Barack Obama

1,000 Words

By Karen Tumulty | August 28, 2009 | +

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    Blow in my ear and I’ll follow you anywhere…..

  • stuartzechman

    KT
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    Welcome back from vacation.
    .
    Thanks so much once again for all of your admirable efforts to keep the issue of health care reform front and center, as it should be.

  • Ffred

    :-D

  • lupercal5

    thank you KT. since i’ve turned the tv off last week, i’ve been yearning for someone to say something important without bloviating. and you’ve managed to say that in the fewest words possible.

  • choska

    Why should be people be sad that Kennedy is gone? Maybe it is because the people who have replaced him are absolute worthless human beings who wouldn’t know how to take a stand on principle if their lives depended on it.

    Now that he is gone the only Senator left who is even trying is Bernie Sanders. The rest are just petty, small people who simply don’t care about this country.

    The list of the worthless is long and pathetic:
    Harry Reid, Max Baucus, Joe Lieberman, Blanche Lincoln, Mary Landreau, Diane Feinstein, Ben Nelson, ArlesSpecter, Mitch McConnell, James Inhofe, Charles Grassely . . .

    We are led by the worst of the worse. The fact that Reid is majority leader might just be proof that God isn’t on our side.

  • dunedweller

    Barack and Teddy photographed back in the heady days of believing that quality affordable health care for all american men, women and children would be welcomed with open arms.

  • profbaltasar

    Kennedy’s death is probably the saddest day Obama has had in office so far; I hope on behalf of USA and its people that he will not have sadder days in his presidency.

  • gadsbys

    “Don’t worry Ted.

    “I’ll see to it that they get Health Care even if I have to slap em upside their to do so.”

  • gadsbys

    Head

  • sacredh

    Hello Goodbye

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