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They're going to need more than three rings. by P.J. O'Rourke 01/19/2009, Volume 014, Issue 17
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Are We A Nation Of Pigeons?
The Wide Awake Cafe —
... The amazing thing is that Barack Obama managed to emerge so immaculately from the slime that is Chicago politics. But still, that politics has followed him to Washington like a three ring circus as P.J. O’Rourke puts it. ...
The Circus Comes to DC
The Discerning Texan —
P.J. O'Rourke opines that they're going to need more than three rings: Is it too soon to talk about the failed Obama presidency just because Obama isn't president yet? That depends upon how quickly Barack Obama is able to apply the lessons he's learned from Management Secrets of the Illinois Governors. So far he's not doing very well. He has allowed America's current number one jackleg, crackpot, smut-mouth, slime-licking politician to give the Obama Senate seat to a lovable old African-American doofus whom no one has the heart to execrate. Roland Burris ...
A New Circus Comes to Town
The New Editor —
P. J. O'Rourke:
In the language of politics there is only one translation for the phrase "hope and change," to wit, "big, fat government." Mr. Obama, if you're going to give us big, fat government, you need to be a big, fat politician. You need to be a Tip O'Neill, a Teddy Kennedy, a Richard Daley, a Bill Clinton at the very least. And you don't seem to be a big, fat anything--literally or otherwise. You seem to be .??.??. smart and organized. Like Jimmy Carter!
... Bringing the government in to run Wall Street is like saying, "Dad burned dinner, let's ...
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