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...argument can be made that this is nothing new. Dwight Eisenhower tiptoed around Joe McCarthy. Obama reminded an audience in Colorado that opponents of Social Security in the 1930s "said that everybody was going to have to wear dog tags and that this was a plot for the government to keep track of everybody ... These struggles have always boiled down to a contest between hope and fear." True enough. There was McCarthyism in the 1950s, the John Birch Society in the 1960s. But there was a difference in those times: the crazies were a faction - often a powerful faction...
...meet his kids? No, but I met his dog, Bo. He's a very good dog and a very pretty dog. He has two white feet in front and two black feet in the back, and he listens to his commands. I took a picture with him and patted him on his head. (See pictures of Presidents and their dogs...
...debt while blocking any curve-bending efforts he makes to rein in the debt. Maybe it wouldn't be such terrible politics for Obama to stake out a position as the voice of fiscal responsibility in the face of fiscal catastrophe; it would certainly call the bluff of Blue Dog Democrats who say they're worried about health reform because they're worried about the national debt. It's not easy to build support for immediate action to avert a future emergency, but Obama showed it could be done with the stimulus, although that emergency did feel a bit more...
...According to fan sites, his favorite book is The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and he has a dog named Chewbacca...
...ubiquitous pitchman in India, he promotes products from Pepsi to Hyundai as well as his own perfume line, SK. (Read "From Slumdog to Top Dog...