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Races An Early Test Of Obama Influence

Posted on 03 November 2009 | Jennifer Wig

From AP

WASHINGTON  – President Barack Obama’s political influence a year after his election is being tested as voters cast ballots in Virginia and New Jersey, two states he’s worked hard to keep in Democratic hands. A handful of congressional and mayoral races and a same-sex union initative also are among the featured face-offs this Election Day.
Obama [...]

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US: NKorea Plutonium Moves Violate Commitments

Posted on 03 November 2009 | Jennifer Wig

From AP

WASHINGTON  – The United States says North Korea’s use of more nuclear fuel for weapons violates the North’s past commitments at international disarmament talks.
State Department spokesman Ian Kelly told reporters Tuesday that the Obama administration is focused on getting back to stalled six-nation nuclear talks.
He says that “reprocessing plutonium is contrary to North Korea’s own [...]

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Brown-Waite: Obama Needs Congress’ Ok To Receive Nobel Prize

Posted on 29 October 2009 | Jennifer Wig

From Media General News Service

By: SARAH HOYE
Media General News Service
One professor called it spiteful. Another said it was far-fetched.
Those were the reactions to a request by three Republican congressmen that President Barack Obama get the permission of Congress before he accepts the Nobel Peace Prize.
On Monday, U.S Reps. Ginny Brown-Waite of Florida, Cliff Stearns of Florida and Ron Paul [...]

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Obama: Health Overhaul A Boon To Small Businesses

Posted on 29 October 2009 | Jennifer Wig

From AP

WASHINGTON  – President Barack Obama says small businesses that participate in a proposed government health care plan could save a quarter on their premiums by 2016.
Obama on Thursday told small business leaders that few people have a bigger stake in health reform than they do. He says the House version of a health care bill [...]

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Book: Obama Seriously Considered Hillary for VP

Posted on 29 October 2009 | Jennifer Wig

From AP

WASHINGTON – Barack Obama seriously considered Hillary Rodham Clinton for the vice presidency, even though his top aides weren’t enthusiastic about it, his presidential campaign manager says in a new memoir.
“Neither Ax (top-level adviser David Axelrod) nor I were fans of the Hillary option,” David Plouffe, who ran Obama’s 2008 race, said in his memoir, [...]

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Obama Focusing On al-Qaida, Not Taliban

Posted on 08 October 2009 | Jennifer Wig

From AP

WASHINGTON  – A senior administration official says President Barack Obama is prepared to accept some Taliban involvement in Afghanistan’s political future and is inclined to send only as many more U.S. troops to Afghanistan as are needed to keep al-Qaida at bay.
The assessment comes from an official who has been involved in the president’s discussions [...]

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Modern Art Hits 1600 Pa. Ave

Posted on 06 October 2009 | Jennifer Wig

From AP

WASHINGTON  – You can’t see it, but there’s a quiet cultural revolution under way at the White House.
The Obamas are decorating their private spaces with more modern and abstract artwork than has ever hung on the White House walls. New pieces by contemporary African-American and Native American artists are on display. Bold colors, odd shapes, [...]

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Obama: No ‘Pending’ Decision on Troops to Afghan

Posted on 16 September 2009 | Jennifer Wig

From AP

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama said Wednesday there will be no quick decision on whether to send more U.S. troops into wartorn Afghanistan, saying “my determination is to get this right.”
The U.S. and NATO commander, Gen. Stanley McChrystal, delivered a grim assessment of the war to Washington last month and is expected to follow up [...]

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Obama Pitches Economic Policies to GM

Posted on 15 September 2009 | Jennifer Wig

From NBC

President Obama promotes pitches his economic policies to General Motors workers.

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