http://www.steve-shickles.com Just Another Steve Shickles Blog Thu, 20 Nov 2008 01:23:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2 en http://www.steve-shickles.com/whos-in-the-running-for-obama-administration-jobs-ap/ http://www.steve-shickles.com/whos-in-the-running-for-obama-administration-jobs-ap/#comments Thu, 20 Nov 2008 01:23:48 +0000 http://www.steve-shickles.com/whos-in-the-running-for-obama-administration-jobs-ap/ AP - It’s Washington’s favorite parlor game during a presidential transition: trying to figure out who’ll land a top spot in the new administration. President-elect Barack Obama is weighing an array of Washington insiders and outsiders, including some Republicans, for Cabinet and other top positions, according to Democratic officials.

]]> http://www.steve-shickles.com/whos-in-the-running-for-obama-administration-jobs-ap/feed/ http://www.steve-shickles.com/bush-set-to-relax-rules-protecting-species-ap/ http://www.steve-shickles.com/bush-set-to-relax-rules-protecting-species-ap/#comments Thu, 20 Nov 2008 01:23:48 +0000 http://www.steve-shickles.com/bush-set-to-relax-rules-protecting-species-ap/ AP - The Bush administration is planning to relax regulations covering endangered species before President-elect Obama can reverse them.

]]> http://www.steve-shickles.com/bush-set-to-relax-rules-protecting-species-ap/feed/ http://www.steve-shickles.com/lieberman-likes-hrc-at-foggy-bottom-politico/ http://www.steve-shickles.com/lieberman-likes-hrc-at-foggy-bottom-politico/#comments Thu, 20 Nov 2008 01:23:48 +0000 http://www.steve-shickles.com/lieberman-likes-hrc-at-foggy-bottom-politico/ Politico - Count Joe Lieberman as on board for the HRC as SecState.

]]> http://www.steve-shickles.com/lieberman-likes-hrc-at-foggy-bottom-politico/feed/ http://www.steve-shickles.com/us-strongly-condemns-al-qaeda-number-twos-obama-insult-afp/ http://www.steve-shickles.com/us-strongly-condemns-al-qaeda-number-twos-obama-insult-afp/#comments Thu, 20 Nov 2008 01:23:48 +0000 http://www.steve-shickles.com/us-strongly-condemns-al-qaeda-number-twos-obama-insult-afp/ AFP - The United States on Wednesday condemned Al-Qaeda number two Ayman Zawahiri for calling US president-elect Barack Obama a “house negro,” saying it exposes his terrorist group’s anti-democratic values.

]]> http://www.steve-shickles.com/us-strongly-condemns-al-qaeda-number-twos-obama-insult-afp/feed/ http://www.steve-shickles.com/obama-talks-with-un-chief-plus-colombian-african-leaders-afp/ http://www.steve-shickles.com/obama-talks-with-un-chief-plus-colombian-african-leaders-afp/#comments Thu, 20 Nov 2008 01:23:48 +0000 http://www.steve-shickles.com/obama-talks-with-un-chief-plus-colombian-african-leaders-afp/ AFP - US president-elect Barack Obama Wednesday telephoned UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon plus the presidents of Colombia, Nigeria, Senegal and South Africa, his office said.

]]> http://www.steve-shickles.com/obama-talks-with-un-chief-plus-colombian-african-leaders-afp/feed/ http://www.steve-shickles.com/daschle-to-take-health-post-another-familiar-face-ap/ http://www.steve-shickles.com/daschle-to-take-health-post-another-familiar-face-ap/#comments Thu, 20 Nov 2008 01:23:47 +0000 http://www.steve-shickles.com/daschle-to-take-health-post-another-familiar-face-ap/ AP - Barack Obama is enlisting former Senate leader Tom Daschle as his health secretary, embracing a third Washington insider in the early stages of Cabinet-building by the president-elect who promised change. Hillary Rodham Clinton, the capital’s most famous woman for two decades, seemed ever more likely to be his secretary of state.

]]> http://www.steve-shickles.com/daschle-to-take-health-post-another-familiar-face-ap/feed/ http://www.steve-shickles.com/marc-rich-pardon-controversy-just-wont-die-ap/ http://www.steve-shickles.com/marc-rich-pardon-controversy-just-wont-die-ap/#comments Thu, 20 Nov 2008 01:23:47 +0000 http://www.steve-shickles.com/marc-rich-pardon-controversy-just-wont-die-ap/ AP - It’s a controversy that Republicans refuse to forget: Bill Clinton’s pardon eight years ago of fugitive financier Marc Rich. Just ask Eric Holder, President-elect Barack Obama’s top choice for attorney general.

]]> http://www.steve-shickles.com/marc-rich-pardon-controversy-just-wont-die-ap/feed/ http://www.steve-shickles.com/polish-fm-wants-missile-defense-signal-from-obama-ap/ http://www.steve-shickles.com/polish-fm-wants-missile-defense-signal-from-obama-ap/#comments Thu, 20 Nov 2008 01:23:47 +0000 http://www.steve-shickles.com/polish-fm-wants-missile-defense-signal-from-obama-ap/ AP - Poland’s foreign minister said Wednesday he is trying to determine which way President-elect Barack Obama is leaning on U.S. missile defense plans in Europe.

]]> http://www.steve-shickles.com/polish-fm-wants-missile-defense-signal-from-obama-ap/feed/ http://www.steve-shickles.com/dems-see-new-signs-gates-will-stay-politico/ http://www.steve-shickles.com/dems-see-new-signs-gates-will-stay-politico/#comments Thu, 20 Nov 2008 01:23:47 +0000 http://www.steve-shickles.com/dems-see-new-signs-gates-will-stay-politico/ Politico - Democratic officials said they see new signs that President-elect Barack Obama will ask Defense Secretary Robert Gates to stay in his post.

]]> http://www.steve-shickles.com/dems-see-new-signs-gates-will-stay-politico/feed/ http://www.steve-shickles.com/obama-signals-priority-with-daschle-pick-reuters/ http://www.steve-shickles.com/obama-signals-priority-with-daschle-pick-reuters/#comments Thu, 20 Nov 2008 01:23:47 +0000 http://www.steve-shickles.com/obama-signals-priority-with-daschle-pick-reuters/ Reuters - U.S. President-elect Barack Obama selected Tom Daschle, a heavyweight former senator, to be his health secretary on Wednesday, while former President Bill Clinton took steps to help secure his wife the nation’s top diplomatic job.

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