Some people at the unveiling may have come to see their new 300-pound president.
Critics are pounding President Obama's choice for defense secretary, Chuck Hagel, as soft on Iran, anti-military and even anti-Semitic.
While Mr. Ryan played the hammer of Thor, pounding President Obama in unusually caustic terms, Mr. Romney allowed a lighthearted, humanizing glimpse of himself in an interview for ABC's "Live!" morning show.
The Democratic presidential candidates persisted in pounding President Bush about the economy on Friday, even in the face of new data showing strong growth in jobs last month that the president said was a vindication of his policies.
A11 Democrats Focus on Economy Democratic presidential candidates pounded President Bush on the economy, even in the face of new data showing strong growth in jobs last month that Mr. Bush said was a vindication of his policies.
Rubio pounded President Obama for his efforts against global warming, saying all of the legislation and regulation he has pushed in that area would "devastate our economy".
Still dusting himself off after this week's electoral pounding, President Obama hosted triumphant Republicans and vanquished Democrats for lunch Friday, observing an odd Washington tradition: the post-election reconciliation meal. .
After the public outrage over the abuses of the Standard Oil Trust at the turn of the twentieth century, it took a bully pulpit-pounding president and a deeply concerned US Supreme Court nearly seven years to dismantle the industrial trusts.
The environmental theme allowed Mr. Kerry to pound the president on an issue close to the hearts and wallets of voters in this battleground state.
Hammering, slamming, and pounding the President these days has once again become a cottage industry.
After a physical last September, when he weighed in at two hundred and fourteen pounds, the President expressed a wish to drop ten pounds, and was reported to be trying to stick to a regimen of low-fat meals and no late-night snacking.
