http://sharpynews.com/politics/barack-obama Barack Obama News Wed, 07 Jan 2009 08:40:02 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Yesterday, President-Elect Barack Obama promised an administration that will set a "new higher standard of accountability, transparency and oversight." Tomorrow, members of Congress will have an opportunity to ask the President-Elect to demonstrate some of that promised transparency to the American people as it relates to details of his ... http://sharpynews.com/politics/barack-obama/barack-obama-news/will-1-congressman-and-1-senator-challenge-obama-electoral-college-votes-tomorrow-obamabarack/ On the January 5 edition of FoxNews' Hannity & Colmes,right-wing pundit Ann Coulter defended inflammatory and offensive comments shemakes about single mothers and children whose parents divorce in her new book, Guilty: Liberal"Victims" and Their Assault on America. Coulter referredto one statement in the book -- that children whose parents ... http://sharpynews.com/politics/barack-obama/barack-obama-news/on-hannity-colmes-coulter-continues-attack-on-single-motherhood-calling-it-a-recipe-to-create-criminals-strippers-rapists-murderers-obamabarack/ Can’t think of anyone better:Meg Whitman fired the starting gun on the race to succeed Arnold Schwarzenegger as California governor on Monday when the former chief executive of eBay abruptly resigned from the boards of three companies.Ms Whitman, who continues to own a 2 per cent stake in eBay, the ... http://sharpynews.com/politics/barack-obama/barack-obama-news/meg-whitman-for-governor-of-california-barack-obama/ It took a while -- longer than some partisans on both sides wanted -- but Barack Obama has now spoken publicly about the situation in Gaza."I'm very concerned with the conflict taking place there, I'm monitoring the situation on a day to day basis," the president-elect told reporters, continuing: ... http://sharpynews.com/politics/barack-obama/barack-obama-news/obama-civilian-deaths-in-gaza-israel-source-of-deep-concern-barack-obama/ The Senate leadership deal is officially done, and Queens Democrat Malcolm Smith has finally landed the 32 votes he needs to be majority leader of the Senate, putting the chamber back into Democratic hands for the first time in 43 years. Flanked by members of his conference - including all ... http://sharpynews.com/politics/barack-obama/barack-obama-news/mr-majority-leader-obamabarack/ As a hotel transient President-elect Barack Obama marched onward talking economy and trillions and trying to keep his White House transition on track for a Jan. 20 inauguration despite a D.C. drizzle and mounting distractions like Cabinet resignations even before their oath-taking, 98% of the United States Senate convened ... http://sharpynews.com/politics/barack-obama/barack-obama-news/how-98-senators-plus-3-100-barack-obama/ And, drat it all, when an Islamo-fascist buys you he darn well insists you stay bought:Al-Qaida’s No. 2 leader lashed out at President-elect Barack Obama in a new audio message Tuesday, accusing him of not doing anything to stop Israel’s offensive in the Gaza Strip, according to an intelligence monitoring ... http://sharpynews.com/politics/barack-obama/barack-obama-news/well-weren%e2%80%99t-some-of-obama%e2%80%99s-donors-from-gaza-obamabarack/ The Washington Post's Howard Kurtz reports that Barack Obama has made an interesting choice for surgeon general: Dr. Sanjay Gupta, who's best known for his work on CNN and CBS.Kurtz says Obama has offered the job to Gupta, a neurosurgeon, and told him he "could be the highest-profile surgeon general in ... http://sharpynews.com/politics/barack-obama/barack-obama-news/report-cnns-gupta-obamas-choice-for-surgeon-general-dem-ill/ Episode: The Captain's AMERICA Radio Show For Jan. 6th... Hey, I've posted a new episode on my podcast... Check it out; I think you'll like it! Title: "The Captain's AMERICA" Radio Show Podcast... http://thecaptainsamerica.podOmatic.com/entry/2009-01-06T12_10_50-08_00 On today's show you'll hear breaking news about the possible disclosure of Barack Obama's being born ... http://sharpynews.com/politics/barack-obama/barack-obama-news/the-captains-america-radio-show-for-jan-6th-obamabarack/ Responding to reportsthat President-elect Barack Obama has chosen former congressman and ClintonWhite House chief of staff Leon Panetta as CIA director, Michael Savageasserted on the January 5 broadcast of his nationally syndicated radio showthat "maybe [former Weather Underground member] Bill Ayers picked LeonPanetta," later asking, "Is it Bill Ayers and ... http://sharpynews.com/politics/barack-obama/barack-obama-news/savage-on-obama-choice-for-cia-director-maybe-bill-ayers-picked-leon-panetta-barack-obama/