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Emanuel Was Director Of Freddie Mac During Scandal — New Obama Chief of Staff, Others on Board, Missed “Red Flags” of Alleged Fraud Scheme — President-elect Barack Obama's newly appointed chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, served on the board of directors of the federal mortgage firm Freddie Mac …
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Rahm Emanuel: You Can't Take a Knife to a Gun Fight. Live from Chicago, It's BuzzFlash.com! — MARK KARLIN'S EDITOR'S BLOG: Another BuzzFlash Perspective on Our Homestate Illinois Politics. — As the oldest and largest news and commentary progressive website (since May of 2000) …
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Emanuel pick sends powerful signal — President-elect Barack Obama's selection of Rep. Rahm Emanuel (D-Ill.) as his White House chief of staff is the latest demonstration of a quality Obama showed repeatedly over the course of his campaign: He's willing to do what it takes to win.
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New York Times, Real Clear Politics, Prairie Weather, Jonathan Martin's Blogs and New York Times
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Plouffe to the Senate? — Obama campaign manager David Plouffe speaks to the media in the spin room after the vice presidential debate at the Field House of Washington University's Athletic Complex on October 2, 2008 in St. Louis, Missouri. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
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A Butler Well Served by This Election — For 34 Years, Eugene Allen Carried White House Trays With Pride. Now There's Even More Reason to Carry Himself That Way. — For more than three decades Eugene Allen worked in the White House, a black man unknown to the headlines.
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Obama Victory Alters the Tenor of Iraqi Politics — BAGHDAD — Barack Obama may have been elected only three days ago, but his victory is already beginning to shift the political ground in Iraq and the region. — Iraqi Shiite politicians are indicating that they will move faster toward …
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Washington Monthly, Matthew Yglesias, ATTACKERMAN, Commentary, TPM Election Central and Kevin Drum
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Conservatives blame moderates for GOP losses — (CNN) — A conservative leader Friday laid the Republican Party's poor showing at the polls at the feet of moderates who, he argues, led the party away from its core principles. — Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council told CNN …
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Juicy Bits Surfacing in Rather Case: In 2004, CBS Considered Matt Drudge, Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter Independent Panel — This week, Dan Rather's legal team submitted a memorandum to the judge overseeing Mr. Rather's $70 million civil lawsuit against his former employers …
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Franken's deficit: 236 votes — Sen. Norm Coleman's Democratic challenger is vowing to push ahead with a recount. — Just as Secretary of State Mark Ritchie was explaining to reporters the recount process in one of the narrowest elections in Minnesota history, an aide rushed in with news …
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Susan E. Rice — As he prepares to take office, President-elect Barack Obama is relying on a small team of advisers who will lead his transition operation and help choose the members of a new Obama administration. Following is part of a series of profiles of potential members of the administration.
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America Serves … The Obama Administration will call on Americans to serve in order to meet the nation's challenges. President-Elect Obama will expand national service programs like AmeriCorps and Peace Corps and will create a new Classroom Corps to help teachers in underserved schools …
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Dems split over Treasury choice — As Barack Obama faces mounting pressure to announce his economic team, Democrats are split over two of the leading candidates for Treasury secretary: New York Federal Reserve Chairman Timothy Geithner and former Clinton Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers.
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69% of GOP Voters Say Palin Helped McCain — Sixty-nine percent (69%) of Republican voters say Alaska Governor Sarah Palin helped John McCain's bid for the presidency, even as news reports surface that some McCain staffers think she was a liability. — Only 20% of GOP voters say Palin hurt …
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Gays Hit Back at Mormons — Please Join Us — Given their history, Mormons know about being targeted for being different. Yet in a full-on offensive, the LDS Church mobilized in favor of California's Proposition 8, a ballot initiative that bans gay marriage.
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Palin Aide Fires Back at Reported McCain Camp Slams — Says RNC, Not Palin, Responsible for Wardrobe Missteps; Rejects Other Complaints — Now that the defeated Republican presidential team of Sen. John McCain and Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin have gone their separate ways, the knives are out and Palin is the one who is getting filleted.
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Georgia Claims on Russia War Called Into Question — TBILISI, Georgia — Newly available accounts by independent military observers of the beginning of the war between Georgia and Russia this summer call into question the longstanding Georgian assertion that it was acting defensively against separatist and Russian aggression.
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www.change.gov smells like a fund-raising front — Government domain names (".gov") for websites are supposed to be restricted to eligible government organizations and programs. — Does Barack Obama's transition website, www.change.gov — which is basically a souped-up version of his campaign site — qualify?
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Campbell Brown rips McCain aides for blaming Palin for McCain loss: ‘You picked her.’ — Recently, former McCain staffers have been leaking embarrassing information about Gov. Sarah Palin's cluelessness on foreign policy and her unprofessional behavior. Top aide Steve Schmidt wouldn't say whether she was a good VP choice.