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The Note's Must-Reads for Thursday, December 25, 2008
December 25, 2008 4:48 AM
Compiled by ABC News’ PETER MARTINEZ, CARRIE HALPERIN, KRISTEN RED-HORSE, JAYCE HENDERSON, STEPHANIE WASH and JUSTIN GRANT
2008: ABC NEWS VIDEOS:
"Bush and Obama Give Holiday Greetings" LINK
"Year of Investigations: Best of Brian Ross 2008" LINK
"Keep Your 2009 Finances in Check" LINK
"Oil Falls to $35 a Barrel" LINK
2008: PRESIDENT-ELECT OBAMA AND THE WHITE HOUSE TRANSITION:
ABC News' Special Index for the 44th President: LINK
The Chicago Tribune's John McCormick: "Barack Obama's radio address" LINK
Politico's Kenneth P. Vogel & Carrie Budoff Brown: "Obama, Team Lawyered Up For Inquiries" LINK
The New York Times' Sheryl Gay Stolberg: "White House Divergence after 8 Years" LINK
The Los Angeles Times’ Peter Wallsten and Tom Hamburger: “Planning for Obama’s inaugural bash is no party” LINK
The Los Angeles Times’ John McCormick: “Obama urges renewed ‘sense of common purpose’ in holiday message” LINK
The Washington Times’ Stephen Dinan: “Bush, Obama hail our history” LINK
2008: PRESIDENT-ELECT OBAMA AND THE INAUGURATION:
The Associated Press: "Obama will have 10 official inaugural balls" LINK
The Washington Post's Cecilia Kang: "Please Hold the Phone" LINK
2008: SENATOR HILLARY CLINTON AND FORMER PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON:
ABC News' Rick Klein: "Clinton Helping Clinton Retire Debt" LINK
2008: AUTO INDUSTRY:
Bloomberg’s Ari Levy: “GMAC Will Become a Bank as Fed Bolsters U.S. Plan to Save GM” LINK
2008: ECONOMY:
The New York Times' Eric Lichtblau: "Federal Cases of Stock Fraud Drop Sharply" LINK
The New York Times' Sabrina Tavernise: "In Hard Times, Migrant Money Flow Stalls" LINK
The New York Times' Eric Dash and Vikas Bajaj: "Fed Approves GMAC Request to Become a Bank" LINK
The New York Times' Stephanie Rosenbloom: "Early Reports Confirm Weak Holiday Shopping" LINK
The Washington Post's Annys Shin: "Consumers Spend More as Gasoline Prices Fall" LINK
The Washington Post's Ylan Q. Mui: "Hungry for Sales: Macy's Lures Shoppers at All Hours of the Night" LINK
The Boston Globe’s Peter Schworm: “Canada: passport to higher ed, lower cost” LINK
The Los Angeles Times’ David Pierson: “Pawnshops are cashing in” LINK
Bloomberg’s Candice Zachariahs and Ye Xie: “Dollar Advances on Better-Than-Forecast U.S. Consumer Spending” LINK
The Boston Herald’s Donna Goodison: “Many happy returns” LINK
The Boston Herald Wire Services: “Times selling stake in Red Sox” LINK
The Associated Press' Christopher S. Rugaber: "Bleak Economic Picture Emerges from New Data" LINK
The Associated Press' Martin Crutsinger: "Fed Grants GMAC Ability to Seek Bailout Funds" LINK
2008: VICE-PRESIDENT ELECT JOE BIDEN:
The Wall Street Journal’s Jonathan Weisman: “Biden Says Stimulus Won't Include Earmarks” LINK
2008: CONGRESS:
The New York Times' Mick Meehan: "Paterson Says There Is No Front -Runner for Clinton's Senate Seat" LINK
The Washington Post's Keith B. Richburg: "Kennedy Endures Rough Start in Bid for Senate Seat" LINK
2008: CURRENT ADMINISTRATION:
The Associated Press' Jennifer Loven: "Bush Withdraws 1 of 19 Pardons He Issued Tuesday" LINK
Politico's Ben Smith: "Toussie Pardon Canceled" LINK
The New York Times' David Stout and Eric Lichtblau: "Pardon Lasts Just a Day for Developer in Fraud Case" LINK
The Washington Post's Dan Eggen: "Bush Revokes Pardon of GOP Donors' Relative" LINK
The Los Angeles Times’ Peter Wallsten: “Bush withdraws fast-track pardon” LINK
The New York Daily News' James Gordon Meek: "Bush yanks pardon of housing scammer" LINK
Bloomberg’s Roger Runningen and Jonathan D. Salant: “Bush Withdraws Pardon after Learning of Campaign Contribution” LINK
2008: MADOFF SCAM:
Bloomberg’s Lindsay Fortado: “NYU Claims $24 Million Loss as Madoff-Related Lawsuits Mount” LINK
2008: OTHER MUST-READS:
