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Barack Obama confronted the nation's race issue head-on, tackling both black grievance and white resentment in a bold effort to quiet a campaign uproar over race and his former ...

Barack Hussein Obama II (pronounced /bəˈrɑːk hʊˈseɪn oʊˈbɑːmə/; born August 4, 1961) is the junior United States Senator from Illinois and presidential nominee of the ...

Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama said Thursday that the escalation of U.S. troops in Iraq, which he had opposed, has succeeded in reducing violence "beyond our wildest ...

Democratic presidential hopeful's ten year plan focuses on construction, environmental employment

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Barack Obama raised $32 million in January, a whopping figure that has permitted the campaign to boost staff and extend advertising, aides said Thursday.

Democratic presidential hopeful's ten year plan focuses on construction, environmental employment

Barack Obama is stepping up his effort to correct the misconception that he's a Muslim now that the presidential campaign has hit the Bible Belt.

Obama has finally thanked Obama.   U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama expresses appreciation for the fervent support of residents in the Japanese fishing town which shares ...

Barack Obama cruised past a fading Hillary Clinton in Wisconsin and Hawaii Tuesday, gaining the upper hand in the Democratic presidential race

Barack Obama has resigned his 20-year membership in the Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago in the aftermath of inflammatory remarks by his longtime pastor the Rev.

Former Secretary of State Colin Powell endorsed Barack Obama for president, criticizing his own Republican Party for what he called its narrow focus on irrelevant personal attacks.

Who's a contender in the White House race in 2008? The presidential candidates -- or even those just mentioned -- represent an array of backgrounds and experience.

ABC News: Online news, breaking news, feature stories and more ... Barack Obama burst onto the national stage with the keynote address at the 2004 Democratic National Convention.

The Democratic candidate blamed economic policies espoused by the president and GOP presidential contender for the U.S. being on 'brink of a recession'.

For that matter, the average American worker, has already done more good for this country than Obama will ever do. The huge problem we have now is that our President-elect has still not proved his citizenship requirement. ...

This election is not about major policies. It's about hope.

Barack Obama holds a solid lead over John McCain going into Election Day -- 50 percent to 43 percent -- according to the final FOX News pre-election poll of likely voters.

I think thisis actually a good idea that Baraka Obama has choose to have more White House positions since the white house is truly big it would be a great idea to have all this positions so that more people can work there to get paid ...

Video: How Obama Got Elected; Update: Zogby confirms poll, denies “push polling”

She gets her information from two sources that use tax money as their primary source of funding and she had no idea of who Barney Frank is, didn’t know who controlled congress, had no idea about any of Obama’s socialist policies, ...

Marc Ambinder reports on the Obama team's somewhat unsuccessful attempt to run a tight ship: Several Obama transition staffers have put a version of that quotation in transition co-chief John Podest... Marc Ambinder reports on the Obama ...

Obama's Use of Complete Sentences Stirs Controversy - The Huffington Post.

They have a moderate hope for change in American diplomacy led by the new president Barack Obama. Although former State Department officials like Richard Holbrooke may be appointed, it looks like Serbs and the world outside America can ...

Obama Hits Green Homerun With Remarks to Govs on Energy, Climate - The Huffington Post.

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Last week, President-elect Obama appointed Kevin Werbach, assistant professor of legal studies and business ethics at Wharton, and Susan Crawford, who teaches communications and Internet law at the University of Michigan, to co-chair ...

Bush twins Barbara, Jenna Bush Hager give Obama girls tour of White House rooms INCOMING FIRST FAMILY | In DC with Michelle Obama to check out home, schools - CHICAGO SUN-TIMES.

Most of his pals are Chicago-based, but there is a group of folks he considers his buddies in LA.

Does Obama victory make White Sox America’s Team? Maybe he’ll throw out the first pitch in 2009 - CHICAGO SUN-TIMES.

DOES LIEBERMAN OWE OBAMA?.... By most indications, Barack Obama's magnanimity towards Joe Lieberman played a rather direct role in Lieberman keeping his committee chairmanship. It's hard to say with any certainty what would have ...

