online.wsj.com - 1/30/2009
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Top economic officials are discussing new efforts to help banks while trying to mitigate the cost to taxpayers. Obama stepped up his rhetorical attacks on the same banks his officials are planning to aid.
online.wsj.com - 2/6/2009
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Height of Irresponsibility
Riehl World View —
... Obama pronounces Wall Street "shameful" and the "height of irresponsibility." Certainly there are irresponsible actors on Wall Street. But I think the heights have already been scaled by Washington, ...
Where Does Obama Get Off?
Riehl World View —
... So I'm giving this issue more thought and I'm thinking, wait a minute - he breaks a record for fund raising after breaking a pledge to take public financing. They spend, what? $150 million on an innauguration and tonight ...
An appropriate perspective on Obama
Hyscience —
... So I'm giving this issue
more thought and I'm thinking, wait a minute - he breaks a record for
fund raising after breaking a pledge to take public financing. They
spend, what? $150 million on an innauguration and tonight ...
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CNN Political Ticker 1/29/2009
WASHINGTON (CNN) – One person definitely won’t be winning the topsy-turvy race to lead the Republican National Committee: Barack Obama.
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Sam Kass joins White House kitchen staff —
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Blagojevich convicted, ousted —
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CHICAGO (Reuters) - Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich was convicted of impeachment charges and removed from office on Thursday, eight weeks after he was arrested on charges of trying to sell the U.S. Senate seat once held by President Barack Obama.
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