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Getting Ready for the Next President — the One After Obama, That Is

Okay, we realize this bumper sticker is a bit hard to see, but it reads "1/20/2013." Get it? Looks like numerous Web sites are selling these stickers now that the election is a done deal. It takes a lot of screwing up by a president to fail to win a...
By Ray SternNovember 19, 2008
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Okay, we realize this bumper sticker is a bit hard to see, but it reads “1/20/2013.”

Get it? Looks like numerous Web sites are selling these stickers now that the election is a done deal.

It takes a lot of screwing up by a president to fail to win a second term, though. So who’s being the country’s biggest pessimists now? — Ray Stern

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Ray Stern is the former news editor of Phoenix New Times. He worked as a newspaper reporter in Arizona for more than two decades. He’s won numerous awards for his reporting, including the Arizona Press Club’s Don Bolles Award for Investigative Journalism.

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