January 20, 2009
Proximity to power is power, they say. And some of President-elect Barack Obama's aides were jockeying furiously last week for those critical spots somewhere, anywhere, in the West Wing of the White House....
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Proximity to power is power, they say. And some of President-elect Barack Obama's aides were jockeying furiously last week for those critical spots somewhere, anywhere, in the West Wing of the White House....
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January 18, 2009
Eleven days after the presidential election, 100 people were invited to the home of Vernon and Ann Jordan. The guest of honor was former Time Warner chief Richard Parsons, but the belle of the ball was Valerie Jarrett, one of Barack Obama's best friends and a newly named White House senior adviser....
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Eleven days after the presidential election, 100 people were invited to the home of Vernon and Ann Jordan. The guest of honor was former Time Warner chief Richard Parsons, but the belle of the ball was Valerie Jarrett, one of Barack Obama's best friends and a newly named White House senior adviser....
Wash Post Politics
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January 04, 2009
I shamefully skipped church this morning because I'm not feeling all that great (cold) and I just couldn't get up. I'll try to make it next week. I had the television tuned in to TV One when the "Our World" program, hosted by Ed Gordon , started a couple of hours or so ago. The episode, a repeat, ...
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December 23, 2008
The Obama camp’s internal investigation report about its contact with Blaggy’s office regarding the “fuckin’ valuable” Senate seat “thing” has been released. Written by Obama’s fancy lawyer, Greg Craig, the report comes in at a brisk 4.5 pages. No one ...
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December 11, 2008
What did he know? And when did he know it? I notice a lot of the original and die-hard Obama supporters (not ones who've since jumped on the bandwagon) have been silent regarding Illinois Governor Blagojavich's 'Seat for Sale' scheme, now referred to as 'Pay-to-Play.' How is it that a Senator (now P...
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December 09, 2008
WPvideo 1.10 Liss on the indictment of Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich: I was in the car listening to NPR when the story broke, and my immediate response was to burst out laughing. He just wouldn’t be an Illinois governor if he weren’t breaking federal law! Heh. Indeed. And he also wouldn’t be a...
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Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Illinois) on Tuesday called for a special Illinois election to fill President-elect Obama's Senate seat, instead of leaving it to arrested Gov. Rod Blagojevich. Calling it "a sad day for my state," Durbin said Blagoj...
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Six prospective Senate appointees are mentioned in Patrick Fitzgerald's 76-page indictment of Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich, though none of them are named. Fitzgerald, at his press conference, said that this is because aspersions shouldn't be cast on individuals whose names get dragged into reco...
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