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Obama, Mideast: 'Time to move forward'
The Swampby Christi Parsons NEW YORK -- Insisting that Middle East peace-talks must move beyond a familiar pattern of taking "tentative steps forward and then stepping back," President Obama entered a meeting with Israeli and Palestinian leaders this afternoon...Tags: New York, Barack Obama, Washington (U.S. state), United Nations, Government
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Food, Fuel, Famine
The Swampby Stephen J. Hedges U.S. Agriculture Secretary Ed Schafer, who travels to a world food security conference in Rome next week, laid out the Bush administration's strategy today for meeting the current worldwide crisis of rising food costs and shortages......Tags: Medical Specialization, Agriculture, Food Industry, White House, Renewable Energy
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Cheney: Tax cuts, security, game plan
The Swampby Mark Silva Vice President Dick Cheney - the "magic man'' of the Bush administration, in the words of the now-renowned Scott McClellan - stirred up the Republican faithful last night in New York, scene of the party convention that......Tags: Executive Branch, Republican Party, Government, National Government, The New York Times
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Rice's Rules of Engagement
The SwampBy Bay Fang Despite diligently ignoring each other at a United Nations-led conference on Iraq in Stockholm, Sweden, Condoleezza Rice and Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki could not avoid getting into a bit of a public spat. At the meeting,......Tags: Condoleezza Rice, Politics, Political Systems, United Nations
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Clinton and sexism -- Not 'death knell'
The Swampby Mark Silva Was Sen. Hillary Clinton a victim of sexism in her failed bid for the Democratic presidential nomination? Some of her supporters say so. Then again, some will say that Sen. Barack Obama has suffered from racial prejudice......Tags: Barack Obama, Executive Branch, Dianne Feinstein, Government, Environmental Issues
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Bush: (Welcome) American in Paris
The Swampby Marc Silva There have been, as French President Nicolas Sarkozy gently put it today, a few "hiccups'' along the way in that long history of Franco-American relations. Must have been the "Freedom Fries.'' But you wouldn't have known that......Tags: Politics, White House, Diplomacy, Government, National Government
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Obama: We need City Hall, not McCain
The Swampby John McCormick, updated with McCain response Sen. Barack Obama told a conference of mayors Saturday in Miami that he knows he will need to listen to them if he makes it to the White House, otherwise the snow in......Tags: George W. Bush, Barack Obama, John McCain, White House, Richard M. Daley
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Black terror comments: 'Inappropriate'
The Swampby Jill Zuckman After telling Fortune magazine that a terror attack on the United States would be "a big advantage" for Sen. John McCain in the presidential campaign, senior adviser Charles R. Black, Jr. was forced to recant the sentiment......Tags: Barack Obama, John McCain, Osama bin Laden, September 11, 2001 Attacks
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Dobson criticizes Obama on religion
The Swampby Katie Fretland An influential conservative figure criticizes Sen. Barack Obama on religion today in a radio segment saying the candidate for president has distorted the Bible and pushed a "fruitcake interpretation" of the Constitution. James Dobson,...Tags: Barack Obama, John McCain, Al Sharpton
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Obama v. McCain: Fate of women's rights
The Swampby Mark Silva In his show of unity with Sen. Hillary Clinton in Unity, N.H., Sen. Barack Obama made note of what the former first lady's campaign for president had done for the cause of women's rights. "Because of the......Tags: Barack Obama, John McCain, Ohio, Politics, Human Rights
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Obama and Clinton's show of "Unity"
The SwampBy John McCormick and Mike Dorning updated UNITY, N.H. - Two fierce and sometimes spiteful rivals offered a schoolyard embrace Friday, standing in the same state where one had first blocked the other from what could have been a much......Tags: Arlo Guthrie, Barack Obama, John McCain, Politics, Hillary Clinton
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Hoyer: U.S. reputation 'sullied' by torture
The Swampby Matthew Hay Brown It was 20 years ago today that The United Nations Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment took effect. The world body is marking the anniversary with an International Day in......Tags: Benjamin L. Cardin, Politics, United Nations, Abusive Behavior, Maryland
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