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Barack Obama and William Ayers - “They’re Friends. So What?”
FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog — ... “People keep trying to align himself with Barack Obama,” Daley said. “It’s really unfortunate. They’re friends. So what? People do make mistakes in the past. You move on. This is a new century, a new time. He reflects back and he’s been making a strong contribution to our community.” (emphasis Flap’s) ...

Hilary Quietly Calls Out Obama On Universal Health Care
Firedoglake — ... Clinton promised that she wouldn't forget universal health care, and what I'm seeing is that she hasn't. She's trying to move Obama towards it, but what she said last night was that she "can't wait to watch Barack Obama sign a health-care plan into law that covers every single American". That's not the same thing as endorsing Obama's health-care plan, which she's never done. ...

The Obama Silencing Machine
The Corner on National Review Online — ... : Much of Barack Obama 's political success can be traced to a database listing contact information for millions of people, a tool that has proved invaluable in raising record sums of money and organizing a national volunteer network. Now Obama's presidential campaign is increasingly using the list to beat back media messages it does not like, calling on supporters to flood radio and television stations when those opposed to him run anti-Obama ads or appear on talk shows. It did so as recently as Monday night, when it orchestrated a massive stream of complaints on the phone ...

“What Could I Possibly Add?”
Jules Crittenden — ... As his name was tossed back and forth Tuesday in the fury of the presidential campaign, 1960s radical William Ayers spent the day as he often does, working quietly as a professor and trying to ignore the political tempest. Officials at the University of Illinois at Chicago say Ayers is on a previously scheduled sabbatical, but he was on campus Tuesday, sitting on a lunch-hour doctoral dissertation panel. The man who was a Weather Underground member and decades later had dealings with Barack Obama is being increasingly cited by John McCain’s supporters, who accuse Obama of ...

Bill Dyer: ChiTrib's Kass seeks fresh answer to question whether Obama would fire U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald
Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog — ... and Barack Obama have promised to keep Fitzgerald here. "If we lose him, we lose everything," said a Chicago FBI agent wise in the ways of Chicago politics and its symbiosis with the Chicago mob. "I can't imagine it happening. He's the guy who pulls the trigger on all these investigations. If it happens, if they get rid of him, forget it." Kass goes on to write in more detail about how definitive Sen. McCain has been in his commitment to keep Fitzgerald on the job, with quotes that leave no doubt and no wiggle-room. Unfortunately, however, both of the links in the ...

"We don't mean to sound churlish"
SCSUScholars — ... Rep. Collin Peterson says he isn't surprised by President-elect Barack Obama's criticisms following a new report about the abuse of agriculture subsidies. ...

Lawsuit Over Barry’s Birth Certificate Goes To SCOTUS Friday
Pirate's Cove — Interesting, very interesting The U.S. Supreme Court will consider Friday whether to take up a lawsuit challenging President-elect Barack Obama’s U.S. citizenship, a continuation of a New Jersey case embraced by some opponents of Obama’s election. The meeting of justices will coincide with a vigil by the filer’s supporters in Washington on the steps of the nation’s highest court. The suit originally sought to stay the election, and was ...

Lawsuit Over Obama’s Birth Certificate Goes To SCOTUS Friday
Stop The ACLU — Interesting, very interesting The U.S. Supreme Court will consider Friday whether to take up a lawsuit challenging President-elect ...

Obama Can Be President, Says Supreme Court
Hit & Run — ... The Supreme Court turned down an emergency appeal Monday from a New Jersey man who claimed that President-elect Barack Obama was not a "natural born citizen" and therefore was ineligible to become president. ...

Rahm Emanuel's Senate Shortlist to Blagojevich Confirmed by Source
Politics Daily — Filed under: Democrats, Barack Obama, Scandal, Obama AdministrationMore details are emerging about Rahm Emanuel's contacts with Illinois Governor Caligula...sorry, Rod Blagojevich. Today's Chicago Trib contains the latest, including part of the shortlist of Obama-approved candidates for his own Senate seat: Rahm Emanuel, President-elect Barack Obama's pick to be White House chief of staff, had conversations with Gov. Rod Blagojevich's administration about who would replace Obama in the U.S. Senate, ...

Inauguration Day Editorials
Real Clear Politics - TIME.com — ... : Barack Obama 's, by contrast, is momentous already. He is different from any president who has gone before, and he faces the most ominous economic crisis since the Depression. Not only that, but Obama has portrayed himself as offering a new kind of politics, aiming to foster unity rather than exploit division. He and circumstances have set a formidable standard, and he will be judged against it. ...

Elliot Ness, where are thou? Rahm Emanuel's Freddie Mac "Bonus"
The Discerning Texan — ... And take it from the Democrat "mob": destroying the economy is nothing personal; it's just "business". After all, if the economy had been allowed to prosper, they might never have gotten Obama (and Rahm) elected. Via the Chicago Tribune: ...

Elliot Ness, where are thou? Rahm Emanuel's Freddie Mac "Bonus"
THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS — ... But I digress. Here is the story of Mr. Emanuel's excellent adventure at Freddie Mac, via the Chicago Tribune: ...

If You Work For The IRS, You Better Pay Your Taxes. If You Run The IRS, Not So Much.
Hit & Run — ... Revenue Service when top administration officials failed to do the same. Even some IRS employees are upset at what they see as a double standard. The most criticized example has been Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, who admitted not paying $34,000 in payroll and Social Security taxes, saying his failure to pay was an oversight. Five other nominees disclosed similar tax issues, including one as recently as two weeks ago when Kathleen Sebelius, President Barack Obama's pick for secretary of health and human services, admitted she didn't pay $7,040. ...

Someone Needs to Remind Me to File My Taxes Before Midnight, But It Shouldn't Be the Treasury Secretary
The Corner on National Review Online — ... requirements of the Internal Revenue Service when top administration officials failed to do the same. Even some IRS employees are upset at what they see as a double standard. The most criticized example has been Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, who admitted not paying $34,000 in payroll and Social Security taxes, saying his failure to pay was an oversight. Five other nominees disclosed similar tax issues, including one as recently as two weeks ago when Kathleen Sebelius, President Barack Obama 's pick for secretary of health and human services, admitted she didn't pay ...