President Barack Obama pledged that the U.S. would seek to halt the increasing threat of piracy off the Horn of Africa.
Cheney wrong on Obama, most suggest
by Mark Silva
Vice President Joe Biden has said that his predecessor, Dick Cheney, was "dead wrong'' in suggesting that President Barack Obama has made the nation less safe with his approaches toward dealing with terrorism.
Most Americans agree.
"Do you think the actions Barack Obama has taken as president have increased the chances of a terrorist attack against the U.S., or don't you think so?'' CNN and Opinion Research asked in a poll run last week.
Nearly three-quarters of those surveyed72 percentsaid Obama has not increased the chances of an attack, and about one quarter26 percentsaid he has.
A few weeks ago, Cheney said in an interview aired on CNN's State of the Union that Obama "is making some choices that, in my mind, will, in fact, raise the risk to the American people of another attack.''
"I don't think he is out of line, but he is dead wrong,'' Biden said in response, in another interview aired on CNN's Situation Room.
"The last administration left us in a weaker posture than we've been any time since World War II,'' Biden suggested. The Bush administration, he said, left the U.S. "less regarded in the world, stretched more thinly than we ever have been in the past, two wars under way, virtually no respect in entire parts of the world.
"And so we've been about the business of repairing and strengthening those. I guarantee you we are safer today, our interests are more secure today than they were any time during the eight years" of the Bush administration, Biden said.
The CNN-Opinion Research survey of 1,023 adults run April 3-5, 2009 carries a possible margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.
An Argument For More Female Justices
Dahlia Lithwick, contributing editor for Newsweek and senior writer for Slate.com, believes the Supreme Court needs more female justices. Fortunately, she sees "an embarrassment of female talent" for President Obama to choose from when he must make an appointment.
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