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[Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>]

> No. I never said I expected Obama to reign in govt.

I try really, really hard to overlook misspellings--I make them  
myself--but this one is bugging me. Unless it is to be construed as a  
convoluted double entendre, one tries to "rein in" government as one  
would rein in a horse. A "reign" is the time of rule of a sovereign  
king or queen, or such, colloquially used for others also, such as a  
president who acts as if he were a king, as in, "during the reign of  
George II."