{"id":21830,"date":"2010-10-21T14:45:51","date_gmt":"2010-10-21T21:45:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/?p=21830"},"modified":"2010-10-21T19:20:35","modified_gmt":"2010-10-22T02:20:35","slug":"hope-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/21830","title":{"rendered":"Hope, 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"

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‘The charges are familiar: He’s a compromiser who hasn’t stood up to the GOP or Wall Street. But a look at his record reveals something even more startling – a truly historic presidency’<\/em><\/p>\n

Rolling Stone takes a look at what’s really been going on in the White House.<\/a> Great read. Shows how how Obama is brilliantly working the system – whether or not the media is reporting on it.<\/p>\n

Call me crazy, but I believe that our president should actually be a really smart person.<\/em> <\/p>\n

I know. Insane concept for the United States to stomach.<\/p>\n

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\nAlso this week – in a bit of patriotic looniness – I spent some time touring The White House via this site<\/a>. <\/p>\n

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I’d never actually known that the West Wing is not part of the main building, but an offshoot hidden in the trees. Never been to D.C., but now I know why Josiah Bartlet<\/a> was always walking outside<\/em> to work.<\/p>\n

I just thought it was cause he liked to smoke.<\/p>\n

Pictured: Cover art for Tariq Ali’s The Obama Syndrome, The West Wing 1968, from Life Magazine, via White House Museum<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\r\n\t

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