sistertoldjah.com - 1/2/2009
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All for one , and one for all:
ABC’s Jake Tapper predicted this week that Barack Obama will be “the Britney Spears of 2009.”
Considering that Obama was deemed by some to be the Britney Spears of 2008, it wasn’t much of a leap.
But a funny thing happened on the way to the ...
blogs.abcnews.com - 1/5/2009
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blogs.abcnews.com —
Democratic officials tell ABC News that President-elect Obama
has tapped former Rep. Leon Panetta, D-Calif., to serve...
as director of the Central Intelligence Agency. Panetta, who served as both director of the Office of Management and Budget and chief ...
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PEBO Taps Panetta to Head CIA
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