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Remarks by President Obama on strengthening missile defense in Europe THE PRESIDENT: Good morning. As Commander-in-Chief, I’m committed to doing everything in my power to advance our national security. And that includes strengthening our defenses against any and all threats to our people, our troops, and our friends and allies around the world. One of…
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Joint press availability with President Obama and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper PRESIDENT OBAMA: Hello, everybody. Prime Minister Harper and I have just had an excellent conversation, reiterating the extraordinary friendship and bond between the American and the Canadian people. We discussed both our bilateral relationship on issues of energy, our borders, issues of trade,…
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Has the controversy over Bob McDonnell’s 1989 graduate-school thesis had an impact on the Virginia governor’s race? A new poll suggests that it has, and that it has the potential to do more damage as more voters start to pay attention to the upcoming state elections. Fifty-two percent of the 600 registered voters surveyed by…
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Democrats seem to start off behind the eight-ball in attorney-general’s races. I say that because Republicans have won the last four, dating back to Jim Gilmore’s win over Bill Dolan in 1993. That the trend has continued even as Democrats have won the past two governor’s races and past two U.S. Senate races says something…
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Interesting piece in the Washington Post from the weekend containing more of the gnashing of the teeth from the summer from the NoVans about the apparent rudderless nature of the Creigh Deeds campaign. Among the observations in the piece, filed by reporter Roz Helderman, but which otherwise read as a feature column: Deeds is not…
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Tim Kaine famously wears two hats as governor of Virginia and chairman of the Democratic National Committee. Wearing either hat Kaine is going to have an interest in the outcome of the 2009 gubernatorial election. But the Kaine that wears a third hat is the one who’s most into the Creigh Deeds-Bob McDonnell race. “My…
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Thursday, Sept. 10 Remarks by President Obama after Cabinet meeting THE PRESIDENT: Hello, everybody. We just had an excellent and informative Cabinet meeting. Secretaries Clinton and Gates provided an overview of our current national security posture. Secretary Geithner discussed some of the — both promise and peril of our current economic situation. But we spent…
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Wednesday, Sept. 9 Remarks by President Obama at service for Walter Cronkite THE PRESIDENT: Thank you. Thank you very much. To Chip, Kathy, and Nancy, who graciously shared your father with a nation that loved him; to Walter’s friends, colleagues, protégés, and all who considered him a hero; to the men of the Intrepid; to…
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I guess I really “struck a nerve,” as one reader commented on Tuesday’s column about Steve Landes’ anti-Obama tirade at an Augusta County Republican picnic. How I know is that I’ve become the target of the Republican attack machine. “I think quite a few people would like to know what kind of journalist you really…
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The Democratic National Committee today released a new television ad set to run on national and District of Columbia cable stations, and in 10 Republican congressional districts, blasting the Republican Party for voting earlier this year to abolish Medicare and for its decades long hostility towards the health-care program for our nation’s seniors.
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