The message appeared chiefly aimed at persuading Muslims and Arabs that Obama does not represent a change in U.S. policies. Ayman al-Zawahri said in the message, which appeared on militant Web sites, that Obama is "the direct opposite ...

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During Tuesday evening’s “No Bias, No Bull” program, Washington Post national political correspondent and CNN contributor Dana Milbank implied, perhaps inadvertently, that the incoming Obama adminstration was like the North Vietnamese ...

You think picking secretary of State is hard? Try choosing a school, church, chef, or dog!

Since then, Barack Obama's margin of victory has grown from 5% to 7% and his vote total has swelled by 12.6 million (compared with 8.5 million for John McCain). The crazy thing is, it's still growing, bit by bit. ::. Tags: Barack Obama ...

Supernova conference organizer Kevin Werbach is part of President Change's FCC transition team I've hung out with the guy and.

With all jurisdictions reporting complete but unofficial results, McCain led Obama by 3632 votes Wednesday out of more than 2.9 million cast -- a margin of 0.12 percentage points. Both men spent considerable resources trying to win ...

Hillary Clinton: Obama's First Drama - The Huffington Post.

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President-elect Barack Obama has picked former Democratic Senate majority leader Tom Daschle as his future health and human services secretary, a Democratic official said.

There's no other way for me to conceptualize this other than the kind of physical examination of black chattel by white traders at a slave auction: Erin Aubry Kaplan's discussion of Michelle Obama's bottom represents one of the lowest, ...

Our friends at Zeta Interactive say Americans like Clinton and want her to be secretary of state.

Barack Obama delivered a brief video message Wednesday to the Governors' Global Climate Summit in Beverly Hills, Calif., in which he unequivocally affirmed the scientific basis of climate change and vowed to take action on cutting ...

(CNN) – President-elect Barack Obama formally announced the additions of key White House staff members on Wednesday, including the previously expected choice of David Axelrod as Senior Advisor to the President ...

So why in the hell are some commentators and pundits bitching about Barack Obama turning to folks who served on the Clinton team for help in setting up his Administration? The people complaining about this display a level of stupidity ...

Obama on Tuesday issued a video message to a climate change conference held in California by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, saying he would establish annual targets to reduce U.S. carbon emissions to their 1990 levels by 2020, ...

Obama was never a House member. He served in the state Senate, across the hall, from 1997 until he graduated to the U.S. Senate in January 2005. The state Senate last week made a serious of floor speeches congratulating their former ...

It is now confirmed that Barack Obama has asked former South Dakota Senator Tom Daschle to serve as the administration's Secretary of Health and Human Services. While the nominee has already undergone a rigorous vetting process by the ...

It looks like the Obama Administration may end up hiring a number of employees and directors of the American Constitution Society. Not only are several of its advisors and directors likely heading to the new administration, ...

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Michael Calderone’s Politico.com blog examines the press, with a focus on 2008 election coverage. Provides a behind-the-scenes view into major print, television, and online media outlets. Includes breaking news items, spot analysis of ...

Yesterday, the New York Times ran the story "Early Test for Obama on Domestic Spying Views", describing the national security-related issues facing the incoming Obama Administration. Chief among them is the issue of immunity for ...

If he picks her as secretary of state, she's the right choice.

Bush To Relax Endangered Species Regulations Before Obama Can Reverse Them - The Huffington Post.

In the first two weeks since the election, President-elect Barack Obama has broken with a tradition established over the past eight years through his controversial use of complete sentences, political observers say. ...

Barack Obama is turning his formidable Internet army toward the first major US natural disaster since becoming president-elect, urging his supporters today to help victims of the California wildfires. On Sunday, Obama called Governor ...

This year, President-elect Obama campaigned on moving the country past its political divisions to focus on what unites it. The results from this month's election suggest he might have his work cut out for himself on this front. ...

Janet Napolitano has been chosen to serve as secretary of the vast and troubled Department of Homeland Security for President-elect Barack Obama, Democratic officials said. Napolitano is a border governor who will now be responsible for ...

