gawker.com - 11/11/2008
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Hey, so, a little bit of news came out of the historic Bush/Obama handover transition secret White House surprise meeting. Details of what the president and the president-elect talked about were leaked to the press: apparently Obama tried to convince Bush to bail out the auto industry, ...
emptywheel.firedoglake.com - 11/11/2008
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emptywheel.firedoglake.com —
Maybe it's the addition of beltway leaker extraordinaire,
Rahm Emmanuel, to the team, but it appears that...
the Obama team may have adopted a new policy on leaks, departing from their eerily disciplined no-leak approach during the campaign. Note ...
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A New Obama-Rahm Leak Policy?
lefarkins.blogspot.com - 11/18/2008
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lefarkins.blogspot.com —
This story , indicating that the Obama administration
is bailing on the idea even investigating whether criminal...
charges ought to be brought against Bush administration officials who committed war crimes such as torture, is very discouraging. From the ...
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No we can't
chicagoboyz.net - 11/11/2008
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chicagoboyz.net —
Let the rehabilitation of Bush begin! For the
past 8 years, the most strident and hysterical leftist...
criticism of Bush has centered on his intelligence policies which leftist assured us arose purely out of a callous disregard for civil liberties and ...
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Rehabilitating Bush
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Remainders: Turner's tirade
Michael Calderone's Blog —
... sees "the beginning of the resurgence" at CBS.
Schiller leaves The Times for NPR (just as the paper's stock hits 52-week low).
Turner slams former colleagues at Times/Life Building.
Obama team delivers big ratings for "60 Minutes."
MSNBC-NYT's "transition edition," takes the place of "campaign edition," which was previously "primary edition."
Gawker wonders if Emanuel's already leaking to the NY Times.
Steps From The Oval Office
BAGnewsNotes —
... The image on the left shows 43's expression right after 44 stepped out of his limo. It looks like a real sizing-up. To the extent there is also some wariness there is no surprise given the gamesmanship between the two. ...
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swamppolitics.com 11/10/2008 — by Mark Silva
It's almost certain that the handoff of the White House from President George W. Bush to President-elect Barack Obama will pass more smoothly than the greeting that Bush's new crew faced in 2001.
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boomantribune.com 11/11/2008 — Dan Eggen of the Washington Post got the assignment to do a set-piece pre-post-mortem on the Bush administration. You know the drill. You interview a few Bush staffers (current and retired), you get some quotes on how sad everyone is about how things ...
Obama, Bush deny bailout bargaining —
CNN.com - Politics 11/11/2008
Both the White House and a senior aide to President-elect Obama on Tuesday emphatically denied there had been any attempt on the part of President Bush -- while meeting with Obama on Monday -- to link a federal bailout of the struggling auto industry ...
Obama, Bush deny bailout bargaining —
CNN Political Ticker 11/11/2008
NEW YORK (CNN) — Both the White House and a senior aide to President-elect Obama on Tuesday emphatically denied there had been any attempt on the part of President Bush — while meeting with Obama on Monday — to link a federal bailout ...
Obama aides play down tensions with Bush —
Reuters: Politics 11/11/2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Aides to President-elect Barack Obama distanced themselves on Tuesday from reports that President George W. Bush had pressed Obama to back a free trade deal with Colombia in exchange for help for the struggling automobile ...
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