time.com - 11/13/2008
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In his first White House visit as President-elect, Obama walks with Bush down the famed colonnade outside the Oval Office.
washingtonmonthly.com - 11/9/2008
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Change We Can Believe In From the Washington
Post: "Transition advisers to President-elect Barack Obama have compiled...
a list of about 200 Bush administration actions and executive orders that could be swiftly undone to reverse White House policies on ...
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Change We Can Believe In
ourfuture.org - 11/9/2008
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ourfuture.org —
The top reasons polled voters supported Barack Obama:
Would withdraw troops from Iraq (35 percent), would be...
for the middle class (32 percent) and has a plan for affordable health care for all (29 percent) The top issues that voters think Obama should ...
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The Change Election Awaiting Change
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TIME Covers Obama's Transition
The Page by Mark Halperin —
... The new cover story looks at the realities of governing and what the transition reveals about the kind of President Obama will be. ...
Transition: How Obama is Building a Government
Swampland —
... My story from the new issue of dead-tree TIME.
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His TIME
The Page by Mark Halperin —
... Peter Beinart looks at what Obama can learn from FDR -- and what the Democrats need to do -- in this week's cover story.
Plus: Karen Tumulty on what the transition reveals about the kind of president Obama will be.
More: ...
Your Turn: FDO
BAGnewsNotes —
... (photo illustration: Arthur Hochstein and Lon Tweeten. F.D.R.: AP. Obama: John Gress/Reuters. TIME Cover. Nov. 24, 2008. Cover story) ...
Feeding the Hydra
The Reaction —
... Moreover, as Time magazine notes, Obama doesn't have much time to get on-the-job training: ...
Why The Center for American Progress Rules
Swampland —
... has a single outside group held so much sway. Just as candidate Obama depended on CAP during the campaign for opposition research and talking points, President-elect Obama has effectively contracted out the management of his own government's formation to Podesta. . . . Podesta himself is leading Obama's transition effort, holding press conferences to speak for the President-elect, with an operation beneath him filled with CAP alum. The transition's operations director, the general counsel and the co-director all have come over from similar jobs at the think tank. ...
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Obama and Change: The Unprincipled Transition
patterico.com 11/24/2008 — [Guest post by DRJ]
Jules Crittenden posts on the unhappy reaction by the left to Obama’s transition decisions that seem more Clintonian than Change. It’s worth reading in full but I want to talk about this section:
“UK ...
The Obama-Biden Transition Team | Contact the Transition
change.gov 11/17/2008 — Email: * First Name: * Last Name: * Address: * City: * State: Zip / Postal Code: * Country: Phone: General Area: Subject: * Message: * * denotes required field Upcoming Events The Inauguration Event The Agenda Revitalizing the Economy Ending the War ...
The Obama-Biden Transition Team | Contact the Transition
change.gov 12/12/2008 — The Obama-Biden Transition Team will only accept #10 envelopes. All other mail will be returned to sender. Due to security and the high volume of mail the Transition Team receives, we can no longer accept packages. In addition, we regret that ...
Change That Is Not Change… And Iran
westernfrontamerica.com 12/9/2008 — Well, now. Isn't this interesting! Obama's change is not exactly the change many on the political left had expected of him. Some on the left are even claiming that Obama's foreign policy, what little we know of it yet, is akin to that of George Bush's father, George H. W. Bush. Obama ...
What To Expect From The Obama Transition
marcambinder.theatlantic.com 11/5/2008 — President-elect Barack Obama is NOT expected to name key posts BEFORE next week...even though there's been speculation that he'd name his Treasury secretary today.... the ONE exception might be his chief of staff. (Rep. Rahm Emanuel has ...
Obama transition chief: Bush orders under review
(AP)
news.yahoo.com 11/9/2008 — AP - President-elect Obama's transition chief says the incoming administration is reviewing President Bush's executive orders on stem cell research, oil and gas drilling, and other matters.
Who will be Obama's top diplomat? —
msnbc.com: Politics 11/12/2008
The State Department sits ready to receive President-elect Obama's foreign policy transition team — the first major transition for the agency since the Clinton administration turned the keys over to George W. Bush.
U.S. general urges Obama not to cave to Russia —
Reuters: Politics 11/12/2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Despite objections by Russia, the outgoing head of the U.S. Missile Defense Agency urged President-elect Barack Obama on Wednesday to stick to the Bush administration's plans to place missile defenses in Eastern Europe.
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Experts Volunteer Policy Guidance —
Wash Post Obama Administration 11/13/2008
An influential assemblage of left-leaning policy experts and a coalition of 30 environmental organizations have weighed in with their vision for the Obama administration, adding to the burden of expectations facing the president-elect from Democratic ...
'Plum Book' Is Obama's Big Help-Wanted Ad —
Wash Post Federal Page 11/13/2008
As the national unemployment rate climbs to a 14-year high, a treasure trove of about 8,000 new jobs surfaced in one place on Capitol Hill yesterday. The federal government published the Plum Book, an inventory of positions that will soon be vacated ...
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