Obamamania

But sorting through the more than 200 interviews Andersen says it took to create this book, he came to a startling conclusion: After Obama had to give up on a $150,000 Simon & Schuster contract because he couldn't complete the manuscript, his sources were telling him Obama finally had to bring in a ghostwriter to put together his highly praised Dreams From My Father for Times Books. He had a million pieces of tape, pictures, memos, notes, and...  

American diplomacy is never without controversy, but who would have imagined that the standard protocol of a bow to the Japanese Emperor from U.S. President Barack Obama would have caused such a fuss? Apparently, many rightwing critics in America complained that Mr. Obama bowed too low to the Emperor. Those America-centric conservatives took Mr. Obama's bow as a signal of America's weakness. Japan and most of the rest of the world saw that...  

In Illinois, Tony Rezko's banker is running for Senate. Illinois Treasurer Alexi Giannoulias confronted questions about his family’s Chicago bank as he sought to boost his bid for the U.S. Senate seat previously held by his friend President Barack Obama.Broadway Bank, with $1.2 billion in assets, has clouded the political career of Giannoulias since his first bid for office in 2006, when at age 30 he became the youngest U.S. state treasurer...  

For the last several months, President Obama has been trying to answer Sen. Obama's questions. The president's Afghanistan strategy review has been focused on the same issues Obama raised with Condoleezza Rice in January 2007, when he was on the Senate foreign relations committee and she was testifying about the troop surge in Iraq. Sen. Obama wanted to know how the president was going to force a reluctant partner to perform and when the...  

I won’t reiterate the hoopla that was made during the campaign over the NRC getting Sarah Palin some extra clothes to wear. But it’s worth contrasting it with the reporting on Michelle Obama’s threads. At last night’s bash for the Hollywood limousine liberals and the Indian Prime Minister, Michelle went all out on her dress it seems. Quotes below are from one AP article, though I’ve changed the order a bit.  

Sarah Palin is on the cover of Newsweek, but she's not happy about it. In an image taken from a Runner's World photo shoot, the former governor wears running shorts and sneakers. Palin blasted the selection in a Facebook note, writing "The Runner's World magazine one-page profile for which this photo was taken was all about health and fitness - a subject to which I am devoted and which is critically important to this nation. The out-of-context...  

Since Barack Obama's emergence as the democratic presidential candidate, his wife's fashion choices have become a cultural phenomenon. Now that Michelle Obama is our first lady, it is hard to open any fashion or gossip magazine without finding at least half a page to her latest looks.  

KRANJ, Slovenia | First lady Laura Bush said Monday she admired the "grit and strength" Hillary Rodham Clinton demonstrated in the Democratic Party's long, hard-fought primaries, but said she would want to see a Republican woman as president. She ...  

Larry Grathwohl was one of the experts/witnesses we interviewed for the documentary. He had been undercover inside the Weather Underground and had worked closely with Ayers, Dohrn, and their fellow terrorists. I asked, "Well what is going to happen to those people we can't reeducate, that are diehard capitalists?" And the reply was that they'd have to be eliminated. And when I pursued this further, they estimated they would have to eliminate...  

Filed under: The Daily FLOTUS with Lynn SweetRush Limbaugh zipped off one-liners -- the toughest aimed at Secretary of State/former senator/former First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton and the most condescending at First Lady Michelle Obama -- when he was asked by NBC's Jamie Gangel to play word association in a "Today" show interview broadcast Tuesday morning.Here goes: President Obama: "Disaster" Michelle Obama: "Garden. Plants a garden out...  

Thanks to President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, most Americans have at least heard of the godfather of community organizing, Saul Alinsky (1909-1972), and his 1971 book, Rules for Radicals. Turn on conservative talk radio any day and there’s a good chance you’ll hear Alinsky’s Rule No. 13 cited derisively: “Pick the target, [...]  

I never thought I’d find as big a fraud, phony, faker, fibber and hypocrite in high places as President Barack Hussein Obama. But I found one. The president is married to her. Of course, I know that if you criticize the First Lady, the Obamas ...  

We’ve had coffee with Hillary Clinton before — in a room with few people in it, no media, where she can be herself and say whatever she wants to say.  The woman is funny, sharp, self-depreciating, REAL, honest, charming, and astute.  Some of you out there wonder why we’ll support her to our dying days [...]  

Poll: From Sarah Palin to Michelle Obama--Which Female Icon's Story Would You ...Washington Post (blog)The "Female Force" bio-comic series has previously featured these four icons, but today, Hillary Clinton, Caroline Kennedy, Michelle Obama and Sarah Palin ...  

WASHINGTON – Republican Bob McDonnell opened a lead in early counting in Virginia's governor's race Tuesday as independent voters swung behind the GOP and fled Democrat R. Creigh Deeds, a reversal from a year ago when they catapulted President Barack Obama to the White House. New Jersey decided whether to stick with unpopular Democratic Gov. Jon Corzine, while voters elsewhere cast ballots in local races. Democrats had won big victories in...