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Barack Obama has a problem: He's going to sweep so many Democrats into Congress that he will "face high expectations," as the New York Times put it, to deliver on his promises.
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Howard Kurtz - Journalists Name 44th President
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Virtual JFK: The 44th President’s Foreign Policy Challenge
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... candidacy is momentous, without parallel, and earth-shattering, so they can’t file garden-variety pieces about the “winds of change” blowing through Washington. They’re convinced that not only the whole world will be reading but that historians will be drawing on their words. Will what I write be worthy of this moment in time? they’re asking themselves. It’s a perfect prescription for performance anxiety.
Howard Kurtz on journalists naming the 44th president:
Many pundits and publications seem ...
The Khalidi Tape and the LA Times
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... to cover it anyway, and, unfortunately, at this point, so much Kool Aid has been imbibed, it probably wouldn’t matter if they did.
Factchecking 43's Fuzzy Math
MoJo Blog Posts: mojo —
... costs to the Iraq War bill. Now, here's one more error that must be fixed for history's sake: the presidential tally.
Bush's nickname for Clintonhe has them for most everyoneis 42, a reference to his standing as the 42nd president of the United States, and his dad, George Sr., Bush calls 41. That makes him 43, and our next president 44. Straightforward enough math, simple addition, right? Yeah, but he still has it wrong, and so does everyone else who plays along. Here's why:
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The official presidential photo of Barack Obama, 44th president of the United States, released today.
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