Politico: The new White House website unveiled by President Barack Obama’s team Tuesday includes a shot at former President Bush’s response to Hurricane Katrina. Under the “agenda†portion of the site regarding Katrina, it reads: “President Obama will keep the broken promises made by President Bush to rebuild New Orleans and the Gulf Coast. He [...]
A camel at Obama’s elementary school Times Online: The combined talents of Aretha Franklin, Joe Biden and Yo-Yo Ma failed to silence the drinkers at the Urafiki Green Pub in the heart of Kibera, Africa’s biggest slum. Thousands gathered in the narrow dirt alleys and dusty clearings of the slum to enjoy the moment, chanting [...]
The Swamp: The swearing-in of Barack Obama came off without a security-related hitch today, but underneath the calm veneer, federal authorities were intensively investigating a report that a group of Somalia-based militants wanted to launch some kind of inauguration-related attack. Secret Service officials anxiously oversaw what was by far the largest-ever security operation for a [...]
Ooo, something not related to Obama. ROMULUS, Mich. – An 8-year-old boy lived for more than a week with the body of his dead mother before telling a concerned shopkeeper his mom was “in a better place,” police said. The woman, 41, apparently died Jan. 9 in their apartment in the Detroit suburb of Romulus, [...]
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You know, nothing started going bad until it became more and more likely that Obama would be President. Financial stocks, many of them falling by double digit percentages, led a huge drop on Wall Street Tuesday that left the major indexes down more than 4 percent and the Dow Jones industrials down 332 points. The [...]
Politico: Pelosi Draws Her Lines In The Sand Allies of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi call her a grand master at “three-level chess† a skilled politician who games out her complex relationships with the White House, the Senate and her own fractious, heterodox House Democratic Caucus. Two days before Barack Obama’s Inauguration, the speaker showed [...]
Senators Ted Kennedy suffered a full-blown seizure, and went into heavy convulsions. He was rushed out and is in ambulance now. Robert Byrd was also rushed out by emergency services for unknown “medical” reasons…developing… Politico: Ted Kennedy was taken out of the Statuary Hall luncheon after suffering an apparent seizure — a few minutes after [...]
Update From Politico: Hillary Clinton and John Cornyn, who’s delaying her floor confirmation vote, have been having a fairly heated (that is to say, intense but cordial) discussion just out of earshot under the Washington statue in the rotunda. Lots of hand gestures, back and forth and her squeezing his forearm. CBS: A spokesman for [...]
Both Roberts and Obama f-ed it up. Seems like Roberts’ mind wanted to be anywhere but there. It’s kind of hilarious, it’s almost like he screwed with the guy who wouldn’t vote to approve him as Chief Justice. Now there’s talk that suits may be filed, because Obama did not actually take the oath, because, [...]
Then: Barack Obama inauguration crowd estimate soars to 5 million Now: WASHINGTON (AP)  More than a million people crowded the National Mall and the parade route along Pennsylvania Avenue for the inauguration of President Barack Obama. The Associated Press estimate is based on crowd photographs and comparisons with past events. WAPO: Officials now say [...]
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WND: Now steps onto the stage of world history a man apparently quite conscious that the Supreme Law of the United States prevents him from being president of the United States. For why else would anyone hire lawyers and expend millions of dollars to avoid producing a $12.50 birth certificate to show eligibility under the [...]
And when he left, representatives of the Left sang mockingly and demeaningly at him and Laura: “Nah, nah, nah, nah, hey, hey, hey, goodbye!” But remember, we have an obligation to treat Obama and his wife with nothing but respect and deference because he is the President.
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Hmmm, it appears everyone is where they belong. Bush up front, and Obama and Clinton in the background. Politico.com: When Barack Obama stepped into the Oval Office with his presidential brethren recently, he had already agreed to take part in one of this exclusive fraternity’s secret traditions: autographing a limited number of copies of the [...]