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NY Times - Obama’s housing bailout plan, to be unveiled in Phoenix today, will help homeowners “underwater” on their mortgages the most. While economists and the White House agree that there is little to be done for buyers who overstretched their budget, there millions more who have fallen behind simply because their home’s value has […]
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Is the president-elect already growing weary of the unprecedented press coverage and smothering Secret Service protection that will become standard for at least the next four years? That’s the gist of a snarky Politico article that pieces together various anecdotes of President-elect Obama’s brief tenure as the next POTUS and how he engages and reacts […]
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ABC’s George Stephanopoulos reported yesterday that insider Democratic sources have confirmed that the much delayed and decidedly secretive “definitive” report from the Obama transition team on their one-on-one contacts with Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich will show - when formally released, of course - that incoming White House chief of staff Rahm Emaneul made only one […]
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President-elect Obama continued his round of administration roll-outs and seemingly daily press conferences this morning as he introduced more members of his financial team and took more questions at another presser in Chicago. Obama formally introduced Mary Schapiro to head the Securities and Exchange Commission, an important and high-profile post, especially in the wake of […]
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Yesterday’s highly scrutinized visit to the White House by President-elect Obama and his family wasn’t just about a ceremonial transition or getting a tour of the Oval Office. During what was innocuously billed as a private meeting between Obama and President Bush to go over routine transition issues, the president-elect indicated that he is willing […]
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The final days of the race will see wide-ranging advertising displays and grass roots efforts from the two campaigns (mostly from Obama), but the ground effort by the actual tickets will be strictly and expertly focused on only the biggest of battleground states. Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania are being swarmed by the members of both […]
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Obama is now officially off the campaign trail for two days as he travels to Hawaii for what could be his last visit with his ailing grandmother. Obama’s campaign announced the suspension earlier this week after word came from family members that 85-year0old Madelyn Dunham was taking a turn from the worse after apparently breaking […]
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Big news for this morning as more details come out about Obama’s decision to leave the campaign trail with only two weeks left in the race to visit his ailing grandmother in Hawaii for two days this week. His campaign will actually be suspended for the two days - Thursday and Friday - that he […]
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The finish line is now in sight for the Obama campaign and they are deciding to go for the jugular, stepping on the necks of McCain and the Republicans by pouring new ad money into reliably red states in what amounts to a risk-free gamble by Obama that the crippling economic crisis could change the […]
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A day after the McCain campaign proclaimed that their candidate was an underdog who didn’t need another economic plan, McCain with what was touted by his campaign today as a, well, bold economic plan. The internal wrangling in the campaign apparently continues, with those urging McCain to at least hazard an attempt at forging his […]
