news.yahoo.com - 12/8/2008
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) U.S. President-elect Barack Obama failed to give a straight answer when asked on a U.S. talkshow on Sunday whether he had managed to quit smoking. In a country where cigarettes are responsible for one in five deaths and smoking costs tens of billions of dollars in health ...
thinkprogress.org - 12/5/2008
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thinkprogress.org —
Mary Beth Buchanan was appointed by President Bush
to serve as U.S. attorney in Pittsburgh in Sept.
2001. Buchanan has held several significant posts within the Bush/Ashcroft/Gonzales Justice Department, most notably serving as director the Executive ...
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A New Attorney Scandal? Bush-Appointed U.S. Attorney ...
commentarymagazine.com - 12/5/2008
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commentarymagazine.com —
Barack Obama is toying with the idea of
making a speech from an Islamic capital within his
first 100 days in office. The scuttlebutt is all about finding the right one. (The consensus is Cairo–which is a terrible idea. An Obama speech there ...
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Obama’s Muslim Speech
thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com - 12/13/2008
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thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com —
The White House has turned down a request
from the family of President-elect Barack Obama to move
into Blair House in early January so that his daughters can start school on January 5.
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Sorry, We're Booked, White House Tells Obamas
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Media questions Obama about why, as a known alcoholic, he appears to still be drinking
AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth —
Oh no, I'm sorry. That would be George Bush, the known alcoholic who has long been rumored to still be drinking, and was just caught in just the last two weeks having an alcoholic beverage at the summit. But no one in the media asked our alcoholic president during war time if and why he was drinking again. But the smoking Democrat, they ask away. ...
Hard-Hitting Brokaw Questions President-Elect About Whether He's Given Up Cigarettes -- Verse-Case Scenario by Tony Peyser
BuzzFlash.org - Progressive News and Commentary with an Attitude | Fight Ignorance: Read BuzzFlash —
... You know, there's a basic bottom line here Which many of you may also be thinking: Tom, don't bitch about Barack's smoking Unless you ask Bush about his drinking. VERSE CASE SCENARIO Tony Peyser provides daily poems and weekly cartoons for BuzzFlash and also writes the BuzzFlash column, " ...
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