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Monday, May 2, 2011

Obama's Balancing Act: Slay W.H. Correspondents, Then Osama (TheWrap.com)

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By Tim Molloy
May 2, 2011
President Obama performed an astonishingly difficult balancing act between the release of his birth certificate and his announcement of Osama bin Laden's death -- and pulled it off dazzlingly.

Wednesday, he made light of claims that he was born outside the country and gently chastised his critics to grow up. Friday, he authorized the attack that killed the country's most hated enemy since Hitler. Saturday, he honed his comic delivery to slay the audience at the White House Correspondents Dinner. Sunday, he announced bin Laden's death, in a pitch-perfect speech he wrote himself.

You usually need to look to comic books to find someone moving so skillfully between roles: Bruce Wayne donning a tuxedo to charm Gotham society one night, Batman capturing his arch-enemy the next. It's the kind of thing that doesn't happen in real life.

But it did.


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