Barack Hoover Obama: best and the brightest blow it again

The comparison is not meant to be flippant. It has nothing to do with the received image of Hoover...To understand how dire our situation is now it is necessary to remember that when he was elected president in 1928, Herbert Hoover was widely considered the most capable public figure in the country.

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Feats of Clay, Exposed

"..American left and right don't agree on much, they are both now coalescing around the suspicion that Barack Obama's brilliant presidential campaign was as hollow as Tiger's public image -- a marketing scam designed to camouflage either his covert anti-American radicalism (as the right sees it), or spineless timidity (as the left sees it)."

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How Candidates Can Use the Internet to Win in 2010

Barack Obama won’t be on the ballot in November of 2010, but thousands of other candidates will — and he’ll be very much on their minds. His public image will shape the political environment, of course, but plenty of politicians and political professionals on all sides will also look to his ground-breaking online campaign as an inspiration, seeking

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Has Obama Peaked? Yes, He Has

To listen to some pundits, Barack Obama's public image began taking a beating when the off-year election returns came in. Or maybe it was the undeserved Nobel Prize, his approach to the war in Afghanistan, or when he revved up his pursuit of national health-care reform. But the pundits, as usual, are wrong. Obama peaked when he was elected.

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