latimesblogs.latimes.com - 1/20/2009
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It was a tough nearly two-year long battle that cost Americans upwards of $1 billion just between the last two men left standing.
And tonight at a special D.C. dinner, on the eve of becoming the nation's 44th president at tomorrow's inauguration , ex-community organizer, ex-state ...
swamppolitics.com - 1/20/2009
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swamppolitics.com —
by Mark Silva President-elect Barack Obama is out
for dinner tonight - a bipartisan dinner tour aimed...
at making good on a promise of working across the aisle. Obama's motorcade carried him from Blair House, the guest house across the ...
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Obama, McCain dine on bipartisan will
swamppolitics.com - 1/20/2009
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By Mark Silva President Barack Obama, calling on
Americans to embrace "a new era of responsibility,'' delivered...
an inaugural address sober in its recognition of crises that Americans confront at home and abroad yet soaring in its assignment. ...
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President Obama: 'Pick ourselves up'
washingtonmonthly.com - 1/26/2009
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MCCAIN AND THE STIMULUS.... The lead story on
MSNBC's site right now reports, in a rather large,...
bold font: "McCain: Won't vote for stimulus as it stands." Sen. John McCain says it will take some big changes before he would...
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McCain and the stimulus
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Obama Hails McCain In Bipartisan Appeal
The Moderate Voice —
... President Elect Barack Obama hosted a dinner in Washington D.C. to honor his defeated opponent for the Presidency, Arizona Republican Senator John McCain.
But it clearly wasn’t perfunctory: Obama used the dinner to praise McCain for the very qualities that have upset so many conservative Republicans and talk show hosts — McCain’s frequent journeys across the aisles to collaborate with Democrats on policies McCain believed were good for the country.
The Los Angeles Times’ Andrew Malcolm reports:
It was a tough, nearly ...
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