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ProfessionalLeftist

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5. Obama is a first - and has been subjected to a lot of 'firsts'

Reply to brettdale (Original post)

Sat Jun 23, 2012, 05:13 PM

Jun 2012

and not good ones -ie: first time the damn GOP threatened to shitcan the economy over raising the budget ceiling; first time a challenger for the Presidency outraised an incumbent (thank you very little Citizens United); first time a big stink has been raised over the President's birthplace....just to name a few.

EDIT: oh. And the first time Congress has held the AG in contempt AFTER the President declared Executive Privilege.

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