The Washington Post Profiles Robert F. McDonnell
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on October 11th, 2009 4:36 am by HL
The Washington Post Profiles Robert F. McDonnell
The tour around Alexandria was Bob McDonnell’s idea, part of his campaign’s effort to at once prove his poise and demonstrate his ties to Northern Virginia — an attempt to show locals that he is one of them. He looked quite serene that early September day for a candidate who had been operating in…
As Pressure Grows, Obama Addresses Gay Rights Group
President Obama, struggling to keep promises he made during last year’s campaign, renewed his pledge to end the military’s ban on openly gay service members as he appeared at a fundraising dinner for the nation’s largest gay advocacy group on Saturday night.
Fact Checker
It was an alarming advertisement , claiming that Virginia’s former attorney general supported a bill that would have allowed employers to drop mammograms and cancer screenings from health-care plans — made more alarming by the claim that Robert F. McDonnell was one of only nine attorneys general in…
In Today’s Viral World, Who Keeps a Civil Tongue?
Late last month, Charisse Carney-Nunes fired up the computer at her home in Northeast Washington to check her e-mail. Her brain already was on morning drive time: breakfast for the kids, her day’s work at a government agency. She glanced down at her screen, then froze.
Sunday Take: McCain Keeps Pressure on Obama
Sen. John McCain says the coverage of his exchange with President Obama at a White House meeting last week has been vastly overblown. “There was no sharp exchange whatsoever,” he said in a telephone interview. “To say that there was anything to it — it’s so insulting and so outrageous.”
