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2008-11-19
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MIKE: O TEAM HAS RIGHT STUFF
WASHINGTON - Members of President-elect Barack Obama's transition team impressed Mayor Bloomberg during his visit to the nation's capital yesterday. "They asked all the right questions," Bloomberg said after he and Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell... read
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Mobile Messaging Reaches Record-Breaking Numbers
[…] closely, some interesting trends emerge. Those include the use of messaging for social and political change, marketing, such as that done by U.S. President-elect Barack Obama's mobile campaign, and the use of mobile messaging for charitable donations. digg_url = 'http://digg.com/tech_news/Mobile_Messaging_Reaches_Record_Breaking_Numbers';digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff';digg_skin = 'normal';Other sectors experiencing significant increases are the enterprise and financial institutions. In those two […] read
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IRS Hires its First CTO
While the tech world eagerly waits to see who Barack Obama will appoint Chief Technology Officer of the United States, a similar appointment of more immediate impact to many people has just occurred. Terence Milholland began work this week as the first Chief Technology Officer in the history of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). He enters an IRS that the General Accounting Office said last week suffers from technology so outdated it leaves the […] read
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The Note: Reality Check for Obama Agenda
ABC News' Rick Klein reports in Tuesday's Note: About that hope thing -- can it wait ’til January? For all the excitement and expectations surrounding the elevation of President-elect Barack Obama, it’s a particularly grim week in Washington. Lawmakers are... read
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Obama Girls to Visit the White House
ABC News' Matthew Jaffe reports: A week after she toured her new home alongside her husband, President-elect Barack Obama, on Tuesday, Michelle Obama brings her daughters and her mother to the White House at the invitation of first lady Laura... read
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McCain Can Play Maverick Again
[…] accuracy of reports that Hillary Clinton will accept the top job at the State Department, the news about John McCain is more definitive: he left his meeting with Barack Obama without an employment offer. Good thing he kept his day job. Why the meeting? It's good press for both of them. Obama looks bipartisan, McCain gets a chance to repair his tarnished reputation by pledging to work with the president he helped elect. And this: Even with the enlarged Democratic Senate majority […] read
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Clinton And Obama On Iran
[…] on board with this policy? I certainly do not. Indeed, consider Obama's own, even more bellicose stance on Iran expressed in September 2004: U.S. Senate candidate Barack Obama suggested Friday that the United States one day might have to launch surgical missile strikes into Iran and Pakistan to keep extremists from getting control of nuclear bombs. Obama said the United States must first address Irans attempt to gain nuclear capabilities by going before the United Nations Security […] read
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Will Obama Continue Bush Block Of Wiretapping Cases?
[…] and James Risen, who broke the warrantless wiretapping story for the NYTimes (and justly earned the Pulitzer Prize), raise an important question: President-elect Barack Obama will face a series of early decisions on domestic spying that will test his administrations views on presidential power and civil liberties. The Justice Department will be asked to respond to motions in legal challenges to the National Security Agencys wiretapping program, and must decide whether to […] read
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SOS: The End Of The Line For Hillary?
[…] a whisker to a pol who is now considered one of the greatest ever. Right now, other than Obama, Clinton is the best and most important politician in the country. Barack Obama will dominate American politics for at least 4 years and likely and hopefully 8. Will a new dominant Democratic figure emerge in those years? Here's a question - did one emerge during the Clinton years? Hardly. A dominant REPUBLICAN figure will emerge of course as the out party will be the one where the jockeying goes […] read
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Dean: Obama Wanted Lieberman In
[…] he's "fine" with the Senate's decision not to kick Joe Lieberman off the Homeland Security committee and suggested that the Senate had acted in accordance with what Barack Obama wanted. In a phone interview with [Greg Sargent] just after the vote concluded, I asked Dean if he thought the Senate should keep Lieberman. He said that the Senate had acted "in the spirit of unification, which is what the President-elect wanted." "[Obama] called the shots, and that's fine," Dean said, in an apparent […] read