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...must admit with much sadness that your column was brilliant. I have, for months now, watched Obama embroiled in what certainly looks like an attack by a yapping, rabid pug. Let 'em bite or kick at 'em - you're damned no matter what you do. The tragic thing is that all of this misery has almost nothing to do with being the leader of this country and a model for the free world. Toni Sandler, RENO...
...Russian side had won a top prize. The next week, Moscow hosted the Champions' League final between Chelsea and Manchester United. The sparkling event came off with no hitches, defying predictions that Russia's capital wouldn't be up to staging the sport's marquee match, or, for that matter, controlling the barbarian hordes who flew in from...
...Bush could discover an unexpected love for cricket, announce that he and Laura were planning to vacation on the Côte d'Azur, declare that his most fervent wish was to march in Berlin's Love Parade, and it would do him no good. For many Europeans, no matter how hard he tries, Bush will always be considered an ignorant, incurious cowboy. He was and is, they think, a man who connived in the use of torture, and who marched into Iraq without considering the consequences of his actions. Rather like Tom and Daisy Buchanan in The Great Gatsby...
...clear win for Obama - for a time. But as McCain was being slammed in the press, Republican opposition researchers - and some enterprising investigative reporters - were plotting an outrage backlash. Did it matter, for instance, that David Axelrod, Obama's political mastermind, had worked for a firm that led a public relations effort for Exelon, the utility giant? Would anyone notice that the man who helped convince Obama to run, former Senator Tom Daschle, works for a lobbying firm? Should voters care that former lobbyists also populate Obama's staff and current lobbyists offer him unpaid advice...
...exquisitely bad timing because climate change is his top domestic priority and because the issue won't be any easier to debate when a gallon of gasoline costs $5 or $6. Barack Obama was busy clinching the nomination and didn't show up for the debate (neither, for that matter, did John McCain). So, for the first couple of days of the fiasco, as the Republicans deployed parliamentary delay tactics and trotted out bogus studies that "proved" the bill would wreck the economy, the story line seemed to be this: What excuse would Reid use to get this bill...