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The president’s speech was certainly hopeful and ambitious, but I must have missed the part where he explained how to restart the economy, create jobs, reduce the deficit, bring peace to the Middle East—and cure cancer.

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The president’s speech was certainly hopeful and ambitious, but I must have missed the part where he explained how to restart the economy, create jobs, reduce the deficit, bring peace to the Middle East— and cure cancer.

Wasn’t this supposed to be a speech about the stimulus bill? In his first...

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