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IsCool: Video - Remember When? Obama "Fired Up, Ready To Go"
The segment -- which doesn't appear in the final cut of the film -- covers the oft-told story of the origins of Obama's "fired up" chant with a woman in small-town South Carolina. But the must-watch moment of this segment comes after Obama delivers an overlong version of the story, and Axelrod, Gibbs, and Margolis gather round to coach the candidate not to make it too long, and not to step on his lines; Obama gives a little ground and promises to keep it to two minutes.Richard Cohen - Wikileaks, telling us the obvious in Afghanistan
The news in that massive data dump provided by the dauntingly mysterious Wikileaks (who? what?) to one American and two European publications is that there is no news at all.Kenyan Birth Certificate Generator - Make your own! Invalidating legitimate presidencies since 2009!
Democrat in Chief? - NYTimes.com
NEW POLITICKING On behalf of the Democratic Party, Obama is expected to shake hands with donors and tour factories. But the business of politics is somewhat at odds with his brand. And then there was the president — their president — who for 17 months had cajoled them into taking tough votes on stimulus spending, on the trading of carbon emissions, on health care. , the postpartisan president. He continued to go out and shake his head disbelievingly at “the culture of Washington,” which to the Democrats in the House sounded as if he were saying that his own party was the problem, as if somehow the Democratic majorities in Congress hadn’t managed to navigate the bulk of his ambitious agenda past a blockade of Republican vessels, their ship shredded by cannon fire. And all this while the president’s own approval ratings fell below 50 percent — an ominous sign, historically speaking, for a majority party.I spent a little bit of time today working on my text comparison tool, which I built last weekend to satisfy my curiosity about the similarities and differences between two very similar articles published on head injuries in the NFL (you can read the post here ). I wanted to test out the tool with a different kind of content, and settled on something more political: two high profile foreign policy speeches by US President Barack Obama. The first speech is Obama’s famous open address to the Muslim world , given in July at the University of Cairo. The second is much more recent – yesterday’s speech delivered at the Suntory Hall in Tokyo . As you might expect, the two speeches share a lot of common language. Here is the big picture, showing the top 100 words:

