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Wednesday, November 26, 2008 12:00 AM

Is Obama president yet?

And who's that other guy in the White House? As George Bush continues his vanishing act, Barack Obama steps into the spotlight, two months early, to calm a jittery nation.
By Mike Madden

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  • Wednesday, November 26, 2008 08:46 AM

    Bush? Vanished? Not quite.

    The finest painter of all time couldn't produce a better image of This Nation's Two Presidents than this morning's two occurrences, Obama's press conference on the economic future of an entire country, followed mere moments later by Bush's press conference on the edible future of two turkeys named Pumpkin and Pecan.

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