The people who were in charge of moving forward my most important domestic initiative, health care, were women.

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From taxes to entitlement reform the President has been MIA on nearly every major domestic initiative with the exception of his trillion dollar healthcare boondoggle that a majority of Americans now want repealed.

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Ralf Sotschek, the UK correspondent of the centre-left Tageszeitung , sees Mr Cameron's initiative as a "domestic manoeuvre" aimed at ending Tory divisions.

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Although President Clinton regularly caricatures critics of his Bosnia initiative as isolationists, it can reasonably be argued that his own preoccupation with domestic policy and his general indifference to international affairs contributed greatly to the unchecked carnage in Bosnia over the past three years.

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Dr. Marsha Martin, executive director of AIDS Action, an advocacy group, described Bush's global initiative as "absolutely exceptional, " but she called on the administration to do more on the domestic front, saying funding within the United States has essentially been flat for the past three years.

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