A perplexing new chapter is unfolding in Barack Obama‘s racial saga: Many people insist that “the first black president” is actually not black.
From the New York Times: “The White House has turned down a request from the family of President-elect Barack Obama to move into Blair House in early January so that his daughters can start school on Jan. 5.”
From Marc Ambinder at the Atlantic Monthly: Obama has a lot to face starting January 20th. Where the discussion isn't going is the possibility that the first foreign policy crisis the administration will face will be the complete economic collapse of a large, unstable nation.
Not everyone in the auto industry is hurting. Barack Obama’s old car, a 2005 Chrysler 300C is being sold on Ebay with the starting bid of $101,000.
Barack Obama insists he didn’t have any contact with Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich or anyone else who might have been scheming to sell the president-elect’s U.S. Senate seat. But he has not yet given his transition staff the same clean bill of health — perhaps with good reason.
From Jack Healy at The NYTimes.com: President-elect <a title="More articles about Barack Obama" href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/o/barack_obama/index.html?inline=nyt-per">Barack Obama</a> said on Thursday that he never spoke to the governor of Illinois about Mr. Obama’s replacement in the <a title="More articles about the U.S. Senate." href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/s/senate/index.html?inline=nyt-org">United States Senate</a>, and that no one on his staff had been involved in any deal-making regarding Mr. Obama’s successor.
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President-elect Barack Obama has selected a deputy mayor of Los Angeles to lead the White House Council on Environmental Quality, transition officials said Wednesday. Nancy Sutley is the first prominent member of the gay and lesbian community to earn a senior role in the Democrat’s new administration.
In one of many historical coups, the Tuskegee Airmen have been invited by Congress to attend Inaugural ceremonies on January 20th for President Barack Obama.
In an effort to repair the broken alliances with foreign leaders in the Muslim nations, Barack Obama prepares to speak before a major capital city.
In a recent press conference after his meeting with former VP, Al Gore, Barack Obama talked about climate change and the controversy over Illinois Governor, Rod Blagojevich’s alleged auctioning off of Obama’s senate seat. Watch Obama Discuss Blagojevich After The Jump
