abcnews.go.com - 11/26/2008
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Photo: President-Elect Barack Obama and Michelle Obama with Barbara Walters.
abcnews.go.com - 11/26/2008
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abcnews.go.com —
Wall Street executives seeking multimillion-dollar bonuses and the
leaders of Detroit's Big Three automakers who last week...
flew to Washington aboard private jets to ask Congress for a bailout, are "tone deaf" to the concerns of the American people, ...
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Obama on Auto Execs' Private Jets: 'A Little Tone Deaf'
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Barbara Walters Interviews Barack And Michelle Obama
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed —
... Barbara Walters interviewed President-elect Barack Obama and his wife Michelle Obama for a Barbara Walters Special to air Wednesday night at 10pm. The interview covered, among other things, a potential bailout of the auto industry, bonuses for bank executives, and Obama's negotiations to retain his BlackBerry. Read ...
Barbara Walters Interviews Barack And Michelle Obama
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... Barbara Walters interviewed President-elect Barack Obama and his wife Michelle Obama for a Barbara Walters Special to air Wednesday night at 10pm. The interview covered, among other things, a potential bailout of the auto industry, bonuses for bank executives, and Obama's negotiations to retain his BlackBerry. Read ...
Obama to Barbara: Execs Shouldn't Take Bonuses
The Page by Mark Halperin —
"I think that if you are already worth tens of millions of dollars, and you are having to lay off workers, the least you can do is say, I'm willing to make some sacrifice as well, because I recognize that there are people who are a lot less well off, who are going through some pretty tough times," the ...
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Duh: “I think that if you are already worth tens of millions of dollars, and you are having to lay off workers, the least you can do is say, “I’m willing to make some sacrifice as well, because I recognize that there are people who are a lot less well off, who are going through some pretty tough times.“
Barack and Michelle Obama get Barbara Waltered
Top of the Ticket —
If you were a tree, ABC's Barbara Walters asked the president-elect, what kind of tree would you be?
And Barack Obama thought for a moment the way he does without drama and then he replied, "An oak tree because they are so strong and steady, even in stormy times like these."
None of that is true. We made the whole thing up. All except the part about Walters interviewing Obama for a special one-hour program for Thanksgiving eve. Meaning tonight.
The veteran TV talker interviewed Obama and Michelle at Chicago's Ritz-Carlton hotel on Michigan Avenue Tuesday. ABC is ...
Obama to Barbara Walters: Execs Shouldn't Take Bonuses
The Page by Mark Halperin —
"I think that if you are already worth tens of millions of dollars, and you are having to lay off workers, the least you can do is say, I'm willing to make some sacrifice as well," the president-elect tells Barbara Walters on her ABC News special.
Click above to watch.
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Obama’s Responsibility to His Shareholders
Patterico's Pontifications —
[Guest post by DRJ]
Barack Obama told Barbara Walters yesterday that business leaders like the CEOs of GM, Ford and Chrysler make too much money and should do more to help people:
“That if you’re placed in a position of power, then you’ve got responsibilities to your workers. You’ve got a responsibility to your community. Your share holders. That if — there’s got to be a point where you say, ‘You know what, I have enough, and now I’m in this position of responsibility, let me make sure that I’m doing right by people, and, and acting in a way that is ...
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Barbara Walters Interviews Barack And Michelle Obama
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Barbara Walters interviewed President-elect Barack Obama and his wife Michelle Obama for a Barbara Walters Special to air Wednesday night at 10pm. The interview covered, among other things, a potential bailout of the auto industry, bonuses for bank executives, and ...
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