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Timothy McNulty | February 25, 2009 I couldn't concentrate on Obama's speech last night, as my attention kept getting disrupted by Nancy Pelosi, who looked at times looked like a 5 year old fidgeting through church, and other times like somebody who took a hit off Michael Phelps bong. She looked...
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Timothy McNulty | February 19, 2009 It wasn't so long ago that Barack Obama was criticizing NAFTA in swings through Pa and Ohio, and then an economic advisor (Austan Goolsbee) told Canadian officials not to worry about it, and then the Obama team said, no, no, no, we really do think NAFTA should...
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Timothy McNulty | February 17, 2009 Even though the subject matter was rough -- it seemed that every question came back to the economy somehow -- last night's PNC/Post-Gazette town hall on the Obama administration was a pretty amazing thing to behold. Five hundred people pre-registered and another...
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Timothy McNulty | February 9, 2009 Steelers party week is over -- it's time to refocus on real life, and it ain't pretty out there. Ed Rendell starts out the day as a defense witness in Vince Fumo's corruption trial. Barack Obama ends it with a stimulus-campaign speech in hard-hit Elkhart...
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Timothy McNulty | January 27, 2009 Today's political news is all about Obama's trip to Capitol Hill to woo GOP votes for his stimulus package . So far, his bids for Repub votes -- after promising bipartisanship on the campaign trail -- have been largely unsuccessful, but there may be more at...
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Timothy McNulty | January 16, 2009 Here's the AP update on that Obama stop this afternoon outside Cleveland: Obama spoke to workers at a chilly Midwestern factory that makes parts for wind turbines, a fitting backdrop as he talked of alternative energy dollars included in the mammoth spending package...
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Timothy McNulty | January 14, 2008 How seriously is Barack Obama pushing his stimulus package ? He's going back into campaign mode, with a tour of a wind turbine factory site Friday morning in the Cleveland suburb of Bedford Heights, Ohio. The site of the tour is Cardinal Fastener & Specialty...
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Timothy McNulty | January 9, 2008 Much has been said about all the ex-Clintonites joining the Obama team. Team Obama is taking more out of the Clinton playbook that that -- they're relying heavily on polling, including the best language to use during bailout debates. From Bloomberg : Jan. 9 (Bloomberg...
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Timothy McNulty | January 8, 2009 Obama continues to hammer the BCS and call for a college football playoff, which has to be driving the grand poobahs of the bowl system right up their star chamber walls. (In fact, we know it is from their propaganda-packed website .) Here's the latest from an interview...
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Timothy McNulty | January 8, 2009 Stepping up the pressure to deliver a new stimulus package quickly, Obama lays out a grim picture on the economy in his prepared remarks for his 11 a.m. speech today: I don't believe it's too late to change course, but it will be if we don't take dramatic...