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Obama and the Media: Is the Critic-in-Chief Too Thin-Skinned?
Zoning the Flock: Are Megachurches the New Walmart? 
House Narrowly Passes Historic Health Care Bill
Obama Mourns Fort Hood Soldiers, Plans Tuesday Trip There For Memorial Service
It's Crunch Time on Jobs, and Time for Obama to Make His Move
Rick Scott: Unsung Conservative Hero of the Health Care Debate
Obama Hails AARP, AMA Support for House Health Bill 2 Days Before Vote
Michele Bachmann's Capitol House Call: 'Get Your Hands Off My Health Care!'
Gay Marriage Split: Why Maine Is Mainstream
On Obama White House Visitor Log: Lobbyists, Movie Stars and Bailed Out CEOs
By Emily Miller
The White House released a visitor's log late Friday that revealed many of DC's biggest Democratic lobbyists have made frequent visits, despite President Obama's stringent new lobbying rules. The record of visitors also looks like a red carpet list of celebrities and Hollywood movie stars. And CEOs of all those Wall Street banks the government bailed out earlier this year came calling frequently, too. Many of the Democratic lobbyists who frequented the White House this year are also among the highest earning lobbying firms in 2009, including power player Steve Elmendorf of Elmendorf Strategies ...
Plouffe Book: Bill Clinton Doomed Hillary's VP Chances, Obama Predicted Palin Choice Debacle
By Jill Lawrence
The juiciest parts of advance excerpts from the new book by David Plouffe, President Obama's 2008 campaign manager, concern the vice presidential selection process in both parties. Obama seriously considered Hillary Clinton but concluded Bill Clinton posed too many complications, Plouffe writes. He also credits Obama with predicting why Republican John McCain's choice of Sarah Palin ultimately would backfire. Plouffe's book, "The Audacity to Win," is due in stores Tuesday. The author will be on NBC's "Meet The Press" on Sunday; the excerpts are out now in Friday's edition of Time magazine. The ...
Obama Makes Overnight Trip to Meet Fallen Soldiers
By David Sessions
President Obama flew late Wednesday night to Dover Air Force Base in Delaware to meet the flag-draped burial cases of 18 American military personnel killed in Afghanistan this week. The solemn, midnight visit was the president's first trip to the Dover base, where the remains of American soldiers are brought from abroad. Obama is in the midst of mulling major strategy decisions about the war in Afghanistan, including whether or not to increase the number of U.S. forces. October has been the deadliest month for American forces there since the war began eight years ago. After the president's ...
Emily's Post: From Gossip Fodder to Gossip Columnist
By Emily Miller
Having been fodder for every gossip column in town, starting today I'm turning the tables -- and becoming one D.C. gossip columnist who fully gets what it's like to be on the receiving end. Everybody knows Washington politics is not for the meek or thin-skinned. And I've lived, worked and loved D.C. politics and media since I was 18 years old. In the years since, I've toiled on the Hill, at the State Department, in the Bush 43 administration, and for the Washington bureaus of two TV network news divisions. I've also counted chads in the Florida recount, run for my life from the Capitol on ...
President Obama Announces Overhaul of Nation's Electrical Grid
By Christopher WeberFollowing up on a promise he made during his first weekly address in January, President Obama announced Tuesday the largest energy grid modernization investment in U.S. history. Speaking in Florida at a solar-to-electricity plant, the president pledged $3.4 billion in grants for "smart meters" and other technology that he said will make the country's power transmission system more efficient and adaptable to renewable energy sources. The money is part of the $787 billion economic stimulus package, which Obama pledged would help take a big step toward creating a "clean-energy economy." An ...
President Obama Stumps For Creigh Deeds In Virginia
By Christopher WeberFor the second time in three months, President Obama went to Virginia to campaign for Democrat Creigh Deeds, who is trailing Republican Bob McDonnell in the race to replace term-limited Gov. Tim Kaine. Obama reminded the crowd at Old Dominion University in Norfolk that he knows what it's like to be an underdog and nobody should count Deeds out. "I don't believe in can't, I don't believe in giving up," said Obama, who won Virginia last year with 52 percent of the vote. "I am absolutely confident that we can, if you are willing to work in this last week, if you are willing to make your voice ...
Airport Security Guard Accused of Threatening President Obama
By Christopher WeberA private security guard at Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey has been arrested on charges of making threats against Barack Obama, one day before the president was scheduled to land there, the Associated Press reports. A Continental Airlines worker reportedly told authorities that John Brek, 55, made threatening comments at an airport coffee cart on Tuesday. Brek was arrested several hours later and charged under state law with making terroristic threats against the president. He has denied making any threats. A search of his northern New Jersey home turned up dozens of ...
Barack Obama gives 'Wild Things' the Presidential Seal of Approval
By Helena Andrews
According to this weekend's pool report, President Obama spent Sunday taking in director Spike Jonze's live action adaption of Where the Wild Things Are, Maurice Sendak's classic children's book. The critic-in-chief, who also read the book during last spring's annual White House Easter Egg Roll, said the film was "worth seeing." Wild Things, which topped this weekend's box office with nearly $32.7 million in ticket sales, is an interesting choice for the leader of the free world. It is about childhood -- specifically the raw, animalistic, unchecked emotions of being a boy -- and is therefore ...
Bono: Obama's Nobel Prize Was the World Saying 'Don't Blow It'
By David Sessions
In Sunday's installment in his series of occasional columns for the New York Times, U2's lead singer wrote that the Nobel Peace Prize represented the world's hopeful fantasy about Barack Obama -- one that could come true. Bono cheered Obama's embrace of the Millennium Development Goals, a U.N. agreement that aims to improve global quality of life. He said such support signals major progress for the United States and suggests that Obama deserved the "aspirational" award. "Many have spoken about the need for a rebranding of America," Bono wrote. "Rebrand, restart, reboot. In my view [Obama's ...
Hillary is More Popular Than Her Boss
By Walter Shapiro
It was not quite the tempest triggered by John Lennon claiming in 1966 that the Beatles were more popular than Jesus. But the Gallup Poll got the winds racing through the world's TV studios Thursday with a new survey headlined, "Hillary Clinton Now More Popular Than Barack Obama." According to the Gallup numbers, 62 percent of the voters view Clinton favorably while Obama's thumbs-up rating is down to 56 percent. Most Americans do not know that Nicholas Sarkozy is the president of France and are shaky on the question of whether Israel and Iran share a common border, according to polls by the ...
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