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• Obama plunges into campaign, tears into Romney
• 2 hikers held in Iran to marry in SF Bay area
• President Obama Hits Romney Directly at First Re-election Rally
• Obama: It's Not About the Economy, (Stupid), It's About Romney
• Obama pleads at rally: ‘I'm asking you to keep believing in me'
• US hikers jailed in Iran set to marry
• Algeria PM sees 'Arab plague', no spring
• Leading Iraqi lawmakers threaten vote of no confidence
• Obama Tries to Reignite Fire of 2008
• Obama: Time to shift attention from wars to home
• Iraq aims to double power provision in a year
• Analysis: West doubtful of U.N. Syria peace push, no "Plan B"
• For a 2012 Obama win, hip-hop stars must 'Barack the vote' like they did in 2008

Obama plunges into campaign, tears into Romney Posted: Plunging into his campaign for a new term, President Barack Obama tore into Mitt Romney on Saturday as a willing and eager "rubber stamp" for conservative Republicans in Congress and an agenda to cut taxes for the rich, reduce spending on education and Medicare and enhance power that big banks and insurers hold over consumers.

2 hikers held in Iran to marry in SF Bay area Posted: Two Americans detained and accused of spying after hiking near the Iraq-Iran border three years ago will marry Saturday in the San Francisco Bay area.

President Obama Hits Romney Directly at First Re-election Rally Posted: COLUMBUS, Ohio — President Obama kicked off his re-election campaign rally today before a sea of Ohioans holding blue "Forward" signs at The Ohio State University. Standing casually in shirtsleeves, the president for the first time drew direct contrasts between himself and the presumptive Republican...

Obama: It's Not About the Economy, (Stupid), It's About Romney Posted: RICHMOND, Va. – President Obama's rally here Saturday had the look and feel of his groundbreaking 2008 campaign: the unusually young and diverse audience, the sign-up sheets to enlist new volunteers, the JumboTron video of the candidate's greatest hits, and the chants of "Fired up? Ready to go!''On stage, Obama wasn't dressed like a president – no jacket, no tie, sleeves rolled up. Sometimes, he didn't even sound like one. ...

Obama pleads at rally: ‘I'm asking you to keep believing in me' Posted: Fighting to recapture the magic of his history-making 2008 campaign, President Barack Obama on Saturday laid out his fullest-yet case for reelection, pleading with struggling Americans to "keep believing in me" and hitting out at presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney."If people ask you what this campaign is about, you tell them 'it's still about hope.' You tell them 'it's still about change,'" he told a cheering mass of supporters at Ohio State University in Columbus, six months and one day before the election. "I still believe in you. And I'm asking you to keep believing in me. ...

US hikers jailed in Iran set to marry Posted: Two of the US hikers imprisoned in Iran on spying charges after straying across the border in July 2009 are set to marry over the weekend, a lawyer and friend of the couple said Friday.

Algeria PM sees 'Arab plague', no spring Posted: Algeria's prime minister called Saturday for his country's stability to be preserved in upcoming polls, arguing he could see no Arab Spring but rather a "plague" wrecking the region.

Leading Iraqi lawmakers threaten vote of no confidence Posted: BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Four of the most senior political leaders in Iraq's fragile coalition have threatened to bring a vote of no confidence in the government unless "autocratic decision-making" stops, a letter published in a state newspaper on Saturday said. Iraq's Shi'ite, Sunni and Kurd coalition began to creak in December, after U.S. troops left, when the government tried to remove Sunni Deputy Prime Minister Saleh al-Mutlaq and issued an arrest warrant for Sunni Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi. ...

Obama Tries to Reignite Fire of 2008 Posted: In the first of two campaign kick-off speeches today, President Obama told an enthusiastic crowd at Ohio State University that the election is a choice between "moving forward" and a return to the Republican policies that led to the most serious recession most Americans have known in their lifetimes.To turn the White House over to Republican challenger Mitt Romney now, Obama said, would be to return to economic policies favoring tax cuts for the wealthy over the middle class and the loose regulatory environment that led to widespread abuses on Wall Street and near financial disaster. ...

Obama: Time to shift attention from wars to home Posted: President Barack Obama says his goal of defeating al-Qaida is within reach and that it's time to turn the country's attention to domestic concerns.

Iraq aims to double power provision in a year Posted: Iraq aims to double power provision in a year, it said on Saturday, in a bid to bridge a shortage that remains a key frustration for ordinary Iraqis, though the country will still fall short of 24-hour power.

Analysis: West doubtful of U.N. Syria peace push, no "Plan B" Posted: UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - As corpses pile up in Syrian morgues, U.S. and European diplomats are growing increasingly skeptical that a U.N.-backed peace plan has a chance of ending more than a year of violence that has brought Syria to the brink of civil war. But with Russia firmly behind U.N.-Arab League mediator Kofi Annan's six-point peace plan to end the conflict between government forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad and opposition fighters determined to oust him, Western powers have little choice but to stick with it for now. ...

For a 2012 Obama win, hip-hop stars must 'Barack the vote' like they did in 2008 Posted: The hip-hop community stood in a loyal b-boy stance behind President Obama in 2008. Sean "Diddy" Combs encouraged young voters to "Vote or Die," Jay-Z endorsed Mr. Obama on tour, and others rallied the urban community and millennial voters to jump on the "change" bandwagon.

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