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Tuesday, January 13, 2009 12:00 AM

Criticisms, political pressure and Barack Obama

The president-elect's advisors respond to the firestorm created by Sunday's remarks on Guantanamo, illustrating the value of criticizing Obama when he deserves it.

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  • Tuesday, January 13, 2009 03:10 PM

    NYU Student

    Not sure what they taught you at NYU, but apparently not writing:

    Nonsensical sentence from lame blog,

    As if the government in the United States hasn’t learned its lesson from continually harassing and persecuting polygamists the government of Canada now got in the act.

    or reading:

    From today's UT,

    We just witnessed the results of that dynamic with the ugly spectacle last week of a virtually unanimous Congress approving a completely one-sided Israel/Gaza Resolution

    BTW, no mentions of Paris Hilton or Real Housewives of Orange County on your blog in days! Vacuous twit.

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