nytimes.com - 11/7/2008
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President-elect Obama and Vice President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. met with members of an economic advisory board in Chicago on Friday. From left: David E. Bonior, Robert E. Rubin, Jennifer Granholm, Vice President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr., President-elect Obama, Paul A. Volcker and ...
President-Elect Barack Obama
washingtonmonthly.com 11/5/2008 — PRESIDENT-ELECT BARACK OBAMA.... At 11 p.m. EST, the networks have called California, Oregon, Washington, and Hawaii for Barack Obama. And with that announcement, Obama will be the 44th president of the United States. Yes. He. Did....
Good Luck to the President-Elect
patterico.com 11/5/2008 — [Posted by JRM]
An open letter, posted by guest poster JRM:
Dear Senator Obama:
Congratulations on becoming the President-Elect. You ran a solid campaign, defeating two more experienced political rivals on the way. Well done.
The time for ...
Hugh Hewitt: 43 to 44; COS Rahm; and Ryan v. Boehner
townhall.com 11/6/2008 — President-elect Obama is receiving his first full CIA brief this morning, the same one President Bush is receiving. While I am certain President-elect Obama and his team have been studying up on the Islamist threats...
Boehner Assails Emanuel Pick
blogs.abcnews.com 11/6/2008 — House Minority Whip John Boehner, R-Ohio, issued a statement decrying the appointment of Rep. Rahm Emanuel, D-Ill., as President-elect Barack Obama's White House chief of staff. “This is an ironic choice for a President-elect who has promised to ...
Biden On McCain: "We Need You"
hotlineblog.nationaljournal.com 11/6/2008 — GEORGETOWN, DE - Vice President-elect Joe Biden said that he and President-elect Barack Obama have begun to form a new administration conscious of the "precarious position" he nation and the world are in at this moment.
"I think the world is ...
It's Official: Rahm
marcambinder.theatlantic.com 11/6/2008 — Below
are statements from President-elect Barack Obama and Congressman Rahm Emanuel
on Congressman Emanuel being named White House Chief of Staff
Statement
from President-elect Barack Obama " I
am pleased to announce that my good friend, ...
Congratulations!
julescrittenden.com 11/7/2008 — Pouring in for the president-elect of the United States of Omerica. Change, we hope, say the wrold's despots. Worst first. BBC, Hope for Iran:
It has taken nearly two days to emerge, but the message of congratulations from Iranian President Mahmoud ...
The body politic
pajamasmedia.com 11/7/2008 — Change.Gov, the President-Elect’s website, has this announcement to make:
The Obama Administration will call on Americans to serve in order to meet the nation’s challenges. President-Elect Obama will expand national service programs like ...
Obama Holds First News Conference as President-Elect
voices.washingtonpost.com 11/7/2008 — President-elect Barack Obama issued his remarks as prepared for delivery at his media availability on the economy today in Chicago. His remarks follow: This morning, we woke to more sobering news about the state of our economy. The 240,000 jobs lost ...
Amanda Carpenter: The First Big President-Elect Gaffe??
townhall.com 11/7/2008 — I'll let you decide if this was a gaffe or a bad joke, or what.President-elect Barack Obama was asked about the dog he might get for his children as a reward for the long campaign season in his first-ever press...
The president-elect fields a few questions
washingtonmonthly.com 11/7/2008 — THE PRESIDENT-ELECT FIELDS A FEW QUESTIONS.... A few days before the election, a reporter pressed Barack Obama on when the media could expect another press conference. Obama, half-joking, point to the day after the election. As it turns out, he...
Robert Guttman: Obama: He Can Campaign, But Can He Govern?
huffingtonpost.com 10/30/2008 — If the polls are correct when we wake up next week on November 5th, President-Elect Barack Obama and Vice-President -Elect Joe Biden will be starting to put together a new administration to try to solve America's massive economic and foreign policy ...
Complete Text of Pres.-Elect Barack Obama acceptance speech
latimesblogs.latimes.com 11/5/2008 — Complete Text of Remarks by President-Elect Barack Obama , Nov. 4, 2008, Chicago, Ill.
If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible; who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in ...
President-Elect Obama's First CIA Briefing
americanthinker.com 11/8/2008 — When President-Elect Obama sat through his first detailed CIA briefing yesterday, he was staring into the face of the greatest threat to the success and survivability of his presidency.
