Deliver good policies and tangible results, and no one will miss the political theatrics--not least of all the grand Washington tradition of throwing aides under the bus to account for White House mistakes.

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She had also spent the week on the phone mollifying Arab allies who felt Obama was throwing Mubarak under the bus, which they saw as unseemly for a U.S. ally of 30 years and casting doubt about American loyalties.

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Call it throwing him under the bus if you want, but it was part of the job description to have a successful IPO and he had exactly the opposite.

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