President Barack Obama today told the United Nations General Assembly that America’s financial crisis was the reason their economies were suffering and promised to not rest until people around the globe prosper.  “Two years ago this month, a financial crisis on Wall Street devastated American families on Main Street.  The global economy suffered an enormous blow during the financial crisis, crippling markets and deferring the dreams of millions on every continent.”  Obama also assured the 192 nations gathered for the opening of the 2010 UN meeting that he has had “no greater focus as president than rescuing our economy from…

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When Barack Obama was campaigning to be president of the United States in 2008, he frequently promised Americans that he would lead the world.  In fact, he and his team relentlessly pounded President George W. Bush for “going it alone” and alienating our friends and allies around the globe. His then-campaign foreign policy advisor and current U.S. Ambassador to the UN Susan Rice even joked about how, if elected, they would repair the damage and lead the UN in a way that the Bush team couldn’t.  But after almost 2 years on the job, Rice and Obama haven’t been able…

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