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POPS"Friendly Fire" ~ Obama Has A Bad Sunday . . . of the building tsunami of populist outrage. Unlike with President Bush, the Obama administration is less apt to dismiss such commentary, at least publicly, as so much carping from an out-of-touch peanut gallery. These are voices that have been sympathetic, and at times gushing toward Obama, during the campaign and in his administration’s early days. The president and his top aides read the Times closely and react quickly to its reporting and commentary.