ABC News' Susan Aasen, Jamie Hennessey and Lauren Sher: "Military Family Reunites at Christmas" LINK
USA Today's Andrea Stone: "U.S. troops spend 6th Christmas in Iraq" LINK
The Hill's Reid Wilson and Michael O’Brien: "Coleman: Lawsuit a ‘Virtual Certainty’" LINK
The Associated Press: "Pope greets Christmas with appeal for children" LINK
The Associated Press' Ariel David: "Pope Benedict celebrates midnight Christmas mass" LINK
The Washington Times’ Tom LoBianco: “Groups spend millions in 'clean coal' ad war” LINK
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I got a grant from the federal government for $12,000 in financial aid, see how you can get one also at http://couponredeemer.com/federalgrants/
Posted by: Fairy | Dec 25, 2008 5:52:16 AM
All Obama wants for Christmas is for Blago to quietly resign and get going on a nice and quick plea bargain with the Feds - no witness stand needed for PEBO or Rahmbo.
Posted by: matt | Dec 25, 2008 7:43:53 AM
OBAMA ?? How long will i have to wait for that 10,000 dollars a year you promised me during his election. Also my grandmother demands you Obama keep your promise of seniors paying no taxes for the rest of her life. My illegal immigrant friend says if Obamas grandmother is here illegal getting welfare and free housing then he wants the same thing and plans on bringing the rest of his family from here illegally. He still remembers the promise Obama made of giving drivers license to all illegals immigrants....
Posted by: fairy tootlless | Dec 25, 2008 7:46:05 AM
Obama is racist . He is only appointing mostly whites to his staff. Bush had more blacks on his staff. RACIST OBAMA
Posted by: hameme | Dec 25, 2008 7:49:13 AM
President 0bama has many ways of showing his displeasure with his rivals, for example, his middle finger rubbing over his face after he badly lost a debate to HRC. He seems not to have been so pleased with Biden since he misspoke about testing his abilities. Now, he created a job for Biden to be in charge of - Whitehouse Task Force on working families, i.e., W T F on working families.
He is so Harvard Smart, you don't think he has not carefully thought of what the acronym W T F typically stands for? Every Pres. 0bama does is carefully thought out. Poor Biden, he now has to carry the title of W T F on working families.
See, even the dumb ABC's filter does not allow W T F to show together.
Posted by: Casper36 | Dec 25, 2008 10:48:11 AM
There's no place to comment - but the reason David Duchovny dropped his lawsuit against in the Daily Mail is because they apologized in print - why didn't that get the publicity the original article did?
Posted by: jausti1013 | Dec 25, 2008 1:00:42 PM
ABC clearly shows its bias against Democrats in general and Obama in particular. There was no "there" there with Blagojevich. ABC is the network that is being sued by Dan Rather; the network that didn't want the truth published about George W. Bush.
Posted by: Vi in NM | Dec 25, 2008 5:06:29 PM
Sorry - I made a mistake in my previous post. That is CBS being sued by Dan Rather. Mea culpa. One thing I would request from ABC and George Stephanopolous - could you just retire Cokie Roberts from your panel? After her gaffe of calling our 50th state "exotic" and after some of her other inane remarks, she just doesn't matter any more. There was a time when I respected Cokie Roberts but no more. She's had her vision clouded by being "in the know" and staying inside the insiders' circle.
Posted by: Vi in NM | Dec 25, 2008 5:09:57 PM
I got a grant from the federal government for $12,000 in financial aid, see how you can get one also at http://couponredeemer.com/federalgrants/
Posted by: Fairy | Dec 26, 2008 8:15:53 AM
Thank's
Posted by: Sohbet | Dec 28, 2008 6:24:05 PM
Thank you
Posted by: Sohbet | Dec 28, 2008 6:25:05 PM
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