CNN'S "STATE OF THE UNION" FEBRUARY 7, 2010 SPEAKERS: CANDY CROWLEY, HOST SECRETARY OF STATE HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON [*] CROWLEY: I am Candy Crowley, and this is "State of the Union." (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) CROWLEY (voice-over): An exclusive with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Her take on the ...
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Sunday that while North Korea and Iran are the nations that pose the biggest security threat to the U.S. because of their pursuit of nuclear weapons, the greater danger is from the "transnational, non-state networks" of al-Qaeda branches around the ...
President Obama's address at the National Prayer Breakfast on Thursday was a given -- the chief executive has been the main speaker since the event began in 1953. But rarely has so much been riding on what in recent years has seemed like a feel-good function for conservative Christians and a chance ...
The uncomfortable reality that the Chinese are sitting on nearly $1.6 trillion in U.S. securities has -- up until very recently -- made the Obama Administration somewhat lily-livered about going head to head with our biggest financier on anything too touchy, such as nuclear-weapons proliferation, ...
Democratic strategist Lanny Davis says President Barack Obama's openness before the House Republican conference in Baltimore was "his finest public moment since he became president." "If only he could produce the same attitude of tolerance, civility and openness to differing opinions by the ...
Hillary Clinton said she couldn't see herself continuing to serve as secretary of state should President Obama win a second term, ABC reported. In an interview aired Wednesday on PBS, Tavis Smiley asked Clinton whether she could imagine herself "doing it for another four years." She replied "No, I ...
With John Heilemann and Mark Halperin's presidential election tell-all, "Game Change," hitting shelves this past week (spoiler: Obama wins), political enthusiasts are arguing over delegates, endorsements and tactical maneuvers with a relish I haven't seen since, well, 14 months ago. There's nothing ...
WINNERS LOSERS 1. Barack Obama: Inaugurated as the first African- American president in U.S. history, he inherited two wars, the Great Recession, a Democratic Congress with a pent-up agenda, a liberal base with a litany of unrealistic demands, and a hostile Republican Party ...
Michelle Obama, Hillary Clinton and Sonia Sotomayor topped the list of who Americans thought were "political winners" this year while the prize for the biggest losers went to White House gate-crashers Tareq and Michaele Salahi, according to a Gallup poll conducted Dec. 11-13. ...
Here's a different twist on polling. The Clarus Research Group conducted a poll Dec. 7-12 that homed in on "news watchers," people who follow the news closely or very closely. It found, when those surveyed were asked to rate Obama administration officials, that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton ...




