Even when legislation is intended to ding the 1%, it still bears their name, and it's still with the permission of at least some of them -- whether it be Buffett or the four donors with whom Obama shared the stage this week -- that it's even on the political agenda.
After losing to Obama in last week's Iowa caucuses, it was unclear whether she could overcome what appeared to be Obama's ability to electrify American voters who had previously taken a sour and skeptical view of politicians and the political process.
In the final analysis, it may be beside the point whether President Obama actually is a Muslim.
It remains uncertain whether entrepreneurs will ultimately be considered in a broad immigration package, but Mr. Obama made it clear in a speech last month that he wants comprehensive reform to include provisions that would allow immigrant entrepreneurs to stay in the U.S. to grow their companies.
But as with Obama, it is unclear whether McCain will be an effective negative icon.
It remains to be seen whether these three nations will succeed in sabotaging Team Obama's latest bid to secure a new UN sanctions resolution against the mullahs.
National security will not be the decisive factor in whether Obama wins a second term, but it will influence swing voters who traditionally value stability over the uncertainty of new leadership.
Most leading national Democrats -- whether it is Obama, Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton or John Kerry -- may be decidedly center-left, but they are basically pragmatic progressives, not the kind of fuming anti-American statists many conservatives imagine.
The market added its own perspective to whether or not for-profit colleges are good business, an issue the Obama administration raised when it investigated last year whether or not these institutions may be taking some students for a costly ride.
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Then it goes to a conference committee where the drama will be whether, in a grand twist of irony, President Obama and the Republicans wind up aligned against members of the Democratic Party in an effort to get something realistic on the table before the economy simply slides the rest of the way into a deep crevasse.
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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said last Thursday that Iran might face some tough statements from the world if it continues to refuse to be appeased by the Obama White House, although she couldn't say whether any actual steps would be taken to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons, which she wouldn't acknowledge the mullahs are developing.
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