Obama: Former Presidents Meeting "Extraordinary" (VIDEO)(SLIDESHOW)
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
Ken Levine | Posted 12.11.2008 | Politics
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).
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...
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...
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...
John Tomasic | Posted 12.05.2008 | Home
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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 07.14.2008 | Politics
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.
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
AP | BEN FELLER | Posted 02.07.2009 | Politics