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Dinner Guests Revealed
Taegan Goddard's Political Wire — ... writers that President-elect Obama attended last night at George Will's home. They were: Charles Krauthammer, William Kristol, Larry Kudlow, David Brooks, Rich Lowry, Peggy Noonan, Michael Barone, and Paul Gigot. Meanwhile, Michael Calderone notes Obama met with the following "liberal" journalists this morning: On the list: Andrew Sullivan, E.J. Dionne, Eugene Robinson, Gerry Seib, Ron Brownstein, Frank Rich, Maureen Dowd, and Rachel Maddow. Marc Ambinder reports Paul Krugman was invited to today's meeting but did not attend. ...

Rachel Maddow Meets with President-elect Obama
The Latest on Air America — ... UPDATE 2: Update 2: Ambinder follows up with a few more names: CNN's Roland Martin, The Boston Globe's Derrick Z. Jackson, and USA Today's DeWayne Wickham. Paul Krugman, who Obama's ...

The Smartest Guy in the Room
Reason Magazine - Hit & Run — ... says, "It's hard to express the relief I feel that this man will be the president soon." More importantly, keep that in mind when you read those guys (or George Will, or Peggy Noonan, or E.J. Dionne, or Maureen Dowd, or whoever else gets the charm offensive treatment this January) assessing Obama two or four years from now. Is the new prez " ...

Obama Meets with Maureen Dowd, Andy Sullivan - Thinks They're Liberals
Tennessee Guerilla Women — ... night Obama dined with rightwing columnists, so today the President-elect tried to balance things out by having a quickie meeting with what some bill as liberal columnists. There were even 2 women! There might have been more women except they didn't have refreshments, so they didn't need servers. If Obama thinks Maureen Dowd and Andrew Sullivan are liberal (or even moderate), Bush ain't the only one living in a bubble. No wonder Paul Krugman didn't show: 9:45 a.m., in the transition office, President-elect ...

Obama meets with liberal columnists - PLUS: Andrew Sullivan hypocrisy watch update
Sister Toldjah — Well, it was to be expected, seeing as to the dinner he had last night with select conservative columnists, and his near-obsession with trying to please everyone - which I fear will get the US of A hurt in the long term. It was virtually a who’s who of liberal loyalists: [...] the Atlantic’s Andrew Sullivan, CNN’s Roland Martin, MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow, the Washington Post’s Gene Robinson, the Boston Globe’s Derrick Z. Jackson, the one and only Maureen Dowd, ...

Fuck Off, No Details
Whiskey Fire — ... , a bunch of head-up-their-ass douchenozzles, and Rachel Maddow. I can't give details, but just allow me to say that he is pretty much a commie, and he thinks Andrew Sullivan's geyser-like gushing is very, very embarrassing for everyone involved. ...

links for 2009-01-15
FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog — ... (tags: timothy_geithner) Obama Meets With The Center-Left - I thought Andrew Sullivan was a Conservative? NOT 9:45 a.m., in the transition office, President-elect Obama, meeting with: the Atlantic's Andrew Sullivan, CNN's Roland ...

Fair and balanced schmoozing
Betsy's Page — To balance his dinner with conservative writers, President-elect Obama had dinner with liberal writers last night. the Atlantic's Andrew Sullivan, CNN's Roland Martin, MSNBC's Rachel Maddow, the Washington Post's Gene Robinson, the Boston Globe's Derrick Z. Jackson, the one and only Maureen Dowd, the New York Times's Frank Rich, the Wall Street Journal's Jerry Seib, Atlantic political director Ron Brownstein, USA Today's DeWayne Wickham and columnist E.J. Dionne Jr. What struck me with the conservatives' dinner is that you could imagine Obama hearing interesting policy ...

He only went because when they said they were serving drinks and surf & turf, he thought they said "Trig's afterbirth"
Jim Treacher's Blog That Is on the Internet — He only went because when they said they were serving drinks and surf & turf, he thought they said "Trig's afterbirth" ambinder-sullivan-center-left.jpg Via Ambinder , via ...

Bursting the bubble
The Reaction — ... and his meeting with "liberals"*, but, just as much, one of the more intriguing meetings Obama has had recently was with Lee Hamilton and a group of foreign policy experts, mostly on the Middle East and South Asia, who work outside "the presidential bubble that is rapidly closing around him," as ...

Bursting Obama’s Bubble
The Moderate Voice — ... and his meeting with “liberals”*, but, just as much, one of the more intriguing meetings Obama has had recently was with Lee Hamilton and a group of foreign policy experts, mostly on the Middle East and South Asia, who work outside “the presidential bubble that is rapidly closing around him,” as ...