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THE PLANK DECEMBER 21, 2009

Overheard

BY MICHAEL CROWLEY

At a Washington, D.C., restaurant, a child looking at a picture of Barack Obama turns to his mother and says: "Is he always going to be the president, mommy?"

"No," the mother replied. "Four years."

Maybe she's a Palin voter?

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