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Obama evoked the ghost of Reagan but only gets his unemployment nightmare

Top of the News: During last year's campaign, Barack Obama angered Democrats by implying he wanted to be a transformative president like Ronald Reagan. Now he has one thing in common with Dutch: An unemployment rate of 10.2 percent. Full Article at The Seattle Times

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