Merry Christmas and a Happy Holiday Season 2008 wish to our site host Doug Thompson and his ardent site followers…!
It’s been a tough year for all of us, but the electorate made the correct, pragmatic choice concerning the election of President Obama.
We’d all surely be long-faced this holiday season if the other “aged” guy and his rambunctious, redneck partner from the North had been elected…no?!
The internal report prepared by President-elect Barack Obama’s hand-picked investigator clears both the incoming President and members of his staff of any criminal role in the mushrooming scandal surrounding embattled Illinois Gov. Rod Blogojevich.
I’ve read the report. It answers my questions and, according to various responses I’ve heard and read, it also answers the questions raised by most of the few who have the gall to question the President-elect.
I’m satisfied. Hopefully, now we can move on to the more important issues facing a nation in crisis.
President-elect Barack Obama’s plan for economic revival puts a big emphasis on public works projects. It also would rely on tax cuts.
But with the nation bruised by recession, with hundreds of thousands of jobs vanishing monthly, Obama’s plan raises an urgent question: Will his remedies work fast enough?
The answer won’t be clear for months or longer. In the meantime, pressure on the Obama team to deliver help quickly is intensifying.
President-elect Barack Obama has said all along that neither he nor his team was involved in any eye-popping dealmaking over filling his vacated Senate seat. Obama’s hand-picked investigator agreed.
"Everybody behaved appropriately," declared Greg Craig, Obama’s incoming White House counsel and the person asked to conduct the internal inquiry into contacts between the transition team and Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich.
President-elect Barack Obama and a top aide have been interviewed by prosecutors investigating Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, but an internal report released on Tuesday cleared them of any wrongdoing.
Blagojevich is mired in a corruption investigation that has left Obama’s transition team scrambling to distance the incoming president from the scandal-tarred governor.
Among the charges the governor faces is the accusation that he tried to sell Obama’s recently vacated Senate seat. He has denied the charges and refused to resign from his job.
Officials trying to determine who won the November 4 U.S. Senate race in Minnesota recessed their deliberations on Tuesday until the end of the year without reaching a decision.
Unofficial counts showed one-time comedian Al Franken, a Democrat, leading Republican incumbent Sen. Norm Coleman by less than 50 votes out of more than 2.4 million ballots cast.
The Minnesota secretary of state’s office said the next meeting of the state canvassing board was scheduled for December 30 with additional sessions, if needed, on January 5 and 6.