AOL News has a new home! The Huffington Post.
Click here to visit the new home of Politics Daily!Hot on HuffPost:
See More Stories
Executive Behind Lavish Conference Leaves Agency
Warren And Brown Neck And Neck In New Poll
2008Presidential
Obama Administration Could Support Health Benefits Tax
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailySome Republicans might be forgiven if they thought Sen. John McCain had been elected president, given the latest revelations from the Obama Administration. First, President Obama abruptly reversed course on Friday from talking down the U.S. economy to expressing presidential confidence in the economy's fundamentals. Echoing comments he ridiculed when Sen. McCain made them, the president said that the economy was fundamentally "sound." Now, in the Administration's second embrace of a McCain position in a week, the White House is indicating that it would be open to a plan to tax health benefits ...
Obama Changes Tone on Economy, Says Fundamentals 'Sound'
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyIn a dramatic, and some might say cynical, change in message, President Barack Obama said yesterday that the fundamentals of the nation's economy are, "sound." The comments come just weeks after the president was consistently warning that the economy faced a "catastrophe" if Congress did not act to pass his $787 billion economic stimulus bill quickly.During the presidential campaign, then candidate Obama pilloried Republican nominee Sen. John McCain when he made similar remarks on the state of the economy. Back in September, John McCain expressed confidence in the nation's economy, saying that ...
Barack Obama Linked to Figure in Pay-to-Play Investigation
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyPresident-elect Barack Obama received more than $30,000 in campaign contributions from David Rubin, the central figure in a federal probe into an alleged pay-to-play scandal involving New Mexico state contracts. The investigation forced Obama's nominee to head the Commerce Department, New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson (D), to withdraw from the confirmation process earlier this week. Obama accepted the federal maximum from Rubin, $2,300, and more than $28,000 that went to a special fund shared by the Obama campaign and the Democratic National Committee.Rubin is under investigation for ...
Media Darling Barack Obama Bristles at Media Spotlight
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyPresident-elect Barack Obama, arguably the recipient of the least critical media coverage of any candidate for president in U.S. history, has suddenly become less than enamored of the press coverage he and his family are receiving as they vacation in Hawaii. Late last week, Obama left the press gaggle behind when he took his daughters to a water park, breaking with the protocol that representatives of the media travel with the president or president-elect at all times. When the press eventually caught up with the Obamas, the president-elect chided a Washington Post pool reporter for writing ...
Dick Cheney Defends Tenure, Schools Joe Biden on Role of Vice President
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyIn a wide-ranging, and often testy interview with Fox News' Chris Wallace, Vice President Dick Cheney defended many of the Bush Administration's most controversial decisions, and declared President Bush to have been a "consequential" president. Cheney saved his most acid observations, however, for incoming vice-president Joe Biden, who during the campaign had some rather unkind comments about Cheney's tenure as the second in command.Cheney disagreed with host Wallace's characterzations of Bush Administration policies repeatedly, refusing to accept the premise that the Administration's ...
For Barack Obama, Breaking a Campaign Promise Easier than Ending Iraq War
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyIn yet another example of President-elect Barack Obama learning that governing is much harder than campaigning, Obama is poised to abandon his campaign promise to end the Iraq War within 16 months of his inauguration. Obama has already raised eyebrows in some quarters of the anti-war left with his selections for Secretary of State and Defense, the top two Cabinet posts in his national security team. His choice for State, former rival Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY), voted to authorize the war, and was bitterly opposed in the Democratic primary by anti-war groups on the basis of that vote. Obama's ...
Barack Obama's Campaign Donors Much Like George Bush's
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyPresident-elect Barack Obama built a formidable campaign money machine during the presidential election, raising more money than any single presidential candidate in U.S. history, over $600 million. Obama credited, and the media parrotted, millions of small donors each donating less than $200 for his fund raising prowess. He even referred to this army of contributors as a new kind of public financing system. But a new analysis of Obama's donor base shows that there was no army of small donors. In fact, Obama raised just about the same percentage of his money from small donors as George W. Bush ...
Media Cannot Move On From Race Politics
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyThe Associated Press reports on a smattering of racially motivated incidents that have occurred in the weeks after President-elect Barack Obama's victory in the general election. The report focuses on reports of 200 "hate-related incidents" collected by the Southern Poverty Law Center. The AP story terms this collection of fringe actions by fringe elements in American society a "white backlash." It is, of course, no such thing. The AP admits as much in its report, characterizing most post-election incidents as, "little more than juvenile pranks." But the sensationalism with which the AP ...
The Victimization of Barack Obama Begins
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyOne of the legitimate reasons for hope in the potential of the incoming Obama administration is what the election of an African-American president could mean for race relations in the United States. Obama's race is of course not in itself a qualification for office. But his election does symbolize how far America has come from its discriminatory past. Truth be told, America has been ready to elect a black man to high office for a much longer time than the left will admit. Until Obama, there simply have not been African-American candidates that have proved acceptable to the broad middle of the ...
VA Judge: Preserve Military Ballots
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyBreaking right now is a decision from a federal judge in Virginia that absentee military ballots in the Old Dominion must be preserved until a court hearing on the ballots' legitimacy can be held on November 10th. The campaign of Sen. John McCain filed suit in federal district court in Virginia yesterday seeking to compel county boards of election across the state to count absentee ballots from military members serving overseas. At least one Virginia county, Fairfax County in Northern Virginia, has been refusing to count military absentee ballots, claiming that the ballots required an address ...
Follow Politics Daily
POPULAR
- Nancy Pelosi Confirms House May Skip Up or Down Vote on Senate Health Bill
- Debrahlee Lorenzana: A Double Take on Those Double D's
- Campbell Brown Quits CNN With Shockingly Frank Farewell
- Palin Earnings Estimated at $12 Million
- The Five Most Racist Obama Cartoons?
- Jimmy Carter Leaves Church Over Treatment of Women
- Soraya M., Stoned to Death for Being an "Inconvenient Wife''
- No posts are available.
News From Our Partners
- Dragon arrives at space station in historic 1st
- Picking new leader, Egyptians search for superman
- Egyptians vote in first free presidential vote
- Moon chips from Vegas casino mogul sent to NASA
- Egyptians vote to rid nation of autocratic rule
- More Stories »
- 'Masters of the Universe' Sure Have Fragile Egos
- Romney: My Mistakes 'Haunt Me'
- Newt Lauds Romney: He's Like Eisenhower
- Irked Senate Panel Votes 30-0 to Cut Pakistan Aid
- GSA Bash Organizer Steps Down
- More Stories »
- Know Your Enemy
- Obama’s Challenge in Egypt
- The Edwards Waiting Game
- Are Doctors Doing Too Much?
- The Pagan Cult of Reagan
- More Stories »
- Ambition Counteracting Ambition
- Robert Blagojevich Speaks Out
- In Iowa, Obama Calls Romney's Words 'A Cow Pie of Distortion'
- In Iowa, Obama Calls On Congress to Act on Clean Energy Tax Credits
- Romney Has Interesting Morning in Inner-City Philly
- More Stories »
Top News
More News
More on Aol
Local News
More Blog/Sites
Sites and Services
HuffPost Politics