A new Marist College poll released today of registered voters found that a whopping 83% said that president elect Barack Obama is doing either about or better than expected. The poll also found that voters think Obama will move the country in the right direction, and they approve of his choice of Hillary Clinton for Secretary of State.
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In an interview with Time, Obama lays out a two-year agenda that's both staggeringly ambitious and refreshingly modest. Modest, because many of the benchmarks bespeak new beginnings, tangible and positive changes of approach, rather than completely transformed institutions...The goals are huge, but the approach is incremental.
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The Wall Street Journal notes that "many of the Republicans emerging as potential members of the Obama administration have professional and ideological ties to Brent Scowcroft" -- Bush Sr.'s national security adviser. And it's widely reported that Obama will keep on Robert Gates as defense secretary. Gates was deputy national security adviser under Scowcroft.
The Journal article stresses policy affinities between Scowcroft and Obama -- most notably that both opposed going to war in Iraq. -->>read more
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The Journal article stresses policy affinities between Scowcroft and Obama -- most notably that both opposed going to war in Iraq. -->>read more
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Kudos to the ACLU for working from Day 1 to hold Obama to his always rather briefly expressed promises to end torture, close Guantanamo, and revisit FISA. Since November 5, when they took out full-page ads quoting those promises (the first two, anyway), they've been in congratulations-we're-waiting-for-action mode. Yesterday they sent an email to supporters linking to a segment of Obama's recent 60 Minutes interview in which he reiterates those promises (again, without elaboration), filling
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President-elect Barack Obama tapped former Clinton attorney Gregory Craig as his White House counsel on Wednesday and said campaign strategist David Axelrod will join him in Washington as a senior adviser
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Former Senate majority leader Tom Daschle was tapped Wednesday to serve as secretary of Health and Human Services in the Obama administration, even though he works for a Washington lobbying firm that represents health care interests.
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Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano, who has fought to curb illegal immigration along her state's border with Mexico, is President-elect Barack Obama's likely choice for secretary of Homeland Security, the Associated Press reported Thursday.
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Video tribute to how the election was the culmination of decades of courage and struggle.
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So Hillary Clinton, the vanquished Obama foe for the Democratic nomination was seen boarding a plane headed to Chicago today. And this act has fueled tremendous speculation that she may be under consideration by the Obama transition team for a cabinet position.
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In his first weekly address as President elect, Obama echoed Paul Krugman, signaling in no uncertain terms that he's going going full-speed ahead with his economic agenda, deficits be damned:
Even as we dig ourselves out of this recession, we must also recognize that out of this economic crisis comes an opportunity to create new jobs, strengthen our middle class, and keep our economy competitive in the 21st century. -->>read more
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Even as we dig ourselves out of this recession, we must also recognize that out of this economic crisis comes an opportunity to create new jobs, strengthen our middle class, and keep our economy competitive in the 21st century. -->>read more
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