President-elect Barack Obama planned to nominate Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton as his secretary of state on Monday, transforming a once-bitter political rivalry into a high-level strategic and diplomatic partnership.Obama will name the New York senator to his national security team at a news conference in Chicago, Democratic officials said Saturday.
President-elect Barack Obama announced a two year program intended to create more than 2.5 million jobs by 2011, in his second YouTube video (and radio) “Weekly Address” since getting elected. It was surprisingly specific, in terms of support he intends to provide various cleantech technologies.
Obama's ASEAN Foreign Policy
A review of ASEAN nation's feelings reveals some unusual variations. To be sure there are high hopes to be found in almost every ASEAN country. These are offset by fear and concern in several ASEAN nations.
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New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson is the leading candidate for secretary of Commerce, according to a person familiar with the vetting process.Mr. Richardson, also a candidate for the 2008 presidential nomination, left the race shortly after placing a distant fourth in the Iowa caucuses in January.
The question about where the new first daughters are going to be going to school has been answered.Barack and Michelle Obama have chosen a noted private school in Washington, Sidwell Friends. That's where Chelsea Clinton went when she lived in the White House.A spokeswoman for the incoming first family says a number of "great schools," including D.C.
Al Qaeda has officially added President-elect Barack Obama to its enemies list. In the terrorist group’s first video message to Obama since his election, Ayman al-Zawahiri, Al-Qaeda’s number two, calls Obama a “House Negro” who “claims” to be Christian to be elected to high office.
South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint on Friday became one of the first high-profile Republicans to publicly criticize John McCain following his electoral defeat, blaming the Arizona senator for betraying conservative principles in his quest for the White House.
No other issue, save for perhaps the abortion issue, is as fraught with propaganda (from both sides) as the gun issue. As a gun-loving Democrat, and perhaps the only informed moderate in the country on the subject, I’ve always been profoundly irritated with the sheer amount of lies, spin, propaganda and grossly misleading information on the topic. While “preaching to the choir”, so to speak, is commonplace among passionate political players, for no other issue is it as common to lie to the choir as it is with the gun issue.
Presidents typically say they want to be surrounded by strong-willed people who have the courage to disagree with them. President-elect Barack Obama, reaching out to Hillary Rodham Clinton and Republicans, actually might mean it.Abraham Lincoln meant it. He appointed his bitter adversaries to crucial posts, choosing as war secretary a man who had called him a "long-armed ape" who "does not know anything and can do you no good."
Today, President-elect Obama will record the weekly Democratic address not just on radio but also on video -- a first. The address, typically four minutes long, will be turned into a YouTube video and posted on Obama's transition site, Change.gov, once the radio address is made public on Saturday morning.
