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Results tagged “President Obama”
Jul 24 2009, 6:02PM
Is The White House Better Off Without A Plan On Health Care?
Congress's August recess is getting closer by the day, and Democrats still don't have a finalized health reform package that would pass muster in the Senate. It's being cast as...
Jul 3 2009, 7:50AM
Obama's Inversion Of Harry And Louise
How President Obama scares people into backing health reform.
Jun 8 2009, 11:35AM
Obama Praises Lebanon's Election--But Not Results
President Obama offered a statement on Lebanon's elections this morning, praising their peaceful handling and voicing U.S. support for a sovereign, stable, and peaceful Lebanon. He did not, however, comment...
Jun 6 2009, 6:00AM
Organizing for America Kicks Off Health Care Campaign
Organizing for America (OFA), the Democratic National Committee-run vestiges of President Obama's campaign, kicks off its grassroots health care campaign Saturday with events in all 50 states--thousands of events held...
Jun 4 2009, 11:36AM
Obama's Speech Plays Better With Palestinians
From reports this morning in Israeli news outlets, it is clear that President Obama's Cairo speech was better received by Palestinian leaders than by Israeli leaders.Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas saw...
Jun 4 2009, 10:58AM
Cairo Reactions: Conservatives Go Past 'Apology' Meme
Some conservatives like President Obama's speech in Cairo--some didn't. But, while conservatives on the web had many things to say about the speech, many of them quite critical, the theme...
Jun 3 2009, 4:29PM
How To Talk To Israel: A Sticking Point
NOTE: Post updated 6/4/09 with material from President Obama's speech in Cairo.In the last month, the debate over Israel policy has been a tale of two letters.AIPAC and J Street--the...
May 26 2009, 11:46AM
Conservatives Go After Sotomayor For 'Policy' Quote
Conservatives are jumping on Sonia Sotomayor's 2005 comment that appeals courts are "where policy is made." American Future Fund criticized Sotomayor for the comment in a statement this morning and...
May 26 2009, 10:16AM
It's Sotomayor
President Obama has picked the SCOTUS candidate many had handicapped as favorite all along, nominating Second Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court this morning.Sotomayor has...
May 11 2009, 5:08PM
A Health Reform Renaissance, All Sides Claim
The administration and health care industry leaders are using one common word to talk about today's meeting at the White House: "unprecedented."...
Apr 21 2009, 3:44PM
Obama's Truth-Commission Ideals Mesh With Congress's
President Obama, taking questions from reporters earlier today, fielded one on the possibility of a truth commission to investigate the Bush administration for potential abuses of wartime power, including torture....
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