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September 08, 2012 | | HOME RUNS Bill Clinton’s fiery address managed to not only praise the president but also lay the groundwork for a possible Hillary run in 2016. But don’t forget about President Obama—he’s been grossly and unjustly shortchanged by pundits, argues The Daily Beast’s Robert Shrum. Goodbye Immigration statistics are coming out just in time to inform the presidential candidates' calculations on the controversial issue. During the 2011 fiscal year, U.S. authorities deported 391,953 foreign-born people, according to numbers released Friday by the Office of Immigration Statistics. Ninety-three percent of those deported came from just four countries: Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador. The deportations includes a record-high number of 188,000 individuals convicted of crimes in the United States. The figures are down slightly for the 2012 fiscal year: with one month left, the U.S. has deported approximately 366,000 undocumented civilians. EUROPE With unemployment sky-high, a growing number of Italians, Greeks, and others hit hard by the euro-zone crisis are moving to Germany to find work, reports Barbie Latza Nadeau. Scary A 14-year-old suicide bomber attacked NATO headquarters in Kabul, Afghanistan on Saturday, killing six civilians and wounding five, including children. No soldiers were struck. The teenage attacker was wearing a vest packed with explosives, and rode up to the building on a bike before detonating. Although the Taliban claimed initial responsibility for the attack, they say the bomber was a 28-year-old and the target was the CIA's Kabul offices. The latest attack highlights militants' abilities to strike even the most secure parts of the Afghan capital, worrying officials. Up and Up Although job growth numbers for August were disappointing, not all the news on the economy is bad: on Friday, the stock market edged up, ending at multiyear highs on hopes that the Federal Reserve will pump more money into the sluggish economy next week. The Dow Jones industrial average added 14.64 points (or 1 percent) to its total 13306.64, its highest close since 2007, while S&P closed at its highest point since 2008. Friday’s weak jobs numbers amped up expectations that the Fed will announce it will buy new bond purchases. In Europe, central bank chief Mario Daghi unveiled a plan Thursday to buy short-term bonds from euro countries to request help—the most ambitious plan yet to save the troubled currency. | | 
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