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nytimes.com - 11/16/2008

Op-Ed Columnist: Team of Frenemies

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There are Obama aides and supporters who are upset that the man who vowed to deliver us from 28 years of Bushes and Clintons has been stocking up on Clintonites. >

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nytimes.com - 11/22/2008

Op-Ed Columnist - Time for Him to Go

— nytimes.com — Thanksgiving is next week, and President Bush could make it a really special holiday by resigning. Seriously.... We have an economy that’s crashing and a vacuum at the top. Bush — who is currently on a trip to Peru to meet with Asian leaders who no ... (more) Op-Ed Columnist - Time for Him to Go

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washingtonindependent.com - 11/21/2008

Would Clinton’s State Team Include Obama Thinkers?

— washingtonindependent.com — Many foreign policy experts wonder whether a Sec. of State Hillary Rodham Clinton would reach beyond loyalists... to bring in progressive Obama supporters after an acrimonious primary. (more) Would Clinton’s State Team Include Obama Thinkers?

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nytimes.com - 11/10/2008

Op-Ed Columnist - G.O.P. Dog Days?

— nytimes.com — Just before midnight on Nov. 4, I wasn’t that worried. Sure, the election results had been bad... — but they weren’t devastating. Obama wasn’t winning the popular vote by double-digit margins, as some polls had suggested he might. Republican losses in ... (more) Op-Ed Columnist - G.O.P. Dog Days?

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"Why should the woman who made 18 million cracks go back to being junior to Chuck Schumer, if she could be toasted from Dublin to Dubai?"
Althouse — Writes Maureen Dowd: On the down side, Hillary would be taking over a big and demoralized government bureaucracy, after proving with her campaign that she does not know how to run a big and demoralized group of people. ...

Stuff of Note
PoliBlog: A Rough Draft of my Thoughts — Not a particularly productive day in terms of blogging. Still, here are a few stories that I noted that may be of interest to some of you out there (after all, I have had the tabs open all day, so I hate to waste ‘em): Via the LAT: Mexico drug wars spill across the border Via the LAT: Calls grow to overhaul 401(k) retirement plans Via WaPo: 5 Myths About an Election of Mythic Proportions And I just liked the tile of this Maureen Dowd column: Team of Frenemies

On Vetting Hillary for State
PoliBlog: A Rough Draft of my Thoughts — Maureen Dowd raises a rather interesting point in regards to the possibility of Hillary going to State: If Hillary wants to be Madame Secretary, Bill will have to put away the 81-page list and pick up the 63 questions in the Obama vetting questionnaire, an unprecedented deep probe of potential cabinet members and their spouses. Even if Bill scurries past the questions on sexual harassment claims, conflicts of interest, civil suits, real estate holdings, federal investigations, diaries, gifts worth more than $50 and Internet aliases, the Clintons will still have to grapple with No. 8: “Briefly describe the most controversial matters you have been ...