Posted by on November 30th, 2008 | Categorized as Uncategorized
pOn November 4th the three-way race for the Georgia U.S. Senate seat between Jim Martin, incumbent Saxby Chambliss and Allen Buckley ended with none of the candidates having reached 50% of the total vote. Under Georgia law, a special runoff election has been scheduled for December 2nd between Martin and Chambliss./pPresident-elect Barack Obama recently released […]
Posted by on November 27th, 2008 | Categorized as Uncategorized
pPresident-elect Barack Obama released a preview of the Weekly Democratic Radio Address today, in which he discusses the meaning of the Thanksgiving holiday in this challenging time. He underscores that the spirit that binds us together as Americans is the same spirit that will lead us out of this economic crisis through bold, swift action./pblockquotepTimes […]
Posted by on November 26th, 2008 | Categorized as Uncategorized
pBelow is a statement from the Obama Transition Chief National Security Spokesperson Brooke Anderson on the a href=”http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/11/26/india.attacks/index.html”terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India/a:/pblockquotepPresident-Elect Obama strongly condemns today’s terrorist attacks in Mumbai, and his thoughts and prayers are with the victims, their families, and the people of India. These coordinated attacks on innocent civilians demonstrate the grave […]
Posted by on November 25th, 2008 | Categorized as Uncategorized
pToday, David Plouffe announced plans for a series of coordinated house meetings to be held on December 13th and 14th, in which grassroots supporters are being invited to help plan the future of this movement./pblockquotepa href=”http://my.barackobama.com/changeiscoming”img src=”http://www.barackobama.com/images/email/08/nov/change_event.jpg” border=”0″ alt=”Host a Change is Coming meeting” hspace=”5″ vspace=”5″ width=”225″ height=”350″ align=”left” //a This week, President-elect Barack Obama […]
Posted by on November 25th, 2008 | Categorized as Uncategorized
pThis morning, David Plouffe sent out the following message about President-elect Obama’s new economic team: /pblockquotepToday and yesterday, President-elect Barack Obama announced key members of an economic team tasked with creating jobs, stabilizing the economy, and getting our country back on track.br /br / Barack is bringing together some of […]
Posted by on November 24th, 2008 | Categorized as Uncategorized
pPresident-elect Barack Obama and Vice President-elect Joe Biden officially announced key members of their economic team today, naming Timothy Geithner as Secretary of the Treasury and Lawrence Summers as Director of the National Economic Council. Obama and Biden also named Christina Romer Chair of the Council of Economic advisors, and named Melody Barnes and Heather […]
Posted by on November 23rd, 2008 | Categorized as Uncategorized
pRemember a href=”http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/tag/hq-fellows-andy”Andy/a? Throughout the summer, we brought you stories from some of the a href=”http://my.barackobama.com/page/content/fellowshome”Obama Organizing Fellows/a, volunteer organizers who spent six weeks working in states across the country in conjunction with grassroots leaders and campaign staff to help build the foundation of our general election campaign.nbsp; /ppMany of the Fellows, Andy among them, […]
Posted by on November 22nd, 2008 | Categorized as Uncategorized
pPresident-elect Barack Obama delivered the Democratic Radio Address this morning, discussing his plans to put people back to work and get our economy moving again. Obama has directed his economic team to assemble an Economic Recovery Plan that will save or create 2.5 million more jobs by January of 2011./ppIn keeping with the President-elect and […]
Posted by on November 21st, 2008 | Categorized as Uncategorized
pBelow is a message from Campaign Manager David Plouffe to the millions of supporters who helped fund this campaign over the last two years: /pblockquoteI have a special request for you.br /br / The Obama-Biden Transition Project is a nonpartisan entity whose purpose is to facilitate the transition to a new government and prepare […]
Posted by on November 20th, 2008 | Categorized as Uncategorized
pVice-President-elect Joe Biden turned 66 years old today. Yesterday President-elect Obama surprised Biden with an early birthday gift: /pp align=”center”img src=”http://www.change.gov/page/-/20081120_blog_photo.jpg” alt=”” /br /a href=”http://change.gov/newsroom/entry/happy_birthday_joe/”emphotos from Change.gov/em/a/ppCNN a href=”http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/11/20/obama-brings-biden-birthday-cupcakes-2/”reported/a:/pblockquotepThe day before Vice President-elect Joe Biden turns 66, President-elect Barack Obama presented his running mate with 12 candlelit cupcakes after their weekly lunch on Wednesday. He […]