CNN is reporting Wednesday night that Obama has chosen Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano to become secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. President-elect Barack Obama's top choice for sec... CNN is reporting Wednesday night ...

I stayed up late to hear our newly elected president, Barack Obama, address the crowd that had gathered in Chicago’s Grant Park. I had mixed feelings about the landslide victory that I had watched unfold on Fox News for the several ...

More news has come out about the makeup of Obama's Cabinet. The New York Times reports that Penny Pritzker is a leading candidate for Commerce Secretary: Two other leading contenders for cabinet pos... More news has come out about the ...

Barack Obama's campaign politicized and organized more youth than any campaign has in recent history. The Prospect asked nine organizers, writers, and thinkers at the forefront of progressivism and youth activism to suggest one way of ...

Cabinet post for Hillary Rodham Clinton possible as Bill Clinton supportive.

Keeping Bob Gates is good, but having him as our party's only representative in a cabinet-level position would still leave Obama open to a lot of criticism. It's almost as if Barack has to keep Gates; after un-doing Rumsfeld's years of ...

60 Minutes reporter Steve Kroft lands an interview with President-elect Barack Obama and his wife Michelle, and he gets to ask those important questions on issues like the economic stimulus, the war on terror-- ...

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President-Elect Barack Obama is bringing more than just HOPE to the White House—he is bringing HOOPS! He will be the best basketball player that the Oval Office ha...

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Al-Qaida's No. 2 leader used a racial epithet to insult Barack Obama in a message posted Wednesday, describing the president-elect in demeaning terms that imply does the bidding of whites.

Barack Obama campaigned on bring "change" to business as usual to Washington, D.C. and the majority of his supporters (many of who believe Republicans run Capitol Hill) are probably clueless to the fact that his cabinet picks are ...

WASHINGTON--Chicago business executive Penny Pritzker, the finance chair for President-elect Obama's presidental campaign--who lined up the big donors early on crucial to making his bid viable--is under consideration for Commerce ...

Among young voters at least, Barack Obama has proven that it can — and, in the process, he’s uncovered a major flaw that cuts to the core of the Republicans’ approach to party organization and discipline. ...

The case originally sought, pre-election, to have the names of Barack Obama, John McCain, and Roger Calero removed from New Jersey ballots, and for a stay of the "national election" pending Supreme Court review of whether those ...

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The two major papers have dramatically different versions this morning of what's going on behind the scenes between Hillaryland and Camp Obama as they move towards a deal to make her Secretary of State. ...

(CNN) – President-elect Barack Obama is poised to restore the United States' image in the international community, but experts say the president-elect must show the world that his actions will live up to his rhetoric. ...

Obama Cabinet: ¿Y Los Latinos? It was on MSNBC this morning. Politico has a good piece on Latinos and the Cabinet. Thus far, we got nothing! They also give us a bit of history. In 1964, President Johnson’s top adviser, Jack Valenti, ...

President Bush is making laws faster than President-elect Obama can promise to rescind them. Get Your War On: New World Order � Sarah Palin Press Conference Hot Dog Eating Challenge � Everybody wanna getta piece of Obama ...

David Kilcullen, the Australian counterinsurgency guru, is joining a think tank that is likely to punch above its weight in shaping national security policy during the next administration. In December,

Inside Ron Howard's Obama Video Endorsement - EXCLUSIVE - The Huffington Post.

After more than a week of grumbling by women's groups that Hillary Clinton had damn well better not be the.

Under Obama, Hope is the Only Legal Drug. By W. James Antle, III on 11.20.08 @ 10:49AM. Jacob Sullum declares probable Obama attorney general Eric Holder a drug warrior. What exactly did pro-Obama libertarians get in exchange for their ...

Barack Obama has put a huge brake on their quest to remake the federal courts into bastions of conservative legal thought (and dashed the career plans of a new generation of conservative lawyers). Among the rank and file this morning, ...

