Try to Remember - The Obama-Orbach Corollary: President Obama's self-evident flip-flopping on sequestration makes me want to sing, "Try to remember the kind of November when..." the Beltway media was praising Obama...; Jerry Orbach singing 'Try to Remember' as the original El Gallo in The Fantasticks

CharlieSpiering YouTube Channel: Remember when President Obama supported the sequester cuts? Uploaded February 19, 2013. http://youtu.be/kj1y3q92sog

Try to Remember- The Obama-Orbach Corollary: President Obama's self-evident flip-flopping on sequestration makes me want to sing, "Try to remember the kind of November when..." the Beltway media was praising Obama...; Jerry Orbach singing 'Try to Remember' as the original El Gallo in The Fantasticks

Try to remember... yes, I was alive when President Obama said what he really thought the first time around about sequestration.
He thought it was great and even threatened to veto, which really meant threatening to let loose his zealous followers on anyone who got in its way.

The vast majority of American families have been forced to do their own version of sequestration for many years and the country won't fall apart now.
I support it.

Besides, Obama was the author of this one, and Leon Panetta wrote the Pentagon's chapter, so let them take a bow.
They aren't cuts, they're cuts to rates of growth. 

http://www.politico.com/p/pages/sequestration/

What we need locally is a sequester in Hallandale Beach to stop the tax dollars flowing out in a torrent with little tangible to show for it.
Well, that is, except for highly-paid city employees who aren't very concerned with the best interests of the taxpayers, residents and small business owners of this city.

Speaking of trying to remember... here's the versatile super-talent who starred as the first El Gallo in The Fantasticks, Jerry Orbach, with this clip of him singing the first song of the show, which premiered in May of 1960.

john170252 YouTube Channel video: Jerry Orbach - Try to Remember [From the Fantasticks] (1962). Uploaded July 27, 2009. http://youtu.be/ycPoxZ1NPBY

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Try_to_Remember

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Washington Examiner reporter Charlie Spiering's YouTube Channel is located at:

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Great Neil Patrick Harris recap as 2009 Tony Award telecast bows out

After all my years of watching The Tonys, over and over,

with good hosts and bores and the just in-betweens

just waiting for... well something, to capture a mood

perfectly, it happened Sunday night.

Behind the Music: The True Story of Neil Patrick Harris’s

Final Tony Awards Number (with Bonus Lyrics)

By Dave Itzkoff

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/08/behind-the-music-the-true-story-of-neil-patrick-harriss-tony-awards-number-with-bonus-lyrics/?scp=2&sq=Neil%20Patrick%20harris&st=cse

See also: Live Blogging the Tony Awards

By Dave Itzkoff and Charkles Isherwood

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/07/live-blogging-the-tony-awards/

Shout out to the Signature Theatre back in Arlington,

and Artistic Director Eric Schaeffer and Managing

Director Maggie Boland for winning the Tony for

outstanding regional theater.

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The NBA Finals? That's funny.

Why would I waste two-and-a-half perfectly good

hours watching that, when as everyone knows, you

only have to watch the last two minutes of an NBA

game, which takes six minutes to slog through

with commercials.

There's nothing but nothing more boring in sports

than the intentional foul in the last two minutes of

an NBA game, finals or not, especially the way most

NBA players clank their crucial free throws.

I haven't watched more than 20 minutes of an

NBA game since the Heat beat the Mavericks for

the title.

NCAA Field Hockey, Lacrosse and Soccer on the

other hand... I'm there from beginning to end.

And to conclude... the original Browadway El Gallo,

Jerry Orbach singing a song that a former dramaturg

girlfriend of mine in D.C. used to play all the time

from The Fantasticks album, with us singing songs

from the cast album, with her as Luisa and me as Matt.

We even sang the songs on the way to and from

Oriole games in Baltimore, esp. on Sunday drives.

I recommend the Michael Ritchie feature film

version, though it's not for everyone.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113026/

http://www.mgm.com/title_clip.php?title_star=FANTASTI

That's when I first realized how scary talented

Jean Louisa Kelly was!