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George W. Bush Secretly Visits Fort Hood Victims

Sat, 7 Nov 2009 18:10:06 +0000

Former President George W. Bush and his wife Laura secretly visited Fort Hood last night and spent "considerable time" consoling those who were wounded in Thursday's shooting spree, Fox News has learned. The Bushes entered and departed the sprawling military facility in secret, having told the ...

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George W. Bush Visits Fort Hood, Wounded Soldiers

Sat, 7 Nov 2009 14:20:19 +0000

Former President George W. Bush and his wife, Laura, visited wounded soldiers and their families near the site of the worst mass shooting on an Army post in the United States. The Bushes made their private visit to Fort Hood's Darnall Army Medical Center on Friday night. Bush spokesman David ...

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Dems: 'We have the votes'

Sun, 8 Nov 2009 03:00:19 +0000

Aides said leaders are confident they have the 218 they need, but at the very least they want a 219th. Read more...

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Obama To Camp David, Not Fort Hood???

Sat, 7 Nov 2009 18:29:15 +0000

Are you kidding me? Camp frickin' David? What, does he have a tee time close by? For heaven's sakes, he's the CIC. And he's taking the weekend off? This guy simply doesn't care. Unbelievable via Fox . 11:25AM THE PRESIDENT addresses the House Democratic Caucus - Cannon House Office Building ...

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Evidence Mounts Fort Hood Shooter Is Ordinary Mass Murderer

Sun, 8 Nov 2009 01:04:00 +0000

Dan from New York:FBI: Religion, ideology furthest thing from the guy's mind. FORT HOOD, Texas - As authorities dig deeper into the possible motives behind the Ft. Hood massacre, a picture is emerging of a garden-variety US soldier who found the conflict between his desire to serve his country ...

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Obama visits Capitol Hill as abortion issue looms

Sat, 7 Nov 2009 13:00:43 +0000

Questions about an abortion-related provision threaten to derail a health care bill in the U.S. House.

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Fort Hood Tragedy -- Barack Obama Gives "Shout-Out" Before He Comments on Shooting -- FOX News (video)

Thu, 5 Nov 2009 18:08:00 +0000

(11.5.09) -- Attending a conference, Barack Obama first addresses the conference attendees and gives one a "shout-out" before then turning his atte...

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Palin rallies abortion opponents

Sat, 7 Nov 2009 18:59:00 +0000

At Wisconsin Right to Life's fund-raising banquet, Palin rallies thousands of abortion opponents.

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Gibbs: Can You Imagine if, 5 Years Ago, People Had Protested With Hitler Pictures?!?

Fri, 6 Nov 2009 22:54:50 +0000

Today, Robert Gibbs lamented some of the offensive signs at the rally (of which there were some, but not enough to even fill out HuffPo's 12 Most Offensive slideshow ): "I will continue to say what I've said before. You hear in this debate, you hear analogies, you hear references to, you see ...

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Obama Gives Shout Out to 'Congressional Medal of Honor Winner' Who Isn't

Fri, 6 Nov 2009 12:37:38 +0000

The Washington Post this afternoon reported "President Obama delivers remarks on Ft. Hood shooting at end of tribal leaders conference." The transcript begins: SPEAKER: PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA [*] OBAMA: Please, everybody, have a seat. Let me first of all just thank Ken and the ...

Say Anything found this 39 hours ago on newsbusters.org

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President Obama’s Saturday Schedule

Sat, 7 Nov 2009 17:27:12 +0000

11:25AM THE PRESIDENT addresses the House Democratic Caucus - Cannon House Office Building 2:30PM THE PRESIDENT makes a statement to the press on Health Care - Rose Garden 2:45PM THE PRESIDENT and THE FIRST LADY depart The White House en route Camp David - South Lawn

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Sarah Palin's speeches were ready but never seen

Sat, 7 Nov 2009 20:07:40 +0000

A year ago Wednesday, then-Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin stood by while her Republican running mate, Sen. John McCain, delivered his concession speech outside the Arizona Biltmore in Phoenix. Turns out Palin would have liked to give a little speech too, thanking some folks, graciously wishing the ...

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Obama's Awkward Response to the Deadly Shootings

Sat, 7 Nov 2009 19:25:06 +0000

Obama’s initial remarks came shortly after 5 p.m. Thursday, while Americans were struggling to come to grips with the shocking rampage and its chaotic aftermath. The stage was set for the president to quickly and somberly address the tragedy. Instead, a serene-looking Obama offered light ...

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Let me explain "rationing" to the teabaggers.

Sat, 7 Nov 2009 20:16:03 +0000

[Photoshopped their sign just a lil' bit. Original here. ] Last night I attended an open house for the grade 6-8 magnet school for my children's school district. This is a terrific school. Every single kid in the school gets their own MacBook with their textbooks embedded to take home. The ...

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The Final Push

Sun, 8 Nov 2009 02:34:52 +0000

We're now in the midst of four hours of final debate on the health care bill. After two hours of debate – double the time allotted thanks to GOP foot dragging – the House passed the rule on the bill 242-192 with 16 Dems joining all Republicans in voting Nay. The vote provided some hope [...]

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What recovery? Unemployment shoots past 10 percent

Sat, 7 Nov 2009 18:00:46 +0000

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Just when it was beginning to look a little better, the economy relapsed Friday with a return to double-digit unemployment for only the second time since World War II and warnings that next year will be even worse than previously thought. The jobless rate rocketed to 10.2 ...

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Don't listen to Texas

Fri, 6 Nov 2009 21:45:23 +0000

Texas's Rick Perry and Mars's Newt Gingrich have an op-ed in The Washington Post this morning presenting the Lone Star State as an example of all the whiz-bang health-care innovation being generated at the state level. "Texas," they write, "has adopted approaches to controlling ...

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A scaled model of debt driven stimulus

Sun, 8 Nov 2009 02:45:00 +0000

by divorced one like Bush Well, here is what I'm doing to support the US of A's economy. It's a lesson in the real model of economics. It is a scaled version of the concept of stimulus. I even did it by using financing just to make the model as close to real as possible. (OK, I had to finance it ...

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CNN Poll: Public wants Congress to keep working on health care

Fri, 6 Nov 2009 12:40:00 +0000

Nearly six in ten Americans want Congress to continue working on health care reform bills that have been passed through various committees, according to a new CNN poll. Washington (CNN) - Nearly six in ten Americans want Congress to continue working on health care reform bills that have been passed through various committees, according to a new national poll. Full results (pdf) Fifty-nine percent of people questioned in a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey say ...

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Palin’s Speech

Sat, 7 Nov 2009 20:07:40 +0000

“My fellow Americans, tens of millions of you shared our convictions and gave us your votes. And I thank you for your confidence. For us, it was not our time . . . not our moment. But it is our country . . . the winner will be our president . . . and I wish Barack Obama well as the 44th ...

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