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I'm the President's Trusted Counselor
The Wall Street Journal ^ | February 11, 2010 | Noam Neusner

Posted on 02/11/2010 6:14:01 AM PST by Brandonmark

Some people get quoted in presidential speeches by writing heartfelt letters to the president about personal loss, or by doing something heroic, like landing a plane in the icy Hudson River.

I just sit in the Oval Office, and mouth off to President Barack Obama, one inanity after the next. And sure enough, my words—word for word, mind you!—show up in his biggest speeches.

Who am I? Sotus—Straw man of the United States. I'm Mr. Obama's most trusted rhetorical friend.

In his speeches, Mr. Obama says there are "those" who suggest we "can meet our enormous tests with half-steps and piecemeal measures." He suggests there are "some" who are content to let America's economy become, at best, "number two." He says that on health care, "some people" think we should do nothing.

Listen, there is no "some people." He's just quoting me, Sotus.

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TOPICS: Editorial; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: obama; sotus; speeches; strawman
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To: ohioWfan
shouldn't it be SMOTUS?

That's what I was thinking....

21 posted on 02/11/2010 9:24:22 AM PST by expat_panama
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To: ohioWfan

SMOTUS is what the MSM did to us when they pushed Obama into office. Had they done their job he would still be a Senator, if that.


22 posted on 02/11/2010 2:52:15 PM PST by RipSawyer (Trying to reason with a leftist is like trying to catch sunshine in a fish net at midnight.)
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