Post Columnists: This time for Obama, hope is spelled G-O-P

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Littwin: This time for Obama, hope is spelled G-O-P
Barack Obama is fired up. Again. Seriously. He returns to town today, hoping that some people will remember what it was like — back when he could electrify a crowd, back when he could draw tens of thousands, way back in the day.  

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Tina Griego - Metro

Griego: Obama's target audience lives where he's speaking today
President Barack Obama pitches his jobs package today in a Denver neighborhood that straddles wealthy and poor, white and Latino — a middle ground for a president who has spent 2 1/2 years searching for it.  

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Mike Littwin - Opinion

Littwin: This time for Obama, hope is spelled G-O-P
Barack Obama is fired up. Again. Seriously. He returns to town today, hoping that some people will remember what it was like — back when he could electrify a crowd, back when he could draw tens of thousands, way back in the day.  

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Penny Parker - Business

Parker: Ritz-Carlton Denver still sparkles as Five Diamond rating renewed
The Ritz-Carlton Denver general manager Andrew Rogers was well aware of how difficult it would be for the property to earn the coveted AAA Five Diamond Award, which designates the best of the best lodgings and restaurants in North America.