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Eric Holder, Jack Quinn and the Rich pardon

It's premature to criticize Obama for his establishment-soothing appointments. But it's just as premature to heap praise on him for those appointments.

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  • Tuesday, December 2, 2008 08:58 AM

    It's at least within the realm of possibility

    that Obama is working his master plan to win the good graces of all Washington by keeping his liberal tendencies below the surface somewhat. Once firmly a crowd fav he can break out his more progressive ideas, and his inertia and crowd pleasing status will make today's ridiculed librul ideas suddenly palatable to the masses.

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