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OK, people complained about Caroline Kennedy’s inablity to speak eloquetly during interviews and used the phrase ‘you know’ over 400 times during her interview on NY1 TV, see the video below.

Now there is another guy who is difficult to listen to that may not be as bad but is as ‘annoying’ – it is Robert Gibbs, the spokesperson for the White House. He says, ‘ah’ alot during his answers – I counted during one response, he used ‘ahs over 30 times!

Is it too much to ask a press person who is speaking that they can leave out the ‘ahs’. Please if you know Robert Gibbs ask him to cut the ‘ahs’ when he speaks!

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Palin takes on Ashley Judd’s ‘extreme fringe group’

Ashley Judd appears in an environmental ad campaign for the Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund.

(CNN) – Alaska governor Sarah Palin’s support for aerial wolf-hunting has sparked a heated cross-country war of words between the governor and an environmental ad campaign fronted by the actress Ashley Judd, with Palin calling the organization funding the ads an [...]

Obama warns of turning a ‘crisis into a catastrophe’

(CNN) — President Obama warned Wednesday that failure to act immediately on his economic aid plan “will turn crisis into a catastrophe and guarantee a longer recession.”
“Millions more jobs will be lost. More businesses will be shuttered. More dreams will be deferred,” Obama said, as Senate debate continued on amendments to the stimulus package.
The House [...]

First lady takes listening tour to HUD

Hosted by Housing Secretary Shaun Donovan, background, the first lady was warmly greeted at HUD Wednesday.

WASHINGTON (CNN) — Noting that “great leaders are only as great as the people who hold them up,” first lady Michelle Obama implored an enthusiastic throng of staffers at the Department of Housing and Urban Development Wednesday to “recommit to [...]

Dems show their strength as House passes SCHIP

WASHINGTON (CNN) — The newly empowered Democratic majority flexed its political muscle Wednesday as the House of Representatives voted to expand a key federal health care program to an estimated 4 million additional children.
The 290-135 vote to expand the State Children’s Health Insurance Program fell largely along party lines, with almost every Democrat voting in [...]

Liberal site readers’ vote Republican ‘Hottest Freshman’

Republican Rep. Aaron Schock won a Huffington Post readers' poll to determine the hottest freshman Congress.

WASHINGTON (CNN) – Who says bipartisanship is dead?
Readers of the liberal Web site the Huffington Post have crossed ideological lines and voted Illinois Republican Rep. Aaron Schock the “Hottest Freshman” in the 111th Congress.
At age 27, Schock also has the [...]

Fiscal conservatives begin push over entitlements

(CNN) – As the Senate debates spending measures in President Obama’s stimulus bill, a non-partisan group launched a million-dollar ad campaign Wednesday to urge the new administration to create a task force to tackle rising entitlements costs.
The Peter G. Peterson Foundation, an institution dedicated to fighting wasteful government spending, printed ads in the Washington [...]

Nation’s mayors press Congress to act quickly on stimulus

Miami, Florida, Mayor Manny Diaz and other U.S. mayors are urging Congress to act fast on the stimulus plan.

WASHINGTON (CNN) — Mayors from across the country descended on the nation’s capital Wednesday with a clear message to Washington that their cities were in urgent need of an immediate economic stimulus.
Miami, Florida, Mayor Manny Diaz, president [...]

Obama making U.S. less safe, Cheney says

Cheney said the Obama administration's policies are making the country less safe.

(CNN) – The Obama administration’s new policies on Guantanamo Bay prison and the treatment of detainees makes it more likely a terrorist attack against the United States will succeed, former Vice President Dick Cheney said Tuesday.
In an interview with Politico, the former vice president [...]

Obama to unveil new Faith-Based office

(CNN) – President Obama will unveil a revamped office of Faith-Based Initiatives Thursday, and a new approach to the controversial program established by former President George Bush.
The office, tasked with steering federal funds to charitable organizations tied to churches and faith-based organizations, will be headed by Josh DuBois – a 26 year-old Pentecostal minister who [...]