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Obama's paparazzi presidency By: Daniel Libit and Jeffrey Ressner January 1, 2009 07:21 AM EST ABC’s Jake Tapper predicted this week that Barack Obama will be "the Britney Spears of 2009." Considering that Obama was deemed by some to be the Britney Spears of 2008, it wasn’t much of a leap. But a funny thing happened on the way to the cover of Us Weekly. While Obama’s political opponents were able to use his star power against him during the campaign – remember McCain’s “Celeb” ad? – the entertainment press’s fixation with the president-elect seems to be helping him as...

As the curtain comes down on 2008, it’s hard to let go. Political junkies couldn’t have asked for a better year — even news veteran David Broder dubbed the 2008 election the best he ever covered. Game-changing moments came from mainstream and new media outlets, traditional newsmaker interviews, and off-the-cuff remarks captured by amateurs. So herewith, Politico’s take on the top ten political scoops of 2008. There’s no accounting for tastes, so we welcome your picks, too. What stories turned your engine?

December 09, 2008Categories: Barack ObamaImpeach Chester Arthur! The Obama citizenship lawsuits aren't over.The Supreme Court will consider yet another application this Friday, December 12, in a Connecticut case called Wrotnowski v. Bysiewicz, which seeks to stay Obama's election with the assertion that he's not a "natural born citizen."While other lawsuits have (without evidence) cast doubt on Obama's birth certificate, this one is more creative: It claims that courts have, for more than a century, been misunderstanding the definition of "natural born citizen," and that if you have a foreign father, you aren't one.A corrolary of this ... unusual reading of the...