A look at Obama transition team leaders

Some members of President-elect Obama's transition team:

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Mr. Limbaugh Goes to Washington? Limbaugh "Rushes" to meets with Obama/team?

This morning something very interesting happened: The influential Rush Limbaugh wasn't on his extremely popular (over 20,000,000 listeners per week) radio program.

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President-elect Barack Obama intends to nominate his technology adviser, Julius Genachowski, to head the Federal Communications Commission, a Democratic source close to the Obama transition team said.

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On Change.gov - The 5-page Greg Craig memo to PE Obama on Transition Team contacts with Gov. Rod Blagojevich. [pdf warning]

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By Richard Wolf, USA TODAY

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Betty Currie- Bill Clinton's personal secretary is helping out with the Obama transition team. She was extremely loyal to Clinton and knows the ends and outs of Washington. Obama is not missing a beat by bringing in experienced people to aid in his transition.

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Nancy Sutley a low-key but highly effective leader.

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Six weeks before taking office, President-elect Barack Obama can already boast one striking accomplishment: persuading partisan, ideological adversaries to see him in a less partisan, less ideological light.......

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Yesterday we learned that our economy has lost 2 million jobs since the recession began 11 months ago.

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You've got to give Barack Obama credit: The man knows how to read.

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Senator Tom Daschle and the President Elect Obama Transition Team is requesting citizens across the country hold community discussions regarding health care reform in the new administration.

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For a while there this afternoon, President-elect Barack Obama's immensely talented chief speechwriter, 27-year-old Jon Favreau, might have been pondering how to address that question.

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But why wasn't Power named to Sec. of State instead of Sen. Clinton? Now that would have been the change we believe in, Mr. Obama.

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Officials with President-elect Barack Obama's transition team this week named at least seven openly gay people to transition panels assigned to review federal departments and agencies.

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The headline was Gun Owners not Welcome on Obama's Team I ran across this story on Marketwatch.com from Nov. 13th 2008. the story was released by the Illinois State Rifle Association (ISRA):

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I Want A Transition Team. Not.

I have been wondering how to get so many people in love with my business they fight over who should help me transition to the next step. Then I want the press to follow my every move and write editorials on who did a great job or who to let go.

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Barack Obama wins. Mitch McConnell is talking nice about the president-elect. And Henry Waxman bounces John Dingell from the chairmanship of the all-powerful House energy and commerce committee. It's a good time to be a liberal in Washington.

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The bright young think tank staffers at the progressive Center for American Progress (CAP) admire their boss, John Podesta.

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President-elect Barack Obama dove immediately into his transition to the White House this morning, accepting congratulations from President Bush and the Pope, preparing to commence intelligence briefings and reportedly asking Rep. Rahm Emanuel (D-Ill.) to be his chief of staff.

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ABC News has learned that President-elect Obama has offered the White House chief of staff job to Rep. Rahm Emanuel, D-Ill. Emanuel, a knowledgeable source tells ABC News, has not yet given his answer.

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William Timmons, the Washington lobbyist who John McCain has named to head his presidential transition team, aided an influence effort on behalf of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein to ease international sanctions against his regime.

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The Washington lobbyist John McCain has named to head his presidential transition team aided an influence effort on behalf of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein to ease international sanctions against his regime.

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