Archive for January 17th, 2009
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Lance Armstrong has high hopes for Obama (AP)
AP – Lance Armstrong said Sunday he has high hopes the presidency of Barack Obama will see health-care reform in the United States and more money for the fight against cancer. -
MLK’s dream also included economic justice (AP)
AP – The focus of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s acceptance speech for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964 wasn’t what had been accomplished but rather his view of what still needed to be done. -
Feds: Prayer leader’s group tied to Hamas
A Muslim scholar chosen to speak at President-elect Barack Obama’s inaugural prayer service Wednesday is the leader of a group that federal prosecutors say has ties to terrorists. -
Commentary: Obama, Cosby, King and the mountaintop
Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. told followers the night before he was killed that he had been “to the mountaintop” and seen the promised land of racial equality. Last week’s election of Barack Obama was the equivalent of taking all African-Americans to that peak, says Dr. Alvin Poussaint.
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Flashpoints for Obama’s crisis room
After his inauguration, if President Barack Obama needs real-time intelligence on crises around the world, he is likely to do it in the Situation Room, the ultra-secure conference room in the White House. It’s a place this new president may be seeing a lot of.
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Dirty secrets that oil U.S. politics
Be bold! Think big! Barack Obama wants to do just that. An $800 billion economic stimulus plan. Three million jobs. Health care reform. A restructured automobile industry.
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Obama staff will say cu l8r 2 IM (Politico)
Politico – Barack Obama may get to keep his BlackBerry, but David Axelrod is losing his IM.
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Obama’s whistle-stop tour chugs on to Washington
With just a few days until his historic inauguration, President-elect Barack Obama will travel by train from the birthplace of the nation’s democracy to the city where political power brokers run it.
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Crowd endures cold to cheer Obama in Baltimore (AFP)
AFP – A jubilant crowd greeted president-elect Barack Obama on Saturday for a pre-inaugural rally in Baltimore despite enduring hours of bone-chilling cold. -
Packing hope, Obama rides rails to D.C.
Invoking hope and history, President-elect Barack Obama rolled into the capital city Saturday night pledging to help bring the nation “a new Declaration of Independence.”
