google.com - 12/9/2008
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18 hours ago WASHINGTON (AP) The first sign of cracks in President-elect Barack Obama's foreign policy team of rivals emerged on Monday as his choices for secretary of state and U.S. ambassador to the United Nations visited the State Department. As Secretary of State-pick Hillary Rodham Clinton ...
firstread.msnbc.msn.com - 12/8/2008
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firstread.msnbc.msn.com —
From NBC’s Libby LeistSecretary of State Condoleezza Rice
will host Hillary Clinton tonight for dinner at Rice's
Watergate apartment, State Department transition sources tell NBC News. Clinton is also taking part in transition meetings today at the ...
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Rice to host HRC tonight
wonkroom.thinkprogress.org - 12/15/2008
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wonkroom.thinkprogress.org —
Putting the best possible face on the Bush
administration’s disastrous legacy in the Middle East, Secretary of
State Condoleezza Rice told the Associated Press in a farewell interview “ that Iran has chosen to scale back much of its most ...
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Sec. Rice Disagrees With Iraqi Spokesman On Iran’s View ...
huffingtonpost.com - 12/9/2008
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huffingtonpost.com —
WASHINGTON — The first sign of cracks in
President-elect Barack Obama's foreign policy team of rivals emerged
on Monday as his choices for secretary of state and U.S. ambassador to the United Nations visited the State Department. As ...
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Cracks Appear In Obama Foreign Policy Team
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Rice Looking to Expand UN Ambassador Role
The Page by Mark Halperin —
... AP: Obama's U.N. envoy-choice visited the State Department Monday, has suggested she wants to install her own transition team inside the department.
Such a move is rare, if not unprecedented, because the job is based at the UN in New York, where she already has a small transition staff. ...
Remainders: Blago
Ben Smith's Blog —
(From the Trib.)
Danny Davis wouldn't take an appointment.
Obama's Senate seat is on eBay.
Pareene thinks this is bad for Obama.
Sargent devises a novel solution for Blago.
Toobin looks at Illinois politics then and now. Not much different.
Lynn Sweet has the transcript of Fitzgerald's presser.
In other news:
Al Gore was there too.
Susan Rice makes a move on Hillary's Foggy Bottom turf.
Weigel brings the fringe.
Gay advocates ...
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Obama, Gore set to talk energy —
msnbc.com: Politics 12/9/2008
Former Vice President Al Gore planned to visit with President-elect Barack Obama on Tuesday, but the topic was expected to be the planet rather than Gore's formal return to Washington.
Transition: Where the leaks come from… —
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Possible HUD Sec. Adolofo Carrion told a gathering of Yale students he was under consideration for a major post in the Obama Administration. And the transition team and President-elect wonder where these leaks come from! It’s the candidates ...
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