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‘A us-president may have an impersonation.’

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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Better than a debate!) Since NBC has discovered such comic gold in bringing Fey back to do Palin (another quote from Poehler / Couric: “It seems to me that when you’re cornered, you become increasingly adorable’ ’) it only makes sense that Darrel Hammond make a return trip to SNL to reprise his Bill Clinton impersonation during “Weekend Update’ ’, where he gave special thanks to musical guest Duffy, told everyone how he is such a Democratic Party stalwart because “I love parties’ ’ as he gave a non – ringing endorsement of Barack Obama (and why am I not shocked that fake – Bill loves “Californication’ ’?) And oh yeah, there was a parody of Friday night’s first presidential debate, hosted by Chris Parnell playing Jim Lehrer, with Hammond as Sen. John McCain wanting to cancel the presidential debates for a series of pie – eating contests, then to appear semi – nude at town hall meetings, and then have both of them’ ’ airdropped into Waziristan, and neither of us comes back until we’ve found and captured Osama Bin Laden.”
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

McCain is no more a sweet senile old bumbler than Reagan was; but those who allowed themselves to be seduced by Reagan’s impersonation of one will no doubt allow themselves to be seduced by McCain’s.
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In Wikipedia:

Keegan – Michael Key reprised his Barack Obama impersonation while Bobby Lee played Senator John McCain.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

The backwoods good’ ol boy routine is Bush’s impersonation of how he views American’s, most particularly those he’s trying to have self-identify with him.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

The thief of the show was going to be my Lincoln impersonation, wherein I would simply don a suit coat, top hat and stilts? but not long pants to hide said stilts.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

So she corrected me, and then I did my world – famous Obama impersonation for her, and then the Kennebunk Village Idiot popped by.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Doing his Bush impersonation, top presidential candidate and first vice premier Sergei Ivanov has already called the INF’ ’ a relic of the Cold War.”
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

From the barking dog that sounds like a porn star to the horrible Ronald Reagan impersonation this ad is too bad to be true.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Bless him, but the prime minister has been trying to do his best upbeat FDR impersonation.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

“Josh Brolin’s Bush Impersonation’ ’: Courtesy Spout Blog. [’’ After watching the trailer for Oliver Stone’s W. a few weeks ago, I had the impression that the George W. Bush biopic wasn’t going to be an impersonation fest.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

And they describe everyone who is dismayed at Bush’s Carter impersonation as leftist.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

And they describe everyone who is dismayed at Bush’s Carter impersonation as leftist.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

In the eight years of Bush administration trickle – down economic policies, their Iraq war has bankrupted the treasury, their laissez – faire mortgage regulations have torpedoed the housing market and all the while, the GOP does its finest Herbert Hoover impersonation and says “Gee… the system is sound.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Sen. Hillary Clinton also secretly flew to New York in March to appear in a well – received skit with “SNL “Clinton impersonator Amy Poehler, who reprised her Clinton impersonation two weeks ago for the segment with Tina Fey.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

What with the guitar theivery and the playfulness and the George Bush impersonation and the OMG hooded sweatshirt?
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In Wikipedia:

He began using his given name, Abbott, and vowed to never again do a Kennedy impersonation (a vow he kept until his death).
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

And they describe everyone who is dismayed at Bush’s Carter impersonation as leftist.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Though there are issues on which I disagree with him, I do at least respect McCain’s gravitas as a Cato or Pliny-like figure – a respect I do not have for Obama’s lightweight Tiberius Gracchus impersonation.
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In Wikipedia:

Rockwell himself described the character as starting with “a Bill Clinton impersonation but that didn’t really work. […] Zaphod has to be more aggressive and so we went rock star, Freddie Mercury, Elvis, a little Brad Pitt.
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Queried on 2013-05-22.