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TUNKU VARADARAJAN: What Was Obama Thinking? ?Was he trying to make the Republicans look bad?retr?

By Glenn Reynolds

TUNKU VARADARAJAN: What Was Obama Thinking? “Was he trying to make the Republicans look bad?retrograde ogres who would leave uninsured babies to die in their cribs? If so, he didn?t succeed at all. On the contrary, they came out of it looking rather alert and grown-up. . . . The marathon TV teach-in?in which Obama was more schoolmarm than president?should be regarded by Democrats as a great disappointment. They made no clear gain, and won no clear argument. . . . What was so striking about the summit was the preparedness of the Republicans. All of them had done their homework: Lamar Alexander, Tom Coburn, John Kyl, John McCain, Dave Camp, John Barrosso, and Paul Ryan. The Democrats, by contrast, suffered from an acute case of ?anecdotitis? (is it a preexisting condition?”

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on February 26, 2010 (boomark / email).