Obama Puts Hope On Hold In Days Of Transition
Filed Under Curtain Rods | Posted on November 9, 2008
President-elect Obama is putting hope on hold.
In two appearances since he was elected, Obama has emphasized the monumental challenges the country faces and warned against expectations that he will bring a quick fix. The change he promised on the campaign trail will come, he told an eager nation, but it will take some time.
“We are [...]
Curtain Time for Barack Obama
Filed Under Kitchen Curtain | Posted on May 18, 2008
To understand how the Combine works in Illinois it’s important to recognize that the state is divided into three levels of political clout, beginning with Chicago, Cook County and the state of Illinois, according to Chicago columnist Ray Hanania.
It’s also important to remember that in December 2004, when Obama went house-hunting with his real estate [...]
Curtain Time for Barack Obama
Filed Under Curtain Rods | Posted on May 15, 2008
The April 29, 2008 report also noted that before he escaped from jail in Bagdad in December 2006, and returned to Chicago, Obama’s US Senate office had sought information about Alsammarae from the State Department on October 16, 2006 on behalf of Alsammarae’s family while he was being held in jail in Iraq.
As usual, when [...]
The man behind the curtain
Filed Under Kitchen Curtain | Posted on April 27, 2008
NO sooner had Sen. Hillary Clinton won a near landslide victory in the Pennsylvania primary than major media figures were renewing their calls for her to drop out of the race. But there is a whiff of panic about them now.
In an editorial Wednesday, the New York Times called Mrs. Clinton’s 10-percentage-point victory in the [...]
World A strange political ritual
Filed Under Kitchen Curtain | Posted on April 20, 2008
PHILADELPHIAæ¥hen Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton finally holstered their weapons after this week’s Democratic debate, 650 journalists bolted for a room where the curtain was just going up on a strange, time-honoured American political ritual.Here, in this theatre of the absurd known as The Spin Room, young campaign aides expectantly and apprehensively hold [...]
Rudd Wins Praise From Clinton
Filed Under Kitchen Curtain | Posted on April 1, 2008
Kevin Rudd has won praise from US Democrat presidential rivals Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama as a leader who will promote the Australia-United States alliance and be a force for good in the Asian region Kitchen Curtain.
Senator Obama, frontrunner in the nomination race, complimented Mr Rudd following a 25 minute telephone conversation between the two [...]
USElection Clinton can’t land a punch
Filed Under Kitchen Curtain | Posted on February 24, 2008
WASHINGTONæ˜o one outside Texas had ever heard of Kirk Watson before Tuesday night when, in a two minute, 30 second nationally televised car wreck of political punditry, he became Hillary Clinton’s best campaign asset.The fact that he was on live television to sing the praises of Barack Obama, and was being nailed to the wall [...]