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   Presidential transition of Barack Obama

   On November 5, the General Services Administration declared that Obama was the "apparent winner," making him eligible to receive transition funding and other government services, and granting him access to their 2008 Presidential Transition Headquarters in Washington, D.C.. ... Barack Obama said he hoped to sign the stimulus package into law soon after taking office on Jan. 20.
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   Political positions of Barack Obama

   "My plan fully closes the Enron loophole and restores common-sense regulation," Obama said. ... Obama added that "few have been ignored by Washington for as long as native Americans – the first Americans" and that "too often Washington has paid lip service to working with tribes while taking a one-size-fits-all approach" and promised "that will change when I am president".
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   Barack Obama presidential primary campaign, 2008

   In the book, Obama said "Pot had helped, and booze. ... Members of the opposition asserted that an internal inquiry is unlikely to look seriously at Harper's own high-level political aides and appointees, such as Brodie or Wilson, Canada's ambassador to Washington.
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   Family of Barack Obama

   It was announced on November 21 that Sasha and Malia will be attending the private Sidwell Friends School in Washington, DC, the same school as attended by Chelsea Clinton, Tricia Nixon Cox, and Archibald Roosevelt. ... Obama said that he expects no favors, that he was supported by relatives, and that reports he lived on a dollar a month were "all lies by people who don’t want my brother to win.”
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   Barack Obama

   Obama said that "we're still locked in this notion that if you appeal to white folks then there must be something wrong." ... "Hoosier Daddy: What Rising Democratic Star Barack Obama Can Learn from an Old Lion of the GOP", Washington Monthly.
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   John McCain presidential campaign, 2008

   He told the CPAC audience that he arrived in Washington as "a foot soldier in the Reagan Revolution", and addressed the issue of illegal immigration - one of the major issues where conservatives have attacked McCain. ... Obama has condemned the Weathermen's violent actions.
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   Foreign policy of the United States

   Barack Obama said he's supported shifting federal resources away from an “unproven missile defense system” to proven technologies. ... Other realist critics, such as George F. Kennan, have argued that the responsibility of the United States is only to protect the rights of its own citizens, and that therefore Washington should deal with other governments on that basis alone.
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   David Axelrod (political consultant)

   He often likens Obama to Robert F. Kennedy and told The Washington Post, "I thought that if I could help Barack Obama get to Washington, then I would have accomplished something great in my life." ... "Just over half of [Iowa's] Democratic caucus-goers said change was the No. 1 factor they were looking for in a candidate, and 51 percent of those voters chose Barack Obama," said CNN senior political analyst Bill Schneider.
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   Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008

   Then Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said any bailout must include plans to recover the money, and protect working families and big financial institutions and be crafted to prevent such a crisis from happening again. ... McCain, Obama raise doubts about bailout plan, Washington Post, September 22, 2008.
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    Hillary Clinton caucuses and primaries, 2008

    Obama said that he was working to help unemployed workers in Chicago while Clinton was "a corporate lawyer sitting on the board at Wal-Mart." ... On June 7, 2008, in a speech before her gathered supporters at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C., Clinton officially announced that she was suspending her campaign and was fully endorsing Barack Obama.

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• Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008,
• Hillary Clinton caucuses and primaries, 2008