Tag: president
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selection ’08: obama selected as US president
from yahoo: Obama wins California, Hawaii, Oregon, Colorado, Nevada, and Washington, giving him 338 electoral votes to McCain’s 141 (AP). He will be the 44th president of the United States. After a tight battle against Republican Sen. John McCain, Obama has become the first African American president in the history of the United States. mccain’s…
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pakistan in the crosshairs: bombs, blackops & bhutto
huge truck bomb strikes marriot hotel in islamabadfrom winter patriot: A huge truck bomb exploded at the entrance to the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad on Saturday evening, killing at least 40 people and wounding more than 150, the police said. This according to Carlotta Gall, who reports from Pakistan and Afghanistan for the New York…
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Bush Tours America to Survey Damage Caused By His Disastrous Presidency
President Bush will seek to comfort victims of his presidency as they try to make sense of the destruction he has caused.
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putin hands presidency & nuke suitcase to medvedev
medvedev inaugurated as russian presidentfrom washington times: Dmitry Medvedev yesterday was inaugurated as Russia’s president, pledging to bolster the country’s economic development and civil rights in what might signal a departure from his predecessor’s heavy-handed tactics. Mr. Medvedev took the oath of office in the Kremlin’s golden-hued Andreyevsky Hall, bringing to an end Vladimir Putin’s…
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here’s hoping mcclellan’s book brings down bush
from first post: Former White House spokesman Scott McClellan is ready to blow the lid off the Bush administration with an astonishing admission that not only did he lie for his masters, but was told to do so by President Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, Bush chief of staff Andrew Card, chief political adviser Karl…
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former president gerald ford dies at 93
from houston chronicle: Gerald R. Ford, who picked up the pieces of Richard Nixon’s scandal-shattered White House as the 38th president and the only one never elected to nationwide office, has died. He was 93… Ford was an accidental president, Nixon’s hand-picked successor, a man of much political experience who had never run on a…