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Published 11/19/2008 by Emily Schneider at CNN Political Ticker
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President-elect Barack Obama won the White House on a message of change. Fifty-three percent of Americans said they wanted something new and different in Washington. Well, Obama is certainly new and different, but the same cannot be said for some of his early appointments. It’s like that song title, [...]
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