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...young guy, but folks should not be fooled by that. After the Kerry-Bush race, when a handful of us were taking up the cause of expanding the faith conversation in the Democratic party, Joshua was one of those with us. He has a lot of knowledge and toughness, is focused on his job, and does it quite well." - Burns Strider, DuBois' counterpart on Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign. (Boston Globe, July...
...Obama, Barack • half-brother of wastes no time joining the ranks of embarrassing White House sibs (e.g. Billy Carter, Roger Clinton, Neil Bush) by getting busted in Nairobi for marijuana possession • news anchors are serially told "I screwed up" by • policy of to curtail exorbitant rewards for grotesque failure • sudden attempt by journalist Robert Feuereisen to get autograph of during signing ceremony by is thwarted by Secret Service agents trained to prevent unexpected approaches...
...think politics is largely associated with individuals and less with party labels. I think without question that the economic downturn, occurring as it did during the tenure of President Bush, has cast a shadow over anyone in his party...
...President Barack Obama's ambassador to the right, the self-described moderate who has been here before. In 2005 he led the so-called Gang of 14 - seven centrist Republicans and seven centrist Democrats - to a compromise that avoided a Senate meltdown known as the "nuclear option" over President Bush's judicial appointments. In 2008 he guided the Gang of 10's work on a compromise regarding offshore drilling. And this week the two-term Senator has been spearheading a group of negotiators to find a bipartisan solution on the more than $900 billion stimulus bill. Nelson won't provide...
...outcome of the French trial comes at a significant moment. On Monday, a U.S. Court of Appeals in San Francisco will hear a case brought by three plaintiffs charging they were tortured during extraordinary renditions the Bush administration approved as part of the war on terror. Previous legal challenges to such measures were thwarted by government refusal to provide courts with evidence or testimony requested, citing state secrecy. Many observers now hope the Obama administration will release previously withheld information as it deconstructs the extra-legal system for dealing with terror suspects and return them to courts that handled them...