A Long Time Coming

By David Kurtz

September 27, 2013 11:45 a.m.

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Obama announces he just got off the phone with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani — the first direct communication between Iranian and American leaders since 1979. That puts the government shutdown/debt limit craziness in even starker relief.

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