One more reaction to the Tebow Superbowl ad, via Carbolic Smokeball. I have to point out that this is a parody, because NOW and similar groups often make arguments and take positions that seem parodic, but turn out to be the real thing.
Sarah Palin treated as Obama’s political equal? That is not a good sign for the President. He has appeared to often on the TV screens, making grand, formal speeches to the populace or to Congress. That creates overexposure and eventual boredom with the Obama brand. The press then goes for the newest thing, here, someone with less recent saturation of the airwaves.
In an article titled Cheney’s Revenge, a summary of the Obama administration’s reversals of its earlier pretentious posing of moral superiority over the Bush-Cheney-Rumsfeld policies.
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