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...While Hutchison has a high conservative ranking - the American Conservative Union gives her a 90% lifetime rating - she is labeled a moderate on issues like abortion and stem-cell research. Unlike Perry, whose secessionist talk made news, Hutchison eschews red-meat rhetoric and favors prim suits and soft-toned speech...
...want a substantive discussion," President Obama said Tuesday, just moments before his press secretary, Robert Gibbs, stood before reporters with the words eggs, milk and bread written on his palm - a mocking jab at potential Republican 2012 contender, Sarah Palin, who was caught cribbing speech notes from her hand over the weekend...
...play the sharply partisan inside game. "At this critical time in our country, the people who sent us here expect a seriousness of purpose that transcends petty politics," Obama said, either unaware or unconcerned about the joke Gibbs was readying. (See pictures of Obama's State of the Union speech...
...press ignored a visit to Beheshti's home by Hassan Khomeini, the grandson of the founder of the Islamic Republic. Khomeini visited Beheshti's family after making an early departure from a ceremony commemorating his grandfather, attended by both Khamenei and Ahmadinejad. Khomeini left before the President began his speech. On the day after the event, newspapers aligned with the conservatives printed front-page photographs showing the Supreme Leader kneeling beside Khomeini's tomb alone, while newspapers associated with the reformists pictured Khamenei standing alongside an expressionless Hassan Khomeini. Meanwhile, opposition websites, unconcerned by Iran's press censors, published pictures...
...silent as possible, disruption is the order of the day. "The more overwhelming we are, the more difficult it will be for the security forces to handle us," read an opposition e-mail. Another opposition memo called on supporters to try their utmost to disrupt Ahmadinejad's planned speech...