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Before the u. S. Government decided to send a president to the country, we first decided we were ready to send a rock band to that country. The state department under a brand new president obama in 2009 authorized the great l. A. Latin fusion band to go tour burma. A sort of ambassadors for u. S. Culture in that part of the world. Burma has only finally ended military rule there as of last year. After president obama makes his visit there this weekend, we have now learned were going to be sending another american musical act to follow up the president s trip. This time its jason mraz. Hes scheduled to play a gig december 16th. Hes going to be playing outdoors free of charge. Even though we expect democrats and republicans to fight over everything these days, the Associated Press notes that Mitch Mcconnell has for a long time taken a special interest in burma as a senator. ....
Potential voter. A columnist i usually only agree with about movies put it this way. Romney didnt say that the election had come out as it did because obamas team had outplayed and outfoxed his. He should have because thats the truth. Rather, he said that obama had won the second term essentially through bribery. Well, look, i have three rules for both parties as they converge now to do their squoobs. Respect the voter, respect each others offices, and search hard for common ground. Those are what we should be doing and that should be the way were guiding our countrys conversation today. Not trashing the people who voted against you. But respecting the fact that they did for your own good. David corn is Washington Bureau chief for mother jones and joy reid is managing editor of the grio. Both are msnbc political analysts. Lets take a look at some of the stuff from john mccain here. Its been four years since john mccain lost his ....
Later on november 6th. And the world essentially coalesced for the funeral. The u. S. Contingent for that funeral in 1995 was enormous. It included not only the current serving president , bill clinton, who was very close to rabin, but also former president jimmy carter and also former president george h. W. Bush, three president s traveling together on air force one for the funeral. There was also a big congressional delegation that went along, including the then speaker of the house, Newt Gingrich. And that trip to israel for the funeral of rabin in november of 1995, that trip, not the events that precipitated it, not the assassination, but the trip itself, specifically the flight, is in part how we got the 1995 shutdown of the federal government, which is the last Government Shutdown before the one were in right now. Quote, gingrich had been invited aboard air force on ....