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" Other bloggers (not me) invented the Green Lantern Theory of presidential power -- namely, that by a simple act of will any president should be able to do anything he wants. In GQ this month, sucking around for some of that oh-so-sweet Buzzfeed buzz, or a link from Tiger Beat On The Potomac, and may Art Cooper rest in peace, my pal Drew Magary may have reached what my mother used to call the pinochle of the form. 17. President Obama He can blame Republicans in Congress all he likes and get away with it because congressional Republicans are the worst. But the fact remains that I have spent the majority of this man&amp;#039;s presidency watching bad things happen, then hearing a thoughtful speech about how we gotta make sure the bad things never happen again, and then watching as nothing gets done. Next time there&amp;#039;s an election, I want Nate Silver to analyze the data and tell me who to vote for so that I don&amp;#039;t end up casting my ballot for a very eloquent hat stand. I guess I could mention the couple of dozen ways he&amp;#039;s disappointed me, too. I then could run down the list -- Lilly Ledbetter, the ACA, Dead bin Laden, a nuclear treaty with Iran etc. etc. -- which, no matter what you think of them as policy, bespeak a certain ability to get things done. I could cite the stark and obvious truth that he has been confronted with an opposition party in the throes of a howling, prion-related dementia. Instead, I will just point out that he is a black man named Barack Hussein Obama, and that he got elected president of the United States twice, the second time against a rich white man who makes Henry Cabot Lodge look like Patrice Lumumba. I&amp;#039;m no expert, but I think he&amp;#039;s influenced someone somewhere. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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