WASHINGTON (CNN) -- President-elect Barack Obama will convene a meeting of his top economic advisers on Wednesday, his first full day in office, as the incoming president immediately tries to put the financial crisis at the center of his agenda, senior aides said. Three aides said Obama is planning an ambitious first week that will include several other high-profile moves: a Wednesday meeting with
Boy, some poor sports the so-called aides of John McCain are. I discover this week following the election loss that some anonymous clods, apparently from McCain's camp, have been smearing Sarah Palin by leaking false rumors and/or tabloid style news to FOX News.
Let us be clear: it is not Palin's fault for the loss - it is McCain's staff themselves. Why, they all practically tried to keep her on
via Tim Shipman in Washington
Barack Obama feels like he is carrying the hopes and dreams of people around the world on his shoulders ???a burden his aides believe has created unrealistic expectations of what he can achieve if he becomes the first black president.
OP-ED :
Whether we like it or not, it has been extremely hard [...]
Spitzer Aides Say Governor Will Resign Today - New York TimesExcerpt:"Gov. Eliot Spitzer, reeling from revelations that he had been a client of a prostitution ring, will resign today, some of his staff members said they have been told.Mr. Spitzer is scheduled to speak today at 11:30 a.m. at his Manhattan office, and the resignation is to be effective Monday, aides to the governor said."
Buszując po niezbadanych czeluściach światowej pajęczyny, natrafiłem na taką społeczną reklamę pod sztandarem AIDES, francuskiej pozarządowej organizacji roztaczającej opiekę nad nosicielami HIV. Jakoś tak sobie oglądam, oglądam i nie mogę przestać… Cholernie to pozytywne. Choć miejscami mogliby być delikatniejsi, no ale cóż, to Francuzi, naród prawdziwie wyzwolony:
To naturalnie nie jedyny spot czy kampania sygnowane przez AIDES, ale ten konkretny klip uważam za generalnie udany. I, jak rzekłem, jedyny w moim odczuciu tak pozytywny.
Aides choose royalties over loyaltiesWASHINGTON - White House press secretaries, who speak for the president and appear before the nation on his behalf, have traditionally kept their secrets while their bosses are in office.That unwritten rule has faded in the face of big advances for political tell-all books.Scott McClellan, who served as White House press secretary for nearly three years of the Bush administration, surprised his former colleagues last week when his publisher released three teaser paragraphs from his upcoming book. The excerpt seemed to blame President Bush for McClellan's false statements during the early days of the CIA leak scandal."The old rules and old standards of what was considered proper and what was not are less and less abided by," said Jody Powell, who served as President Carter's press secretary. "That's true in all walks of life."Plenty of press secretaries have written behind-the-scenes views of the West Wing. But such glimpses have traditionally bee
Last week I noted how many of the new Democratic voters brought into the party by Bill Clinton are supporting Barack Obama as opposed to Hillary Clinton. Today The Boston Globe reports that many ex-Clinton aides are supporting Obama despite the Clinton history of bypassing those who backed opponents for government positions.
In interviews this week, half a dozen Obama supporters with Clinton roots said they see the 46-year-old, first-term Illinois senator as the face of the future and the best hope for the party. While they don’t directly criticize Clinton, they said that another Clinton presidency would not represent enough of a change in American politics or its image in the world. Some also said she is too divisive to beat the Republican nominee or to govern effectively.
“One of the chief things that would energize a very dispirited Republican Party is Hillary Clinton on the ticket,” said Eric Holder, who was second-in-command at the Justice Department in the late
Décidément, le rugby inspire beaucoup à l’occasion de ce mondial ; Michalak, Nyanga et Dusautoir se sont prêtés au jeu du « Et si j’étais séropositif » ...
Once again President Bush has evoked executive privledge to deny a Congressional request for testimony from two former aides.The big story here is that there really isn't any story. Once again, the President used an option that he, and every President have always been well within their defined rights to do.Unless someone can expose some major controversy they simply are not going to remove this President from office.The thing that aggrivates me more than anything about this situation is that we've wasted more time pandering and make attempts to do something that is extremely difficult at best to do at this time.Could we maybe work on getting that whole immigration deal wrapped up? Could we please apply our energies to something that will make a positive change in this country and knock off all the crap?
