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- President Barack Obama believes in the saving grace of the federal government.
- The Beltway consensus, aka the conventional wisdom, has turned on President Barack Obama.
President Obama emerged as prosecutor in chief in his speech on health care to Congress, a transformation that came just in the nick of time to revive (although not completely) a wobbly effort to sell his plan.
Of all the Kennedy brothers, Ted best embodied the Irish spirit – he was the prosaic survivor, not a hero, and not so much a romantic as the one who carried the load. Howard Fineman explains.
When the history of President Barack Obama’s first year in office is written, scholars will try to answer this question: What went wrong with health care? Howard Fineman gives his list of Obama mistakes.
- I’ve been covering Barack Obama for a few years, and it’s usually crystal clear what he is up to. Not last night. This is the first time I’ve asked myself: What was THAT all about?
- I have covered politics for a long time. I can tell when someone is running for president. Sarah Palin is running for president.
- Here’s a small but revealing sliver of news concerning our cool, hard-to-fathom president: According to his closest advisor, David Axelrod, Barack Obama really likes the novel he’s reading right now. In fact, he likes it “a lot.”
- I’ve covered presidents and presidential candidates for a long time. I’ve interviewed Barack Obama in quiet, empty rooms; I’ve seen him on a football field, surrounded by 80,000 spectators; and I’ve observed him from near and far as commander in chief.
- Captains are back — as in Sullenberger and now Phillips — and with them, the idea that our leaders can be trusted to know what they are doing, and to do it.
- As the old gospel song goes, “He’s got the whole world in his hands.”
- Pundits are declaring Barack Obama’s speech to Congress was “Reaganesque” in style and tone.
- President Barack Obama is launching his first diplomatic mission.
NEW YORK - I was sitting in David Plouffe’s spartan office at Barack Obama’s campaign headquarters in Chicago.
CHICAGO – Here’s my advice to Sen. Barack Obama’s supporters: Stop predicting that the Democrats will sweep into the White House and Congress come January with a mandate to expand Big Government.
- What do states like Georgia, South Carolina, North Dakota and even Arizona have in common?
NEW YORK - The markets may have tumbled here in Manhattan, but New Yorkers still know how to evaluate a stock.
- It’s do-or-die for Sen. John McCain, but he is used to that.
- The Obama Administration began at midnight Sunday.
- We like to think that presidential elections matter.
- No, Barack Obama was not making fun of Sarah Palin when he talked about some Republican putting “lipstick on a pig.”
WASHINGTON — I don’t know Sarah Palin, but I know her type and I know where she comes from. It isn’t exactly (or only) Alaska.
DENVER — In our history and hopes, the American West looms large: a field of dreams for new beginnings, a limitless expanse in which big risks yield big rewards and faith in the future is as lofty as the Rockies.
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - I've recently spoken with two of the finalists for the role of Barack Obama's running-mate, and to two other sources who are close to the process.My bottom line is this: Barring a big surprise or last-minute change of heart, the choice is likely to be Sen. Joe Biden of Delaware, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee.
- and Mark Salter, his friend and aide, share a love of grim, plucky humor.
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