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Obama, in Texas, hails Bush I and volunteerism

Oct 16, 2009
Remarks by President Obama at 20th anniversary of Points of Light, Texas A&M University, as provided by the White House THE PRESIDENT: Thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you. So, howdy,...

Nobel Peace Prize reaction: Taliban thumbs down, Israeli thumbs up, Asian disappointment

Oct 9, 2009
Around the world, reaction to President Obama's surprising selection to receive the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize has been as varied as in this country, and perhaps as partisan. The English-language...

Reaction to Obama's Nobel Peace Prize mixed

Oct 9, 2009
What a difference a week makes. Last Friday, despite pleas by Oprah and the Obamas, an Olympics that was (in many U.S. citizens' minds) rightfully ours was awarded to the second-largest city of...

Obama loses gamble -- Chicago out of Olympics contention

Oct 2, 2009
In a stunner, the International Olympic Committee dropped Chicago from contention for the 2016 Summer Games in the first round of voting today. Tokyo was eliminated in the second round. No word...

Obama outsmarts critics of Copenhagen trip by meeting Gen. McChrystal there to talk Afghanistan

Oct 2, 2009
For three hours the other day, the president's chief military adviser on Afghanistan, Gen. Stanley McChyrstal, joined a strategy session in the White House Situation Room by video hookup. The...

Sarah Palin vs. Levi Johnston, the sequel: Can too much exposure ruin a potential presidential candidate?

Nov 23, 2009
  The timing had to be awkward. Just as former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin was wowing crowds in a book tour for "Going Rogue," her one-time almost son-in-law Levi Johnston -- the father of her grandson, Tripp -- celebrated a publication of his own --...

A Kennedy battles a bishop: church, state and abortion

Nov 23, 2009
Rhode Island Democrat Patrick Kennedy, son of the late Massachusetts Sen. Ted Kennedy, has, like his father, long been a public supporter of abortion rights. Because of his stance on abortion, Bishop Thomas Tobin, the archbishop of the Providence...

Top Democrat warns Afghanistan will bankrupt domestic programs, threatens war surtax if Obama sends more troops

Nov 23, 2009
David Obey came to Congress in 1969, a young Democratic congressman from Wisconsin, opposed to the Vietnam War and mindful of the funding it was draining from Lyndon Johnson's Great Society programs. Thirty years later, he is chairman of the House...

Sarah Palin vs. Barack Obama: The approval gap silently shrinks to a few points

Nov 23, 2009
Not that it matters politically because obviously she's a female Republican dunce and he's obviously a male Democrat genius. But Sarah Palin's poll numbers are strengthening. And President Obama's are sliding. Guess what? They're about to meet in...

Sunday shows: Singh, Fiorina, Coburn, Nelson, Kyl

Nov 21, 2009
ABC This Week with George Stephanopoulos: Sens. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) and Ben Nelson (D-Neb.), Reps. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) and Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.), and a round table with ABC's George Will, Liz Cheney, Aspen Institute's Walter...


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