That was mere months after WikiLeaks' release of the US embassy cables, which revealed his administration routinely putting its thumbs on the scales of justice in other countries as a means of preventing its own henchmen, as well as the legal team that penned former President George W Bush's torture memos from being prosecuted for war crimes committed in the name of post-911 "national security".
If Barack Obama goes along with it in the name of post-partisan comity, he's making a big mistake.
We're presuming that this is because of the dreaded partisan gridlock, which has made Congress increasingly unproductive in matters that do not involve the naming of post offices.
The naming of post offices after individuals is a relatively recent practice in the history of the postal service, with the first legislation passed by Congress in 1967.
Of course, even if the GOP takes the Senate, Congress will likely remain hopelessly deadlocked and it will still take a series of complicated backroom compromises to get any legislation passed that doesn't deal with the naming of post offices.
Two years later, a post office at the station was given the name of "Blacktown" post office, providing today's council records with the first official use of the name, dated 1862.
Most people continue to use the geographical name of the post office, postal officials noted.
But the legendary names of post-war publishing, of which Tom was the leading light, were also energetic entrepreneurs who knew how to sell a book.
Ben Shepard, in his book A War of Nerves, has charted their diagnosis, from the "shell shock" of the first world war to the "nerve problems" of the second, through to the naming of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) by American psychiatrists in the troubled aftermath of Vietnam.
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