latimes.com - 1/22/2009
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Reporting from Washington -- In a grinding first full day as president, Barack Obama moved decisively to distance himself from the previous administration, pushing top military leaders for a plan to withdraw combat troops from Iraq and issuing a string of orders to make government more open. The ...
latimes.com - 1/23/2009
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I'm a pollster and political consultant associated with
Republican causes: the Contract with America, the "death tax"...
and, of course, ending wasteful Washington spending. So why am I behind the new stimulus legislation -- the biggest spending bill ...
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Infrastructure: It's Job 1 to Americans - Los Angeles Times
latimes.com - 1/18/2009
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Reporting from Washington -- Telling millions of campaign
supporters that "what you built can't stop now," President-elect...
Barack Obama on Saturday took his first public steps toward transforming his massive grass-roots political machinery into an ...
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Obama sets up national network to help policy agenda - ...
latimes.com - 1/26/2009
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Reporting from Washington -- Republicans signaled Sunday that
they would not be daunted by President Obama's soaring...
approval ratings, criticizing his proposed $825-billion economic stimulus plan, his strategy for closing the prison at Guantanamo Bay, ...
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Republicans step up criticism of Obama - Los Angeles Times
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Political Animal —
... banning CIA "black sites" and, perhaps most encouragingly (in my view): severely restricting his own power and the power of former Presidents to withhold documents on the basis of secrecy, which has been the prime corrosive agent of the Bush era. Agreed. Like everyone else, I've been curious about what Obama would do early on. I expected him to hit the ground running, but it was less clear what he'd be running towards . But consider what we saw on the first day -- the new president not only created stricter lobbying rules than any administration in history, but he also ...
At Last
SteveAudio —
... Speaking to his senior staff, Obama said, "However long we are keepers of the public trust, we should never forget that we are here as public servants, and public service is a privilege. It's not about advantaging yourself. It's not about advancing your friends or your corporate clients. It's not about advancing an ideological agenda or the special interests of any organization. Public service is, simply and absolutely, about advancing the interests of Americans." ...
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