IN LIEU OF CHANGE OR HOPE:

Obama's proclamations proclaim November a real proclamations month already (Andrew Malcolm, November 2, 2009, LA Times)

No one in recent years can top the Obama administration for conscientious issuing of ceremonial proclamations. No wonder healthcare reform and the Afghan strategy deliberations are taking so long.

These proclamations are dropping like Bidenisms all the time. Last month, whether you knew it or not, we had Leif Ericson Day (Oct. 7), National School Lunch Week (Oct. 9) and White Cane Safety Day (Oct. 15), among numerous others of historical significance. Not to mention his proclaiming a national emergency over H1N1 swine flu.

This month of November is a doozy of a busy awareness month already, in case you weren't aware of that.
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To start the month with appropriate officiousness, the president has signed and the White House has already issued seven presidential proclamations. And we are -- what? -- not yet 30 hours into it.