Opinion: Obama and Oscar: More in common than you think
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7:15 p.m.: Another way a president’s speech is like the Oscars: he is deluged with requests for autographs on his way out.
Members of Congress are thrusting their printed copies of President Obama’s speech at him to sign. He is mobbed! Someone invites him to a game of golf, but Obama demurs, saying, ‘My golf game is terrible.’
-- Robin Abcarian
US President Barack Obama autographs programs as he greets members of the US Congress after addressing a Joint Session of Congress at the Capitol in Washington on February 24, 2009. SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images
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