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Malia, Sasha, have I got a pet for you -- complete with many lovable quirks. GM is turning into a 99 Cents Only Store. Circuit City outlets are disappearing faster than Carmen Electra's career. Yet, all anyone can talk about is what kind of dog Malia and Sasha should have once they get to the White House. Let's settle this right here. I nominate our sweet little beagle, Cujo, for the role. Cujo seconds the motion.
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Just as President Bush is convinced he did the right thing in Iraq, he is convinced he is doing the right thing on the economy.
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The new approach, which would have the government inject capital directly into banks, is one that administration officials had publicly opposed.
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A new approach that would inject capital into banks raises questions on whether officials squandered time with an earlier $700 billion plan to buy securities.
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If the suit makes the man, McCain s in trouble. Obama, on the other hand, needs to lose the Urkel-style dad jeans. AT FIRST glance, there wasn't much to the way Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain dressed for the debate Tuesday in Nashville, other than their partisan choices in necktie color -- a pale shade of blue for Obama and red stripes for McCain. Both wore two-button, notch-lapel jackets with a single vent in the back (Obama's was black, McCain's was dark charcoal). Both wore white dress shirts with a spread collar.
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This is the time of year when investors and the financial media begin talking about which stocks will do best depending on who wins the election -- and which candidate will help, or hurt, the stock market.
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To endure their long ordeal, John McCain and the other U.S. servicemen held as prisoners of war in North Vietnam in the 1960s developed a number of survival techniques. None was quite as effective as the one former Navy pilot Richard Stratton remembers: "If you kept your mind occupied, you were...
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Associated Press: “The administration will use perhaps as much as $250 billion of the $700 billion bailout program recently passed by Congress to purchase stock in U.S. banks…” President Bush will deliver a statement in the White House Rose Garden at 8:05 am ET Tuesday after meeting with his working group on financial markets. Developing... [...]
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A financial industry official says the Bush administration has decided to greatly expand protections for the U.S. banking system out of concern for the faltering economy.
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Senator McCain gave a little "straight talk" (his words) on a campaign stop today in Virginia Beach. McCain acknowledged his trailing in the polls but rallied the crowd by painting a gloomy picture of Obama in the White House with...
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Bush ally Silvio Berlusconi will be treated to formal state dinner, talks on economic crisis.
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-- Guest list for Monday's White House dinner honoring Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi as provided by the White House.
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He used the remnants of a broken podium to toast Bush
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Cracked. Shattered. Whatever. Forget the glass ceiling, policy trumps gender in the race for the White House as far as Hillary Clinton is concerned. “Of course it’s exciting to have a woman on the ticket,” Clinton said in a CNN interview when asked about the vice presidential candidacy of Republican Sarah Palin. “But that in and of itself is [...]
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House on Tuesday threw cold water on a push by Democrats for another economic stimulus package, pointing to the financial rescue package as the antidote for the ailing U.S. economy.
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Hillary Clinton was back in the spotlight on Tuesday doing a series of television interviews in which she ruled out running for president in 2012 and said she wasn't interested in any high-level positions if Barack Obama becomes president.
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WASHINGTON - Democrat Hillary Clinton lost a tough battle for her party’s presidential nomination this year and says she is unlikely to make another run for it. In an interview with Fox News aired on Tuesday, she was first asked to rate on a scale of one to 10 whether she would become the next majority [...]
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HEMPSTEAD, New York (Reuters) - Republican John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama face off in their final debate on Wednesday, with McCain hoping a strong performance can begin to turn around a White House race that could be slipping away.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Bush administration explicitly endorsed the use of waterboarding and other harsh interrogation methods against al Qaeda suspects in a pair of secret memos to the CIA in 2003 and 2004, The Washington Post reported on Wednesday.
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President Bush welcomed the Detroit Red Wings to the White House Tuesday, celebrating a Stanley Cup championship team that overcame odds and age and even had one player who scored a goal with his teeth.
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The White House sent secret memos to officials at the CIA explicitly endorsing the use of harsh interrogation techniques including waterboarding, reports the Washington Post.
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HEMPSTEAD, New York (Reuters) - Republican John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama face off in their final debate on Wednesday, with McCain needing a strong performance to begin to turn around a White House race that could be slipping away.
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ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE (Reuters) - The latest economic data, including retail sales and payroll reports, combined with the credit crunch mean that the U.S. economy is in a weak state and will take time to recover, the White House said on Wednesday.
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While security gains remain fragile in Iraq, the government is making political progress in the country, reaping the benefits of Washington's successful troop surge strategy, the White House said Wednesday.
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The Washington Post is reporting this morning that the Bush administration put its endorsement of interrogation techniques such as water boarding into writing. That endorsement came in the form of secret memos to the CIA in 2003 and 2004. The...
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Sen. Jay Rockefeller says White House is withholding documents that show approval of harsh interrogation tactics
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Today's selection of timely reports.
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Fixing the economy – persuading voters to consume less and save more and redirecting spending into infrastructure – will demand enormous moral authority. What will voters say when Barack Obama, if he wins, says his health plan is unaffordable, asks Philip Stephens
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Americans want Bush to cancel his Christmas parties to show the he feels our economic pain.
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- John McCain got a call from Defense Secretary Robert Gates. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was on the phone to Barack Obama, and to his Democratic running mate, Joe Biden. Nobody called Sarah Palin....
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President Bush is doing plenty of talking about the financial crisis, but Americans do not appear to be taking much reassurance from his words.
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You have to envy photo-journalists. They spot those fleeting moments that encapsulate everything they want to say – and grab them, hopefully with the right flash, aperture or whatever else is necessary to make a camera work. Sometimes it looks so easy. Why do we bother with all these words when a single picture can say so much?
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Several former Bush staffers refused to see or comment on Oliver Stone's biopic.
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Data on polling trends suggest that the 2008 US presidential elections will be a tight race, and continue to be open to interpretation. According to Fox News, one group of voters in the latest Gallup daily tracking poll put John
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John McCain and Barack Obama trade sharp words over tax plans, with just 17 days to go before the election.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Parts of the United States, struggling with high jobless rates, seem to be in recession, but the government's plan to support credit markets will help, President George W. Bush's top economic adviser said on Sunday.
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