article.nationalreview.com - 12/29/2008
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Bush is creepy. Obama is a god.
thinkprogress.org - 12/29/2008
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thinkprogress.org —
In an effort to “ prevent Palestinians from
attacking towns in southern Israel with missiles,” Israel today...
undertook its third day of offensive military airstrikes in the Palestinian territory of Gaza, raising the death toll to more than ...
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Bush Refuses To Interrupt His Final Vacation As Middle ...
michellemalkin.com - 12/28/2008
gallup.com - 12/26/2008
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gallup.com —
PRINCETON, NJ -- A remarkable 32% of Americans
choose Barack Obama as the man they most admire...
living anywhere in the world today, putting him in the No. 1 position on Gallup's annual Most Admired Man list. Hillary Clinton earns the top spot for Most ...
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Obama, Hillary Clinton Share “Most Admired” Billing
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Reuters now using words like “uber-cool” to describe Obama
Hot Air » Top Picks —
... pull off the shaka, a Hawaiian greeting Hawaiians say has various meanings, from “hang loose” and “cool” to “thanks.”… The president-elect, looking uber-cool with his White Sox baseball cap on backwards, flipped the shaka to a crowd of about 30 people as he left a gym on a Marine Corps base on the Hawaiian island of Oahu, where he is vacationing. Does he really need the hat to attain uber-coolness? Being married to a “goddess” should be enough. And hey, nothing says creepy hip like a president who hits the gym every morning. Exit question: What other fashion ...
Workouts: Bush creepy; Obama a godling
The Anchoress —
... read the newspaper, you are uninformed. If you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed.”
— Mark Twain
If the press loves you, you can do no wrong. If they hate you, you can do no right. In either case, what they are presenting is distorted and therefore unfair to their subjects or their readers.
I touched yesterday on the media double-standard regarding presidential work-outs, but Michelle Malkin does a better job of fleshing it out:
Ah, the perks of media affection. On Christmas Day, the ...
A Lust Story
small dead animals —
... Sweet, Sweaty Seduction . Posted by Kate at December 30, 2008 12:41 AM Comments Zaslow’s opus put it, “Gym Workouts Help Obama Carry the Weight of His Position.” Along with a tuna melt on 12-grain and a pack of Kools per day, heh, what a healthy guy. Yowza. Posted by: Oz at ...
Aw: British paper cranky at Obama for playing golf while Gaza burns
Hot Air » Top Picks —
... in Hawaii yesterday. Meanwhile, 9,000 miles away in the Middle East, Israel rejected any truce with Hamas today and said it was ready for ‘long weeks of action’ in the Gaza Strip… Mr Obama has made the decision to leave all comments to outgoing President George Bush, who has so far chosen only to attack Hamas. On the golf course, his security team even turned away a letter from pro-Palestinian campaigners urging him to help stop the four-day-old violence. It’s a further gloss on the boss’s point about how workout regimens magically shift from “creepy” to “disciplined” when ...
So What’s With All Of These Glamour-Boy Shots Of Obama?
Nice Deb —
... Never-mind the embarrassing, sycophantic drooling of many in the MSM. Why does Obama allow himself to be photographed like this? Bill O’Reilly asked this question on his t.v. show, on Monday: ...
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boomantribune.com 11/11/2008 — Dan Eggen of the Washington Post got the assignment to do a set-piece pre-post-mortem on the Bush administration. You know the drill. You interview a few Bush staffers (current and retired), you get some quotes on how sad everyone is about how things ...
Obama's search for anonymity —
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From NBC's Domenico Montanaro and Carrie DannThe Middle East crisis has inserted briefings and high-stakes phone conferences into Obama's otherwise tropical -- and apolitical, notes the Politico's Ben Smith -- vacation destination in Hawaii. But the ...
Rice keeping eyes on Gaza —
First Read 12/29/2008
From NBC's Libby Leist Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has spoken to 12 foreign officials about the crisis in Gaza since Friday and has briefed President-elect Obama regularly, the State Department said today. The Bush Administration has ...
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