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Obama rides rails to capital, as onlookers cheer — Featured Topics: - Barack Obama - Presidential Transition — PHILADELPHIA - President-elect Barack Obama, cheered by onlookers along the train route Abraham Lincoln took nearly a century and a half earlier, undertook the final leg …
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Obama's train ride: Lincolnesque imagery — by Mike Dorning and Mark Silva, updated at 1:15 pm EST — WILMINGTON, Del. - President-elect Barack Obama, calling on Americans “to pick ourselves up once again” during a troubling era on the eve of a new presidency, picked up his own vice president-elect …
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Obama Makes His Way by Train to Washington — PHILADELPHIA — President-elect Barack Obama stepped onto a train car built in 1939, a time when his presidency would not have been possible in America, and set off for Washington on Saturday in a three-day march to his inauguration as the country's 44th president.
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RNC candidates turn up the partisan heat on Obama — WASHINGTON (CNN) - Despite the climate of national goodwill surrounding Barack Obama as he prepares to take the oath of office, two of the candidates vying to lead the Republican National Committee unleashed harsh attacks against the president-elect on Friday.
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BLOCK THE STIMULUS, HELP THE GOP.... Former Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell, now seeking the chairmanship of the Republican National Committee, has a new reason to oppose an economic rescue package: it might help Democrats. … Now, from a policy perspective, most of this is incoherent.
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Barnicle Man, Barnicle Man, Doing The Things That Barnicles Can — Matthew Yglesias at Think Progress catches this Mike Barnicle/Mika Brezenski exchange on “Morning Joe”: … http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=1MEjX6ITLqY — Yup, sure is a disgrace to journalism when you're anonymous ...
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The Only Thing We Have to Fear . . . is Obama. — Barack Obama is the apostle of hope. But he also arouses the flipside of hope—fear. And while the fear he stirs may turn out to be unfounded, it's not irrational. People don't know who Obama really is or where his ideological center of gravity rests …
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Obama may not lift stem cell limits — PHILADELPHIA - President-elect Barack Obama signaled Friday that he might not use his executive authority to reverse Bush-era limits on stem cell research, but instead might wait for Congress to change the policy. — Obama pledged during the campaign …
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Hot Air
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The Growing Foreclosure Crisis — One oft-repeated assertion no longer holds true. Those in trouble are not, primarily, lower-income borrowers. The foreclosure crisis has become a wave, afflicting neighborhoods of every stripe — but particularly communities created by the boom itself.
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Eschaton
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By Request: Missing the Trees — John Bedell writes: … I grew up in an apartment in Manhattan and didn't actually realize how much I like to have a little greenery around until I moved to a rowhouse neighborhood in DC and got my hands on a small backyard.
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Eschaton
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Obama For America Becomes Organizing For America — PHILADELPHIA, PA — The Obama political machine is merging with the Democratic National Committee. — The President-elect launched Obama 2.0, or Organizing for America, this morning with a YouTube video.
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Ethics cloud still hangs over Rangel — A herd of tax reporters trails Charles B. Rangel everywhere he goes these days, like a team of pilot fish feasting on whatever morsels the raspy, talkative Ways and Means Committee chairman casts aside. — Late last year, that media herd was feasting …
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RedState