With Oprah Winfrey, the intersection of politics and education is making for strange bedfellows. Federal tax returns and other reports confirm that she’s accepted at least $5 million for her self-named South African girls’ school from perhaps Barack Obama’s single greatest political enemy. Oprah is probably the most well-known celebrity to back Senator Barack Obama’s [...]
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President-elect Barack Obama announced as expected that Hillary Clinton would be his top diplomat and Robert Gates would stay on as defense secretary. President-elect Barack Obama on Monday officially introduced the members of his national security team, including former Democratic primary rival Hillary Clinton as his secretary of state and Robert Gates, who will be [...]
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President-elect to formally unveil his team of economic experts to battle the most severe U.S. financial crisis in eight decades WASHINGTON – President-elect Barack Obama names his economic team Monday and may call for the next Congress to quickly pass a massive stimulus plan that would dwarf even his campaign proposals to salvage the country’s financial [...]
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On Election day twelve Obama voters were interviewed extensively right after they voted to learn how the news media impacted their knowledge of what occurred during the campaign. The rather shocking video below seeks to provide some insight into which information broke through the news media clutter and which did not. read more | digg [...]
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Change to the WhiteHouse and Washington? Not this term…. Is this change we can believe in—or not? Just two weeks ago, Barack Obama was the fellow who was going to change the way Washington works. But then he got elected. And then he picked Rahm Emanuel, a toughie pol from the Clinton White House. We [...]
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