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Wind and rain usher the First Family to Martha’s Vineyard this afternoon for a weeklong vacation.
But even the vineyard, a popular getaway for Democratic politicians, is no safe haven for President Obama. During his stay Conservatives for Patients’ Rights, a group trying to force the public option out of the health care proposal, plans to run a spot titled “Surf’s Up” on television stations in Martha’s Vineyard and the Boston area.
The anti-war protester Cindy Sheehan also plans to take her case to the traveling president. “I think the new titular head of the empire needs to know that his policies are devastating people as much as the same policies did when Bush was president,” she wrote on her blog Thursday.
Obama’s Vietnam: Earlier this summer a group of historians dined at the White House with Mr. Obama in the very same room where Lyndon B. Johnson made some of his most fateful decisions about the war in Vietnam, reports The Times’s Peter Baker in a Week in Review piece today. In that setting, the comparison between the two presidents, both of whom won elections while committed to a grand domestic agenda and a seemingly vital war, was inevitable.
“He said he has a problem,” said one person who attended that dinner at the end of June, insisting on anonymity to share private discussions. “This is not just something he can turn his back on and walk away from. But it’s an issue he understands could be a danger to his administration.”
Daschle’s in the House: In November President Obama tapped former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle to be the administration’s leading voice on health care. Months later, questions over his taxes derailed his nomination, yet he remains a major influence in the White House and on Capitol Hill while serving as a highly paid adviser to health care industry clients.
“With unrivaled ties on both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue, he talks constantly with top White House advisers, many of whom previously worked for him,” The Times’s David Kirkpatrick reports. “He still speaks frequently to the president, who met with him as recently as Friday morning in the Oval Office.”
Mr. Daschle’s clients are poised to benefit from the plan to establish health insurance cooperatives, the plan he has advocated for the last two months as a politically feasible alternative to the government-run insurance plan, Mr. Kirkpatrick reports.
Red Cross Tracking Militants: For the first time, the Red Cross will be able to track dozens of the most dangerous militants held in secret United States prisons in Iraq and Afghanistan, The Times’s Eric Schmitt reports. The reversal of Pentagon policy sheds light on the American detention system overseas and advances the Red Cross’s long fight for more information about the detainees.
Edwards in Retail: In less than a month Elizabeth Edwards, the wife of former North Carolina senator, John Edwards, has gone from bestselling author to furniture saleswoman. In downtown Chapel Hill Saturday she opened a new furniture store called Red Window. Yes, Mr. Edwards was present on the first day of business.
Wind and rain usher the First Family to Martha’s Vineyard this afternoon for a weeklong vacation.
But even the vineyard, a popular getaway for Democratic politicians, is no safe haven for President Obama. During his stay Conservatives for Patients’ Rights, a group trying to force the public option out of the health care proposal, plans to run a spot titled “Surf’s Up” on television stations in Martha’s Vineyard and the Boston area.
The anti-war protester Cindy Sheehan also plans to take her case to the traveling president. “I think the new titular head of the empire needs to know that his policies are devastating people as much as the same policies did when Bush was president,” she wrote on her blog Thursday.
Obama’s Vietnam: Earlier this summer a group of historians dined at the White House with Mr. Obama in the very same room where Lyndon B. Johnson made some of his most fateful decisions about the war in Vietnam, reports The Times’s Peter Baker in a Week in Review piece today. In that setting, the comparison between the two presidents, both of whom won elections while committed to a grand domestic agenda and a seemingly vital war, was inevitable.
“He said he has a problem,” said one person who attended that dinner at the end of June, insisting on anonymity to share private discussions. “This is not just something he can turn his back on and walk away from. But it’s an issue he understands could be a danger to his administration.”
Daschle’s in the House: In November President Obama tapped former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle to be the administration’s leading voice on health care. Months later, questions over his taxes derailed his nomination, yet he remains a major influence in the White House and on Capitol Hill while serving as a highly paid adviser to health care industry clients.
“With unrivaled ties on both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue, he talks constantly with top White House advisers, many of whom previously worked for him,” The Times’s David Kirkpatrick reports. “He still speaks frequently to the president, who met with him as recently as Friday morning in the Oval Office.”
Mr. Daschle’s clients are poised to benefit from the plan to establish health insurance cooperatives, the plan he has advocated for the last two months as a politically feasible alternative to the government-run insurance plan, Mr. Kirkpatrick reports.
Red Cross Tracking Militants: For the first time, the Red Cross will be able to track dozens of the most dangerous militants held in secret United States prisons in Iraq and Afghanistan, The Times’s Eric Schmitt reports. The reversal of Pentagon policy sheds light on the American detention system overseas and advances the Red Cross’s long fight for more information about the detainees.
Edwards in Retail: In less than a month Elizabeth Edwards, the wife of former North Carolina senator, John Edwards, has gone from bestselling author to furniture saleswoman. In downtown Chapel Hill Saturday she opened a new furniture store called Red Window. Yes, Mr. Edwards was present on the first day of business.
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