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President Obama broke new ground Thursday by personally hosting a White House Seder dinner for the Jewish holiday of Passover. But by limiting invitees to an exclusive group of staffers and family, he apparently irritated some constituents.
When the White House announced the Seder, Jewish leaders from the Washington area began calling wondering where their invitations were, according to White House e-mails accidentally distributed to the press.
"Apparently Jewish [residents] here and in neighboring states are now calling wondering why the [ READ MORE... ]
Barack Obama
US President-elect Barack Obama has reportedly been skipping church services.According to media reports, Obama has been spending his free time working out at a Chicago gym.
Obama's media managers have put out a reason for his skipping church. He is not attending church because his family members are concerned that their large entourage could affect other parishioners.
“Because they have a great deal of respect for places of worship, they do not want to draw unwelcome or inappropriate attention to a church not used to the attention their [ READ MORE... ]
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Asian shares rallied and bonds fell after the U.S. government rescued banking giant Citigroup in a bid to prevent further damage to the ailing global financial system.
But European shares were set for a tepid start, with Britain's FTSE 100 seen between down 4 points to up 3 points.
The yen edged up from sharp falls a day earlier and gained against major currencies, but some traders said the Japanese currency could stall in the near term if investors continued to return to battered equity markets and other riskier assets from so-called saf [ READ MORE... ]
Barack Obama, Hillary clinton
Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton stepped onto the political stage as allies for the first time Friday, making a pilgrimage to this small town near the Green Mountains in a bid to unite Democrats behind Obama's campaign for the White House.
On a day rich with stagecraft, the two former adversaries embraced before about 4,000 supporters who blanketed a verdant field outside Unity's elementary school.
Obama praised Clinton for her path-breaking candidacy. And Clinton urged her supporters to make Obama's cause their own this November.
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They may not be falling in love, but they're falling in line.
Prominent supporters of Hillary Rodham Clinton are embracing Barack Obama, literally and figuratively, even though some remain bitter about her loss in a presidential primary process that they feel treated her unfairly.
In several key states this week, Obama is being joined on stages by top Democrats who, a few weeks ago, were working to deny him the nomination.
"I know I'm late, but I am on the train," North Carolina Gov. Mike Easley said Monday in introducing Obama in [ READ MORE... ]
Barack Obama, Hillary clinton
Hillary Clinton is still raising bucks and wearing out her campaign pedometer in her effort to become the Democratic presidential nominee, but even her own campaign is acknowledging that her days are numbered.
A columnist at The Huffington Post reported Thursday that a senior campaign official and Clinton confidante said a Democratic nominee will be chosen by June 15. Barack Obama’s campaign, meanwhile, announced its plan to declare victory on May 20, after he wraps up a majority of the pledged delegates in the Democratic nominating pr [ READ MORE... ]
Barack Obama, Hillary clinton
The epic battle between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama for the Democratic presidential nomination shifted yesterday to the disputed delegates from Florida and Michigan, whose fate is rapidly becoming the flash point for Clinton supporters' anger.
Hundreds of her backers, including a contingent from Massachusetts, plan to protest outside the Washington hotel hosting the party's Rules and Bylaws Committee, whose ruling on Saturday could determine whether the nomination fight ends next week - or perhaps continues all the way to the party' [ READ MORE... ]
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