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President-elect Barack Obama has clearly demonstrated that he knows the stakes when it comes to the economic crisis. In an address on the economy last Thursday, he said, “we need to act boldly and act now to reverse these cycles.” Regrettably, his proposed action, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan, falls well short of bold. A $775 billion dollar bill might be the best way to win bipartisan support, but threatens to leave our economy in recession for years, sell the American people short, and tarnish Obama’s presidency...
Today President-elect Barack Obama and family will move into an historic house on Pennsylvania Ave. in Washington D.C. - and no, it's not the White House. It's Blair House, a complex of four homes right across from 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. where the Obama family will stay for the week leading up to the Inauguration...
...nation may be waging two wars, but those coming to Washington for the Inauguration of President-elect Barack Obama can be forgiven for wondering if we're in the middle of a third one here at home. Roads in the capital are suddenly being blockaded. Concrete barriers are popping up overnight on sidewalks. The city is taking on a bluish cast as its police presence surges. Not surprisingly, the debate has already begun: Is the unprecedented security a wise move given the historic nature of Obama's swearing-in and the tempting target it provides or is it overkill...
...million Americans jam together on the National Mall next Tuesday. "We ought to be prepared to respond if something does happen that requires the Defense Department to provide support," he said, for "an event this visible and this important and this historic." (See TIME's Person of the Year, Barack Obama...
...pictures of Barack Obama's college years...