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Obama Abandons Windfall Profits Tax on Oil Companies
submitted by riverdrops 38 months ago, from blogs.abcnews.com
Shortly after clinching the Democratic presidential nomination in June, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., told voters "I'll make oil companies like Exxon pay a tax on their windfall profits, and we'll use the money to help families pay for their skyrocketing energy costs and other bills." More
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Obama to Nominate Bill Richardson as Secretary of Commerce
submitted by eooties 38 months ago, from blogs.abcnews.com
ABC News has learned that in Chicago Wednesday morning, President-elect Obama will announce that he's nominating New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson to be his Secretary of Commerce. This brings to three the total number of primary opponents Mr. Obama has officially moved to put in his cabinet... More
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Obama Pledges to Secure 2.5 Million More Jobs by 2011
submitted by rodeox 39 months ago, from blogs.abcnews.com
With the nation suffering through an “economic crisis of historic proportions”, President-elect Barack Obama Saturday outlined an economic plan to save or create 2.5 million more jobs in his first two years in the Oval Office, a plan more even ambitious than what he promised as a candidate. More
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Obama Offers Rahm Emanuel Job of White House Chief of Staff
submitted by chiasma 39 months ago, from blogs.abcnews.com
ABC News has learned that President-elect Obama has offered the White House chief of staff job to Rep. Rahm Emanuel, D-Ill. Emanuel, a knowledgeable source tells ABC News, has not yet given his answer. The sharp-tongued, sharp-elbowed, keenly intelligent veteran of the Clinton White House is said.. More
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Palin Pranked
submitted by chiasma 39 months ago, from blogs.abcnews.com
Tracey Schmitt, the spokeswoman for Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, announced that "Governor Palin received a phone call on Saturday from a French Canadian talk show host claiming to be French President Nicholas Sarkozy. Governor Palin was mildly amused to learn that she had joined the ranks of heads of... More
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Why Isn't Palin Coming to Washington to Work on the Bailout Bill?
submitted by chiasma 41 months ago, from blogs.abcnews.com
If this crisis is so serious McCain needs to suspend his campaign activities and cancel his appearance at the first presidential debate, why would Palin not be there with him in Washington DC? I know her office is in Juneau, not DC, but surely the governor McCain insists is "absolutely" qualified.. More
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Bush Invites Obama to DC to Work on Bailout Bill; Obama Accepts
submitted by grandie4 41 months ago, from blogs.abcnews.com
ABC News has learned that President Bush called Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., this evening and invited him to participate in a meeting about the Wall Street bailout bill tomorrow afternoon in Washington, DC, with other congressional leaders, including Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. More
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Obama Implies McCain Puts Other Countries First
submitted by rodeox 41 months ago, from blogs.abcnews.com
A pretty scathing charge from Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., this morning as he spoke to the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers an assailed Sen. John McCain's position on free trade. More
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Biden Rips Bush Administration
submitted by chiasma 41 months ago, from blogs.abcnews.com
Joe Biden promised that an Obama-Biden administration would look over Bush administration data with a fine-toothed comb and pursue criminal charges if necessary. More
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McCain hires GOP operative who helped smear him in South Carolina in 2000
submitted by grandie4 41 months ago, from blogs.abcnews.com
Former officials of John McCain's 2000 campaign expressed shock and disbelief Monday to learn that the GOP presidential nominee had hired South Carolina political consultant Tucker Eskew, who had smeared McCain during the 2000 campaign. More
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McCain says Palin a better leader than Obama
submitted by rodeox 41 months ago, from blogs.abcnews.com
On Fox News Sunday this morning, McCain said that Sarah Palin, his VP pick, is a better leader than Barack Obama. More
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Obama Campaign Nets $51M in July; RNC, DNC at Near Parity
submitted by chiasma 42 months ago, from blogs.abcnews.com
Sen. Barack Obama’s campaign brought in more than $51 million during the month of July compared to Sen. John McCain’s $27 million during the same time period. The campaign says it was a good showing considering that the Illinois senator was on his “world tour” for 10 days in July... More
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McCain Calls for 'Economic Surge'
submitted by blueheat 42 months ago, from blogs.abcnews.com
John McCain called for an "economic surge" Wednesday, marrying key language from the war in Iraq with the economic troubles facing the United States. "Our surge has succeeded in Iraq militarily, now we need an economic surge," McCain said at a cabinet maker in Southeastern Ohio, "to keep jobs... More
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Lieberman: Obama's Iraq Trip Only Possible Because of McCain
submitted by eooties 43 months ago, from blogs.abcnews.com
"Look, the fact is that if Barack Obama's policy on Iraq had been implemented, Barack Obama couldn't go to Iraq today, it wouldn't be safe," Sen. Joe Lieberman, Ind-Conn., told Chris Wallace this morning on "Fox News Sunday." "Barack Obama, John McCain saw the same difficulty in Iraq," Lieberman... More
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McCain Has Worse Afghanistan Hearing Record Than Obama
submitted by bafficio 43 months ago, from blogs.abcnews.com
The McCain campaign criticism of Sen. Barack Obama's hearing record on Capitol Hill led us to put the shoe on the other foot. It turns out that presumptive Republican nominee Sen. John McCain, has attended even fewer Afghanistan-related Senate hearings over the past two years than Obama's one. More
