Five Links:

• Video: Obama Gives Oil Spill Update From New Orleans. (June 4th.)
• Clinton Library releases scores of Kagan documents bearing relation to her work with the Domestic Policy Council.
• COP Hearing on TARP and other assistance to AIG.
• Interview with African/French-lit blogger Chez Gangoueus.
• Due to rising student debt, a growing number of universities are stepping up with “no-loan” aid pledges: http://bit.ly/9jdhVg

I imagine this as an expansion upon the post that lined up I Have A Crush On Obama” and “Someone Like Putin,” where — here — we can take a look at the media countdown to Sarkozy’s victory in ‘07 and Obama’s.

In Which the President Acknowledges a Meme.

“Yes,” he chuckled. “That’s exactly how I feel.”

— Obama, as quoted in Renegade.