Bob Schieffer Loves Him Some John McCain (video)
youtube.com 10/15/2008 — Clips from over the years.

Tom Schieffer may run for Texas governor | News | Star
star-telegram.com 2/10/2009 — Having wrapped up his career as an ambassador under President Bush, Fort Worth s Tom Schieffer is back home and pondering a run for governor as a Democrat. "I ve thought about it for a while," Schieffer told the Star-Telegram. "I have not made a ...

CBS’s Schieffer: Obama Cabinet ‘Bunch of Flaming Moderates’
newsbusters.org 12/4/2008 — On Thursday’s CBS Early Show, co-host Harry Smith talked discussed the Obama transition with Face the Nation host Bob Schieffer, who observed: "...a lot of people said this is going to be a very extremist president and all that, that he's a very ...

Will Bob Schieffer Be Beguiled Once More?
dailykos.com 10/16/2008 — Bob Schieffer, the moderator of tonight's presidential debate recently said : I don't know who's going to win this debate, but I think somebody is going to win. Somebody is going to score a decisive win. That's just my sense. So, what is this ...

Video: A Feeling Of Good Will
politicalnewslive.blogspot.com 1/20/2009 — CBS News Chief Washington Correspondent Bob Schieffer talks to Katie Couric about how different the Inauguration of President-elect Obama is from all of the other ones he's covered; from LBJ on.

Schieffer offers Russert tip of cap
politico.com 10/16/2008 — A nice opening statement from tonight's moderator Bob Schieffer. "The one thing I regret is that my friend Tim Russert isn’t here to see this," he said. And so we're off, for the final debate of Campaign '08.  We'll be live-blogging in this space all night, as will my ...

The Cabinet
blogs.princeton.edu 12/22/2008 — That Obama is set to nominate so many former legislators to his Cabinet and senior White House staff provides a rare opportunity for comparing the ideological make-up of the new administration to that of Congress. With the nomination of Hilda...

Bob Schieffer denies media bias; Helen Thomas admits, 'I'm a liberal'
blog.seattlepi.com 4/8/2009 — Bob Schieffer, chief Washington correspondent for CBS News, and veteran White House correspondent Helen Thomas spoke Monday at the CityClub luncheon at the downtown Seattle Sheraton. The toughest questions for the news veterans did not come from ...

Obama's Cabinet
charlotteobserver.com 12/28/2008 — The Cabinet includes the vice president and the heads of 15 executive departments. Cabinet officers are nominated by the president and then presented to the United States Senate.

Bob Schieffer Whacks Bernie Goldberg: He 'Makes A Living Criticizing CBS News'
newsbusters.org 4/10/2009 — CBS veteran Bob Schieffer and former White House correspondent Helen Thomas spoke Monday at the CityClub luncheon at the downtown Seattle Sheraton, reported Andrea James on seattlepi.com . Perhaps out of perpetual loyalty to Dan Rather or perpetual ...

Obama picks former Clinton aide Panetta for CIA — Reuters: Politics 1/6/2009
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President-elect Barack Obama has chosen former White House chief of staff Leon Panetta to lead the CIA, which has been widely criticized for harsh interrogation of terrorism suspects, Democratic officials said on Monday.  ...

Feel Like a Trillion Bucks — WSJ.com: Politics And Policy 1/6/2009
Only WWII was pricier than Obama's stimulus plans.

Coming Down on Tobacco — NYT > Politics 1/6/2009
The new Congress plans to move aggressively against the tobacco industry by regulating cigarettes, raising sales taxes and ratifying an international antitobacco treaty. >

Panetta a surprise pick to run the CIA — L.A. Times - Politics 1/6/2009
Leon Panetta, a former congressman and Clinton chief of staff, would give Obama a political ally at the helm of the troubled spy agency. > In choosing Leon ...

No hiding the disappointment about Richardson — L.A. Times - Politics 1/6/2009
Bill Richardson's decision to pull out of Obama's Cabinet hurts his standing as a Latino leader and the political causes he supports, analysts say. > Bill ...