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corner.nationalreview.com - 1/13/2009
This Isn't The Script We Were Sold
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Protestors in Iran burn images of The One. Update: From a reader: Note Reuters photo description.... "Hardline demonstrators". Adjective to show these people are crazy, unlike those who burned pictures of Bush.

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A Bridge to Farce
Wizbang — ... the Oval Office will foment a groundswell of goodwill across the Middle East. Barack Obama will be reviled just like George W. Bush and Bill Clinton before him. Failing to rein in Iran has been America's greatest foreign policy failure over the past three decades. Whether or not Iran achieves their goal of a nuclear weapon is the gravest challenge facing the Middle East - and they won't be deterred through mere force of personality. The well is already poisoned. Update: As noted at The Corner: From a reader: Note Reuters photo description.... "Hardline demonstrators". ...

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Weekly Standard Blog — Obama backed same-sex marriage in 1996. Continetti thinks impeaching Blagojevich creates more problems than it solves. A hitch or two in Timothy Geithner's confirmation hearing? "Hardline" Iranian protestors burn pictures of Obama. Democratic Congressman John Conyers recommends that the Obama administration "begin an independent criminal review of activities of the outgoing Administration .” No potties, no peace: Law professor threatens to sue the Obama Inaugural Committee if it ...

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