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On Obama White House Visitor Log: Lobbyists, Movie Stars and Bailed Out CEOs
By Emily Miller - Politics DailyThe 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 ...
Obama's Wikipedia Page Lacks References to Ayers, Birth Certificate
By Michael Kraskin - Politics DailyFox News delivers a much more researched report of a story originally broken by by World Net Daily regarding some recent developments to Barack Obama's Wikipedia page: Critics noted over the weekend that President Obama's page on the free online encyclopedia had been edited to remove any mention of his links to former Weather Underground terrorist William Ayers, and to allow only a brief citation of his connection to the Rev. Jeremiah Wright - though pages for Ayers and Wright are heavily peppered with references to the president, including subsections on both pages that detail their past ...
Bill Ayers Wants to Get Together With Sarah Palin
By Tommy Christopher - Politics DailyNo, not in some sick, erect couch potato kind of way.Campaign boogieman William Ayers has kind of a genius idea for himself and Alaska Governor Sarah Palin. From CNN:"I did send her a note after the election," he says of Palin in the upcoming issue of the New York Times magazine. "I suggested that we have a talk show together called 'Pallin' Around With Sarah and Bill.' I haven't heard back."A show like that would be absolutely huge, and it would make Crossfire look like Barney and Friends. Actually, there's a good chance that the Bill & Sarah show could hire away some of Barney's writers.I ...
Obama Education Reform Efforts Get an 'F'
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyOne of the issues that Sen. Barack Obama regularly mentions as being critically important to his campaign and a potential Obama administration is education. Obama has sought to tout his credentials as an education reformer, even as he has sought to distance himself from the man with whom he sought to implement an ambitious education reform agenda in Chicago, William Ayers, the unrepentant former head of the domestic terrorist organization the Weather Underground. But Obama and Ayers' efforts in leading the Chicago Annenberg Challenge are receiving low marks from the man who was in charge of ...
The Rise and Fall of Joe
By David Knowles - Politics DailyNews out of Toledo, Ohio via The Hotline's On Call:He [Joe the Plumber] doesn't have a plumbing license required by the city of Toledo to practice, according to a staffer with the Toledo Division of Building Inspection. Wurzelbacher, who now works for Newell Plumbing & Heating Co., said the owner, Al Newel, has a plumbing license and that "because he works for someone else, he doesn't need a license."But even that's not true, according to the Toledo Division of Building Inspection. Wurzelbacher can't legally do plumbing work without a license, regardless of his boss's certification. A staff ...
McCain Comes Out Swinging, Wins Going Away
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyBy any objective standard, Sen. John McCain had his best performance of the three presidential debates tonight. And by any objective standard, he came away the clear winner. On nearly every question, McCain was able to raise questions of his own about Sen. Barack Obama's record, or lack thereof; and had Obama defending and explaining for most of the night. McCain questioned Obama on William Ayers, ACORN, voting against the Born Alive Infants Protection Act while in the Illinois State Legislature, taxes, spending, and a litany of other issues. In politics, the axiom goes, "if you're explaining, ...
Obama Begins Ayers Explanation
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyThe slow release of information from the Obama campaign concerning the exact nature of the relationship between Sen. Barack Obama and William Ayers, former head of the domestic terrorist group the Weather Underground continued tonight. This time the source is Obama himself. After a week of denying that he had any knowledge of Ayers' terrorist past, Obama will admit that he did learn of Ayers' role in the 1970's bombing campaign against the U.S. Capitol, the Pentagon, and New York City Police Headquarters, among other targets, but chose to associate himself with Ayers anyway. Sen. Obama told a ...
Obama Camp Admits, Obama Knew Ayers' Past
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyThe drip, drip, drip of information about the exact nature of the relationship between Sen. Barack Obama and former domestic terrorist and 60's radical William Ayers continued today as the Obama campaign admitted for the first time that Sen. Obama did know of Ayers' history as the head of the notorious Weather Underground. That line directly contradicts what the campaign said yesterday, that Sen. Obama did not know who Ayers was when he worked closely with him on the boards of two separate organizations in the late 1990's and early 2000's. Worse for the campaign, the admission essentially ...
Guilt by Association
By David Knowles - Politics DailyIn philosophical parlance, it is known as the "Bad Company Fallacy." Guilt-by-association posits that if you befriend someone who has questionable beliefs, then, by definition, you too have questionable beliefs. This "company you keep" critique has been a running theme in this year's race for the White House, and it exploded this week when Sarah Palin and John McCain decided to try refocus Barack Obama's associations with William Ayers and Jeremiah Wright into a central theme of their campaign. Obama has fired back with McCain's involvement in the Keating 5 scandal, and, in terms of ...
Obama Camp: Not the Ayers He Knew
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyStung by Gov. Sarah Palin's revisiting of Sen. Barack Obama's ties to former 60's radical William Ayers, the Obama campaign today tried to defend the candidate against charges that he "pals around with terrorists." Campaign spokesmen fanned out on television this morning to answer Palin and explain away the Obama-Ayers connection. In so doing, the campaign employed a defense that it has used time and time again when questions about Sen. Obama's associations have been raised: Obama was unaware of Ayers radical past, says the campaign.The McCain campaign, sensing a bite on its line, fired back. ...
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