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politico.com - 10/28/2009
What if George W. Bush had done that?
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A four-hour stop in New Orleans , on his way to a $3 million fundraiser. Snubbing the Dalai Lama . Signing off on a secret deal with drug makers. Freezing out a TV network . Doing more fundraisers than the last president. More golf , too. President Barack Obama has done all of those things  ...

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Why context matters
Abnormal Returns — ... Josh Gerstein at Politico recently wrote a piece that compared how similar incidents during both the Bush and Obama administrations have been covered very differently by the press.  The gist of the argument being that Obama has gotten a pass from the mainstream media on these issues.  Gerstein writes: ...

Links 10/29/09
naked capitalism — ... – just replace the word gangsta with the other one.) America’s Next President? YouTube (In the same vein as the last link. Hat tip Andrew Sullivan) Galleon paid banks millions for ‘edge’ FT (Proof the system is rigged) How to avoid a repeat of the Great Crash FT Struggling in a recovering economy BBC Soros: General Theory of Reflexivity FT (Not much chatter on this yet. Hat tip reader Scott) What if George W. Bush had done that? Politico The Presidency and The Rise of the New ...

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