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It's a pretty good website. But given that we've gone from President Numbnuts to having a genuine geek (complete with Star Trek references, I hear) leading the country, I'd hope they'd improve on the God-awful mess that was the old site.

This executive order on FOIAs and presidential records is going to be great fun, too, especially now that Junior's got everybody in the press pissed off after that NSA revealed they were spying on journalists.

Be nice to America. Or we'll bring democracy to your country.

by Drew J Jones (pedobear@pennstatefootball.com) on Thu Jan 22nd, 2009 at 03:53:57 PM EST
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Question:

If all this stuff is easily accessible on-line by every soul in world with an Internet connection, what's the point of a WH Press Secretary, or press pool? I mean, besides the perverse entertainment factor? Even that might not last, given the discipline of Obama's team and the infinite lameness of the national press.

Come, my friends, 'Tis not too late to seek a newer world.

by poemless on Thu Jan 22nd, 2009 at 04:07:46 PM EST
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Besides the perverse entertainment factor? Beats me. But Gibbs can be pretty funny, so maybe it'll last a while.

Be nice to America. Or we'll bring democracy to your country.

by Drew J Jones (pedobear@pennstatefootball.com) on Thu Jan 22nd, 2009 at 04:09:22 PM EST
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Oh dear god. Looks like the perversity remains.

Come, my friends, 'Tis not too late to seek a newer world.

by poemless on Thu Jan 22nd, 2009 at 04:23:32 PM EST
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What's the problem? The press corps should be asking aggressive questions. It's what they've been doing for the last eight...

Oh, wait.

Perhaps it would work better for everyone if Obama forced them all to wear giant red hair, big floppy shoes and red noses.

by ThatBritGuy (thatbritguy (at) googlemail.com) on Thu Jan 22nd, 2009 at 04:32:35 PM EST
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Journalists are upset, as could have been predicted, with Obama's press team for limiting access to his second oath-taking yesterday to only a few pool reporters while barring the rest of the White House press corps and still and video photographic journalists completely from the oath do-over, necessitated by Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts' muffing the constitutionally prescribed language on Inauguration Day.

Just kill me, please.

Be nice to America. Or we'll bring democracy to your country.

by Drew J Jones (pedobear@pennstatefootball.com) on Thu Jan 22nd, 2009 at 04:46:29 PM EST
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Aw, come on. You didn't think the press would take the "childish things" bit from the Inaugural address as also applying to them, did you?

Be nice to America. Or we'll bring democracy to your country.

by Drew J Jones (pedobear@pennstatefootball.com) on Thu Jan 22nd, 2009 at 04:43:17 PM EST
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I can't believe they're really upset that chimpy spied on them. They seemed so happy with every assault on the Constitution and restriction of liberty I find it hard to accept they never suspected they were just as much a target as everybody else.

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Thu Jan 22nd, 2009 at 04:22:30 PM EST
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They. are. special.

by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Thu Jan 22nd, 2009 at 04:24:50 PM EST
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WaPo: Obama Staff Finds White House in the Technological Dark Ages

Good grief. People running around with no computers, phones or outside e-mail access...

Come, my friends, 'Tis not too late to seek a newer world.

by poemless on Thu Jan 22nd, 2009 at 04:43:59 PM EST
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