February 7, 2012

Things Suddenly Looking Up for Obama

Dana Milbank, Washington Post


AP Photo

It’s nine months until Election Day, but President Obama is already bringing out the big guns.

Specifically, he is shouldering the Extreme Marshmallow Cannon.

Obama walked into the State Dining Room at midday Tuesday and encountered 14-year-old Joe Hudy and the compressed-air cannon he invented to launch marshmallows as part of a science fair.

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