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20 Nov 09 : 21 | Holder's likely nomination revives pardon furor WASHINGTON – Eric Holder is in line for nomination by President-elect Barack Obama to the attorney general's job that Holder has long wanted, but the 2001 episode with fugitive financier Marc Rich is stirring partisan acrimony. The role of the former deputy attorney general in the pardon of Rich... Source : The Liberty Lounge Political Forums 9 hours ago |
19 Nov 05 : 31 | Schwarzenegger opens climate summit with Obama BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. – Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger opened his international climate change summit on Tuesday by upstaging himself with an even bigger political star President-elect Barack Obama. Schwarzenegger, a Republican whose efforts to combat global warming in California have generated... Source : The Liberty Lounge Political Forums 37 hours ago |
17 Nov 04 : 40 | Financial overhaul added to Obama's to-do list WASHINGTON – Barack Obama isn't president yet, but his must-do list just got longer. The newest addition to the lengthy list of tasks after taking office: helping oversee the overhaul of the world's financial regulatory system. That is one of the assignments to the president-elect from current... Source : The Liberty Lounge Political Forums |
16 Nov 20 : 00 | Howell's fairness doctrine Following up on last week's column, Washington Post ombudsman Deborah Howell gives some more red meat to the right-wing talk radio contingent by writing that because there's a "perception" of liberal bias in media, a nonpartisan newspaper should consider instituting a political litmus test when... Source : The Liberty Lounge Political Forums |
16 Nov 04 : 10 | Obama looms offstage at G20 summit World leaders met in D.C. with President Bush on Saturday and agreed to agree on how to handle the economic crisis, but took a raincheck on working out just what they're agreeing to until a meeting in late April with President Obama. Obama, who takes office on Jan. 20, did not attend the summit... Source : The Liberty Lounge Political Forums |
15 Nov 10 : 56 | Husband's foreign deals may pose issue for Clinton WASHINGTON – Former President Bill Clinton's globe-trotting business deals and fundraising for his foundation sometimes put his activities abroad at odds with Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, and it could cause complications for her if President-elect Barack Obama picks her to be secretary of state. ... Source : The Liberty Lounge Political Forums |
16 Nov 20 : 00 | Obama interview a big `get' for CBS' Steve Kroft NEW YORK – The first time Steve Kroft went to Barack Obama's house to interview him two weeks before his presidential campaign kickoff, Obama's daughter Sasha answered the door. Don't expect that to ever happen again. Life has changed dramatically for the Obama family, as Kroft learned Friday in... Source : The Liberty Lounge Political Forums |
16 Nov 04 : 10 | Advice and dissent: Obama reaches out to ex-rivals WASHINGTON – Presidents typically say they want to be surrounded by strong-willed people who have the courage to disagree with them. President-elect Barack Obama, reaching out to Hillary Rodham Clinton and Republicans, actually might mean it. Abraham Lincoln meant it. He appointed his bitter... Source : The Liberty Lounge Political Forums |
15 Nov 17 : 40 | Advice and dissent: Obama reaches out to ex-rivals WASHINGTON – Presidents typically say they want to be surrounded by strong-willed people who have the courage to disagree with them. President-elect Barack Obama, reaching out to Hillary Rodham Clinton and Republicans, actually might mean it. Abraham Lincoln meant it. He appointed his bitter... Source : The Liberty Lounge Political Forums |
15 Nov 01 : 10 | Clinton could be mixed blessing as No. 1 diplomat WASHINGTON – During the Democrats' quarrelsome nominating contest, Hillary Rodham Clinton argued that she, and not upstart rival Barack Obama, had more impressive credentials as a statesman: familiarity with world leaders and problems, toughness under fire. Now that she's under consideration to... Source : The Liberty Lounge Political Forums |
13 Nov 17 : 30 | Congress may require more lending for bailout help WASHINGTON – Congress is looking at requiring banks and other financial institutions to increase their lending to qualify for the second half of a $700 billion bailout program. Lawmakers complained at a Senate Banking Committee hearing Tuesday that banks have not used the $163 billion that... Source : The Liberty Lounge Political Forums |
08 Nov 00 : 52 | Obama's economic circle has a Clinton presence As he confronts the nation's worst financial crisis since the Depression, President-elect Obama has assembled a broad based team of economic advisers though those who stand closest to him tend to be non-ideological pragmatists. They are drawn from academia and from past administrations, with an... Source : The Liberty Lounge Political Forums |
06 Nov 01 : 30 | The biggest losers On the face of it, Tuesday’s winners seem obvious: Barack Obama, congressional Democrats, Big Labor, liberals. Yet the ultimate verdict on the victors will come not from a single night of election returns but from the actions the winners take to remedy the nation’s economic ills and extricate... Source : The Liberty Lounge Political Forums |
