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Obama Transition: CAP's John Podesta Talks with ThinkProgress.org

Thu, 29 Jan 2009 19:56:01 GMT

http://thinkprogress.org/2009/01/29/podesta-responds/#comments ThinkProgress.org provided readers an opportunity to ask John Podesta questions pertaining to his service on the Obama transition team. You responded with great enthusiasm, offering more than 100 comments and questions. John sat down with TP on January 28, 2009 for about 20 minutes. In that period of time, we were able to get to 8 of your questions. The first one I asked him was the top-rated question, as voted on by the ThinkProgress community. It was submitted by user curtisteff, and it read: “Why is President Obama giving up so much to try to appease the conservatives?” Podesta offered this response: I think that if you look at the [economic recovery] bill that’s making its way through the House and then will be taken up by the Senate this week and voted on and put on the President’s desk by President’s Day, what you see in there is the thrust that he laid down early on – really back in December and in January. I think he was willing to have a dialogue with Republicans. So far, that dialogue has been largely one in which it’s good-natured but the Republicans don’t seem to really want to come to the table and talk seriously about what needs to be done for the country. So be it — that’s their choice. But I think he did want to change the tone in Washington. He wanted to talk to people across the political spectrum. He wanted to open up the government to people from all perspectives around the country. That’s what WhiteHouse.gov is about. That’s what the transition — change.gov — was about, to try to solicit ideas from across the political spectrum to meet the big challenges. But I would not confuse that with an idea that he’s compromising on his big goals of trying to deal with the very difficult economic circumstances we face and deal with the big challenges thi

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CNN's Michael Ware on the US Exit from Iraq - ThinkProgress

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 04:20:13 GMT

Matthew Duss of ThinkProgress & The Wonk Room, (blogs from the Center for American Progress Action Fund) interviews CNN Baghdad correspondent Michael Ware on the status of US troops in Iraq, Iraqi refugees, the exit strategy, the role of Iran in the region and reaction to the US elections abroad.

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ThinkProgress.org

Tue, 27 May 2008 13:52:01 GMT

http://thinkprogress.org/ Think Progress is a project of the Center for American Progress Action Fund. The Center for American Progress Action Fund is a nonpartisan organization. With the blog, CAPAF seeks to provide a forum that advances progressive ideas and policies. ThinkProgress was voted ?Best Liberal Blog? in the 2006 Weblog Awards. It was also named best blog of 2008 by The Sidney Hillman Foundation, receiving an award for journalism excellence.

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