Senate Democrats and President-Elect Barack Obama made a mistake in announcing that they would stand unified in opposition to seating any person that Governor Rod R. Blagojevich appoints to fill the unexpired term of Senator Obama.
Life in the Clown-Car Fast Lane, And the party has not even started yet! David Kahane- NRO
HONOLULU – The media glare, the constant security appendage and the sheer production that has become a morning jog or a hankering for an ice cream cone – it's been closing in on Barack Obama for some time.
Feeling burned both by the incoming president's cabinet choices and his selection of Pastor Rick Warren to deliver the inaugural invocation, angry Barack Obama supporters are beginning to fight back.
CHICAGO (WLS) -- Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich brushed off reports that federal investigators taped recorded his conversations. And, he encouraged others to tape whatever he says.
See article in Politico blog
As America counts down to President-elect Barack Obama's Jan. 20 inauguration, the tech industry is waiting to see whether the new president will name, as promised, a "chief technology officer" for the United States.
WASHINGTON -- Former President Bill Clinton's globe-trotting business deals and fund raising for his foundation sometimes put his activities abroad at odds with Sen.
From a droid at Huffpo, a bailout is important to save UAW jobs and force manufacturers to build govt.-speced vehicles. The "Engineers, draftsmen, MBAs, and marketeers" in Congress, led by The One, are prepared to do for the Auto industry what they did for the mortgage biz.
Over the weekend President-elect Barack Obama scrubbed Change.gov, his transition Web site, deleting most of what had been a massive agenda copied directly from his campaign Web site.
It seems a little early to be consolidating the Obama cult of personality with a National Holiday celebrating an unproven living president-elect.
With about half the electorate 'on the dole,' a change of direction isn't likely
When historians start looking for turning points in the trajectory of the Obama campaign for the presidency, they will inevitably turn to Feb.
WASHINGTON -- What a wonderful morn! Campaign '08 is a corpse. Step gently around it. Offer a gentle wave of the hand to those poor wretches over in the corner looking forlorn and lost. Those are the political junkies.
Conservatives may not realize just how difficult it might be to recover from this week's elections.
From the Onion, a "parody"?
Obama was caught flat-footed when Russia invaded Georgia. This wasn't a case of "reasoned considerations" from a man-o-temperament, but the result of modern Democrat appeasement. The majority of American citizens do not put faith in Appeasement.
Barack Obama's White House campaign said Saturday it was returning a small donation from his Boston-based Kenyan aunt after questions were raised over her US immigration status.
EL PASO -- A man who jumped 60 feet to his death from the Spaghetti Bowl on Thursday left a note with a message for Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama. A note to "Obama" was found in the man's car, which was parked on the top ramp of the Spaghetti Bowl.
Yes, Khalidi, an Obama helper, is a terrorist, but he must be a part of the "intellectual wing".
WASHINGTON (AP) - Barack Obama's aunt, a Kenyan woman who has been quietly living in public housing in Boston, is in the United States illegally after an immigration judge rejected her request for asylum four years ago, The Associated Press has learned.
Vanessa Niekamp said that when she was asked to run a child-support check on Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher on Oct. 16, she thought it routine. A supervisor told her the man had contacted the state agency about his case.
Imagine if a speechwriter for John McCain had switched sides and announced she was going to vote for Barack Obama.