In selecting to prosecute Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and other 9/11 suspects in New York he invited storms of protest from Republicans, though not, so far, from a majority of New Yorkers themselves.
Despite the call for heads to roll, Obama has stood by Napolitano and everyone else on his team. Karl Rove comparisons are the last he would welcome, but Axelrod attends National Security Council meetings, convenes weekly policy sessions and is intimately involved in devising retaliations against Right-wing critics such as Rush Limbaugh and Dick Cheney. Since he came to office, however, she has often criticised him for being too centrist. In on all the important decisions, expect McDonagh to rise and rise within the Obama administration. Prime Ministers and political legends.
While the party lost ground in 1970, when its number of MPs halved to six, it made spectacular progress in February 1974, winning almost 20% of the vote - although it only had 14 seats to show for its best performance since 1929.Edward Heath tried to strike a deal with Thorpe so he could stay in Downing Street, which could have seen the Liberal leader offered a cabinet post, but the negotiations came to nothing.
But Clinton fought like a tigress and embarrassed Obama, who limped over the finishing line. Nicknamed “Big Sis” by conservatives, she is a big Republican target. Frank has suggested suing the insurance giant AIG to recoup millions of dollars in executive bonuses. These are external links and will open in a new window
His promises of bipartisanship have come to naught as the Democrats rammed through a party-line vote on healthcare.
Oprah appeared for her candidate at a primary campaign in South Carolina but it remains unclear whether it was she or President Bill Clinton’s perceived racial slights that delivered the landslide in the Palmetto State.
Bill Clinton (1) Former President. She forged a strong anti-Bush message in 2006 that contributed to the Democrats’ emphatic victory. One analysis credits her with garnering at least one million votes for Obama in the general election. Lower profile than he was six months ago, Emanuel has not been as effective in pushing Obama’s agenda on Capitol Hill as some expected he would be. A mother of five, she was raised in Baltimore’s Little Italy.
The result marked the end of an era for the party, which had been part of the wartime coalition government for five years.
He battled tirelessly for his wife, holding sometimes six or seven … Frank is regarded as one of the Congress’s sharpest wits and most eloquent speakers. Democrats seldom treat losing presidential candidates well and Kerry has suffered for his 2004 loss.
She has said she will never run for the White House again but it is our judgement that she will be a powerful presidential candidate in 2012 – and could well become the first female president. Paul and Sheila Martin with George and Laura Bush.
Axelrod once said, “If I could help to get Obama to Washington, then I would have accomplished something great in my life”. Republicans noted that Frank’s boyfriend had been a Fannie Mae executive at the forefront of the agency’s push to relax lending restrictions.
A bogeyman for climate change sceptics, the amount of electricity used in his Nashville home has also come under the microscope and the former veep was embarrassed when Irish documentary maker Phelim McAleer recently confronted him.
He also delivers polling news to the president and is outranked only by his friend Rahm Emanuel, the chief of staff.
This year, Penn does not even make our list – Clinton fired him and it emerged he was unfamiliar even with the basic arithmetic of how delegate counts worked.
Not afraid to bring the Left-wing to heel, she persuaded liberals to vote for the healthcare bill despite Bart Stupak’s amendment restricting access to abortions, arguing that an imperfect bill was better than none. Perhaps more than anyone in government bar the president, Geithner’s decision-making will affect not just the country’s well being, but his boss’s political health.
“There is no way possible for the US to be secure against terrorism unless we free ourselves from fossil fuel,” he said in 2008. A journeyman Senate aide who became a trusted Obama campaign hand when he lucked out by landing on Barack Obama’s Senate race in 2004.
By the time the Clinton campaign woke up, the nomination was already lost to Obama.
In the past few years, Huffington’s stances have been to the Left of the Democratic party and she was strongly pro-Obama in the 2008 campaign.
But 2010 will bring the moment of truth for him. In November, Oprah reminded viewers on a show with guest Sarah Palin that she publicly had supported Obama for President. Despite the personal rivalry between the two, Martin was the architect of the Liberals' economic policies as Minister of Finance during the 1990s.
Frank, Massachusetts’ 4th Congressional District representative since 1980, has been a consistently ultra-liberal voice in Washington. The White House has been far from the smooth “no drama” Obama campaign with leaks abounding and Emanuel suspected as having originated many of them. Often denigrated as a San Francisco liberal by the Right, she has shown she can put her convictions to one side as Speaker and followed a pragmatic course when necessary.
A lacklustre speech at the 2008 Democratic convention, however, showed he may need to work on his big stage skills. The Welsh barrister and politician became Liberal Party leader in the aftermath of Labour's landslide victory in the 1945 election. Six months later, the Lib Dems repeated their feat - winning 13 seats and 18% of the vote.However, two years later Thorpe resigned the leadership to fight charges of conspiracy and incitement to murder amid allegations of an affair with a former male model, After a high-profile trial - which was interrupted so he could fight the 1979 election - he was acquitted of the charges but his political career was over. Regarded by Democrats as one of their biggest stars in the House and the only politician who truly understands what went wrong in the subprime mortgage debacle.