President George W. Bush on Tuesday announced that he was naming St. Louis lawyer Mark F. Hearne II — more commonly known in these parts as “Thor Hearne” – to the Commission on White House Fellows.
The commission selects the dozen or so…
As President George W. Bush continues a fundraising swing for John McCain out west, local MoveOn.org activists are planning a protest event in the Loop today.
As part of a national push, MoveOn will hold the “Bush-McCain Challenge” on Delmar Boulevard.
No, it’s not a…
The buzz surrounding Tuesday’s visit by Sen. Barack Obama, the Democratic frontrunner for president, to Cape Girardeau to make an appeal to those elusive working-class voters, centers on one question:
What prompted him to go there?
Over the past 20 years, political…
President Bush answered a softball question about what happens after the White House. He says his time there has been fun — he takes a jab at the furniture “like a museum” — but says he’s ready to return to…
A questioner says he’s pretty hungry and then asks about the recent issue of rising food prices.
The president says at home we need to expand WIC programs to feed children. And Congress needs to up global aid. But he also…
A questioner wants to know what the president’s biggest domestic challenge is.
“The biggest domestic challenge is to protect america from attack. My job is to do everything i can to rally forces to protect you.”
“I never thought I’d be a war…
We’re into the Q&A period.
The first one came from a World Wide Tech exec about health care.
President Bush says there are two paths — government paid and private. He immediately dismisses a single-payer or universal system as “government makes choices…
He’s turning to trade, which he doesn’t have as much support on. He talks about “missour-ah farmers” and World Wide Technology needing trade.
“Trade policy ought to make it easier for you to enter foreign markets. Opening up markets is good…
The president is moving pretty quickly here. He’s on to housing now.
He gave a bare-bones plan for what to do that included:
Not much more and now we’re on to trade.
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President Bush is hitting hard on the “pro-growth economic package.” He says consumption and spending is the key. He says this isn’t another one of those “the check is in the mail deal.”
“You’re going to get some money. Turns out…
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