Obama Gives Donors Special Access: Washington Times
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama has rewarded top Democratic donors with perks ranging from holiday visits to the White House to policy brief...
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama has rewarded top Democratic donors with perks ranging from holiday visits to the White House to policy brief...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 09.21.2009 | Politics
The headlines lately are all about President Obama's very bad summer, but his supporters argue that this past week was a good one for the White House....
Chicago Tribune | John McCormick | Posted 08.02.2009 | Chicago
President Barack Obama is expected to visit Chicago on July 23 -- his third trip here since his Jan. 20 inauguration -- when he is scheduled to attend...
AP | LIZ SIDOTI | Posted 04.26.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — President Obama headlined two fundraisers in Washington expected to bring in an estimated $3 million for the Democratic National Co...
Bloomberg | Posted 04.16.2009 | Politics
President Barack Obama will headline the first fundraiser of his presidency this month, appealing to donors large and small even as the economy strugg...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 03.02.2009 | Politics
Organizing for America, the campaign apparatus left over from Barack Obama's presidential run, sent out its first call to action on Friday in support ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 02.09.2009 | Politics
Barack Obama heaped praise on incoming DNC Chairman Tim Kaine during a press conference with the Virginia Governor at the party's headquarters on Thur...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 02.07.2009 | Politics
Barack Obama is set to host a press conference with incoming Democratic National Committee Chair Tim Kaine on Thursday in what will ostensibly mark th...
David Corn | Posted 12.11.2008 | Politics
As the manager of Obama's campaign, Plouffe steered the best-run presidential campaign in years. He efficiently matched man, message, money, and machine.
Jonny 5 | Posted 12.01.2008 | Politics
Adolescents at the time of the 9/11 attacks, their sense of national identity has formed against the "War on Terror." What does patriotism mean to them? Has the political landscape evolved?
Brad Friedman | Posted 11.01.2008 | Politics
Massive voter roll purges are being done in secret, with little or no oversight, and often under federal Justice Department cover, in states and counties around the country.
Alice Singleton | Posted 10.09.2008 | Chicago
For the past eight years it has been as if Connie Corleone, acting as Bush surrogate, slipped a tainted canoli to each of us daily, rendering us too weak to reason with or fight against the poisonous regime.
Ari Melber | Posted 10.04.2008 | Politics
Obama is the Democratic nominee largely because of unprecedented turnout by young voters in key primary states. But all is not well with the youth vote.
Jermaine Dupri | Posted 10.13.2008 | Entertainment
Obama's movement is about us, and what we can do to shake things up. That's why older people who've held their spot forever -- the John McCains and Jesse Jacksons of this world -- find him a threat.
Vicky Ward | Posted 10.02.2008 | Politics
Palin's appointment is just transparent chess-playing politics. And in the long-term I don't think it's going to work.
Jon Klane | Posted 10.01.2008 | Politics
On previous birthdays I had used my extra airline miles to fly to London, Prague, or Berlin, but this year money is tight and the dollar is weak. Then it hits me: the DNC drumbeat is pounding away with the answer.
Lola Adesioye | Posted 09.28.2008 | Politics
He must go way beyond the abstract and rhetoric and bring himself firmly back down to earth and put his policies right out in front. This speech must be particularly substantive.
Bill Barol | Posted 09.28.2008 | Politics
Here's a guy on the bleeding edge of history, hours away from the biggest moment of his life watched by literally millions of people. The sense is inescapable of a person who, in that enormous moment, is at ease.
David Weinberger | Posted 09.28.2008 | Home
This might be one: "John McCain will use images of this event against us. When he sees tens of thousands of Americans eager to participate, he sees celebrity. As I look out tonight, I see democracy."
AP | DAVID ESPO and ROBERT FURLOW | Posted 09.27.2008 | Chicago
DENVER — Surrounded by an enormous, adoring crowd, Barack Obama promised a clean break from the "broken politics in Washington and the failed po...
Brad Listi | Posted 09.27.2008 | Home
So incredible is Bob's love for the Fox News network, he made a sign and headed to Denver to present his case to the American people, and Democrats in particular.
Frances Moore Lappe | Posted 09.27.2008 | Politics
In early Obama--that is, pre- nominee presumption--I heard a music-to-my-ears refrain. It went something like this: This historic moment is not about ...
Huffington Post | Posted 09.27.2008 | Green
Energy policy and climate change were some of the main topics at the Democratic National Convention on Tuesday. Huffington Post and Grist blogger Kate...
Brad Listi | Posted 09.26.2008 | Home
I ran into Congressman Rangel on the 16th Street Mall here in Denver. He was was looking dapper in a royal blue blazer, perspiring heavily an...
Brad Listi | Posted 09.25.2008 | Home
It's depressing to think that so many American adults need to be spoon-fed like this in order to feel comfortable with a brown family in the White House. As far we've come, Monday night's message was that we have a long way to go.
AP | Posted 10.28.2009 | Politics