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WASHINGTON, Nov. 30 (UPI) -- U.S. President Barack Obama gave the green light to military commanders to implement his strategy in Afghanistan, the White House said Monday. Full Article at United Press International
President Barack Obama issued new orders for the war in Afghanistan from the Oval Office Sunday night, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs told reporters Monday. Full Article at The Politico
Afghanistan Robert Gibbs said the President talked on Sunday afternoon by phone with Secretary Clinton, met last night at 5 pm at the Oval Office with Secretary Gates, Admiral Mullen, Gens. Full Article at Talk Radio News Service
At 5 p.m. ET Sunday evening, President Obama met in the Oval Office with key members of his national security team and “communicated his final decision on the strategy…and issued orders on the strategy’s implementation,” White House press secretary... Full Article at Political Punch
Peacemaking takes strategic skill. But we see no sign that President Obama and Mr. Mitchell were thinking more than one move down the board. The president went public with his demand for a full freeze on settlements before securing Israel’s commitment. Full Article at Yourish.com
Washington emerges from the Thanksgiving holiday on Monday with health care and Afghanistan on the mind. Full Article at The Caucus
by Ken By now I shouldn't be surprised anymore, but I often still am, kind of, whenever Howie says -- or, now, writes -- something that turns out to be exactly what I was thinking. Full Article at Down With Tyranny!
The Thursday before last, President Barack Obama came home from his eight-day trip to Asia and received a welcome even frostier than the subfreezing temperatures that had greeted him in Beijing. Full Article at New York Magazine
It's not the fault of reality TV that Michaele and Tareq Salahi apparently decided to crash last week's White House state dinner. But that doesn't mean the industry can't take proactive steps toward discouraging future fame whores. Full Article at The Wrap
On this day - North Korean and Chinese troops force United Nations forces to retreat from North Korea (1950), U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson establishes the Warren Commission to investigate the assassination of President Kennedy (1963), U.S. Full Article at NW Republican
To those of us of an anti-social nature, the main problem with parties and receptions is not how to get into them, but out of them – either in advance, with the death, yet again, of Aunt Edith; or once there, as we gaze longingly at the exit and wonder... Full Article at The Independent
WASHINGTON The Secret Service is investigating how a couple aspiring to be reality-show celebrities managed to appear at President Obama’s first state dinner without being on the guest list, provoking questions about security at the White House. Full Article at Silicon Alley Insider
Left to right: J. Scott Applewhite/Associated Press; Kevin Lamarque/Reuters; Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg; Susan Walsh/Associated Press Should Republicans be willing to engage with these men? Full Article at The New York Times
WASHINGTON - Top aides to President Barack Obama have met early and often with lobbyists, Democratic political strategists and other interests with a stake in the administration's national health care overhaul, White House visitor records obtained... Full Article at MSNBC
WASHINGTON — Top aides to President Barack Obama have met early and often with lobbyists, Democratic political strategists and other interests with a stake in the administration's national health care overhaul, White House visitor records obtained... Full Article at Fort Worth Star-Telegram
If there were a Muckety honor roll, it would include the invitation list for a new president’s first state dinner. Full Article at Muckety.com
Rahm Emanuel is making practically every staffer in the White House read Ronald Brownstein’s completely uninformed article about the great “free market economagic” cost saving solutions in the Senate bill. Full Article at Firedoglake
I was reviewing the guest list for President Barack Obama's first state dinner--held to honor Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh--and it was full of interesting picks: Ari Emanuel, Rahm Emanuel's brother and a notorious Hollywood power-agent; Gayle... Full Article at Politics Daily
Some may wonder why I cheered when White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel announced that the President plans to cut the deficit, because he "does not want to keep on adding to the debt". Full Article at Huffington Post
EDITORIAL Rahm Emanuel, President Obama's chief of staff, likes to say that politicians should never let a crisis go to waste but that's what happened in San Francisco last summer, when the mayor and the supervisors approved a budget deal that didn't... Full Article at San Francisco Bay Guardian
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White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel addresses the General Assembly of the Jewish Federations of North America in Washington on November 10, 2009.
