washingtonmonthly.com - 1/14/2009
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CHARM OFFENSIVE.... Oh, to have been a fly on the wall for this one. Barack Obama took the next big step in his Republican charm offensive on Tuesday night, when he dined with several of the nation's most prominent conservative...
huffingtonpost.com - 1/14/2009
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huffingtonpost.com —
Barack Obama took the next big step in
his Republican charm offensive on Tuesday night, when he...
dined with several of the nation's most prominent conservative pundits. The president-elect arrived at the Chevy Chase, Md., home of syndicated ...
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Obama And Conservatives Break Bread At George Will's House
the-reaction.blogspot.com - 1/15/2009
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the-reaction.blogspot.com —
By Michael J.W. Stickings I've been meaning all
day to comment on Obama's dinner with Will, Kristol,...
Brooks, and Krauthammer -- the four horsemen of the right-wing apocalypse? -- but I just don't have much to say about it. On Obama's part, it was ...
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Charm offensive: Obama at dinner with the conservative ...
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1/14: Is Tim In Trouble?
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... last night with a group of conservative pundits that included Kristol, Charles Krauthammer , George Will , and David Brooks : Benen : "Obama really has nothing to lose by trying to engage these four. Each seems rather susceptible to flattery, and they were no doubt thrilled not only with the access, but with the chance to tell the president-elect how right they are. I'm sure Obama listened politely, hoping that the outreach might pay dividends over time, in the form of a more civil discourse, and possibly even the benefit of the doubt. [...] And if it doesn't, Obama wasted ...
Charm offensive: Obama at dinner with the conservative punditocracy
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... show him some respect and take him, and his efforts at outreach to the right, seriously. (Remember that the Clintons did themselves no favours by attacking the media, including liberals, early on, setting a negative tone that only hindered the Clinton presidency. Obama may be stuffing his administration with Clintonites, but he has certainly learned from some of Clinton's mistakes.) And liberals, by the way, aren't all that troubled by the dinner. Take Steve Benen and Kevin Drum, for example. And, again, I feel much the same way. ...
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Geithner hearing moved after inauguration —
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From NBC's Ken StricklandThe confirmation hearing for Tim Geithner has been scheduled for Wednesday, Jan. 21st before the Senate Finance Committee.
The committee chairman had hoped to hold the hearing this Friday, but because of at least one committee ...
Inauguration Watch: Change You Can Wear —
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Amy Chozick reports on the inauguration.
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Obama, Biden to visit Supreme Court —
CNN Political Ticker 1/14/2009
WASHINGTON (CNN) – Continuing a growing tradition between incoming chief executives and the chief justice of the highest court in the land, President-elect Barack Obama and Vice President-elect Joe Biden will visit the Supreme Court Wednesday ...
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