President Barack Obama has charged his Cabinet with squeezing $100 million out of their budgets. That's right, $100 million. An itty bitty teensy weensy fraction of the deficit. He conceded that it's a mere drop in the bucket. "It is,"...
President Barack Obama is shrugging off the dearth of Southerners in his cabinet. Not a one. Coincidence? He did lose most of the Confederate states in November. "I love the South," Obama said earlier this afternoon in a wideranging interview...
White House press secretary Robert Gibbs just started his daily briefing -- the biggest trial by fire by far in his two-week tenure at the podium. Daschle's resignation offers the new administration a huge political challenge, because weakness begets weakness...
A week from Thursday, President Obama will take Air Force One out for a spin for the first time as president. His destination of choice is a town he's well familiar with: Springfield, Ill. - where as he said ad...
President Obama spent his first week telling the nation and the world, in deed and word, that he wasn't George W. Bush. He reversed U.S. policy on Guantanamo Bay and on the so-called "global gag rule" on abortion. Today, he...
The Obama administration has vowed to be the most "transparent" ever - so transparent, apparently, that even when a "senior administration official" gives a "background" briefing, he's apt to be outed by the White House press secretary. At least, that...
Well, turns out President Obama wanted to get it right. Tonight, Chief Justice Roberts joined him in the Map Room at the White House, and they went through that pesky oath of office, this time doing it verbatim. First...
White House press secretary Robert Gibbs doubts that President Obama will take the oath of office again, to rectify any lingering concerns over the legality of the mangled version he spoke yesterday. It was clearly Chief Justice John Roberts'...
Smile for the nice Buckeyes, girls... COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Sasha and Malia made a smashing impression at the Democratic National Convention, appearing onstage with mom for a teleconference with dad. They haven't appeared on the stump in months, however...
Obama aides and reporters line up for a treat. About 18,000 people came out to a minor league baseball park in Sarasota on a lovely, sunny Florida day. Campaign metaphor alert: a Mister Softee ice cream truck provided dessert...
Guess the Obama campaign is really taking this "Bush and McCain are the same guy" thing pretty seriously. From the AP's story about Obama's debate prep: Among the staff helping are senior advisers David Axelrod, Anita Dunn and Robert Gibbs,...
Many Clinton backers were stung by Obama's decision this week to hire Patti Solis Doyle as chief of staff to his yet-to-be-named running mate. Clinton had fired Doyle as campaign manager a few months back, after an 18-year association. The...
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