Sara Taylor, former White House political director who reported directly to Karl Rove, was subpoenaed on Wednesday for documents and testimony regarding the U.S. attorney firings. On Wednesday, the House and Senate Judiciary Committees issued subpoenas for former Bush aides Sara M. Taylor and Harriet Miers. Harriet Miers was President Bush’s former White House counsel and Sara Taylor was the former White House political director who worked directly for Karl Rove. The showdown continues between Capital Hill Democrats and President Bush over Attorney General Gonzales and testimony over the firing of 9 U.S. attorneys last year with the issue of these subpoenas. President Bush has said previously that he would not allow his aides to testify publicly. “By refusing to cooperate with congressional committees, the White House continues its pattern of confrontation over cooperation. The White House cannot have it both ways, it cannot stonewall congressional investigations by
Spot animados de Wilfrid Brimo para AIDES y su compaña por la prevención del SIDA "Vive lo suficiente para encontrar el amor verdadero".
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L'année dernière, AIDES avait réalisé 2 animations de très bonne qualité qui avaient beaucoup tourné sur le net. Aides a fait une nouvelle pour le préservatif cette année ou la conclusion est "1000 façons d'aimer, 1 seule de se proteger" :sources: Chris38
AP: Leahy doubts Bush aides on lost e-mailsExcerpt:"President Bush's aides are lying about White House e-mails sent on a Republican account that might have been lost, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (news, bio, voting record) suggested Thursday, vowing to subpoena those documents if the administration fails to cough them up."They say they have not been preserved. I don't believe that!" Leahy shouted from the Senate floor."You can't erase e-mails, not today. They've gone through too many servers," said Leahy, D-Vt. "Those e-mails are there, they just don't want to produce them. We'll subpoena them if necessary.""http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070412/ap_on_go_co/fired_prosecutorsAlex
The Blotter article link White House Aides Tried to Hide E-mails, Lawmaker ChargesMarch 26, 2007 2:22 PMJustin Rood Reports:Â White House staff are using non-governmental e-mail addresses to avoid leaving a paper trail of their communications, a senior congressman charged Monday.In a pair of letters Monday, House Oversight and Investigations Committee Chairman Henry A. Waxman, D.-Calif., asked the Republican National Committee and the Bush-Cheney '04 Campaign to preserve e-mails sent and received by White House officials using domains controlled by the two groups. Waxman also asked the two to meet with his staff to explain how they handle e-mail accounts for government officials."Such e-mails written in the conduct of White House business would appear to be governmental records subject to preservation and eventual public disclosure," Waxman wrote.The use of e-mail addresses from domains like "gwb43.com" by White House aides surfaced in the news earlier this month w
MSNBC article link House panel OKs subpoenas of Bush aides Move sets up constitutional showdown over firings of eight U.S. attorneys WASHINGTON - A House panel on Wednesday approved subpoenas for President Bush's political adviser, Karl Rove, and other top White House aides, setting up a constitutional showdown over the firings of eight federal prosecutors. By voice vote, the House Judiciary subcommittee on commercial and administrative law decided to compel the president's top aides to testify publicly and under oath about their roles in the firings. The White House has refused to budge in the controversy, standing by embattled Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and insisting that the firings were appropriate. White House spokesman Tony Snow said that in offering aides to talk to the committees privately, Bush had sought to avoid the "media spectacle" that would result from public hearings with Rove and others at the witness table. "The question they've got to ask th
If I were a chief of staff in the Bush administration, I would be worried. Of late, the line between "fall guy" and "stand-up guy" seems to be drawn at the chief of staff's door. Two chiefs have gone down in the last two weeks. First, Vice President Cheney's former top man, Scooter Libby, was convicted on four of five counts of perjury, obstruction of justice, and making false statements. Meanwhile, Cheney remains (no matter that the prosecutor in the case said a cloud continues to hang over the vice president). This week, Kyle Sampson resigned as chief of staff to Alberto Gonzales for not disclosing the role of the White House in the firing of eight U.S. attorneys. Gonzales still has his job, and the president fully supports him (though the cloud over the attorney general could be picked up by Doppler).
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