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Timothy McNulty | December 16, 2008 Still buffeted by questions about his handling of the Blago scandal, Obama holds a press conference at 11:45 EST -- not at flag-lined conference room, but instead at a Chicago school. It's to announce his education secretary Arne Duncan, but there's more at...
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Timothy McNulty | December 15, 2008 The Obama camp says their list of staff contacts with the Blago administration is complete but won't be released until a week from today, saying the delay was requested from the US Attorney's office. "At the direction of the President-elect, a review of...
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Timothy McNulty | December 15, 2008 The pendulum is swinging back on the Blago story: whereas criticism mounted last week of Obama's slow response to the Illinois guv's arrest, storylines are now emerging questioning those criticisms, especially by the GOP. The last straw appears to have been...
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Timothy McNulty | December 12, 2008 At this rate, Ed Rendell may not even get a Christmas card from Obama, let alone a Cabinet appointment or state budget help. A week after being called sexist for his remarks on Obama's female Homeland Security chief pick, this morning he criticized Obama's...
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Timothy McNulty | December 11, 2008 We've been waiting and waiting and it's finally here: Obama will hold his first press conference since the Blago arrest today at 11 am eastern. It's formally to introduce Tom Daschle as health secretary, but you know near-all of the questions will be on...
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Timothy McNulty | December 10, 2008 The Obama camp's halting response to the Blago-sphere continues this afternoon, as White House spokesman-elect Robert Gibbs calls on Blago to resign . . . a full day after the Illinois Lt. Gov. said the same thing. "Under the current circumstances, it is difficult...
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Timothy McNulty | December 10, 2008 We ended the day yesterday noting how Obama has said little about the Blago corruption scandal in his home base of Chicago, and it starts off the day again today. For a guy who has responded so quickly to other big stories -- Rev. Wright, the economic crisis, etc....
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Timothy McNulty | December 9, 2008 It's been more than five hours since the Blago corruption arrest broke and there's still no public statement from the Chicago-based Obama camp. There may be good reason for that, says Time -- his people have a lot of work to do on this, even though Fitzpatrick...
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Timothy McNulty | December 9, 2008 A huge story already today: the Democratic governor of Illinois, Rod Blagojevich, was reportedly taken into federal custody today as part of a long-running corruption investigation. That certainly will affect his pending selection of a replacement for Obama's Senate...