Elsewhere on The Teleprompter: Rahm Emanuel | Joe Biden | Mitt Romney | John McCain | Bill Richardson | John Edwards | David Axelrod | Hillary Clinton | DNC | George W. Bush |
Fri, Jan 29 | from Huffington Post
Fifteen months ago, Barack Obama's election was widely heralded as an epochal moment, a healing event, in the nation's history. He was the first African... Fifteen months ago, Barack Obama's election was widely heralded as an epochal moment, a healing event, in the nation's history. He was t...
President Barack Obama engaged House Republicans in an extraordinary televised debate Friday, days after calling for a more bipartisan approach to governing. Here’s the thing: President Obama held an open Q&A- no holds barred, cameras rolling and the whole thing available to be b...
Sat, Jan 30 | from themoderatevoice (Feedburner)
–On Nov. 2, 2004, when Obama visited the campus of the University of Illinois during his campaign for U.S. senator, he said: “Ultimately, this election is not about me. … It’s about the willingness of our citizens to get engaged and get involved.”
Fri, Jan 29 | from citizenwells (WordPress)
The President -- any president -- is the nation's educator in chief. Everything he proposes contains an implicit lesson. The economic lesson President Obama ought to be teaching is that targeted tax cuts, mostly for small business, are good to the extent they give businesses a nudge towar...
Thu, Jan 28 | from Huffington Post
Fred Barnes, the Weekly Standard: “Haven’t we heard that speech before, practically every word of it? Maybe it was a year ago when President Obama first addressed Congress. Maybe it was during the campaign. Maybe it was at one of those town halls? Maybe Obama can’t help himself. His speeches...
Thu, Jan 28 | from HOWIEINSEATTLE
In his State of the Union address last night, President Barack Obama had this to say about the Supreme Court's recent ruling on campaign finance: If justice is to be done, Barack Obama will have to own up to his violations of campaign finance law, and pay the political price. An audit of Obama...
Thu, Jan 28 | from NewsBusters.org
A few more numbers from a poll released the morning of the address offer evidence that Obama has a bit of a wind at his back. While his approval rating is middling (exactly 50%), he's still a lot more popular than the Congress. And Republicans are least popular of all. When asked whom they blamed...
Thu, Jan 28 | from EducationGuardian.co.uk
Needless to say, conservatives are fuming over much of what Obama said and didn't say. "According to President Obama, only by weakening America can we hope to convince our enemies to stand down," writes Anne Bayefsky in National Review. (No doubt you were in the bathroom when Obama said tha...
Thu, Jan 28 | from EducationGuardian.co.uk
– who are those people who sit right up front, in front of Obama, between him and Congress? I have no idea who they are. – Glad to see Obama focus so much on jobs creation. I hope Congress got the message. I needed this State of the Union. I really did. I needed Barack Obama to hit it out of the park, bec
Wed, Jan 27 | from michaeljlewis (WordPress)
Innovation and the Environment. Obama urged Congress to pass the climate bill. He mentioned building clean nuclear power plants and becoming more energy efficient. In this State of the Union address, President Barack Obama faced a tough challenge. With both libera
Wed, Jan 27 | from veryrandomblog (WordPress)
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