Paul Begala: Obama should keep that BlackBerry

The first time I walked into the Oval Office my knees nearly buckled.  I was overwhelmed by the history — to think that Teddy and Franklin Roosevelt worked here; that John F. Kennedy hid candy for his son in that very desk; that LBJ strategized with MLK in front of that fireplace. And then the [...]

12/24/08 President-elect Obama’s Weekly Address

Krauthammer: Obama intends to transform America. He has the money, the mandate and the moxie to go for it.

Take the foreign policy team: Hillary Clinton, James Jones, and Bush holdover Robert Gates. As centrist as you can get. But the choice was far less ideological than practical. Obama has no intention of being a foreign policy president. Unlike, say, Nixon or Reagan, he does not have aspirations abroad. He simply wants quiet on [...]

Obama, McCain pledge to work together on reform

President-elect Barack Obama and vanquished rival John McCain met for the first time since the November 4 election on Monday, pledging to work together to face the financial crisis and reduce government waste.
The two men were laughing and joking against a backdrop of American flags at Obama’s presidential transition headquarters, a far cry from the [...]

The Clinton band is back together

Here’s how you can tell the campaign is over and the transition has begun: Barack Obama’s aides now wear suits and ties, their desks are in the Federal Building on 6th Street in Washington — and Clintonites are everywhere.
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Obama has historic youth mandate

President-elect Barack Obama’s 34-point margin of victory with voters under 30 was the largest in a generation, cut across lines of class, color and education—and the most impressive youth mandate in modern American history, according to an exclusive Politico analysis.
Sixty-six percent of voters under age 30 preferred Obama while just 32 percent favored McCain—nearly four [...]

Yes, It Is Time to Hope Again

In choosing Obama and a strongly Democratic Congress, the country put a definitive end to a conservative era rooted in three myths: that a party could govern successfully while constantly denigrating government’s role; that Americans were divided in an irrepressible moral conflict pitting a “real America” against some pale imitation; and that market capitalism could [...]

Rest of world to U.S.: We have a stake, too

Due to the preponderance of U.S. economic, military and cultural power, U.S. elections have a far greater impact on people outside the United States than foreign elections have on Americans.
“There is quite a lot of interest in American politics … so that people feel a personal stake in which way the election goes,” said Stephen [...]

Obama Heads For The Goal Line

An Obama White House could be more careful and disciplined than past Democratic administrations.
We are in for something very different from past Democratic administrations: a White House more cautious and circumspect in its decision-making, more careful and disciplined in its execution.
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Obama’s Story