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Everyone is awesome except for us: “If there was any significant change during this trip, in fact, it was in the United States’ newly conciliatory and sometimes laudatory tone… The day before, speaking to students in Shanghai, he described China’s rising prosperity as ‘an accomplishment unparalleled in human history.’”

“If Mr. Obama hoped that his week-long four-country visit to Asia, his first as president, would yield concrete accomplishments that might silence critics skeptical that he deserves that prize, he might be disappointed.” Hu Jintao shows the upper hand in every area, even Iran policy, and POTUS bows to his wishes.

“Having upset her liberal base with one trade-off after another before finally passing the House’s healthcare bill with just two votes to spare, Speaker Pelosi moves to a bigger test: keeping her fragile Democratic coalition together.” It’s not going to be easy as the bill is changed to gain Senate passage.

“For more than a year, FDIC has been seeking a buyer for 36 partially built condos it inherited from a high-flying, short-lived Atlanta bank… fending off vandals, haggling with architects and uncovering the developer’s blunders, all in a bid to dispose of this condo project, just one of the 2,554 foreclosed assets on its books.”