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We
sometimes forget just how in the tank much of the press is for Obama,
especially since they've tended to tone it down a bit now that he is
actually president. So we're grateful to Esquire for publishing a piece
this morning by one Stephen Marche titled "How Can We Not Love Obama?"
You may want to pop a Dramamine before reading this passage, which
brings back memories of 2008:
Can we just
enjoy Obama for a moment? Before the policy choices have to be weighed
and the hard decisions have to be made, can we just take a month or two
to contemplate him the way we might contemplate a painting by Vermeer
or a guitar lick by the early-seventies Rolling Stones or a Peyton
Manning pass or any other astounding, ecstatic human achievement?
Because twenty years from now, we're going to look back on this time as
a glorious idyll in American politics, with a confident, intelligent,
fascinating president riding the surge of his prodigious talents from
triumph to triumph. Whatever happens this fall or next, the summer of
2011 is the summer of Obama.
Though it's possible this is another one of Esquire's satirical
misfires. [James
Taranto]
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Under
McConnell’s proposal, Obama could request — and likely secure —
increases of up to $2.5 trillion in the government’s borrowing
authority in three separate installments over the coming year as long
as he simultaneously proposed spending cuts of greater size.
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