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ON Nov 07, 2012 AT 23:06 IST
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ON Nov 07, 2012 AT 23:06 IST, Edited At: Nov 07, 2012 23:06 IST
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ON Nov 02, 2012 AT 15:24 IST
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On October 30, Elizabeth Evans put up a video on Youtube with a simple message:
This is my four year old daughter, Abigael, after hearing one too many mentions of the election.
The video went viral with over three million views.
NPR was moved enough to issue a formal apology to Abigael:
On behalf of NPR and all other news outlets, we apologize to Abigael and all the many others who probably feel like her. We must confess, the campaign's gone on long enough for us, too. Let's just keep telling ourselves: ‘Only a few more days, only a few more days, only a few more days.’
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POSTED BY Buzz
ON Nov 02, 2012 AT 15:24 IST, Edited At: Nov 02, 2012 15:24 IST
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ON Oct 06, 2012 AT 20:37 IST
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ON Oct 06, 2012 AT 20:37 IST, Edited At: Oct 06, 2012 20:37 IST
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ON Sep 07, 2012 AT 11:58 IST
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ON Sep 07, 2012 AT 11:58 IST, Edited At: Sep 07, 2012 11:58 IST
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ON Apr 29, 2012 AT 23:59 IST
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US President did the usual annual stand-up comedy at the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner, Washington Hilton Hotel 
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POSTED BY Buzz
ON Apr 29, 2012 AT 23:59 IST, Edited At: Apr 29, 2012 23:59 IST
POSTED BY Sundeep
ON Jan 20, 2012 AT 23:52 IST
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Prez Obama:
In the office late tonight, we all just took a break to huddle around someone’s computer and grin like idiots at this.
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POSTED BY Sundeep
ON Jan 20, 2012 AT 23:52 IST, Edited At: Jan 20, 2012 23:52 IST
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ON Nov 06, 2010 AT 23:59 IST
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ON Nov 06, 2010 AT 23:59 IST, Edited At: Nov 08, 2010 00:43 IST
POSTED BY Sundeep
ON Oct 28, 2010 AT 22:30 IST
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The full episode is here
The joke was on Obama, says Dana Milbank as he sums up the first-ever appearance by a US President on the Daily Show for the Washington Post:
The Daily Show host was giving Obama a tough time about hiring the conventional and Clintonian Larry Summers as his top economic advisor.
"In fairness," the president replied defensively, "Larry Summers did a heckuva job."
"You don't want to use that phrase, dude," Stewart recommended with a laugh.
Dude. The indignity of a comedy show host calling the commander in chief "dude" pretty well captured the moment for Obama
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"You're coming from a place, you ran on a very high rhetoric: 'hope' and 'change.' And the Democrats this year seem to be running on 'Please, baby, one more chance.'" Stewart observed. "Are you disappointed in how it's gone?"
Obama replied that he was advised after the election that "two years from now, folks are going to be frustrated" -- a prediction he did not make public to his starry-eyed suporters at the time.
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"Is the difficulty," Stewart asked, "that you have here the distance between what you ran on and what you delivered? You ran with such, if I may, audacity.... yet legislatively it has felt timid at times."
Stewart had found the sore point between Obama and his base -- and Obama was irritable. "Jon, I love your show, but this is something where I have a profound disagreement with you," he said. "What happens," he added, "is it gets discounted because the presumption is, well, we didn't get 100 percent of what we wanted, we got 90 percent of what we wanted -- so let's focus on the 10 percent we didn't get." He said that a cancer patient in New Hampshire helped by the bill "doesn't think it's inconsequential."
"The suggestion was not that it's inconsequential," the comedian pointed out.
Obama leaned in and pointed at the host. "Your suggestion was that it was timid."
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"You wouldn't say you'd run this time as a pragmatist? It wouldn't be, 'Yes we can, given certain conditions?'"
"I think what I would say is yes we can, but -- "
Read the full transcript here
It was no fun for the New Yorker as well, by the way.
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ON Oct 28, 2010 AT 22:30 IST, Edited At: Oct 28, 2010 22:30 IST
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ON Jun 03, 2010 AT 22:55 IST
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ON Jun 03, 2010 AT 22:55 IST, Edited At: Jun 03, 2010 22:55 IST
POSTED BY Sundeep
ON Mar 24, 2010 AT 23:49 IST
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Courtesy the excellent Sepia Mutiny, here's a big fucking deal via Flickr:
President Barack Obama holds a lucky charm given to him during the campaign, while on the phone with a Member of Congress in the Oval Office, March 21, 2010. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
So?
Here's that locket in his pocket blown up:
The White House Flickr feed is great that way, as it provides really large sized photos (Sepia Mutiny had of course done the hardwork already)
So who do you think it is?
(All right, so it isn't that big a deal, considering the various rudraksh and what not that we are used to seeing our politicos wear, but what the hell. As long as the most powerful man in the world is not chanting Om lingalingalingalinga, kilikilikili, we can perhaps let him have his superstitious moments)
For excellent commentary, theories, speculation and more funda, read on at the Sepia Mutiny blog post and the comments.
Oh, it does add: ”I love the Mahabharata and Ramayana stories,” said Obama. “I used to love wayang and I am still inspired by the stories and [the character] Hanoman.” Not that it has anything to do with the above necessarily.
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POSTED BY Sundeep
ON Mar 24, 2010 AT 23:49 IST, Edited At: Mar 24, 2010 23:49 IST
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