Latest Headlines on OCRegister.com
[x] Close
Total Buzz ~ The insiders' hotline to Orange County government and politics

Archive for the 'Presidential election' Category

« Previous Entries

Palin book: Bashes McCain aides, machine politics

November 17th, 2009, 8:50 am by Dena Bunis, Washington Bureau Chief

palincovverSarah Palin’s much-hyped book, a best seller before a copy came off the shelves went on sale this morning.

I’ll have a full column in a few days as soon as I have time to fully read the tell-all book that has the John McCaincamp fuming, political pundits punditing and Palin’s supporters eager for the details of the former Alaska governor and vice presidential candidate’s life.

Anyone expecting a road map to Palin’s future political life won’t find it in Going Rogue: An American Life. About half of the 413- page book is devoted to the history of Palin’s life and her job as governor.  Much of the rest takes us through the campaign for the vice presidency.

The former governor devotes 30 pages to “The Way Forward” chapter and just a few pages to her decision to resign before her first term was up.

Read the rest of this entry »

Posted in: Palin • Presidential election | 57 Comments »

Surprise Nobel prize for President Obama

October 9th, 2009, 5:30 am by Gary Robbins, science writer-editor

barryIn a tremendous surprise, the Norwegian Nobel Committee today awarded President Barack Obama the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize for “extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples.”

See our latest coverage on Total Buzz.

 

Read the rest of this entry »

Posted in: Democrats • Foreign policy • Obama • President Obama | 18 Comments »

Palin not coming to California

July 31st, 2009, 8:53 am by Dena Bunis, Washington Bureau Chief

It turns out that GOP diva Sarah Palin is not coming to the Reagan library next weekend after all.

The  Republican Women Federated club in Simi Valley had said the former Alaska governor and former veep candidate would be a guest at their  50th anniversary celebration at the library on Aug. 8.

But a statement on the PalinPAC Facebook page says she’s not coming and never did confirm the event.

Check out my column on Palin and her future plans.

Posted in: Palin • Presidential election • Republican Party | Post a Comment »

Campbell hardballed on citizenship bill

July 21st, 2009, 7:05 pm by Dena Bunis, Washington Bureau Chief

Rep. John Campbell probably never figured when he signed on to a bill to require presidential candidates to prove that they are U.S. citizens that he’d end up defending his position to none other than MSNBC’s Hardball host Chris Matthews.

“What you’re doing is appeasing the nut cases,’’ was one of the calmer things Matthews said to the Irvine Republican on Monday night’s show.

Campbell stuck to his guns that his co-sponsorship of a bill authored by Florida Republican Bill Posey was designed to stop all the questions that has led to lawsuits and populated the blogosphere over whether President Barack Obama was, as his birth certificate shows, born in Hawaii.

“This bill is looking forward,’’ Campbell said. “It’s just saying that before you run for president let’s have you substantiate that you meet the constitutional requirement.’’

Read the rest of this entry »

Posted in: Congress • Immigration • President Obama • Presidential election | 86 Comments »

Simi Valley on Palin’s visit list

July 14th, 2009, 9:38 am by Dena Bunis, Washington Bureau Chief

Sarah Palin has put California on her list of places  to go to begin speaking next month when she no longer will be the governor of Alaska.

But  you’ll have to know someone in the Republican Women Federated of Simi Valley in Ventura County in order to get an invite to Palin’s Aug. 8 appearance. Palin will be helping the club celebrate its 50th anniversary at the Ronald Reagan Library.

According to news reports this event will be invitation only and closed to the press. I asked the head of the group in an e-mail how much they’re paying the former vice presidential nominee for her appearance but haven’t gotten an answer.

Posted in: Palin • Republican Party | 22 Comments »

Sanchez and Blue Dogs want Congress to “pay as it goes”

June 9th, 2009, 12:15 pm by Jessica Terrell

Rep. Loretta Sanchez made an appearance at the White House this afternoon to show her support for the president’s efforts to change spending rules for Congress.

President Barack Obama wants to see the return of pay-as-you-go spending, also referred to as PAYGO.  Essentially, PAYGO means that every time Congress approves spending, it must raise taxes or cut spending somewhere else. 

If you spend a dollar, you have to save a dollar,  is the way that White House Spokesman Adam Abrams explained PAYGO to me earlier today.

Sanchez was joined at the White House by fellow members of the Blue Dog Coalition. The blue dogs are a group of fiscally conservative  Democratic legislators.

PAYGO rules were in effect from 1990 until 2002, and Obama partially credits PAYGO for the budget surplus of the late 1990s.

According to Obama, passing pay-as-you-go legislation is “essential” and an important step in his plan to try and cut the federal deficit in half in the next four years.

Posted in: Congress • Obama • Uncategorized | 30 Comments »

We watched Obama arrive on Air Force One today

March 18th, 2009, 8:44 pm by Marla Jo Fisher, Staff Writer

I really had a yen to see Air Force One, and maybe the presidential motorcade, so I took the kids out of school a bit early today and we all went up to the Long Beach Airport.

After all, it’s not every day the president of the United States comes nearby. His plane had to land at Long Beach instead of John Wayne Airport in Orange County, because the 747 needed a longer runway.

By the way, you can still see Air Force One, which is scheduled to depart 6 p.m. Thursday.  As of late Monday night, it was still visible on the tarmac in Long Beach, in the distance, off Spring Street.

To read the rest of this post, and see more photos, click here.

Posted in: Obama • President Obama | 2 Comments »

Air Force One is on the ground in Long Beach

March 18th, 2009, 3:05 pm by Jim Radcliffe, The Orange County Register

Reporter Doug Irving reports that Air Force One just landed. It is taxing into the Long Beach airport.

Sharp-shooters are perched on a Budget rental truck.

Irving also filed this report just minutes ago:

Tech Sgt. Augustine Corona is the man behind the stairs.

As his mother likes to tell the neighbors in San Antonio, Texas, “When you see that staircase going up” to Air Force One, “that’s my son.”

Corona, 36, has been driving the presidential air stairs, in California, since 1993. He helped Bill Clinton deplane once, and George W. Bush twice. He was also there when President Ford’s body was returned to California for a funeral.

Read the rest of this entry »

Posted in: Obama • President Obama | 2 Comments »

President to take Marine One to fairgrounds?

March 18th, 2009, 2:32 pm by Jim Radcliffe, The Orange County Register

Reporter Doug Irving, at Long Beach’s airport waiting for the president to land, says the White House’s advance team is now saying Marine One will be deployed for President Obama.

Presidential spokespeople had said he would take a motorcade to the town hall meeting in Costa Mesa, apparently along the I-405.

But no more.

Four U.S. Marine Corps helicopters are on the tarmac at the airport. Two, Irving says, are prominent-looking birds.

Still, there are a half-dozen police motorcycles there and nice-looking cars.

Another flip-flop?

Posted in: Obama • President Obama • Presidential election | 7 Comments »

Huckabee’s Tuesday lecture in Yorba Linda is sold out

March 16th, 2009, 5:48 pm by Martin Wisckol, Politics reporter

He’s not president of the United States - but he wanted to be. Republican Mike Huckabee is coming to the Nixon library in Yorba Linda tomorrow night. The 7 p.m. lecture is sold out according to the library’s Web site, but the 8 p.m. book signing is open to the public. The library’s phone number is (714) 993-5075.

If you don’t already see the details below, click on the prompt.

Read the rest of this entry »

Posted in: Presidential election • • | 1 Comment »

« Previous Entries