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Published: 12/4/09

What Should Obama Say in His Nobel Speech?

By  David Knowles - AOL News
What Should Obama Say in His Nobel Speech?

On Dec. 10, President Barack Obama will be in Oslo, Norway, to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. His highly anticipated acceptance speech comes just days after he announced his decision to sent 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan. So, what should the president say? Just as there are varied opinions as to whether Obama deserved to win the Nobel Peace Prize, there is no shortage of advice on what the president should say to his audience in Oslo and across the globe. At Mediaite, Rachel Sklar says she believes the president should shift the focus away from himself and even suggests the wording he ...

Published: 11/25/09

At State Dinner, Did Tom Friedman Tell Anyone to 'Suck on This'?

By  David Corn - Politics Daily
At State Dinner, Did Tom Friedman Tell Anyone to 'Suck on This'?

I was reviewing the guest list for President Obama's first state dinner -- held to honor Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh -- and it was full of interesting picks: Ari Emanuel, Rahm Emanuel's brother and a notorious Hollywood power-agent; Gayle King, Oprah's BFF; Greg Craig, the soon-to-be-ex White House counsel; Michael Bloomberg, the barely re-elected mayor of New York City; Bill Richardson, the New Mexico governor left out of Obama's Cabinet; M. Night Shyamalan, the "I see dead people" film director; moguls Spielberg, Geffen and Katzenberg; and news anchors Katie Couric and Brian ...

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Published: 08/25/09

The Book Obama Can't Seem to Finish

By  Emily Miller - Politics Daily
The Book Obama Can't Seem to Finish

The phase "Washington Read" refers to buying a political book, looking through the index for your name, and reading only the sections that refer to you. Then, you display the book in a prominent place along with the other political tomes that have not been cracked further than the index. ...

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Published: 05/2/08

Hillary Hits the Gas

By  David Knowles - Politics Daily
Hillary Hits the Gas

Hillary Clinton isn't backing down. She's got a terrible idea, and she sticking to it. The idea, one she shares with John McCain, is to give drivers across America a gas tax holiday, despite a universal outcry from economists, environmentalists, fellow politicians, and superdelegates that the proposal amounts to nothing more than a disastrous, and shameless pander to voters. That's not stopping Clinton, who yesterday reiterated her claim that her proposal would do what everyone with a modicum of common sense knows it won't. At a rally in Indiana, Hillary employed George Bush's black-and-white, ...

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