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Howard Fineman must be fuming

March 13, 2009 1:12 pm ET by Eric Boehlert

The news is that Obama may be skipping this year's Gridiron Dinner. That's where president traditionally yuks it up with elite journalists at their annual dinner. Obama would be the first president since Grover Cleveland to not attend the dinner in his first year in office.

This is not going to go well with the Establishment. And you'll remember Newsweek's Fineman this week was already lamenting  how the Beltway Establishment is having doubts about Obama. Not the public, mind you. They're giving Obama sky-high approval ratings. But the Establishment isn't so sure.

And for Fineman, that was very, very big news.

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    • Author by magnolialover (March 13, 2009 2:05 pm ET)
         
      Isn't this the same press that keeps claiming that he has too much to do? Aren't there more important things for Obama to be doing rather than attending a Beltway circle jerk?
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    • Author by carlileb5935 (March 13, 2009 6:20 pm ET)
         

      Good for Obama. Nothing more disgusting than those types all yucking it up.

      If he did go, they'd all turn on him too, by showing clips of him tee-heeing. Then they'd ask viewers if they thought that kind of behavior was "appropriate" in these troubled times.

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