fivethirtyeight.com - 12/30/2008
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This is interesting -- and I'm not entirely certain what it means. Obama's transition website, Change.gov , includes a section called 'Agenda' that outlines the administration's objectives in any of a couple dozen policy areas. For the most part, the 'Agenda' section is a near carbon-copy of the ...
online.wsj.com - 12/26/2008
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online.wsj.com —
President-elect Obama's transition team is promising that its
$700 billion, or $850 billion, or $1 trillion, or...
whatever it now is "stimulus" won't include pork-barrel spending. They must not have talked to the nation's mayors, who recently responded ...
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President-elect Barack Obama's Transition Team ...
powerlineblog.com - 12/27/2008
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powerlineblog.com —
Hugh Hewitt praised Barack Obama for meeting with
Marines while he is in Hawaii: Glenn Reynolds ,...
however, links to an ABC News account suggesting that the Marines gave Obama a lukewarm reception, and notes that Obama ate Christmas dinner ...
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I'm With Hugh On This One
thinkprogress.org - 12/23/2008
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thinkprogress.org —
On Friday, AmericaBlog’s John Aravosis pointed out that
the website for Rev. Rick Warren’s Saddleback Church explicitly...
said that “someone unwilling to repent for their homosexual lifestyle would not be accepted as a member at ...
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Warren’s church removes anti-gay statements from website.
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Rick Warren: A Reason Not to Worry?
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... as well as a lot of healthy discussion. Many believe that with this pick, the President-elect is truly not serious about the rights of homosexuals. The same people see this as a slap in the face, while others see this has a brilliant move to win over those who are still skeptical of an Obama presidency. Whether you are apart of the latter or the former, Nate Silver points out that Obama actually promises more to the gay community on his transition website then he did on his campaign website : Obama's transition website, ...
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lagaycenter.org 12/22/2008 — LOS ANGELES, Dec. 18, 2008—In response to President-Elect Barack Obama’s selection of homophobic mega-church minister Rick Warren to deliver the invocation at Obama’s inauguration, L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center Chief of Staff Darrel Cummings has issued ...
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Israel's military onslaught against the militant Hamas movement will probably make it harder for President-elect Barack Obama to fulfill a campaign pledge of early and vigorous Mideast peacemaking, and the pre-inauguration timing may frustrate any ...
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