Obama Advisers

Obama Golfs With Melody Barnes: Domestic Policy Adviser Is First Woman To Golf With President Obama

Washington Post | Michael D. Shear | Posted 10.25.2009 | Sports


President Obama headed for the links again Sunday, but this time a woman joined him on the green. Melody Barnes, the president's chief domestic polic...

Kerry Becomes Global Adviser To Obama

AP | LAURIE KELLMAN | Posted 10.21.2009 | Politics


WASHINGTON — He's not president, a Cabinet member or ambassador, but Sen. John Kerry has ascended to the unofficial role of President Barack Obama's...

Obama's Economists Slammed By Liberal Dems

The Hill | Posted 08.14.2009 | Politics


Frustrated liberal Democrats are increasingly concerned that White House economists are too centrist and "theoretical" to fix the economy. Presiden...

Obama, Economic Advisers Meet: "Glimmers Of Hope"

AP | DARLENE SUPERVILLE | Posted 05.11.2009 | Politics


WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama declared Friday that the slumping economy has begun to show "glimmers of hope," but cautioned that it remain...

Sam Stein

WH Advisory Board Member: Confident In Obama, Worried About Wall Street Influence

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.02.2009 | Politics


Firmly backing the president's agenda, a key member of the White House Economic Recovery Advisory Board nevertheless said on Friday that he was concer...

Valerie Jarrett: Obama's "Consigliere"

Washington Post | Posted 04.15.2009 | Politics


The nation's mayors felt left out in the weeks after President Obama's election. He had met with the governors, but not them. Then, to their surprise,...

Michelle Obama and the Covert Influence of First Ladies

Carl Sferrazza Anthony | Posted 03.02.2009 | Politics


Carl Sferrazza Anthony

As memories of Inauguration Day 2009 begin to fade in and the new administration ensues, speculation will only increase about how politically influential Michelle Obama will be as First Lady.

Leadership, Strategy, and Experts. More lessons for Obama.

John O'Neil | Posted 01.15.2009 | Politics


John O'Neil

The nation must boldly rebuild to avoid the perils of a dangerously gyrating world where yesterday's swaggering certainty is tomorrow's worn out wisdom.

Obama's Brain Trust Speaks

The Huffington Post | Posted 12.11.2008 | Politics


CBS News spoke to President-elect Barack Obama's top advisers Anita Dunn, David Plouffe, David Axelrod and Robert Gibbs in Chicago -- just hours after...

Democrats Jockey To Shape Obama Agenda

WSJ | Posted 11.30.2008 | Politics


Democrats inside Sen. Barack Obama's circle of advisers and on Capitol Hill are jockeying even before Election Day to shape an Obama administration's ...

Dear Mr. Almost President

Bob Starks | Posted 11.22.2008 | Chicago


Bob Starks

Mr. Almost President, it is time for you to give serious consideration to the concerns that have been expressed by the leadership of the African-American community.

Valerie Jarrett: The Other Side Of Obama's Brain (WATCH)

Posted 09.12.2008 | Politics


CBS' Katie Couric interviews Valerie Jarrett, Barack Obama's senior adviser: When Karl Rove worked for President Bush, he had so much influence that ...

Obama Reinvents Wonk Team With More Insiders

TNR | Posted 09.07.2008 | Politics


Earlier this summer, when the Obama campaign announced that Jason Furman was joining its staff as director of economic policy, the storyline seemed to...

Jason Furman And Barack Obama

Mayhill Fowler | Posted 06.21.2008 | Home


Mayhill Fowler

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."

Obama Adviser Leads Delegation To Damascus

New York Sun | Eli Lake | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


A foreign policy adviser to Senator Obama is scheduled to arrive in Syria today as the leader of a RAND Corp. delegation. Zbigniew Brzezinski will tr...

Obama Adviser: Barack "Doesn't Go On TV And Have Crying Fits"

Los Angeles Times | Peter Wallsten | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


The advisor, retired Gen. Merrill A. "Tony" McPeak, said in a telephone interview that Obama has "real gravitas, not artificially created, focus-group...