At issue is Tom Daschle's work since leaving the Senate as a board member of the Mayo Clinic and an adviser to health care clients. .. (DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK / The New York Times)

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More important for the present moment, Ganz was the architect of Barack Obama's grassroots organizing juggernaut. He played a central role in the "Camp Obama" training sessions--three-day intensive workshops attended by something like ...

Antiwar groups and other liberal activists are increasingly concerned at signs that Barack Obama’s national security team will be dominated by appointees who favored the Iraq invasion and hold hawkish views on other important foreign ...

A period of reestablishing relations with Iran's partners seems likely. Also expect contacts with lower-tier Iranian officials.

WASHINGTON (CNN) — Defense Secretary Robert Gates has long said he wants to ensure a smooth transition at the Pentagon with the Obama administration, but it may be a while before some of the big secrets are revealed to the new team. ...

If Barack Obama wants to forge a new liberal consensus in mainstream America, would it be better for him to hire only Democrats for his administration? Or would it be better for him to do what he tells us he is inclined to do: appoint ...

Obama Recruits Castro's Lawyer. A dog-eared-eared story for many of us, but mostly unknown in middle America. "After interviewing Pedro Porro for my book, Fidel: Hollywood's Favorite Tyrant, this writer was asked to confront Gregory ...

Obama did not win in Alaska. Polls had him on an average of about 11 points behind in the weeks before the election. Alas, the numbers reflected in the polls turned out to be worse for Obama in the general election. ...

Obama: Don't Hire Hillary - The Huffington Post.

Obama Wins -- For Black and White Americans... What's Next? - The Huffington Post.

"We note with pride" Obama's election, university president Lee G. Bolinger said in an elated statement the day after the presidential returns were in. "We are reminded of the university's core commitment to public service and its ...

Obama is the guy who wanted to meet the world's most thuggish leaders, who wanted strategic change, and who wanted to avoid the "wrong kind of experience" -- implying Clinton's team was riveted in the past and not ready for the future. ...

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This is somewhat ironic, considering that Obama ran on a “change” platform and his closest rival was Hillary (Clinton, in case there’s anyone who needs reminding). So even before he’s been officially inaugurated, he’s faced a lot of ...

STENY HOYER, (D-MD) HOUSE MAJORITY LEADER: I watched Barack Obama celebrating with more than 100000 in Chicago and tens of millions across our nation. I had a sense that America was filled with a new hope and sense of confidence in our ...

Now that Obama is populating his administration with Clinton retreads and perceived centrists the far-left activists who worked slavishly for his campaign are starting to wonder where all their hope ‘n change is. ...

Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano has been tapped by President-Elect Obama to head the Department of Homeland Security, pending vetting. I guess it's too much for which to hope that her first order of business will be to defang and ...

Iran already has enough fuel for one nuclear bomb, according to a New York Times report that leads the Drudge Report. A report that Iran also has increased its uranium stockpile adds to the problems that President-elect Obama will face. ...

Obama: More Regulation and Redistribution Will End the Business Cycle. Posted by Lew Rockwell at November 20, 2008 02:50 PM. (Thanks to Simon Brown). Reddit • Digg this • Stumble It • Shout It • Add to Mixx • Discuss on Newsvine ...

United States President-elect Barack Obama has telephoned Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to discuss how to address current crises and strengthen the partnership between the US and the United Nations.

Barack Obama and Joe Biden would seemingly have different approaches to drug control policy.

Obama will have to decide what to do with the the costly F-22 Raptor, soon after taking office.

Obama Transition Team Gets 200000 Resumes - The Huffington Post.

ROBERT GATES: He had his first substantive meeting with members of President-elect Barack Obama's transition team Thursday to discuss key issues the new administration will face as it comes into office. SEN. CHUCK HAGEL: The Republican ...

Obama's political team wants the advice of its field organizers to figure out what happens to the movement they've built. There are so many senior field organizers that the Obama campaign had to organize five days of conferences with ...

Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano, thought to be President-elect Barack Obama's leading choice to head the Department of Homeland Security, has been a strong advocate of increasing H-1B visas -- a stance that could become an issue during ...