Economy Before Turkey
At Wednesday's press conference, Obama tried to look confident, not pretentious or precipitous, as he tried to convince us again to do what's almost impossible right now, be patient.
At Wednesday's press conference, Obama tried to look confident, not pretentious or precipitous, as he tried to convince us again to do what's almost impossible right now, be patient.
Steve Clemons | Posted 11.12.2008 | Politics
Obama should look to Cheney to understand how a pro -- even one who so damaged the interests of the nation -- managed power and purpose in government.
Steve Clemons | Posted 11.08.2008 | Politics
I'm not satisfied with the roster of economic personalities and thinkers we see Barack Obama mixing with.
Steve Clemons | Posted 10.31.2008 | Politics
The New America Foundation's Sherle Schwenninger and industrialist and philanthropist Bernard Schwartz were out way ahead of the pack in calling for...
OffTheBus Listening Post | Posted 08.14.2008 | Home
WHO: Former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers, Economic Policy Director Jason Furman and Senior Economic Advisor Austan Goolsbee WHAT: Press con...
Mayhill Fowler | Posted 06.13.2008 | Home
Furman as chief economic adviser tells us little about Obama economics but much about Obama. Furman is young and smart and he actually told the press that "Bush has had some bad luck with the economy."
Politico | Ben Smith | Posted 04.08.2008 | Politics
A bit of a veer off topic on the Obama conference call to press Clinton to drop Mark Penn. Teamsters President James Hoffa, asked about Austan Goolsb...
Steve Clemons | Posted 03.19.2008 | Politics
There won't be a squeaky clean ending to the Democratic battle for the 2008 presidential nomination. The knife fight has begun already -- and I onl...
Miles Mogulescu | Posted 03.10.2008 | Politics
The threshold Clinton crossed was to all but endorse the Republican presidential nominee, if the Democratic nominee should turn out to be Barack Obama.
New York Times | Maureen Dowd | Posted 03.09.2008 | Politics
I was covered in barbecue sauce, somewhere over Texas, when Barack Obama loped down the aisle of the plane to chat with reporters. I felt guilty, be...
Paul Loeb | Posted 03.06.2008 | Politics
The nine delegates Clinton netted from Ohio can't be changed, but the salience of of the "NAFTAgate" lie casts into doubt everything she says about the lessons of this victory.
Posted 03.03.2008 | Politics
UPDATE: Canada's parliament took up the issue of Obama's position on NAFTA today, with Liberal leaders angrily accusing conservative Prime Minister St...
Matt Cooper | Posted 02.20.2008 | Politics
Obama presents himself as being above politics, congenitally bipartisan. But his tone on economics has the same mild populism as Clinton's.
Bloomberg | Matthew Benjamin, Indira Lakshmanan | Posted 02.14.2008 | Business
Democratic presidential front-runner Barack Obama and his challenger, Hillary Clinton, are both zeroing in on the economy as the campaign moves to big...
Steve Clemons | Posted 01.07.2008 | Politics
What is clear about candidates of the caliber of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton and even John Edwards is that each is his or her own brain, but they still have very smart people around them.
Tina Fey graces the cover of the January issue of Vanity Fair, and in an...
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Pardon the metaphor, but Obama is trying to put lipstick on the pig that is US...
Reuters has a Q&A with John Travolta to promote his animated film "Bolt." At the end, they ask him...
President-elect Barack Obama and Vice President-elect Joe Biden met in Philadelphia...
After a 12-day hiatus, Sarah Palin stepped back into the spotlight on Monday to...
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Now that Americans have footed the bill for more than a...
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Dear President-elect and Mrs. Obama: I know that the greening of the White House...
James Warren | Posted 11.26.2008 | Politics