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GEORGE: New Honor for President Obama
blogs.abcnews.com - 30 days ago
GEORGE: New Honor for President Obama
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A new verb inspired by Obama's name is popping up in Japanese college students' conversations.
VIDEO: NY-23 Shows Republicans More and More Extreme
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VIDEO: NY-23 Shows Republicans More and More Extreme
— blogs.abcnews.com — Moderate NY Republican Dede Scozzafava’s move Saturday to drop out of the NY-23 Congressional race drew harsh... criticism from the President’s top adviser, Valerie Jarrett. She told me this morning on This Week that it shows the Republican party has... (more) VIDEO: NY-23 Shows Republicans More and More Extreme
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GEORGE: Biden Ally: Obama Team Got Bush's Afghan Report But Didn't Put Much Stock In It
blogs.abcnews.com - 10/25/2009
GEORGE: Biden Ally: Obama Team Got Bush's Afghan Report But Didn't Put Much Stock In It
— blogs.abcnews.com — Obama's transition team got the Bush-Cheney assessment on Afghanistan but they still viewed themselves as starting from... "scratch." (more) GEORGE: Biden Ally: Obama Team Got Bush's Afghan Report ...

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GOP Civil War – It's Not Over Yet
blogs.abcnews.com - 28 days ago
GOP Civil War – It's Not Over Yet
— blogs.abcnews.com — George Will predicts Florida's popular Republican Governor Charlie Crist will lose the Republican primary for the state's... open Senate seat. (more) GOP Civil War – It's Not Over Yet
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The Moderate Voice:  Obama has Become a Japanese Verb

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Obama has Become a Japanese Verb
The Moderate Voice — ... states). Japanese youths are now using the President’s name as the verb “obamu”, which means “To ignore inexpedient and inconvenient facts or realities, think ‘Yes we can, Yes we can,’ and proceed with optimism using those facts as an inspiration (literally, as fuel). It is used to elicit success in a personal endeavor. One explanation holds that it is the opposite of kobamu. (which means to refuse, reject, or oppose).” George Stephanopoulos called it a new honor “not quite the Nobel Peace Prize, but… a ...

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