Players in Gates incident meet for beer
ALEX BRANDON/Associated Press From left, Vice President Joe Biden, Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr., police Sgt. James Crowley and President Barack Obama have a beer and chat Thursday near the Rose Garden of the White House. Reporters were …
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Limits on Bank Bonuses Face Senate, Obama Skepticism (Update1)
July 31 (Bloomberg) — Restrictions on financial industry bonuses heading to a vote in the U.S. House may be rejected by the Senate and the Obama administration, which are reluctant to increase government’s role in deciding compensation. The House …
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Obama Shares A Beer With Gates, Crowley
The meeting at the White House of the President, Vice President, Sergeant Crowley, and Professor Gates was the lead story on each of the three major newscasts, which devoted a combined total coverage of 13 minutes and 35 seconds to the story. Both TV …
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Are moderate Democrats helping or hurting their re-election prospects …
Left-leaning (17 votes) Right-leaning (17 votes) Helping “They’re helping themselves because voters have no idea what Obama stands for anymore.” Steve Soto, The Left Coaster “Hard to say… wouldn’t it depend a lot on how popular Obama and his …
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Rove ends his silence
WASHINGTON ‘” – After years of silence, top Bush administration political adviser Karl Rove went on a public relations offensive Thursday, saying he did nothing wrong in the controversial firings of nine U.S. attorneys and that soon-to-be-released …
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Lugar to Obama: It’s the economy, Mr. President
As a candidate, President Barack Obama invoked the name of U.S. Sen. Dick Lugar in important speeches, including his campaign kickoff address at Springfield and his final debate with John McCain when he described Lugar as one who helped ‘shaped my …
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President Obama to visit Elkhart area Wednesday
Indianapolis – President Barack Obama will visit Indiana for the first time since delivering the controversial commencement speech at the University of Notre Dame in May. A White House official says Obama will visit the Elkhart area Wednesday but did …
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Obama’s holiday plans under the microscope
US President Barack Obama, consumed by the rigors of managing two wars and the worst economic slump in decades, soon heads for a respite on an upscale Atlantic island — a trip that has raised eyebrows. During the last week of August, Obama and his …
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Cop, scholar to meet again after Obama chat
WASHINGTON – The black scholar and the white police sergeant who arrested him agreed to disagree and promised to talk again, a gracious conclusion to the first round of an eye-opening dialogue on race that allows President Barack Obama to get back to …
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Obama lacks understanding of economics
“This isn’t about me,” President Barack Obama asserted recently, maintaining that his manic push for a vote on health care reform is all about us. In fact, the big rush is all about him and his attempt to hurriedly get his problematic notions on …
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