Recent Barack Obama News
It's Simple
Posted from Talking Points Memo 21 hours ago
Dean Baker explains how to prevent another Great Depression: Massive government spending.... (original story)
TPMtv: The Day in 100 Seconds
Posted from Talking Points Memo 21 hours ago
And it was quite a day ...... (original story)
Packer's so over Kristol
Posted from Michael Calderone's Blogs 21 hours ago
Last Thursday, while reporting a story on conservative magazines, Bill Kristol told me that he hadn’t yet spoken to the New York Times about whether he would stay on after his one-year columnist contract expires in early 2009. Editorial page editor Andy Rosenthal told me he couldn't talk about personnel matters. But he said that every Times freelancer has a contract with time limits, like Kristol's, and there will be a determination whether to renew or not. Although these two sides have apparently not been talking about Kristol's future, everyone else has. While I was gone for just ... (original story)
Bond, Kit Bond ...
Posted from Talking Points Memo 21 hours ago
Former Bond staffer Trevor L. Blackann bites the dust in the Abramoff scandal.... (original story)
Mukasey Conscious, Alert, with "Strong" Vital Signs
Posted from Talking Points Memo 21 hours ago
The DOJ has now released a statement describing Attorney General Mukasey as "conscious, conversant and alert. His vital statistics are strong and he is in good spirits." The AG is currently at George Washington University Hospital and will remain there... (original story)
Vote Early and Often!
Posted from Talking Points Memo 21 hours ago
From the AP ... More Floridians voted for John McCain than Barack Obama on Election Day, but the Democrat sealed his victory in the state by winning more early and absentee votes. An Associated Press study of 94 percent of... (original story)
Hawkish hints
Posted from Ben Smith's Blogs 21 hours ago
Blog: There's an emerging consensus that Obama will go for big, liberal projects on domestic policy, while tacking right on foreign policy. (original story)
Survey Time!
Posted from Talking Points Memo 21 hours ago
Just a reminder, BlogAds is doing its fifth annual reader survey and we could really use your help. The more we know about you, the easier it is to sell ads and keep paying the bills. Help us out!... (original story)
Mukasey Collapses During Speech
Posted from Talking Points Memo 21 hours ago
As you can see in our feature to the right, Attorney General Michael Mukasey collapsed this evening while giving a speech to Federalist Society in Washington, DC. The only further word we've been able to find is from Mike Allen... (original story)
Leahy's got Holder's back
Posted from Ben Smith's Blogs 21 hours ago
Blog: Move aside Sen. Specter. (original story)
Question of the Day
Posted from Talking Points Memo 21 hours ago
And it's not just a rhetorical point. It's a question worth considering in very real terms. How much would things be different if Barack Obama had been sworn in on November 5th? The question, to some degree, gets at the... (original story)
Only Surprised If You Don't Read TPM ...
Posted from Talking Points Memo 21 hours ago
Just out from CNN ... CNN has learned that President-elect Barack Obama is getting foreign policy advice from an unlikely source: Republican Brent Scowcroft, who was national security adviser in the first Bush administration. Two sources familiar with the conversations... (original story)
Obama to decide fighter jet’s fate
Posted from Politico.com: Politics '08 21 hours ago
Obama will have to decide what to do with the the costly F-22 Raptor, soon after taking office. (original story)
Dept. of unsung heroes
Posted from Ben Smith's Blogs 21 hours ago
Blog: Way back in May, Avi and I did a story on Jeff Berman, the Obama campaign's delegate guy and an unsung hero of the primary campaign. (original story)
More on HRC as SOS
Posted from Talking Points Memo 21 hours ago
On CNN this afternoon Wolf Blitzer quoted some critical stuff I wrote yesterday about making Hillary Clinton the Secretary of State. So I wanted to add some context. It's not just that I have doubts about the job Clinton might... (original story)
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