Technology & Innovation — April 30, 2009

An Unenchanted Evening With Barack Obama

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The Times’ Jeff Zeleny might have gone a bit too far with his adjectives at last night’s 100-day press conference.

Zeleny asked Obama to tell the world what surprised, humbled, enchanted and troubled him after his first trimester in office. Even a veteran linguist like the O-man stumbled on the answer. Lesson to the White House press corps: don’t mix questions to the president with Snow White-esque prompts.

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