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President Obama - Taking Us Back to Beatlemania

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John Lennon once described the scene inside the Beatles during the heyday of the fan frenzy of Beatlemania in the 1960s as similar to being inside the eye of a hurricane. "We always called it the eye of the hurricane - it was calmer right in the middle," Lennon said. This might be the case inside the White House these days as President Barrack Obama sends the country into a tizzy with weekly announcements of new domestic and foreign policy initiatives that are drastically changing the political landscape. These policies are so different that critics are arguing he's ruining the country while the President's supporters say his programs are just the right ones to get the country back on track. With so many pundits and politicians commenting on President Obama's every move, it's reminiscent of the crazy chaos that surrounded the Fab Four in the early days of the British invasion. "Everybody got into the mania," Beatle George Harrison once said. As an ex...