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politics.theatlantic.com - 2/17/2009
Straw Men
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You can forgive President Obama, struggling with Congress for the first time as the Oval Office occupant, for resorting to a debating tactic that would make my high school forensics teacher, Dean Rhoads, scowl.   Of a large basket of his opponents, the President said :     ...
"Dear President Obama": The President Reads 10 Letters a Day from the Public, With Policy Ramifications
blogs.abcnews.com - 2/23/2009
"Dear President Obama": The President Reads 10 Letters a Day from the Public, With Policy ...
— blogs.abcnews.com — ABC News'; Jake Tapper reports: The letter to President Obama came from a woman in Arizona whose... husband lost his job. He was able to find work, but the new gig came with one-third the pay; the family is struggling... (more) "Dear President Obama": The President Reads 10 Letters a ...

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Op-Ed Columnist - They Sure Showed That Obama
nytimes.com - 2/15/2009
Op-Ed Columnist - They Sure Showed That Obama
— nytimes.com — AM I crazy, or wasn’t the Obama presidency pronounced dead just days ago? Obama had “all but... lost control of the agenda in Washington,” declared Newsweek on Feb. 4 as it wondered whether he might even get a stimulus package through Congress. “Obama ... (more) Op-Ed Columnist - They Sure Showed That Obama

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Op-Ed Columnist: They Sure Showed That Obama
nytimes.com - 2/15/2009
Op-Ed Columnist: They Sure Showed That Obama
— nytimes.com — In the stimulus battle — just as in the presidential campaign — Barack Obama has once again... outwitted the punditocracy and the opposition. > (more) Op-Ed Columnist: They Sure Showed That Obama

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The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan — Ambers arches an eye-brow: Mr. Axelrod's supreme attention to The Narrative of Barack Obama is, I must say, admirable and annoying to those of us who try to see shades of gray. It was jarring to read Axelrod channel Frank Rich, in a column by, uh, Frank Rich. ...

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