Archive for January, 2009

by David Zucchino DURHAM, N.C. – When candidate Barack Obama told MTV viewers in November that “brothers should pull up their pants,” Kent Williams Jr. was thinking the same thing. Williams, the student body president at North Carolina Central University,…

by Mark Silvaand updated with guest list. No passing up a chance like the Super Bowl. For a good bipartisan bowl of chips and dips. And a good shot at the biggest national television audience of the year: President Barack……

by Mark Silva Gueess who’s coming to dinner Saturday night? President Barack Obama and Sarah Palin — they won’t actually arrive together, but both are expected at the exclusive and private Alfalfa Club dinner for Washington’s elite. They’ve already been….

by Mark Silva President Barack Obama should think twice before making too much of the criticism of radio’s Rush Limbaugh, Republican Sen. John McCain suggests. While Limbaugh slams the Obama administration for the “pork” of the president’s economic…

by Mark Silva Not a single Republican in the House voted for the $819-billion economic stimulus plan that President Barack Obama is promoting. But Charlie Crist, the Republican governor of Florida, says he likes what he’s heard about the plan……

by Frank James The Obama Administration announces its Middle Class Working Families Task Force at a White House event today and the man who will be in charge of it, Vice President Joe Biden, has an op-ed in USA Today……

by Peter Wallsten Democratic strategists are appealing for help from President Barack Obama’s massive grassroots network, which was created during the presidential campaign, as they try to build support for the president’s economic stimulus package. The…

by Mark Silva Now, Robert Gibbs, the White House press secretary, is offering no help on those stories about President Barack Obama considering Sen. Judd Gregg, Republican from New Hampshire, for Commerce secretary. But the two work together well, Gibbs…..