Obama To Meet With Bush Tomorrow

Bush and Obama to meet tomorrow
Think Progress- By Faiz Shakir at 6:26 pm
President-elect Barack Obama and President George W. Bush will meet face-to-face tomorrow at 2 pm in the White House to discuss the upcoming transition. Atrios highlights a previous encounter between the two men:
“Obama!” Bush exclaimed, according to Obama’s account of the meeting in [...]

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Emanuel: “There’s No Time To Waste…Let’s Get On With Helping The American People”

Emanuel: Middle-class tax cut a priority for Obama
Raw Story- David Edwards and Andrew McLemore
Published: Sunday November 9, 2008
Creating jobs and cutting taxes for the middle-class are the two most important criteria for a economic stimulus package under an Obama administration, an official said Sunday.
Rahm Emanuel, Obama’s chosen White House Chief of Staff, talked with George [...]

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Perplexity and Optimism: More mixed reactions to Obama’s appointment of Rahm (Israel) Emanuel as WH Chief of Staff

Obama’s appointment of Rahm (Israel) Emanuel as WH Chief of Staff continues to elicit mixed reactions on the blogosphere — some commentators, such as former Reagan official, Paul Craig Roberts, whose articles feature on progressive blog OpEdNews, as well as on paleoconservative/libertarian websites, voicing perplexity, others, such as TIME Magazine’s Cairo Bureau Chief, Scott MacLeod, counseling optimism

Conned Again
Paul [...]

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Is The National Nightmare Over?

Obama Positions Himself to Quickly Reverse Bush Actions on Environmental, Social Issues
By Ceci Connolly and R. Jeffrey Smith
Washington Post Staff Writers
Sunday, November 9, 2008; Page
Transition advisers to President-elect Barack Obama have compiled a list of about 200 Bush administration actions and executive orders that could be swiftly undone to reverse the president on climate change, [...]

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Their Words About President-Elect Obama: From Naughty To Nice…

Washington Memo
Stinging Talk About Obama? Never Mind Now
The New York Times- By JIM RUTENBERG
Published: November 8, 2008
That whole anti-American, friend-to-the-terrorists thing about President-elect Barack Obama? Never mind.
Just a few weeks ago, at the height of the campaign, Representative Michele Bachmann of Minnesota told Chris Matthews of MSNBC that, when it came to Mr. Obama, “I’m [...]

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Was WTC 7 A Controlled Demolition?

Newly discovered footage of Building Seven and North Tower collapse
Astounding new video footage of Building 7 & the North World Trade Center Tower has suddenly appeared on the net posted by an anonymous user November 1st, 2008.

The video of Building 7 shows a series of windows being blown out in a perfectly vertical line for [...]

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Poll: Majority Of Americans Liked Obama’s First Press Conference

Poll: Majority of Americans liked Obama’s first presser as President-elect.
Think Progress- By Matt Corley on Nov 8th, 2008 at 3:30 pm
Yesterday, [Friday], President-elect Barack Obama gave his first press conference since being elected, discussing his plan to move forward on the economy and other issues. In a poll out today, Rasmussen Reports found that a [...]

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First children

“One of the worst things in the world is being the child of a President. It’s a terrible life they lead.”
— FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT
When asked which is harder, being the candidate or being the son of the candidate, George W. Bush declares without hesitation that it is tougher being the son.
Video: Children In The White House
From: [...]

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Paying for Eight Years of Bush’s Delusions

Robert Fisk | The Independent | Saturday, 8 November 2008

He will have to get out of Iraq, and he will have to tell Israel a few home truths
American lawyers defending six Algerians before a habeas corpus hearing in Washington this week learned some very odd things about US intelligence after 9/11. From among the millions [...]

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