crookedtimber.org - 10/30/2008
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In Maria’s thread below , commenter Iain Coleman writes:
My hopes about Obama are limited to my expectation that he will be much like Bill Clinton, but with a bit more political capital and fewer illicit blowjobs. If Obama can just achieve that much, I will be delighted.
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thehill.com - 11/6/2008
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thehill.com —
Democratic leaders are tamping down on expectations for
rapid change and trying to signal they will place...
a calm hand on the nation’s tiller. “The country must be governed from the middle,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Wednesday. ...
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Dems lower expectations
elections.foxnews.com - 11/2/2008
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Life at the Bottom
Matthew Yglesias —
Chris Bertram, in the course of knocking Bill Clinton’s accomplishments, argues:
There is a criterion that any progressive government ought to meet. It is one that I might quibble with in a seminar but not in life. A progressive (left, liberal, social-democratic government) ought to alter social arrangements so that they work significantly more to the benefit of the the least-advantaged members of society that they did when that government came to power. Well, The Wire is fiction, and I’ve never visited the West Side of Baltimore, but did ...
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So many Americans have bought into Obama’s rhetoric that he is The One who can bring Hope and Change that even the Obama campaign sees a need to lower expectations — after the election, of course.
But it’s ...
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corner.nationalreview.com 4/24/2009 — is one of the books every high-school student should have read before graduation. (Full list here.)
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online.wsj.com 3/20/2009 — Obama sought to lower the expectations of his adoring fans at a town hall meeting in Los Angeles, saying it will take time to accomplish their goals.
Corporate finance chiefs prefer McCain: survey —
Reuters: Politics 10/30/2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Chief financial officers of U.S. companies still prefer Republican presidential nominee John McCain over Democrat Barack Obama by a wide margin, but support for McCain is down from the previous quarter, according to a new survey. ...
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