Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Saturday condemned a US report on global counternarcotics, saying President Barack Obama is continuing the policies of his predecessor, George W. Bush.

I wasn't among those who believed that Pepsi actually redesigned its logo to look like Barack Obama's campaign logo (and said as much here). And while the soda giant swung back, saying it didn't copy Obama, its actions spoke louder than its words when it hopped all over the Obama bandwagon, using hope and change in its copy and plastering D.C.

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How cool are the next four years going to be? This week, just a month after inauguration, days after the first speech to a joint session of Congress and the day before presenting his budget, President Barack Obama and his wife hosted their childhood musical hero, Stevie Wonder, for a concert at the White House. Michelle Obama introduced the event taped for next day broadcast on PBS Thursday; Barack gave out a Gershwin Prize, and stars from a wide variety of musical disciplines - jazz, opera, cou