President-elect Barack Obama hailed a rare Oval Office gathering of all U.S. presidents as extraordinary on Wednesday, while President George W. Bush wished him well and pledged that the office “transcends the individual.”
From Steve Holland at Reuters: U.S. President-elect Barack Obama, breaking his silence about the Gaza war, expressed deep concern on Tuesday about civilian deaths in Gaza and in Israel.
President-elect Barack Obama has approached CNN’s chief medical correspondent, Sanjay Gupta, to be the country’s next surgeon general, the cable news network said Tuesday.
Barack Obama’s website change.gov has opened itself up to online democracy. He has challenged his supporters to give him their Top 10 Ideas for Change in America.
<p>From ThinkProgress:</p> <p>Today, the candidates <a href="http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/four-to-qualify-for-rnc-ballot-amid-busy-week-2009-01-04.html">debated the future of the Party</a> at the National Press Club and all agreed that the GOP needs to bring in more minorities. Michael Steele said Saltsman's comments were distracting from this goal.</p>
President-elect Barack Obama’s studied silence on the subject of Israel’s 10-day-old war against Palestinian Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip is only partly out of deference to the man who still has the big job for two more weeks.
President-elect Barack Obama‘s selection of an old White House hand to head the CIA shows a preference for a strong manager over an intelligence expert.
From Foreign Policy Watch: When President-elect Barack Obama takes office in two weeks, he will immediately be faced with two elusive <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_0" class="blsp-spelling-corrected">foreign</span> policy problems whose resolution has evaded every post-war US president: the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the <span id="SPELLING_ERROR_1" class="blsp-spelling-error">Indo</span>-Pakistani rivalry.
Barack and Michelle Obama’s two daughters, Sasha and Malia start school in DC today at Sidwell Friends. It just happens that both of our friends over at Jack and Jill Politics attended the same school. They’ve been writing about their experiences at Sidwell and what it like to be African American at a prestigious private […]
Barack Obama is heading to Capitol Hill to push for quick action on a broad economic stimulus package that congressional leaders are saying won’t be ready until mid-February at the earliest — almost a month later than the president-elect wanted.
President-elect Barack Obama showed a little of his softer side as he said his goodbyes to Chicago, the city that launched his political career, and headed to Washington to join his wife and two daughters.
WASHINGTON – New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson abandoned his nomination to become commerce secretary under pressure of a grand jury investigation into a state contract awarded to his political donors — an investigation that threatened to embarrass President-elect Barack Obama.