President-Elect Obama's Saturday radio address
dailykos.com 11/8/2008 — Because I'll never get enough of typing "President-Elect Obama" ... you can listen here : On Tuesday, Americans stood in lines that stretched around schools and churches in numbers this nation has never seen. It didn’t matter who they were or where they came from; what they looked ...
Obama's First Presser as President-elect
weeklystandard.com 11/8/2008 — At President-elect Obama's first press conference he was asked nine questions, most of which were softballs. Fishbowl DC notes that almost all of the major networks got to ask Obama a question:
Nedra Pickler (AP), Lee Cowan (NBC), Jake Tapper ...
Podesta, Jarrett, Rouse —
Hotline On Call Part Deux
President-Elect Barack Obama and Vice President-Elect Joe Biden this afternoon announced leadership for the transition:
Chicago – For the past several months, a board of advisors has been informally planning for a possible presidential transition. Among the many projects undertaken by the ...
The Campaign Is Over, Long Live The Campaign —
The Stump
Just when I thought I could ignore polls for a while. From my inbox: Gallup Daily will track the new administration's progress with new daily measures on the state of the nation, favorability of president-elect Obama and vice president-elect Biden, Americans' optimism about the new ...
A Memo to President-Elect Obama from America's New Veterans —
TPMCafe
Congratulations to President-elect Obama. Both he and Senator McCain are outstanding patriots, and hey, each ran a tough campaign. Now that the race is finally over, it's time to bring America together, and get to work. And there is no shortage of challenges ahead. As one vet at IAVA put it, ...
Bush: "We Move Forward As One Nation" —
Hotline On Call Part Deux
In the great tradition of this nation, President Bush put partisanship aside this morning to congratulate President-elect Barack Obama and Vice President-elect Joe Biden and to pledge his administration's "complete cooperation" with transition efforts.
Speaking briefly from prepared remarks, ...
President-elect Obama —
The Swamp
by Frank James
It's the morning after one of the most memorable days in American history and we're still too close to it to have as much perspective as we would like.
President-elect Obama. It still seems unreal to many of us that the nation will have a president who is ...
Congratulations President-Elect Obama —
GayPatriot
I sincerely wish President-Elect Obama as much respect and success that President Bush was offered by Keith Olbermann and Harry Reid.
I expect the Democrat-controlled Congress will repeal “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” in the first 100 days, right?
-Bruce (GayPatriot)
Landslide —
baldilocks
Congratulations to President-elect Obama and to the Democrats. As it became apparent that Barack Obama was going to be elected president, I called up my step-dad to see what was on his mind. We had a long conversation about the...
Obama Canceled Fireworks for This Evening —
Political Punch
Given all the pomp and pageantry of past events for President-elect Obama, why was tonight's celebration speech so subdued? That was intentional. In fact. fireworks were originally planned for this evening, but President-elect Obama canceled them. "Given the sobriety of...
The President-Elect speaks —
Political Animal
THE PRESIDENT-ELECT SPEAKS.... Barack Obama just left the stage in Chicago after another stirring, gracious address. I've included the text below. I'll just add, on an unrelated note, that I'm done for the evening, but will be back in the...
President-Elect Obama Acknowledges Challenges, Expresses Hope —
News
Acknowledging challenges ahead, President-elect Barack Obama heaped praise on supporters and campaign staff in a speech after winning the presidency.
"The road ahead will be long. Our climb will be steep," Obama said."But I will always be honest with you about the challenges we face."
To a ...
Letter to the President-Elect —
The Real Muck
Dear Barack: It wasn’t us – not me, not my wife. I made 42 telephone calls on your behalf, to North Carolina. She made 25 to Virginia. Together, we chipped in maybe $150 to your campaign. So it really wasn’t us: It was tens of thousands of us, hundreds of thousands of us, fed up with divisive ...
Remarks of President-elect Barack Obama —
Ben Smith's Blog
Remarks of President-Elect Barack Obama—as prepared for delivery
Election Night
Tuesday, November 4th, 2008
Chicago, Illinois
If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible; who still wonders if the dream of our founders is ...
Best. Election. Ever —
Clareified
Kaz said it first and best.
Wow. God bless the *United* States of America.
Has any President Elect brought together so many people from so many parts of this great nation? Wow. Wow. Wow.
Now here is ordinarily where I would say suck it…but I don’t think President-elect Obama ...
President-elect Obama —
Pundits Blog
Congratulations to President-elect Barack Obama.
For nearly two years, Obama has engaged in a flawless campaign. Tough, aggressive and agile. The campaign raised a staggering amount of money from donors big and small and built the most impressive grassroots team ever seen in American ...
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