View Photo »WASHINGTON - NOVEMBER 10: White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel addresses the United Jewish Communities/Jewish Federation of North America during their General Assembly November 10, 2009 in Washington, DC.
View Photo »WASHINGTON - NOVEMBER 10: White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel addresses the United Jewish Communities/Jewish Federation of North America during their General Assembly November 10, 2009 in Washington, DC.
View Photo »WASHINGTON - NOVEMBER 10: White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel addresses the United Jewish Communities/Jewish Federation of North America during their General Assembly November 10, 2009 in Washington, DC.
View Photo »WASHINGTON - NOVEMBER 10: White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel addresses the United Jewish Communities/Jewish Federation of North America during their General Assembly November 10, 2009 in Washington, DC.
View Photo »WASHINGTON - NOVEMBER 10: White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel addresses the United Jewish Communities/Jewish Federation of North America during their General Assembly November 10, 2009 in Washington, DC.
View Photo »WASHINGTON - NOVEMBER 10: White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel addresses the United Jewish Communities/Jewish Federation of North America during their General Assembly November 10, 2009 in Washington, DC.
View Photo »WASHINGTON - NOVEMBER 10: White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel addresses the United Jewish Communities/Jewish Federation of North America during their General Assembly November 10, 2009 in Washington, DC.
View Photo »WASHINGTON - NOVEMBER 10: White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel addresses the United Jewish Communities/Jewish Federation of North America during their General Assembly November 10, 2009 in Washington, DC.
View Photo »White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel addresses the General Assembly of the Jewish Federations of North America in Washington on November 10, 2009.
View Photo »WASHINGTON - NOVEMBER 10: White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel addresses the United Jewish Communities/Jewish Federation of North America during their General Assembly November 10, 2009 in Washington, DC.
View Photo »White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel addresses the General Assembly of the Jewish Federations of North America in Washington on November 10, 2009.
View Photo »White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel addresses the General Assembly of the Jewish Federations of North America in Washington on November 10, 2009.
View Photo »WASHINGTON - NOVEMBER 10: White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel addresses the United Jewish Communities/Jewish Federation of North America during their General Assembly November 10, 2009 in Washington, DC.
View Photo »White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel addresses the General Assembly of the Jewish Federations of North America in Washington on November 10, 2009.
View Photo »White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel addresses the General Assembly of the Jewish Federations of North America in Washington on November 10, 2009.
View Photo »White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel addresses the General Assembly of the Jewish Federations of North America in Washington on November 10, 2009.
View Photo »White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel addresses the General Assembly of the Jewish Federations of North America in Washington on November 10, 2009.
View Photo »White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel addresses the General Assembly of the Jewish Federations of North America in Washington on November 10, 2009.
View Photo »White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel addresses the General Assembly of the Jewish Federations of North America in Washington on November 10, 2009.
View Photo »White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel addresses the General Assembly of the Jewish Federations of North America in Washington on November 10, 2009.
View Photo »White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel addresses the General Assembly of the Jewish Federations of North America in Washington on November 10, 2009.
View Photo »White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel addresses the General Assembly of the Jewish Federations of North America in Washington on November 10, 2009.
View Photo »White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel addresses the General Assembly of the Jewish Federations of North America in Washington on November 10, 2009.
View Photo »White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel addresses the General Assembly of the Jewish Federations of North America in Washington on November 10, 2009.
View Photo »WASHINGTON - NOVEMBER 10: White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel addresses the United Jewish Communities/Jewish Federation of North America during their General Assembly November 10, 2009 in Washington, DC.
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Obamacare is predicated on the assumption that the federal government has the knowledge, capacity, and will to drive greater efficiency in American health care. Inadvertently, White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel has become an articulate spokesman for why that assumption is dead wrong.
