreamsForever31 Duration: 5:27
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In keeping with Barack Obama's presidential campaign promise, the US has withdrawn its troops from Iraq and by the end of 2012 US spending in Iraq will be just five per cent of what it was at its peak in 2008. In a special two-part series, Fault Lines travels across Iraq to take the pulse of a country and its people after nine years of foreign occupation and nation-building. Now that US troops have left, how are Iraqis overcoming the legacy of violence and toxic remains of the US-led occupation, and the sectarian war it ignited? Is the country on the brink of irreparable fragmentation? Correspondent Sebastian Walker first went to Baghdad in June 2003 and spent the next several years reporting un-embedded from Iraq. In the second part of this Fault Lines series, he returns and travels from Erbil to Fallujah to find out what kind of future Iraqis are forging for themselves. After almost a decade the US war in Iraq is over. From Basra to Baghdad a new balance of power has emerged, but many people are living in precarity. In the second part of the special series Fault Lines continues on a journey across Iraq from South to North, to take the pulse of a country and its people after the Americans. Featuring: Atheel Al-Nujaifi, Dr. Samira Alaani, Ahmet Yazal, Arsalan Baez, Hussain al-Shahristani, Tariq Al-Hashimi, Ali Dabbagh, and Saleh al-Mutlaq. Follow on Twitter: twitter.com Follow on Facebook: facebook.com Follow on Instagram: www.instagram.com See all episodes of Fault Lines <b>...</b> Author: AlJazeeraEnglish Duration: 25:02
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"The other perpetrators have all confessed that the event has haunted them for years. But not our Mitt. Anyone who claims they don't remember physically attacking someone, is either a sociopath or a liar. Or both." Share your thoughts regarding your America with hashtag #inmyamerica inmyamerica.com http www.facebook.com twitter.com Author: Fieger Law Duration: 1:02
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WASHINGTON, March 29--On the Senate floor today, Ranking Member Sessions announced that a new Budget Committee analysis has found that the long-term, unfunded liabilities associated with President Obama's health care law will reach $17 trillion. The Committee's analysis is based on the Obama Administration's own numbers as well as those from the Congressional Budget Office. It is a modest, conservative estimate and yet is still more than double that of Social Security. At a "bipartisan fiscal responsibility summit" in 2009, President Obama's then-OMB Director, Peter Orszag, stated: "To my fellow budget hawks in this room and in the rest of the country, let me be very clear: Health care reform is entitlement reform. The path to fiscal responsibility must run directly through health care." But despite this emphatic statement, the nation's unfunded liabilities--money we must spend but for which there is no source of funds set aside--increased from $65 trillion to $82 trillion since the health law was passed. To view a graph depicting the increase in unfunded obligations brought on by the law, please click here: 1.usa.gov Author: BudgetGOP Duration: 3:58
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From: www.youtube.com May 02, 2011 - May 02, 2011 MSNBC MOXNews.comFAIR USE NOTICE This video may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for educational purposes only. This constitutes a 'fair use' of any such copyrighted material as provided for in Title 17 USC section 106A-117 of the US Copyright Law. Author: PigMine3 Duration: 6:16
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Twilight beats out Dark Knight, oh how sad. Plus, Nintendo launches video service in Japan for Wii, and Obama sanctions a video game learning plan. See more IGN videos at video.ign.com Author: IGN Duration: 1:56
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