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2:00 PM, Aug 16, 2011 • By MARK HEMINGWAY

Since embarking on a taxpayer-funded campaign tour of the Midwest, Obama has already compared his plight to Lincoln and Martin Luther King Jr. and blamed his troubles on "bad luck," as if the president's policies had nothing to do with the current predicament.

Well, here's another choice nugget from the president's bus trip:

At the same time Obama was forced to defend his own record as Iowa voters asked him about all the compromises he’s made with the GOP.

“I make no apologies for being reasonable,” Obama declared as he stood in front of a cheery red barn, surrounded by bales of hay.

But that doesn't answer a more pertinant question -- will the president apologize for his own hubris?

Excruciating scholarly adoration.

6:56 PM, Aug 19, 2010 • By PHILIP TERZIAN

We might as well enjoy this sort of excruciating scholarly adoration of Barack Obama before the November elections, at least. This is from a new Princeton University Press release on 'Reading Obama: Dreams, Hope, and the American Political Tradition' by James T. Kloppenberg:

...and respond to President Obama.

4:40 PM, Jan 25, 2010 • By WILLIAM KRISTOL

Regarding President Obama's extraordinary "Well, the big difference [between] here and in '94 was you've got me" comment to Arkansas congressman Marion Berry: Well, in '94 they had Bill Clinton--who had won statewide in a pretty conservative state (Arkansas) something like seven times, and who was the fourth challenger in the 20th century to oust an incumbent elected president, following in the footsteps on Wilson, FDR, and Reagan.

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