Fox News chairman says Obama faces immense challenges

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WARREN — Roger Ailes, chairman of Fox News and former Republican president-maker, says Democrat President-elect Barack Obama has inherited bigger challenges than any incoming president in history.

The major issues, as Ailes sees them, are: Political and economic division of the citizenry; military challenges around the world; and “unbelievable” economic pressures.

“At the same time, they give him his greatest opportunities,” Ailes said of Obama.

The President-elect has to remind Americans that America is exceptional, said Ailes, a 1958 graduate of Warren G. Harding High School.

“We have fed more people and freed more people than any country in history. Obama needs to focus Americans on personal responsibility,” he said, talking informally with a dozen of his 1958 Harding classmates, including this writer, Monday afternoon.

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