Obama’s ‘first mistakes’ mount – Andie Coller – Politico.com

Team Obama has made its first mistake — again.
When Gov. Bill Richardson withdrew his nomination as commerce secretary earlier this week, NBC’s Andrea Mitchell declared it “the Obama team’s first misstep.”
But Mitchell had been scooped.
On Nov. 7 — just three days after the election — Los Angeles’ KNBC said Obama’s flubbed joke about Nancy Reagan [...]

News Headlines – Democrats criticize Obama’s proposed tax cuts

President-elect Barack Obama’s proposed tax cuts ran into opposition Thursday from senators in his own party who said they wouldn’t do much to stimulate the economy or create jobs. Senators from both parties agreed that Congress should do something to stimulate the economy. But Democratic senators emerging from a private meeting of the Senate Finance [...]

Oil-for-Obama anointment for ascension to 44th US Presidency

Count Republican Congressman Paul Broun of Georgia as the latest disciple for President-elect Barack Obama.
In the space of months, Broun went from calling Obama a `Marxist’ and comparing him to Adolf Hitler, to helping anoint the doorway President-elect Obama will pass through on his way to the platform to be sworn in as President of [...]

Barack Obama’s ‘Black Widow’ : The Super Spy Computer | Pakistan Daily

Why did Obama vote for this eye-that-never-blinks? He’s a bright, informed guy, but he wasn’t yet the President-Elect. The cool pragmatist wanted to indicate he wasn’t radically unmindful of national security—and that his previous vow to filibuster such a bill may have been a lapse in judgment. It was.
What particularly outraged civil libertarians across the [...]

CNN Frets Over No ‘Room at the Inn’ at Blair House For the Obamas | NewsBusters.org

On Thursday’s Newsroom program, CNN correspondent Jim Acosta indirectly compared the Obama family to the pregnant Virgin Mary and St. Joseph looking for a place to stay in Bethlehem during a report about the unavailability of the Blair House: “…[I]t’s still not clear why there wasn’t enough room at the inn for the Obamas. The [...]

Obama serves Reid taste of Chicago Way — chicagotribune.com

So the Chicago Way hauled off and slapped the U.S. Senate in the face—one of those backhands with the knuckles to unsuspecting lips—and guess who blinked?
It wasn’t Chicago.
It was the Senate.
Get used to it, America. And it won’t be the last time either.
via Obama serves Reid taste of Chicago Way — chicagotribune.com.

Obama ’sure’ bad press is coming – Andy Barr – Politico.com

President-elect Barack Obama said Wednesday that he rarely reads favorable press coverage and chooses instead to focus on negative stories.
“I think it’s important not to live in the bubble,” Obama said during an interview on CNBC. “You’ve got to be open to outside information, particularly criticism.”
“I very rarely read good press,” the president-elect added. “I [...]