gadfly.

I hold it against Obama that he called Paul Wellstone a "gadfly."

Hillary Mailer Attacks Obama On Abortion 2009

This is a man who belittled Paul Wellstone as merely a "gadfly."

Hillary, Obama Clash Over Iraq 2009

Not when his ideal career match for which you paid the consultants $3,000 came back "gadfly."

The Stress Test 2009

NOTE: Noron O’Donnell just said that the President and the White House think of Helen Thomas as a "gadfly."

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