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This piece, penned by Fred Barnes for The Weekly Standard, is possibly the best summation I've seen regarding the news out of Bozovia these last couple of weeks. It's subtitled, "The White House Tries It's hand At Damage Control," and in it Barnes draws his conclusions from facts of current events and Presidents past.

The NY Daily News reports this AM (I didn't stay up to watch it) that "President Obama's historic appearance on the 'Tonight Show with Jay Leno' was accompanied by a foot-in-the-mouth quip about the Special Olympics he later regretted. Talking about his dismal bowling skills, Obama said he'd been practicing and had gotten his score up to 129. "Oh, no, that's very good," Leno told Obama. "It was like the Special Olympics or something," Obama joked, drawing laughter from the funnyman and his audience.