Well, this administration's objective will be a healthy, vigorous, growing economy that provides equal opportunity for all Americans, with no barriers born of bigotry or discrimination.

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When he took office in January of 2009, you could ask 10 members of the United States military -- or the previous administration what our objective in Afghanistan was and you would get 10 different answers because it was so unclear.

WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

So what's the administration's real objective?

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What accounts for the unusual myopia of the Bush Administration in refusing to fess up to this objective reality, draw the appropriate conclusions and change course?

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The Obama administration says that getting the tax credits re-enacted is a key policy objective, emphasizing that they are essential to helping fledgling but promising movements.

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And it is often forgotten by Republican leaders that this is the case, that some of the very Republican leaders in office now who claim as their objective deficit reduction, primary objective, presided over enormous budget-busting legislation in the previous administration.

WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing by Press Secretary Jay Carney,

Our objective for this first set of recommendations was to identify areas where the private sector and the administration could accelerate job creation immediately without the need for major legislation from Congress or actions that would have a long runway.

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Incredibly, the fact that this might still be an "important" objective of the old Soviet military-industrial apparatus is as absent from the thinking of senior Clinton Administration policy-makers as it was from their predecessors' during the Bush-Gorbachev years.

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