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Posted Wednesday, November 05, 2008 12:02 PM

Bush on Obama: 'A Triumph of the American Story'

Andrew Romano

Speaking just now from the White House's Rose Garden, President George W. Bush invoked the memory--and words--of Martin Luther King, Jr.--in describing Barack Obama's historic achievement. "It will be a stirring sight to see President Obama, his wife, Michelle, and their beautiful girls step through the doors of the White House," he said. "I know millions of Americans will be overcome with pride at this inspiring moment that so many have waited so long."

The current era of partisan comity will soon come to end, I'm sure. But that doesn't make it any less refreshing--or any less of an opportunity for Obama, should he choose to seize it. Here's hoping...

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Posted By: 7skuareoff (November 6, 2008 at 8:31 AM)

Man oh man, the difference a day makes. On Monday,

Backtrack Obama was promising us all if he got

elected, we was going to be sailing down Easy

Street in gravy boats. He  was going to take Oprah's

and Michael Jordan's and Whoopi Goldberg's millions

and gives us all free health care. Then he was going

to cut up some Golden Parachutes and pay off all them

overdue mortgages. Then, he was going to tax the Wayans

brothers, the Baldwin brothers, Richard Parsons, Bill

Gates, Charles Barkley, Shannon Sharpe and Antonio

Perez and pay off all our college tuition. Backtrack was

going to put up a couple of windmills and cut OPEC off

at the pump. Recession, we don't have no stinking

recession, because Obama Claus was coming to town.

Just a few hours later, in his victory speech, the

complexion of the entire world changed. The gravy boats

have been swamped, the millions of free health care

and tuition and mortgages available to us all for a

ballot, just hours earlier, have disappeared amid dire

warnings of a "tough climb ahead, up a steep road".

What changed? It was all sunshine and lollipops when

he was running, then, come time to deliver, Obama Claus

got shot down by the Ruskies. BS, BS, BS, Washington,

it seems, is in for a bad case of BO.

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Posted By: DianaRo (November 5, 2008 at 1:42 PM)

"The Borgen Project has some good info on the cost of addressing global poverty.

$30 billion: Annual shortfall to end world hunger.

$540 billion: Annual U.S. Defense Budget."

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