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Obama dining with conservatives?
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It's not like he's letting Limbaugh hold the Bible. (Is he?) I don't necessarily have a problem with this. I suspect Brooks is the only one even possibly movable, and Limbaugh and Kristol are simply treacherous. Still, it's an interesting move. Oh, I say Limbaugh because he's rumored to be part of the posse. Here's the pool report: Pool Report #4 1-13-09 Hay-Adams to George Will's house The PEOTUS departed Hay-Adams at 6:17 p.m. and at arrived at 6:34 p.m. at No. 9 Grafton St., Chevy Chase (right off the circle). Thanks to ...
BARACK OBAMA dines with Bill Kristol and David Brooks. At George Will’s house.
UPDATE: “The blo…
Instapundit —
BARACK OBAMA dines with Bill Kristol and David Brooks. At George Will’s house.
UPDATE: “The bloggers are going to love this one.”
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Obama Dines With Rightwingers
Tennessee Guerilla Women —
Obama's at George Will's house, at a dinner party, with Billy Kristol, David Brooks, Charles Krauthammer, and possibly Rush Limbaugh! So much for the secret liberal theory. (Unless the secret liberal is putting something in the rightwingers' brandy.) So when is the President-elect dining with Paul Krugman, Helen Thomas, Amy Goodman and Noam Chomsky??? Progressive Politics Conservative News George Will Barack Obama
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Daily Kos —
Pool report: The PEOTUS departed Hay-Adams at 6:17 p.m. and at arrived at 6:34 p.m. at No. 9 Grafton St., Chevy Chase (right off the circle). Thanks to the good work of Hans Nichols (of Bloomberg and "Daily Show" fame), Montgomery County property tax records showed this is the home of conservative columnist George Will (valued at $1.9 million, according to the 2008 levy). We're still awaiting confirmation that this is indeed Will's house from the transition, but your pool is satisfied with the documentation. Your pool has been told it's a ...
Incredibly Wild Hollywood Style Speculation
Wizbang —
There have been reports that president elect Obama is having a dinner tonight with several not so left wing types such as William Kristol and David Brooks. Hot Air speculates that the most ...
Obama Dines with Brooks, Kristol, Krauthammer, and Will
PoliBlog: A Rough Draft of my Thoughts —
Via the Political Wire: ViObama Dines With Conservative Writers.
The dinner party was not a photo op, nor an announced event as the only way it was figured out that it was Will’s house was by looking up property tax records, and the identities of the dinner guests were ascertained via a photo through a window. The whole thing, from a reporting standpoint, is more paparazzi than White House Press Corps, but oh well.
This is interesting, if anything, because it strikes me as a noteworthy attempt at civility on the part of the president-elect. Now, I know ...
"Excuse me, Barry, could you please pass the buck? I mean the salt?"
Jim Treacher's Blog That Is on the Internet —
... January 14, 2009 "Excuse me, Barry, could you please pass the buck? I mean the salt?" Obama Dines With Conservative Writers Posted by Jim Treacher at January 14, 2009 08:16 AM
Conservatives Pallin' Around With Obama
Open Left - Front Page —
Last night, Obama had dinner at George Will's house with a small group of conservative pundits (David Brooks and Bill Kristol). It is, ostensibly, something that bloggers are supposed to get angry about: ...
Carol Platt Liebau: Obama's GOP Strategy: Divide, Then Destroy
Townhall.com Blog's TownHall Blog —
... , the others don't matter. In a sense, he's using that tried-and-true strategy with Rush). Even so, I suspect that Obama's courtship of political commentators has an even deeper strategy behind it. He intends to deepen and widen the fissures in the Republican Party that were exposed by the nomination fo Sarah Palin to the vice-presidency. Unlike the Democrats, division in the GOP isn't primarily ideological (everyone basically agrees: Strong national defense, traditional social values, tax cuts, etc). Rather, it's stylistic, and to a degree, socio-economic. The tensions ...
Open Thread for Night Owls, Early Birds & Expats
Daily Kos —
... You will no doubt recall that a couple of weeks ago, President Barack Obama tried to build some post-partisan bridges by meeting with a few conservative media honchos at the home of George Will. He later met with a few media moderates and liberals, and I ...
