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daystarsearcher as part of the l and o secret santa exchage. Hope everyone out there has a great holiday.
"At one point, it was getting late. Hillary, who was First Lady at the time, comes around like this," Kathie Lee said, getting out of her chair and going behind Hoda to rub her shoulders. "She starts to rub his back. She goes, 'Come on, sweetie, it's getting late. Let's go home.'"
Gifford joked that maybe Hillary had allowed the tender moment so that Gifford herself would go on TV years later and talk about it. We're sure that's what some people in the media who hate the Clintons would believe. But we'll admit it was kind of refreshing to hear something nice about the pair these days. They are, when you think about it, the mom and dad of today's Democratic Party. Sure, they're weird and embarrassing and sometimes you hate to love them. But they did, after all, make you who you are today.
Source: http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2008/05/_phWe are told Barack Obama has problems with his base. The New York Times headlined: "Liberal Revolt on Health Care Stings White House." Politico headlined: "Left rebels against health reform" and "Under Obama, the Left feels left out." At The Washington Post, a David Broder column carried the headline: "The president, abandoned by his party." And that's only in the past week.
It's hype. Obama's current Democratic approval rating, 84 percent, is above Bill Clinton or Jimmy Carter at the close of their first year in office. More Democrats approve of Obama than Republicans approved of Ronald Reagan (81 percent) at the close of Reagan's first year, according to Gallup polling.
In fact, Obama's Democratic approval has slid only a few points all year. Indeed, the further left on thepolitical spectrum, the stronger Obama's support. Conservative Democrat approval: 77 percent. Moderate Democrat: 83. Liberal Democrat: 86.
Yet, on the other hand, when I count down the changes the president and his team have made, they are close to remarkable in a real political world, not some shimmering Camelot.
Most agree he has avoided the major recession his big-talking predecessor left him, and the present team is ready to reinstate meaningful regulation. And as of this writing, it looks as though a health care reform bill will actually pass Congress, in itself an accomplishment of Rooseveltian proportions.
In one short year, Obama has changed the entire lexicon of political parlance in America. Who at the top talked seriously about global warming and environmental change before? And he has changed the vision of the world toward America. The Copenhagen climate conference, which certainly had its inevitable comical U.N. moments, was a real start in an area where there was nothing but stasis before.
Yet we, the American people, have been trained over the last 20 years by television and modern mercantilists to want, even demand, immediate gratification. Obama is smart and elegant and decent, but I fear to tell you, my fellow citizens, that he remains only a man. There -- it's out! The bunnies he can pull out of his top hat are no more consequent than any magician's, but the long-range change he is trying desperately to set in motion is very, very real.
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