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...call it the grocery-store test: How many aisles can I get down the grocery store without someone yelling at me?" said Senator Claire McCaskill, a Missouri Democrat. "I couldn't even get to the produce section at the front of the store before people started screaming at me about the TARP." McCaskill, on her way to a Senate Democrats' luncheon with Obama, was dubious that she could be convinced to vote against the resolution. "If we can't get transparency for taxpayers on this, it's going to be difficult to get my vote," said McCaskill, one of Obama...
...game; leaders from Washington to Reagan have ridden their charismatic poise to the White House. But as history has shown, precarious times tend to breed particularly ready discipleship. With disquiet overseas and recession on the domestic horizon, there is an aura of unconditional public trust around the man many call the next Jack Kennedy that is already putting his decisions unsettlingly above scrutiny...
...Family is city life. Unlike every other President stretching all the way back to Theodore Roosevelt, Obama has spent his entire life living in urban areas. Some of his supporters believe this background makes him more culturally sophisticated than many of his predecessors (they're relieved he won't call the city "Warshington"), while others say it allows him to better understand multicultural, 21st century America. But the fact that Obama has spent weekends walking down the street to the barbershop instead of riding a 4x4 across a ranch to clear some brush is more significant than any particular kind...
...commercial. After that, it was pretty much the Independent Spirit Awards. Clint Eastwood, Brad Pitt, Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Cruise, Dustin Hoffman, Angelina Jolie, Meryl Streep and other famous nominees were essentially table ornaments - party favors for the home viewer. The kings and queens sat there, camera-ready, for a call that never came. Instead of closeups on stage, thanking the little people, they got reaction shots when the awards went to the likes of Hawkins and Farrell. In Hollywood terms, last night, the little people...
...four-star out in one of the regional combatant commands when Secretary Rumsfeld and his crowd came in. When he wanted to take his first look at key questions, he'd call on a bunch of old, retired officers who he happened to know in his former life to study things that were the clear responsibility of the uniformed services, and it was just a disaster." - On how not to hand off military command from one Administration to the next (September 19, 2008 interview with Time...