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Evening Buzz: Money for White House Access? - ac360.blogs.cnn.com 10/29/2009 Democrat Barack Obama campaigned in 2008 on a message of change. Maureen Miller AC360° Writer According to reports, big Democratic donors, many of them friends of Pres. Obama, are getting VIP access to the White House. We’re talking about use of the bowling alley, Oval Office meetings, and movie screenings in the basement theater. This may bring memories of Pres. Bill Clinton’s prestigious list o
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The closure of the Bay Bridge here in San Francisco has made our city streets impassable and probably prevented a fairly large number of the Humane Society of the United States’ natural constituency as well as their foes from turning up tonight. I’ll be liveblogging the town hall meeting, so just a couple of reminders: This is live, so there will be typos. Only things in quotations marks are direct quotes; everything else is a paraphrase. I’ll update now and then, so if you come across this po
Oct
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The Fourth Star: Four Generals and the Epic Struggle for the Future of the United States Army by Washington Post Pentagon reporter Greg Jaffe. Judging by an interview on NPR’s Fresh Air today, it sounds interesting. The focus is on four generals, their backgrounds, how they were influenced by the military’s Vietnam and Gulf War experiences as they went into Iraq, and how Petraeus, though looked down on in some quarters as a political general with too much time in DC, had the political skills
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Democrat Barack Obama campaigned in 2008 on a message of change. Maureen Miller AC360° Writer According to reports, big Democratic donors, many of them friends of Pres. Obama, are getting VIP access to the White House. We're talking about use of the bowling alley, Oval Office meetings, and movie screenings in the basement theater. This may bring memories of Pres. Bill Clinton's prestigious list of those who got to stay overnight in the Lincoln bedroom. Or more recently, Pres. Ge
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At today’s White House Press Briefing, things got a little tense between Press Secretary Robert Gibbs and CBS News’ Chip Reid , as Reid questioned Gibbs about a Washington Times report that accuses the White House of selling access to the White House bowling alley, among other things. The exchange ended with Gibbs talking about chicken fingers, and Reid referencing the Clinton “Lincoln Bedroom” scandal. Following up on a question by CNN’s Ed Henry , Reid asked if the administration woul
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