13. Nicaragua’s Daniel Ortega went on a 50-minute anti-American rant, calling Obama “president of an empire.” Obama didn’t leave the room. “I thought it was 50 minutes long. That’s what I thought,” he said.

I’ve never quite gotten the outrage here, since the president’s response was so clearly backhanded. The alternative was for the president of the United States to flee the scene?

19. Nixes a “buy American” provision in the stimulus bill.

Which most conservatives were for.

41. Obama considers dropping the embargo on Cuba.

Which was always his position, and is politically popular.

61. Threatening to fire anyone the administration doesn’t like from any company.

This hasn’t actually happened.

93. Three prime-time briefings in his first 100 days, eating into television revenues and this Wednesday pre-empting “American Idol.”

Which appears on Fox, owned by the Post’s parent company, NewsCorp, but let’s not tell anyone.

100. “Don’t think we’re not keeping score, brother.” – Obama to Rep. Peter DeFazio, after the Democratic congressman voted against the stimulus bill.

Yes, cordial pressure applied to members of the president’s own party is a horrific blunder.

This list is, nonetheless, one of the most popular Post stories all year, if you don’t count their increasingly fishy “Ashley Biden cocaine” story.

1.) Karl Rove, “President Bush Tried to Rein In Fan and Fred” (The Wall Street Journal, 1/8/08)
Bush’s Brain argues/spins that Democrats are “myth-making” when they say that the president’s ballyhooed housing programs caused the economic crisis. It was their fault, for not “grant[ing] the Bush administration the regulatory powers it sought.”

2.) Michael Brendan Dougherty, “Fight of Their Lives” (The American Conservative, 1/12/09 issue)
Leaders of the pro-life movement angst about the agenda of a pro-death president.

3.) Jon Henke, “The Republican Strategy on Fiscal Stimulus” (The Next Right, 1/6/09)
A critique of the GOP’s nonexistent game plan on Obama’s economic package.

4.) Gov. Mark Sanford (R-South Carolina), “Bad Beltway Medicine” (National Review, 1/9/09)
The libertarian-leaning possible 2012 candidate continues his campaign to be the voice of anti-Washington, anti-bailout conservatives.

5.) Oliver North, “One President?” (Human Events, 1/9/09)
A terrifically unhinged argument that Joe Biden is endangering national security from a man most famous for endangering national security.

6.) Peter Ferrara, “Tax Cut Mirage” (The American Spectator, 1/7/09)
The best-travelled (on talk radio) and most data-driven attack on Barack Obama’s stimulus plans.

7.) Fred Barnes, “The End of the Line” (The Weekly Standard, 1/5/09)
Perhaps the last on-the-record, soft-focus features that Barnes, the semi-official sympathetic scribe of the Bush administration, will conduct with the president.

8.) Andrew Breitbart, “A Million Stories to Tell” (The Washington Times, 1/5/09)
The former quarterback of the Drudge Report launches “Big Hollywood,” a new site geared toward making the film industry patriotic again.

9.) David Brady, Douglas Rivers and Laurel Harbridge, “The 2008 Democratic Shift” (Policy Review, Dec/Jan)
A statistical study of the McCain defeat that concludes that Republicans are in for a “long, dry” period.