timesonline.co.uk - 3/23/2009
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The former New York City mayor Ed Koch was renowned for strolling about Manhattan when he was in office, grabbing strangers by the lapel and asking, How am I doing? This is not exactly Barack Obama s style he shimmers around, with a dry but beguiling smile that seems to say, Don t touch me but ...
justoneminute.typepad.com - 3/26/2009
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During his press conference Obama explained, apparently with
a straight face, that making it more expensive for...
people to donate to charity will not affect the level of charitable donations. He further insisted that he was basing this ...
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The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
... you listen to the Obamaites explain their thinking, they come off as
perfectly reasonable. The complex, service-based US economy is not as easy
to goose with public works as it was in the 1930s. Some of the alleged
excess was put in for fear that $800 billion (£555 billion) would not be
enough. Some waste is inevitable when you’re rushing.
On Iraq, Obama has essentially given the neocons everything they want except
an eternal occupation. Continued here.
(Photo: US President Barack Obama walks down the West Wing Colonnade prior to ...
Andrew Sullivan: "There’s a case for feeling that Obama is floundering."
Althouse —
"[T]wo months after a president has taken office in the middle of a global financial and economic crisis, as he grapples with two unending wars and a battered constitution, the whole idea of a definitive judgment is loopy. It’s also likely to be wrong." ...
Andrew Sullivan: LEAVE OBAMA ALONE!!!
Patterico's Pontifications —
... The Times of London runs Excitable Andy’s apologia for the Obama Administration’s shaky start. Sullivan tries to buy himself some cred with this assessment: ...
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Sister Toldjah —
Obama needs time, so stop picking on him!
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