I know that some in the Jewish community believe we have singled out Israel for criticism as it relates to settlements ... The fact is, the administration’s position is consistent with the positions of previous administrations and with the previous commitments of the Israeli government under the Roadmap...
On Tuesday, former President Bill Clinton will address the Senate Democratic caucus lunch on health care, a source close to the former president said. White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid asked Clinton to address the caucus, the source said.
lasting peace between Israel, the Palestinians and the Arab world
Just hours before [Scozzafava] endorsed the Democrat, she received calls from Barack Obama's chief of staff Rahm Emanuel. She also received calls from the Chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Senator Chuck Schumer ... Was Scozzafava promised something in return for her endorsement o...
The way to look at it and the way we — the president looks at it and we look at it — (it) is not a news organization so much as it has a perspective ... And that’s a different take. And more importantly does not have the CNNs and others in the world basically be led and following FOX, as if that — what ...
A top official at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce continued to decry the Obama administration’s opposition to the group, even though White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel is scheduled to speak before its board of directors next month. … ‘We haven’t raised up the Cain; it came from their side of the stree...
The path towards peace is not one Israel should be asked to walk alone.
People can agree or disagree with his decisions or his process, but President Obama is the commander in chief and he can take whatever time he feels is necessary and appropriate with the national interest ... What can't be done — and Rahm Emanuel and Robert Gibbs know this — is to blame the delay on Pre...
No one should allow the issue of settlements to distract from the overarching goal of a lasting peace between Israel, the Palestinians and the Arab world
Our men and women in Afghanistan deserve better than having their resources delayed until Rahm Emanuel can find a political solution to deal with his party’s base.
That is not the intent and that is not the case and never will be ... It is only through dialogue that we can achieve the lasting peace Israel seeks.
Rahm Emanuel (who also made millions of dollars as former Wall Street power broker), the White House chief of staff, said Americans 'have a right to be frustrated and angry at reports that a year after the government used $700 billion to save major lending institutions from collapse, Wall Street appears...
that this implies diminished support for Israel, that is not the intent ... It is not the case and it never will be. The truth is the opposite. Only through dialogue will Israel achieve the peace it seeks.
White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel said Sunday that before a decision is made on whether to send more U.S. troops to Afghanistan, the United States must assess the strength and viability of the Afghan government
that this implies diminished support for Israel, that is not the intent ... It is not the case and it never will be. The truth is the opposite. Only through dialogue will Israel achieve the peace it seeks.
It's well known … that there are individuals, including the vice president of the United States, now, unfortunately, the national security adviser [retired Marine Gen. James Jones], the chief political adviser to the president, Mr. Rahm Emanuel who don't want to alienate the left base of the Democrat Pa...
The president [Obama] is asking the questions that have never been asked on the civilian side, the political side, the military side and the strategic side
We appreciate Anita Dunn coming on this program ... She was delivering a message which we saw reinforced this morning by Rahm Emanuel. And if they want to punch back against [Fox News anchor Sean] Hannity or Beck for certain things they've said, absolutely, that's their political right. But by going aft...
A lot of people who all of a sudden (say) 'this is the epicenter of the war on terror, you must do this now, immediately approve what the general said', where before it never got on the radar screen for them ... That everything was always about Iraq.
Rahm Emanuel is coming up to meet with the Senate leadership to talk about cramming through a bill out of those two - are Republicans invited to that meeting?
Wall Street is back doing what Wall Street did
But Republican voters will not forget that she also spent tens of thousands of dollars to fund negative attack ads against Republican candidates in Connecticut and around the country, and helped put Nancy Pelosi and Rahm Emanuel in power.
Not only do they come for a bailout, but in this short period of time where they have a level of normalcy because of what the government did to help them, they're now back trying to fight consumer offices and the type of protections that will prevent another type of situation where the economy is taken ...
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