2009年3月7日星期六

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Yahoo! News: Elections

Obama: Time of crisis can be 'great opportunity' (AP)

Posted: 07 Mar 2009 03:30 PM PST

President Barack Obama, left, and first lady Michelle Obama, right, walk out of the main residence of the White House in Washington, before their departure from the South Lawn on Marine One, Saturday, March 7, 2009. The Obama's left for an overnight stay at Camp David, the presidential retreat in Maryland's Catoctin Moutains. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)AP - Trying to buck up a dispirited nation, President Barack Obama on Saturday promised that prosperous days will return and cast these bleak times as nothing less than a "great opportunity." Packing some heft with his hope, he defended his fast-moving and expensive agenda.


Analysis: Obama recovery plans raising questions (AP)

Posted: 07 Mar 2009 02:10 PM PST

In this Jan. 21, 2009 file photo, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., top, listens to then Treasury Secretary- designate Timothy Geithner, foreground, on Capitol Hill in Washington during Geithner's nomination hearing before the committee.  'You created a situation where you cannot be wrong,' Baucus, told Geithner last week, questioning White House claims that its policies will 'create' or 'save' 3.5 million jobs.    (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)AP - President Barack Obama offered his domestic-policy proposals as a "break from a troubled past." But the economic outlook now is more troubled than it was even in January, despite Obama's bold rhetoric and commitment of more trillions of dollars.


Obama hopeful about peeling away some in Taliban (AP)

Posted: 07 Mar 2009 02:32 PM PST

AP - President Barack Obama is holding out hope that U.S. forces in Afghanistan can peel away elements of the Taliban and possibly move them toward reconciliation.

Obama gently departs from Holder's race comment (AP)

Posted: 07 Mar 2009 12:07 PM PST

U.S. President Barack Obama (L) and first lady Michelle Obama walk on the South Lawn of the White House while departing for the presidential retreat in Maryland, March 7, 2009.        REUTERS/Larry Downing (UNITED STATES POLITICS)AP - President Barack Obama says he would not have used the same language that Eric Holder did last month when the attorney general declared that the United States is a nation of cowards on matters of race.


Obama takes rosier view on economy (Politico)

Posted: 07 Mar 2009 12:16 PM PST

Politico - For the first time since taking office, President Obama is suggesting that some Americans may be overreacting to the nation's economic woes by dramatically ratcheting back their spending.

Obama Turkey visit to focus on Iraq, Afghanistan (AP)

Posted: 07 Mar 2009 02:52 PM PST

U. S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks to the media after talks with Turkish Foreign Minister Ali Babacan in Ankara, Turkey, Saturday, March 7, 2009. President Barack Obama will visit Turkey within the next month, Clinton said Saturday, in a sign of improving ties between two NATO allies. (AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici)AP - For one of his first foreign visits, President Barack Obama will call on NATO ally Turkey, an overwhelmingly Muslim country viewed as critical to aiding the U.S. pullout from Iraq, turning around the Afghanistan war and blocking Iran's nuclear ambitions.


Pelosi, Reid learn about life in Obama's shadow (AP)

Posted: 07 Mar 2009 03:41 PM PST

President Barack Obama walks down the colonnade towards the main residence of the White House before his departure on Marine One, Saturday, March 7, 2009, in Washington.  (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)AP - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi didn't lose her temper. But she unleashed a bit of sarcasm when someone suggested, yet again, that she's a thorn in President Barack Obama's side.


Time to set clock ahead an hour at 2 a.m. Sunday (AP)

Posted: 07 Mar 2009 04:13 PM PST

Electric Time Company employees Dan LaMoore, right, and James Simonini test the lights in three large clocks being constructed at the company's production facility in Medfield, Mass., Friday morning, March 6, 2009. Early Sunday morning, March 8, 2009, most of the United States will set their clocks forward to 3:00 a.m. from 2:00 a.m., commencing daylight saving time. Daylight saving time is not observed in Arizona or Hawaii. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia)AP - Time to set the clock forward by an hour.


IRS shifts away from private debt collectors (AP)

Posted: 07 Mar 2009 02:45 PM PST

In this Wednesday, March 4, 2009 file photo, IRS Commissioner Douglas Shulman prepares to testify on Capitol Hill in Washington, before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs subcommittee hearing on 'Tax Haven Banks and U. S. Tax Compliance - Obtaining the Names of U.S. Clients with Swiss Accounts.'  The Internal Revenue Service's decision this week to quit using debt collectors to dun delinquent taxpayers was celebrated by public employee unions as a pendulum shift after watching the Bush administration often opt for private contractors over federal workers to deliver government services. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)AP - So much for privatizing the federal government.


Obama says will do all necessary to boost economy (Reuters)

Posted: 07 Mar 2009 03:23 PM PST

US President Barack Obama waves after landing on the South Lawn aboard Marine One, on March 6, at the White House in Washington, DC. US President Barack Obama has announced plans to fill senior foreign policy positions dealing with international organizations as well as European and Eurasian affairs.(AFP/Tim Sloan)Reuters - President Barack Obama promised on Saturday to do everything necessary to boost the economy out of recession and warned, in an opening shot at critics of his budget proposals, that the country had tough choices ahead.


No mortgage pinch for Obama and team (Politico)

Posted: 07 Mar 2009 02:49 PM PST

Politico - As mortgage foreclosure rates hit record highs, one small group of homeowners remains relatively immune to the pressures confronting millions of other Americans: those at the highest levels of the Obama administration.

Obama says no certainty economy to rebound this year (Reuters)

Posted: 07 Mar 2009 02:31 PM PST

Reuters - President Barack Obama said he could not assure Americans the recession-mired U.S. economy would start growing again later this year, The New York Times said on Saturday.

Consensus bid could be derailed by health overhaul (AP)

Posted: 07 Mar 2009 02:13 PM PST

President Barack Obama greets lawmakers at the White House Forum on Health Reform in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Thursday, March 5, 2009. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)AP - The search for agreement on health care may be short lived.


Obama mulls reaching out to moderate Taliban: report (Reuters)

Posted: 07 Mar 2009 02:11 PM PST

Reuters - President Barack Obama is open to the idea of reaching out to moderate elements of the Taliban, The New York Times reported on Saturday.

Obama to visit Turkey (Politico)

Posted: 07 Mar 2009 08:13 AM PST

Politico - ANKARA, Turkey—Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced here Saturday that President Barack Obama will visit Turkey, a Muslim nation with close ties to the West, including the United States.

Obama's weekly address (Politico)

Posted: 07 Mar 2009 04:34 AM PST

Politico - Balancing mounting concerns on Capitol Hill about government spending with those of many Americans about the nation's economic prospects, President Barack Obama used this week's Saturday address to stress the net reduction in domestic spending in the budget he introduced—but also to tout the money he's spending to turn the economy around.

Jindal's Kenneth problem (Politico)

Posted: 07 Mar 2009 03:58 AM PST

Politico - Bobby Jindal has a wunderkind resume: a Rhodes Scholar appointed assistant secretary of Health and Human Services at age 29, elected to the U.S. House at 33 and governor of Louisiana at 36.

Afghan president says to stay in office till polls (Reuters)

Posted: 07 Mar 2009 02:51 AM PST

Reuters - Afghan President Hamid Karzai said on Saturday he would accept the national consensus for presidential polls to be held in August but would not step down before the election took place.

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