10 Nov 22 : 21 | Pelosi says Obama should "govern from the middle" Quote: Pelosi: Obama should govern from the middle (CNN) -- House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday called on President-elect Barack Obama to govern from the middle, as her party sat poised to gain its widest House majority in 15 years. According to projections, Democrats in... Source : The Liberty Lounge Political Forums |
03 Nov 11 : 53 | Fact Check: The myths that wouldn't go away WASHINGTON – Facts have taken a beating in Campaign '08. Each in his own way, John McCain and Barack Obama have produced enduring myths, amplified by their running mates and supporters. When a non-licensed plumber who owes back taxes and would get a tax cut under Obama is held out by McCain as a... Source : The Liberty Lounge Political Forums |
02 Nov 20 : 10 | Same-sex marriage issue on back burner Same-sex marriage, a hot issue in the 2004 campaign, has been but a blip on the national political scene in 2008 despite a new round of state ballot measures to ban it. The country’s economic woes have eclipsed social issues among voters, and neither John McCain nor Barack Obama has tended to... Source : The Liberty Lounge Political Forums |
01 Nov 13 : 28 | Media spends twice as much to travel with Obama The media had spent more than twice as much on travel with Barack Obama and Joe Biden than it has with John McCain and Sarah Palin, according to a Politico analysis of campaign filings. Through September, the press spent $9.6 million to hit the hustings with the Democrat ticket, and just $4.4... Source : The Liberty Lounge Political Forums |
30 Oct 21 : 00 | Obama campaign uses star power to court volunteers RALEIGH, N.C. – Edie Falco is fidgeting and looks nervous. The star of "The Sopranos" admits to her North Carolina audience that she's a product of lower Manhattan who barely understands voters above 14th Street. She talks for just five minutes and never mentions John McCain or George Bush. "I've... Source : The Liberty Lounge Political Forums |
29 Oct 09 : 15 | GOP unity yields to dissenters of all stripes BOSTON – The Republican Party was the model of unity leaving its national convention barely two months ago. But no more. Displaying a fracture that stands to become a clean break if John McCain loses the election next week, Republicans of all stripes and stature have broken with their party's... Source : The Liberty Lounge Political Forums |
26 Oct 02 : 11 | Obama denies having inaugural address The Obama campaign, anxious to prevent an image of overconfidence, formally and insistently denied a report — seized on by the McCain campaign – that Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) already has a draft of an inaugural address. In remarks in New Mexico on Saturday, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) accused... Source : The Liberty Lounge Political Forums |
23 Oct 12 : 37 | What are the candidates hiding? In the past week, Cindy McCain released two pages of her 2007 tax return, and Joe Biden let reporters review — but not copy — 49 pages of his medical records. But those steps did not satisfy critics, reporters and opposition researchers, who pressed for McCain’s tax schedules and the previous... Source : The Liberty Lounge Political Forums |
02 Nov 04 : 20 | Obama says he didn't know aunt's illegal status CHICAGO – Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama said Saturday he didn't know his aunt was living in the United States illegally and believes that laws covering the situation should be followed. The Associated Press found that Obama's aunt had been instructed to leave the country four years... Source : The Liberty Lounge Political Forums |
31 Oct 15 : 50 | Off the plane Obama spokesman Bill Burton confirms Drudge's report that two right-leaning papers, the Washington Times and the New York Post, have lost their seats on the Obama plane, along with the Dallas Morning News. "We're trying to reach as many swing voters that we can and unfortunately had to make some... Source : The Liberty Lounge Political Forums |
29 Oct 01 : 10 | McCain, Obama battle for Pennsylvania CHESTER, Pa. – With Pennsylvania suddenly the linchpin for the GOP’s presidential hopes, John McCain and Barack Obama rallied their respective bases Tuesday in this key battleground state before each candidate headed to the South. A downpour forced McCain to cancel an outdoor rally in... Source : The Liberty Lounge Political Forums |
24 Oct 10 : 05 | GOP open seats boost Democrats House chances WASHINGTON – A rush of Republican retirements has positioned Democrats to pick up 20 or more seats in the House and transform what might otherwise be a march to modest gains on Election Day into a wave to a lopsided majority. Across the country, GOP departures many in districts the party has... Source : The Liberty Lounge Political Forums |
22 Oct 01 : 00 | AP INVESTIGATION: Alaska funded Palin kids' travel ANCHORAGE, Alaska – Gov. Sarah Palin charged the state for her children to travel with her, including to events where they were not invited, and later amended expense reports to specify that they were on official business. The charges included costs for hotel and commercial flights for three... Source : The Liberty Lounge Political Forums |
