Crikey
/ Guy Rundle
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Wednesday, 16 September 2009
US President Barack Obama is not helping us get the phrase “Never Underestimate Barack Obama” into general circulation. The latest incident — calling Kanye West a “jackass” — is just another setback.
Crikey
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Monday, 15 June 2009
While Fox News will surely have a field day with this incident and “indoctrination” of children, it is rather adorable. President Obama writes an excuse note for a school girl attending his town hall meeting.
Crikey
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Wednesday, 3 June 2009
I have seen the future of the Grand Old Party and his name is Adnan Barqawi, writes Karyn McDermott.
Washington Post
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Wednesday, 13 May 2009
Chicago is experiencing a tourism revival thanks to its newest tourist attraction: Barack Obama. Tourists are looking to find the ‘real’ Obama and the tourist office now has 30 trained Obama tour leaders to help them.
Crikey
/ Guy Rundle
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Monday, 11 May 2009
Is there anything more bizarre than the sudden attack of the vapours the Right is having about strong language and forthright attacks?
Crikey
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Monday, 11 May 2009
Obama’s administration injected energy into this year’s White House Correspondents’ Association. dinner, transforming an event labelled the “nerd prom” into something more akin to the Golden Globes, says Variety.
Washington Post
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Monday, 20 April 2009
Sure it’s wine, and the money’s going to charity, but selling an Obama vintage leaves the White House nonplussed. Surely the French understand that. Sparkling white anyone?
Time
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Tuesday, 7 April 2009
Obama’s secret team of behavioural scientists gave him the keys to winning the election — in white paper form complete with footnotes and peer-reviewed academic research. Nothing was left to chance.
Crikey
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Thursday, 2 April 2009
Barack Obama brought to the presidency no more or less than any other president has ever brought. But somehow we believed he was bringing wizardry, writes Anson Cameron.
Ad Freak
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Wednesday, 1 April 2009
In honor of companies’ continuing clumsiness and stupidity in their efforts to capitalise on Barack Obama’s election, a Russian example.
Crikey
/ Guy Rundle
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Tuesday, 24 March 2009
Only the most blinkered Obamaniac would be getting any joy from The One’s current performance.
Crikey
/ Bernard Keane
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Friday, 5 September 2008
Palin isn’t from round those parts. She’s from small-town America, a white America where they work hard for a living even if they’re middle-class, where they call it “Eye-rack”, writes Bernard Keane.
Crikey
/ Guy Rundle
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Monday, 28 July 2008
Obama’s globetrotting has been a masterstroke, McCain has had a week of fumbles and the polls tell the tale, writes Guy Rundle.
Crikey
/ Sophie Black
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Thursday, 8 May 2008
TOAST! That’s the headline The New York Post is running under a big picture of Hillary’s head. Is it really over? asks Sophie Black.
Crikey
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Tuesday, 8 January 2008
Sick of Obamania yet? Get used to it, it’s only January. For now, the more realistic of those of us interested in US politics will have to endure the pretence that Barack Obama could be elected President of the United States, writes David MacCormack.
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