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spectator.org - 1/28/2009
The Festival Is Over
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WASHINGTON, D.C. -- "This is the first time that people have been this excited about inauguration," a precocious boy explained to me as I rode the Metro to the Capitol Tuesday morning. "This is the first time people have been this excited about the presidency." My first instinct was ...
sistertoldjah.com - 1/22/2009
You want to believe the best but …
— sistertoldjah.com — Ed Morrissey’s got a post up at Hot Air in which he praises Obama for issuing an... executive order that rolls back executive privilege, making it more “transparent” to the people. This order was done supposedly in the name of ... (more) You want to believe the best but …

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latimes.com - 1/22/2009
Obama, be like Reagan - Los Angeles Times
— latimes.com — The inclination with any new president is to define him by those who came before. So we... graft Barack Obama's head atop the black-and-white, cigarette-puffing image of Franklin Roosevelt (as Time did), or we dress him up as George Washington (as the ... (more) Obama, be like Reagan - Los Angeles Times

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Oh, c'mon, laugh! Pres. Obama does have big ears
latimesblogs.latimes.com - 2/2/2009
Oh, c'mon, laugh! Pres. Obama does have big ears
— latimesblogs.latimes.com — Breaking News: President Obama spoke in public Sunday and did not utter one newly-depressing economic statistic. Not... one. He said nothing about us living in the worst economic times since Joe Biden invented television during the Hoover admi  ... (more) Oh, c'mon, laugh! Pres. Obama does have big ears

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Has Obama Derangement Syndrome Arrived?
Pajamas Media — ... of reaction to his inaugural address, beginning with Philip Klein’s assessment at the American Spectator that it was “a rather flat and unfocused talk without any memorable lines.” But I also noted the hyperbolic hosannas from ...

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