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Obama attacks GOP contenders
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DECORAH, Iowa — Hitting back
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against an emboldened GOP, President
Obama launched a rare direct attack
Monday on the Republican presiden-
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style meeting in Cannon Falls, Minn.,
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CORRECTION POLICY At the same time Obama was forced
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“I make no apologies for being rea- Carolyn Kaster/AP
sonable,” Obama declared as he stood
in front of a cheery red barn, surround- Seed Savers Exchange in Decorah, Iowa, during his three-day bus tour.
ed by bales of hay.
The president recalled a moment in ton in their nomination fight but where the GOP front-runner who has had to
last week’s GOP presidential debate Republicans now have been blanketing defend implementing a health care plan
when all eight of the candidates said the state in preparation for its first- while governor of Massachusetts that’s
they would refuse to support a deal in-the-nation caucuses, attacking the similar to the federal version.
with tax increases, even if tax revenues president at every turn. The bus tour “You’ve got a governor who’s run-
were outweighed 10-to-1 by spending came on the heels of U.S. Rep. Michele ning for president right now who insti-
cuts. Bachmann’s weekend victory in the tuted the exact same thing in Massa-
Obama didn’t mention any of the Iowa Straw Poll and Texas Gov. Rick chusetts,” Obama said, referring to a
candidates by name, and prefaced the Perry’s contest-rattling entrance into central component of his law — the
remark by saying, “I know it’s not elec- the race. requirement for nearly everyone to
tion season yet.” It also came after the president spent carry health insurance.
But his comment underscored that much of the summer holed up in the “This used to be a Republican idea,”
election season is indeed under way. nation’s capital enmeshed in bitter, par- Obama said. “It’s like suddenly they
The bus tour, though an official White tisan negotiations on the debt crisis that got amnesia.”
House event rather than a campaign cratered his approval ratings and those The so-called individual mandate in
swing, is taking Obama through three of Congress amid a faltering economy Obama’s health care law was struck
states he won in 2008 but where he now and high unemployment. down by a federal appeals court last
needs to shore up his standing. It’s giv- The president got a rosy reception week, but Obama expressed confidence
ing him a chance to return to the grass- from his Minnesota audience, but Iowa that the Supreme Court ultimately
Rainfall (in inches) *preliminary climate summary through 4 p.m. yesterday roots campaigning that helped propel voters were a tougher crowd, demand- would uphold it if justices follow exist-
Yesterday Month to date Year to date him to the White House, and shed his ing to know why he’d compromised ing law and precedent.
0.00 Avg.: 1.82 | Actual: 0.30 Avg.: 29.58 | Actual: 22.31 jacket and tie to mix it up with voters on principles important to Democrats, The president will hold what the
in coffee shops and lunch joints far and asking to hear his plans for dealing White House is billing as a “rural eco-
from the Beltway — as he did in three with intransigent Republicans. nomic forum” today in Peosta, Iowa,
unscheduled stops Monday, including The president responded by pledging near the Illinois border, where he’ll be
one in a tree-lined Minnesota town to present a specific jobs plan to Con- joined by Agriculture Secretary Tom
where he was swarmed by enthusiastic gress when lawmakers return from their Vilsack, a former Iowa governor, to
kids. summer recess in September. “And if announce several initiatives for rural
The president is traveling in an they don’t get it done, then we’ll be areas.
imposing new $1.1 million bus, out- running against a Congress that’s not He’ll wrap up Wednesday with town
fitted with tinted windows and flash- doing anything for the American peo- halls in Atkinson in Northwestern Illi-
ing lights, that the Secret Service pur- ple and the choice will be very stark nois, and then in nearby Alpha, Ill.,
chased. and very clear,” the president said. before returning to Washington.
In Iowa, Obama returned to a state At both town hall meetings, Obama On Thursday he flies with his family
that handed him a key victory over used questions on his health care bill to Martha’s Vineyard in Massachusetts
Democratic rival Hillary Rodham Clin- to take hard shots at Mitt Romney, for his annual summer vacation.
NATION & WORLD
Rebels threaten from Japan sent the Dow up 213
points and erased its losses from
to isolate Tripoli last week.
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ZAWIYA
er Monday” on Wall Street made
threatened to isolate Tripoli by
investors more optimistic about
blocking key supply routes and
the future. So did a report that
cutting oil pipelines Monday after
a dramatic weekend advance put
them in the strongest position
and tsunami there on March 11.
since the 6-month-old civil war
That helped ease worries that
began to attack Moammar Gad-
the U.S. economy may slide into
In Washington, the Obama another recession.
administration said the U.S. The Dow rose 213.88 points, or
was encouraged by the rebel 1.9 percent to 11,482.90. It has
advances and hoped they had gained 763 points since Thurs-
broken a months-long stalemate day.
“We are closing the roads for Gad- gain since it rose 927 in Novem-
hafi so there is no way for him to ber 2008, during the depths of
bring anything to Tripoli,” a rebel the financial crisis. The Dow also
field commander, Jumma Dardi- is up 7.1 percent over the three
ra, told The Associated Press. days, the biggest percentage
- gain since it rose 9.5 percent the
gic city of Zawiya on Saturday first three days of the bull market
brought them within 30 miles of in March 2009.
Tripoli, the closest they have ever
gotten. After three days of fierce past three days, but financial
battles for the city of 200,000 on analysts warned investors not
the Mediterranean coast, rebel Giulio Petrocco/AP to assume that stocks have fully
commanders said they controlled
the south and west of the city and swings.
were fighting for the refineries. The Dow rose or fell by at least
resignation, others voiced fury the state fair is “a family reunion 400 points in four straight
refineries are in Zawiya. at security officials and Prime of all Hoosiers,” where farmers days for the first time. The first
Nuri el-Bouaisi, an oil production Minister Nouri al-Maliki. and city dwellers gather for fun. downgrade of the U.S. credit
engineer in the city, said rebels “Where is the government with rating triggered the volatility.
had cut off pipelines that trans- all these explosions across the of the band 1,000 Generations It was worsened by concerns
port gasoline and diesel fuel to country? Where is al-Maliki? opened the service with “Fail Us
Tripoli. Not,” a song they wrote when are worsening and that the U.S.
said Ali Jumaa Ziad, a Kut shop one of their friends died in 2008. economy is weakening.
owner. Ziad was brushing pieces — Associated Press
63 people killed in of human flesh from the floor is keeping trust in God when
bomb blasts in Iraq tragedies happen.
of bombings killed 63 people Ind. honors 5 killed Stocks rise after
Monday in the most sweeping in stage collapse ‘merger Monday’
seen in more than a year, striking
17 cities from northern Sunni mourners gathered Monday at industrial average notched a
areas to the southern Shiite the Indiana State Fairgrounds three-day win streak Monday for
heartland. to remember five people killed the first time in six weeks. A $19
The surprising scope and sophis- when high winds caused an out- billion corporate buying spree
Source: Hometown Content tication of the bloodbath sug- door stage to collapse onto an and encouraging economic news
gested that al-Qaida remains audience awaiting the start of a
resilient despite recent signs of country music concert.
weakness. Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels told
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