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Trouble in paradise

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Posted 4 years ago by Ladyree

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One would have liked to see the new administration at least make it through exhibition season before suffering a scandal. But here it is, two weeks before President Obama actually takes office, and already a Cabinet appointee has been forced to withdraw. Gov. Bill Richardson of New Mexico, tapped by the president-elect to be secretary of commerce, removed his name from consideration due to a grand ...

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Obama to meet congress leaders on economic plan

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Posted 4 years ago by Queenoftab

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WASHINGTON – Barack Obama is heading to Capitol Hill to push for quick action on a broad economic stimulus package that congressional leaders are saying won`t be ready until mid-February at the earliest — almost a month later than the president-elect wanted.

Obama planned to meet Monday with House and Senate Democratic leaders and with a bipartisan group of key lawmakers. He ...

Illinois Senate appointee Burris plans busy Sunday

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Posted 4 years ago by Ladyree

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CHICAGO – Senate appointee Roland Burris plans to speak before Chicago ministers and supporters before he departs for Washington.

Embattled Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich appointed Burris to President-elect Barack Obama`s vacant Senate seat last week.

Senate Democratic leaders say they`ll reject any appointee named by Blagojevich but Burris said late Saturday he still planned ...

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Denver schools chief named to fill Senate vacancy

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Posted 4 years ago by Ladyree

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DENVER – Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter on Saturday named Denver`s public schools superintendent as his choice to fill a Senate vacancy that will be created by the promotion of Sen. Ken Salazar to interior secretary in the Obama administration.

The move surprised many Republicans and Democrats, who considered schools superintendent Michael Bennet a dark horse candidate for the Senate spot ...

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Celebrities condemn Israel attacks

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Posted 4 years ago by Queenoftab

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Celebrities have joined human rights campaigners to call on US President-elect Barack Obama to speak up against the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip.

Singer Annie Lennox and former model Bianca Jagger both made passionate pleas for an end to the bloodshed.

Former Mayor of London Ken Livingstone and the comedian Alexei Sayle also added their support to the campaign to end ...

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Powerful NY lawmaker says he'll support Kennedy

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Posted 4 years ago by Ladyree

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ALBANY, N.Y. – Despite early reservations, New York state`s most powerful legislative leader now says he`ll support Caroline Kennedy for the U.S. Senate if the governor names her to the seat expected to be vacated by Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton.

State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver told the New York Post he`s rethinking his views on Kennedy because he feels Gov. David Paterson will ...

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Caroline Kennedy draws criticism after latest tour

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Posted 4 years ago by Queenoftab

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ALBANY, N.Y. – Caroline Kennedy`s latest trip under the spotlight as a Senate hopeful didn`t get much better reviews than her first. A New York Daily News columnist said "the wheels of the bandwagon are coming off." New York Post state editor Fred Dicker already put her on his list of 2008 losers. And The New York Times said "she seemed less like a candidate than an idea of one: ...

Tha Man Behind Obama's Words

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Posted 4 years ago by Queenoftab

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The job requires him to work unnoticed, even in plain view, so Jon Favreau settles into a wooden chair at a busy Starbucks in the center of Penn Quarter. Deadline looms, and he needs to write at least half a page by the end of the day. As the espresso machines whir, Favreau opens his laptop, calls up a document titled "rough draft of inaugural" and goes to work on the most anticipated speech ...

Gay leaders furious with Obama

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Posted 4 years ago by Queenoftab

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Barack Obama’s choice of a prominent evangelical minister to deliver the invocation at his inauguration is a conciliatory gesture toward social conservatives who opposed him in November, but it is drawing fierce challenges from a gay rights movement that – in the wake of a gay marriage ban in California – is looking for a fight.

Rick Warren, the senior pastor of Saddleback ...

Caroline Kennedy to seek Clinton's Senate seat

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Posted 4 years ago by NewsHound

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ALBANY, N.Y – Caroline Kennedy has told New York Gov. David Paterson she wants to be the state`s next Senator, becoming the highest-profile person to actively lobby for the seat being vacated by Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Kennedy has told the Democratic governor she wants the job should Clinton be confirmed as secretary of state for President-elect Barack Obama, according to two people ...