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Barack Obama Compares Bill Richardson to a Dog
Politics Daily —
Filed under: Democrats, Barack Obama, Bill Richardson, Humor, Obama AdministrationPresident-Elect Barack Obama appeared on ABC's Meet the Press today, discussing a wide range of issues that I'll get to later, but there was a quote right at the end that jumped out at me: STEPHANOPOULOS: What kind of a dog are we getting and when are we getting it? OBAMA: The -- they seem to have narrowed it down to a labradoodle or a Portuguese water hound. OK, I gotta cut in here. I know you're The One, and all, but you can't just make dogs up out of thin air. What the ...
Will Holder Appointment Hold Up?
Politics Daily —
Filed under: Democrats, Barack Obama, Obama AdministrationIn a word, yes. My pal, Captain Ed, thinks Holder is headed South of the Bus: The biggest question will be whether Barack Obama wants to have Blagojevich, Rezko, Clinton pardons, and freed terrorists discussed on the national news in connection to his incoming Hope and Change administration. Will he stick with Holder? Or will he wisely decide to find someone less connected to scandals and more interested in Justice than politics? I'd bet the wheels of the bus go thump, thump, thump by Wednesday.Let me first ...
Answering the Past
Daily Kos —
This week, writing about the possibility that there might be some uncovering of the Bush/Cheney NSA wiretapping scheme in the pending Al Haramain case, I said this: So it's very possible that we could finally have some light shed on the warrantless wiretapping program in this case. That should not, however, preclude Congress from finally conducting its own investigation in the form of a reconstituted Church Commission and the Obama administration from cooperating fully with that investigation. There really isn't a way for Congress to recover everything it lost in its myriad capitulations to a lawless administration. But a ...
Election Central Sunday Roundup
TPM Election Central —
... In an interview on ABC's This Week, Barack Obama seemed to indicate that his administration won't be investigating the Bush White House for crimes related to torture, wiretapping and other offenses: ...
We Cannot Avoid The Bush Admin Crimes Against Humanity
Open Left - Front Page —
... takes out the garbage. This is about the future. There will be other Republican presidents, and there are 191 other heads of government of formally recognized nation-states (e.g. they are UN members) any of whom may choose to apply the current defacto precedent set by George Bush. We're not debating some arguably arcane matter of historical interest here. This will (and is already) be of import to the decision making of world leaders.
PE Obama thinks perhaps that this whole issue is merely a matter of the past, and we can just ...
Jerry Weissman: What Will Obama Say in His Inaugural?
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... Obama, an avid historian, often looks to the past. He references Abraham Lincoln frequently for both his civil rights pioneering and for his poetic prose. But, as he told ABC's George Stephanopoulos, "Every time you read that second inaugural, you start getting intimidated ...there's a genius to Lincoln that is not going to be matched." Obama then went on to say that the main task in his speech was, "to try to capture as best I can the moment that we are in ... and then to project confidence that if we take the right measures that we can once again be that country; that beacon ...
Team Obama Opens Investigation of CIA for Treating Al-Qaeda Killers Badly
Gateway Pundit —
"On the other hand I also have a belief that we need to look forward as opposed to looking backwards. And part of my job is to make sure that for example at the CIA, you've got extraordinarily talented people who are working very hard to keep Americans safe. I don't want them to suddenly feel like they've got to spend all their time looking over their shoulders and lawyering." Barack Obama This Week Interview with George Stephanopoulos January 2009 Just ...
