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January 21, 2010

Obama Needs a Reboot

Gregor Peter Schmitz, Der Spiegel

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It's been a difficult year for the new president.

Barack Obama has spent his first year in office fighting one crisis after another. Now he faces a political crisis of his own -- the defeat in Massachusetts threatens his health care reform, his most important domestic project. Is it a case of the best US president at the worst time?

It was only a small staffing change in the White House, but a symbolic one. Jon Favreau is no longer US President Barack Obama's first choice of speechwriter. Mr. Change is now turning increasingly to other ghost writers to come up with his material.

During the election campaign in 2008, Favreau's words, coming from Obama's mouth, reduced people to tears. Obama promised transformation, a change that one could believe...

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