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Obama: Former Presidents Meeting "Extraordinary" (VIDEO)(SLIDESHOW)

AP | BEN FELLER | Posted 02.07.2009 | Politics


Scroll down for video and a slideshow WASHINGTON — President-elect Barack Obama hailed a rare Oval Office gathering of all U.S. presidents as e...

Sam Stein

Sharpton Defends Warren Choice: 'Gracious And Courageous'

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 01.19.2009 | Politics


Reverend Al Sharpton defended Barack Obama on Friday for choosing Rick Warren to deliver the invocation at his inauguration, calling the move gracious...

Obama, Bush Meeting Again With Ex-Presidents

AP | JENNIFER LOVEN | Posted 01.18.2009 | Politics


WASHINGTON — Aiming for the smoothest transition of power he can manage, President George W. Bush is hosting a lunch next month with President-e...

Peggy Noonan Throws Down Challenge To Obama: 'At Least Bush Kept Us Safe'

Wall Street Journal | PEGGY NOONAN | Posted 01.04.2009 | Home


To drive through the suburbs of Northern Virginia is to marvel still at the widespread wealth, the mansions and mini-mansions that did not exist a qua...

Obama AIDS Day Message Praises President Bush

AP | ANN SANNER | Posted 01.01.2009 | Politics


CHICAGO — President-elect Barack Obama praised the Bush administration's effort to combat AIDS and pledged Monday to continue to fight the deadl...

Sam Stein

Obama Talks Economy While Bush Pardons "Feathered Friends"

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 12.27.2008 | Politics


It would be hard to find a more striking contrast of presidential behavior than what transpired in the course of just a few minutes on cable news earl...

Joe Klein: George Bush "The Lamest Of All Possible Ducks"

Time | Posted 12.27.2008 | Politics


We have "only one President at a time," Barack Obama said in his debut press conference as President-elect. Normally, that would be a safe assumption ...

Obama's Unusual Transition: The Split-Screen Presidency

McClatchy Newspapers | David Lightman | Posted 12.25.2008 | Politics


WASHINGTON - America has never seen anything quite like this: The president and president-elect acting like co-presidents, consulting and cooperating ...

Sam Stein

Podesta: Obama-Bush Relationship "Collegial And Cooperative"

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 12.12.2008 | Politics


Speaking to a gaggle of reporters, John Podesta, the head of Barack Obama's transition effort, denied reports that there was a major disagreement betw...

Undoing the Bush Presidency: Why Stop There?

Ken Levine | Posted 12.11.2008 | Politics


Ken Levine

Now comes word that President Obama plans on going back and correcting some of the boneheaded decisions Mr. Bush made while running the Texas Rangers (into the ground).

Obama And Bush Meeting At White House (VIDEO and SLIDESHOW)

Huffington Post | Posted 12.11.2008 | Politics


UPDATE on November 10 at 7:15 PM EST: A source tells NBC News that Obama pushed Bush on an economic stimulus package, saying that action is needed now...

Bush Appointees Gates, Mullen, Bernanke Likely To Stay On Under Obama

Washington Post | Posted 12.11.2008 | Politics


As President-elect Barack Obama prepares to fill top positions for his incoming government, he faces a stubborn reality: Some of the key individuals h...

Obama To Have Say In Bush's Bailout Staff Picks

Politico | Posted 12.07.2008 | Politics


There may be just one president at a time, but when it comes to the $700 billion bailout package, Barack Obama's team is getting a toe in the door. T...

Obama Wins

John Tomasic | Posted 12.05.2008 | Home


John Tomasic

He shocked the nation when he defeated a field of establishment Democrats ten months ago in Iowa and he has run one of the best political campaigns in history.

Sam Stein

Obama Won't Cede Stage, Releases Minute-Long Ad On Economy

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 10.26.2008 | Politics


The day after President Bush addressed the nation on the financial markets and John McCain announced he would go back to Congress to work on the bailo...

Jason Linkins

The Masterful Math Of Tucker Bounds

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 09.13.2008 | Politics


I'm really enjoying McCain spokesperson Tucker Bounds' response to this Obama ad today: "In the Senate, Barack Obama has voted in lockstep with Presi...

Bush Avoids Calling Obama By His Name

Washington Post | Posted 07.29.2008 | Politics


President Bush was asked twice last week about Sen. Barack Obama. In response, Bush never used the Democratic presidential candidate's name. As it tu...

Sam Stein

McCain Aide: Obama Is Stubborn Like Bush

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 07.24.2008 | Politics


Is Barack Obama an extension of George W. Bush's foreign policy? Aides to John McCain made the argument today in a conference call meant to tout the S...

Obama Never, Ever Said "No" to Bush on Iraq

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 07.14.2008 | Politics


Earl Ofari Hutchinson

Even the most cursory look at Obama's words, votes, and campaign pirouettes on Iraq paint a far different picture of a candidate for which Iraq was never the clear cut issue that many believed.

Obama Vows To Expand Bush's Faith-Based Programs

AP | JENNIFER LOVEN | Posted 07.09.2008 | Politics


** UPDATE BELOW: OBAMA CAMPAIGN REJECTS AP REPORT ** CHICAGO — Reaching out to evangelical voters, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Oba...

Can Obama Take Bush Country?

Posted 07.03.2008 | Politics


The Politico reports that Obama will focus his sizable resources on fourteen states Bush won in 2004. Even in states he'll almost certainly lose, like...

Sam Stein

McCain Camp: Obama Too Liberal...And He Sides With Bush

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 06.11.2008 | Politics


Preempting Barack Obama's remarks tonight, the McCain campaign sent out a statement highlighting the fact that the Illinois Democrat had, on many occa...

Analysis: Obama reacts fast to Bush on diplomacy

AP | CHARLES BABINGTON | Posted 05.24.2008 | Politics


WASHINGTON — In President Bush's hint that Barack Obama wants to appease terrorists, Democrats heard troubling echoes of 2004, when Republicans ...