Wed 2010-04-21 12:27 EDT

Goldman Sachs taps ex-White House counsel - Eamon Javers and Mike Allen - POLITICO.com

Eamon Javers and Mike Allen

Goldman Sachs is launching an aggressive response to its political and legal challenges with an unlikely ally at its side -- President Barack Obama's former White House counsel, Gregory Craig. The beleaguered Wall Street bank hired Craig -- now in private practice at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom -- in recent weeks to help in navigate the halls of power in Washington, a source familiar with the firm told POLITICO...

com; Eamon Javers; Goldman Sachs taps ex-White House counsel; Mike Allen; Politicos.

Wed 2008-04-02 00:00 EDT

Generation Squeeb: Barack Obama's Reverend Wright controversy, and America's squid-heart

Generation Squeeb: Barack Obama's Reverend Wright controversy, and America's squid-heart, by Matt Taibbi

America's squid-heart; Barack Obama's Reverend Wright controversy; Generation Squeeb.

Wed 2008-03-26 00:00 EDT

Barack Obama's Smart Speech "A More Perfect Union": Did It Reveal Him To Be Too Intellectual To Be President? | The Smirking Chimp

Barack Obama's Smart Speech "A More Perfect Union": Did It Reveal Him To Be Too Intellectual To Be President? by John Dean | The Smirking Chimp; "Republicans have spent the past half century dumbing-down the American presidency, for it has helped them win the White House"; "Anti-intellectual Republican presidents have led this nation into a new age of unreason"

Barack Obama's Smart Speech; intellectual; Perfect Union; President; revealed; Smirking Chimp.