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Wednesday, January 14, 2009 12:00 AM

Obama's early stumbles

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  • Thursday, January 15, 2009 07:15 AM

    Always a double standard

    While the media crawled all over Sarah Palin for her speech patterns we now see that Prez-BO is rather lacking when not reading from a teleprompter. While Caroline Kennedy has mastered the "you know" - BO has shown in the text version of the interview with Couric (I can't bear to listen to her) that the totally un-necessary word "so" creep in over and over again. Makes him sound a little bit like those California Mall Rats.

    Now we also see that Prez-BO's choice for Attorney General may get a pass on not PAYING TAXES - but Clinton's choice of 2 different WOMEN for this position were burned at the stake in the same process due to failure to pay Social Security and other taxes on nanny's or housekeepers.

    Why does this man who has never held a REAL job or had to make a payroll or sweat over where his next mortgage payment comes from GET SPECIAL TREATMENT?? And obviously his wife fall into that same category - her big buck job at a Hospital that required a HUGE bonus because it was so important - is being eliminated now that she resigned.

    We now look forward to 4 years of Jimmy Carter II economically and host of Clinton re-treads looking to double dip on their government pension. CHANGE - NO WHERE IN SIGHT.

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