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Story of the day: Obama considering Hillary for veep
Spin CycleA Clinton donor says Obama, in a phone conversation, told her that Hillary is in the veepstakes, but Bill is the "complication, according to the LATimes: "He said once you're a president, even if you're a former president, you're......Tags: Government, National Government
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McCain running mate vetting: Cantor
The Swampby Mark Silva Today, in the running mate du jour category, comes word that the McCain campaign has summoned the personal records of Rep. Eric Cantor of Virginia. "A pretty good indication that he is under scrutiny as a running......Tags: Regional Authority, Lyndon B. Johnson, John Warner, Timothy M. Kaine, Eric Cantor
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Obama: McCain hurt Medicare
The Swampby John McCormick ROANOKE, Va. - Campaigning in a conservative part of a state that has consistently voted Republican for president since 1964, Sen. Barack Obama told an audience this afternoon that his Republican rival hurt Medicare. Citing a recent........Tags: Lyndon B. Johnson, Health, Roanoke (Roanoke, Virginia), Sarah Palin, National Government
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Rahm Emanuel: Nancy Pelosi's 'valet'
The Swampby Mark Silva The meaning of Rahm Emanuel's first name, as he explained to a white-tie crowd of Washingtonians with tongue planted firmly in cheek not long ago: "Go Screw Yourself.'' This, of course, was Emanuel's way of acknowledging in......Tags: Dick Cheney, Primaries, Alan Greenspan, Madeleine Albright, Rudy Giuliani
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Obama's prime-time news conference
The Swampby Mark Silva President Barack Obama, in office little over two weeks, plans to hold his first news conference on Monday -- a prime-time evening event. Obama, attempting to push an economic stimulus bill through Congress amid growing criticism that......Tags: Government, Barack Obama, White House, Politics, National Government
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Iraq, year six
The SwampA soldier mans his 50 caliber machine gun as his scout unit heads to Nasiriyah, Iraq, March 22, 2003. (Chicago Tribune photo by Nuccio DiNuzzo). by Frank James This weekend marked the sixth anniversary of the Iraq War. At......Tags: Saddam Hussein, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Prosecution, September 11, 2001 Attacks, Democratic Party
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VA unit downplayed complaints in psychiatric unit
Daily PressU.S. Rep. Robert C. "Bobby" Scott, D- Newport News, talks with the media after a tour of the Hampton Veterans Affairs Medical Center. His visit was prompted by the death of veteran Floyd Washabaugh. The psychiatric ward at the Hampton Veterans Affairs...Tags: Hampton (Hampton, Virginia), Shortness of Breath, Weather Reports, Anxiety, Family
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Senator Webb joins probe of Hampton Veterans hospital
Daily PressVirginia Sen. Jim Webb intends to investigate the visitor policy at the Hampton Veterans Affairs Medical Center psychiatry unit, he told reporters Thursday. Webb's probe comes in response to a Daily Press report Sunday that exposed a three-year-old policy...Tags: Hampton (Hampton, Virginia), Health, Crime, Law and Justice, Crimes, Hospitals and Clinics
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Obama-Clinton ticket: 55% Dems say yes
The Swampby Mark Silva While most Democrats are telling pollsters that Sen. Hillary Clinton should continue her contest with Sen. Barack Obama for the party's presidential nomination, most also say they like the idea of Obama tapping Clinton for his running......Tags: Democratic Party, National Government, Ted Strickland, Government, Barack Obama
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Larry Craig on VP offer: 'No, Hillary'
The Swampby Mark Silva The vice president's job - until the reign of Dick Cheney - was largely a matter of holding a mirror under the nose of the president to see if he was still breathing. But now, in the......Tags: Dick Cheney, Barbara A. Mikulski, Evan Bayh, National Government, Government
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House passes GI Bill, blocks war spending
The Swampby Aamer Madhani UPDATED with Pelosi comment House minority leader John Boehner accused the Democrats of "playing political games" for stacking the spending bill to fund the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan with what he and other Republicans have called......Tags: People, Economy, Business and Finance, Nancy Pelosi, Republican Party, Career and Workplace
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Jim Webb's fighting political manifesto
The Swampby David Lerman In his new book, Virginia Sen. Jim Webb describes an America that lacks a coherent national security strategy while bogged down in a war that should never have been fought. It is a country, he says, where......Tags: Books and Magazines, Prisons, David Letterman, Crimes, Economic Policy
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