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McCain's Colorado ticket: 'Skiing uphill'
The Swampby Jim Tankersley ARVADA, Colo. -- Forget Ohio, forget Florida, forget Missouri and North Carolina and Indiana. John McCain could sweep them all and still lose the presidency--unless he can engineer a comeback worthy of local football legend John Elway......Tags: White House, John Kerry, Politics, Government, Demographics
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John McCain: An unwavering resolve
The Swampby Jill Zuckman MIAMI -- John McCain was never supposed to be here, holding rallies, waving to supporters, one step from the presidency. His campaign was left for dead during the primaries, and polls have consistently shown him trailing Barack......Tags: Executive Branch, Harry Reid, New York, Southwest Airlines Co., Rudy Giuliani
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Rhetoric meets reality for Obama agenda
The SwampBy Jim Tankersley Forget "hope" and "change" and "yes we can." The word that will matter most, when Barack Obama assumes the Oval Office, is "doable." Teary-eyed jubilation is giving way to clear-eyed realism. As his campaign rhetoric runs into......Tags: Executive Branch, Freddie Mac, Politics, Energy, Colorado
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Obama's Veterans Day: Soldier Field
The Swampby Mark Silva At 11 am CST today, Veterans' Day, President-elect Barack Obama arrived at a bronze memorial at Chicago's Soldier Field. Wearing a dark overcoat, the president-elect walked to the memorial with Tammy Duckworth, a wounded Iraq War veteran.......Tags: Veterans Affairs, National Government, Soldier Field, Veterans Day, Government
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Bush lands on another aircraft carrier
The Swamp(Photo by SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images) by Frank James President Bush landed on another aircraft carrier today, the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum which is permanently moored at a pier on the West Side of Manhattan. Today's carrier landing......Tags: George W. Bush, Abraham Lincoln, Executive Branch, National Government, Veterans Day
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Fake New York Times: 'Iraq War ends'
The Swampby Frank James A group of liberal pranksters showed what you can do with some time, some people and some money. They created a fake issue of the New York Times with a four-colum wide headline that blares "Iraq......Tags: The New York Times, Grand Central Terminal, Brooklyn (New York City), International Military Interventions, Wars and Interventions
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SoS Hillary? New WH counsel bashed her foreign cred
Spin CycleOver the weekend, reports indicated that Obama has chosen Gregory Craig as his new White House counsel. With Hillary Clinton now under consideration as Secretary of State, it's worth remembering that Craig -- a former Clinton classmate who served......Tags: Social Issues, Disasters and Accidents, Disasters, Government Health Care, Armed Conflicts
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Economy in recession for a year
The Swampby Frank James For anyone who suspected for the past year or so that the economy was in a recession, who thought the signs were evident even before Wall Street ran off the rails in the spring and summer, you......Tags: Social Issues, Death, Economy, Business and Finance
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Obama a no-show in Georgia Senate race
The SwampTribune Correspondent James Oliphant spent last week in Georgia, covering the U.S. Senate runoff between Republican Saxby Chambliss and Democrat Jim Martin. The race could determine the success of the Democratic legislative agenda. Here is his report:...Tags: Max Cleland, Social Issues, Massachusetts, Jim Martin, Advertising
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George Bush library: Rooms available
The Swampby Mark Silva Every once in a while, someone has a little fun at the expense of, well, the president of the United States. And every once in a while, some of that fun comes around in the form of,......Tags: George W. Bush, National Government, Dallas, Government, Texas
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Chuck: In the middle of another disaster
Spin CycleSeven years ago, after Enron collapsed, a number of articles chronicled how Chuck Schumer's attempts to solicit money and approval from Wall Street -- on securities suits, on accounting firms' conflicts of interest, and on accounting rules -- had......Tags: Disasters, Disasters and Accidents, National Government, Government, Credit Ratings
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Iraq-Afghan costs by 2018 maybe $2.5 tr.
The Swampby Frank James The Iraq War has cost more by itself than any other U.S. war with the exception of World War II. That's just one sobering fact in the report issued this week by the Center for Strategic and......Tags: Politics, World War II (1939-1945), State Budgets
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