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ABC’s White House Correspondent, Jake Tapper notes that, once again, President Obama has failed to live up to a promise made to the Armenian-American community while he was running for President: On the fourth Armenian Remembrance Day of his presidency, President Obama has for the fourth time in a row broken his promise to the [...]
Charlie Savage documents a major shift in Barack Obama’s philosophy of presidential authority.
Despite their rhetoric, there would be few differences between a Romney Administration and an Obama Administration when it comes to foreign policy.
Get ready for a long, painful ordeal at the end of which we’re supposed to pick a President.
We need a lot less fake empathy in politics.
It’s a Presidential election year, The Master’s Tournament started yesterday, women’s issues have been playing a prominent role in the public debate, and the Augusta National Golf Club is seeing another round of controversy about its policy that excludes women from becoming members. So, it was probably inevitable that we’d see the candidates for President [...]
Unsurprisingly, the Department of Justice confirms that it supports Marbury v. Madison
The White House and its allies have already declared war on a decision that won’t even be rendered until three months from now.
This chart setting forth the results of two different Washington Post/ABC News polls, one from 20o6 and one from 2012, raises some very interesting points: A few observations: In 2006, the vast majority of Democrats believed that the (Republican) Administration could do more to do reduce gas prices. In 2012, only one-third of Democrats believe [...]
Barack Obama’s position on same-sex marriage continues to “evolve,” along with the polls.
The Obama Administration will not be publicly acknowledging the second anniversary of passage of the Affordable Care Act later this week: President Obama will not mark the two-year anniversary of his signing of the healthcare law — which takes place days before the Supreme Court offers a decision on the constitutionality of his signature legislative [...]
As I noted yesterday, Vice-President Biden raised more than a few eyebrows when he called the raid that killed Osama bin Laden the most audacious plan in 500 years. Not surprisingly, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney was asked about the comment yesterday: The White House on Tuesday defended Vice President Joe Biden’s colorful claim [...]
The debt has increased at a faster rate in the past three years than in the previous eight, but assigning blame isn’t what matters.
Joe Biden got a little braggadocious last night.
The odds are against anyone who challenges an incumbent President. So, how do you do it?
No, the Obama Administration is not plotting to nationalize the economy in the name of some “national emergency.”
David Ignatius reports in The Washington Post today that intelligence uncovered from the May 2011 raid that killed Osama bin Laden indicates that the al Qaeda leader had instructed his organization to find a way to kill the President of the United States: Before his death, Osama bin Laden boldly commanded his network to organize [...]
One comment that President Obama made today during a speech on energy in Maryland this morning seems to have gotten more attention than anything else, but perhaps that’s because it concerned a man who hasn’t been President for 131 years: President Obama took aim Thursday at one of his Republican predecessors: Rutherford B. Hayes. Speaking [...]
Yesterday I made note of yet another poll that seemed to show a distressing number of people, in this case Alabama and Mississippi Republicans, who continued to believe that the President was a Muslim despite all evidence to the contrary. Not surprisingly the poll generated much commentary online, but David Graham at The Atlantic thinks [...]
Republicans continue to harp on the fact that the President uses a TelePrompter.
Longtime Florida Congressman Cliff Stearns is, apparently, a birther: Rep. Cliff Stearns (R-Fla.), already under fire for allegations he bribed his primary opponent to drop out of the race, questioned the legitimacy of President Obama’s birth certificate at a town-hall meeting. Meeting with constituents in Belleview, Fla., on Feb. 25, Stearns was asked about Obama’s [...]
Rising fuel prices are starting to hurt the President in the polls, but it’s unclear what that means for November.
Jonathan Chait picks up on another piece of data from the Public Policy Polling polls of Alabama and Mississippi that I wrote about earlier this morning: PPP asks Republicans in Alabama, “Do you think Barack Obama is a Christian or a Muslim, or are you not sure?” Guess how many say Christian? 14%! Among the [...]
The idea of finding video of Barack Obama speaking when he was a student is something that has seemingly been a dream of many on the right for four or five years now. Presumably, they believe that there’s some video evidence out there of a 20-something Barack Obama unveiling his secret plan to move to [...]
Mitt Romney’s Presidential rhetoric probably won’t appeal to the GOP base.
As we’ve noted here at OTB in several posts over the last week, Rick Santorum has been in the news lately for saying that the President is a snob for saying that everyone should go to college. Politifact took a look at the matter, reviewing nearly 20 Presidential speeches and remarks over the past three [...]
In order to succeed on the right today, you have to do more than just say the President is wrong. You have to say that he’s evil.
Barack Obama won Iowa in 2008 by more than 146,000 votes, the largest margin of victory for any Presidential candidate there since Bill Clinton’s re-election in 1996, but if a new poll in the Des Moines Register is any indication, he’s going to have a tougher time in the Hawkeye State this time around: President [...]
In a subtle but pointed attack, Rick Santorum today suggested that President Obama doesn’t follow a true version of Christianity: COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Lashing out on two fronts, Rick Santorum on Saturday questioned President Barack Obama’s Christian values and attacked GOP rival Mitt Romney’s Olympics leadership as he courted tea party activists and evangelical [...]
Rasmussen: Catholics strongly disapprove of the job President Obama is doing as the debate continues over his administration’s new policy forcing Catholic institutions to pay for contraception they morally oppose. While the president’s overall job approval ratings have improved over the past couple of months, they have remained steady among Catholics. A new Rasmussen Reports [...]
Rising prices at the pump could lead to problems at the voting booth.
Late yesterday, the nation’s Catholic Bishops came out with a statement that noted at least two strong objections to the revised contraceptive coverage plan unveiled yesterday by the White House: Hours after calling the Obama administration’s contraceptives compromise a “first step,” the Catholic bishops said Friday night they have “two serious objections” to the new [...]
ABC News’s Jake Tapper is reporting this morning that the Obama Administration will be offering a compromise of some form regarding its controversial new rule requiring employers to provide coverage for contraceptives to their employees: With the White House under fire for its new rule requiring employers including religious organizations to offer health insurance that [...]
There are some signs that the Obama Administration may be looking for a way out of the controversy it has found itself in with Catholics and other religious groups: The White House may be open to compromising on a new rule that requires religious schools and hospitals to provide employees with access to free birth [...]
The Obama Campaign is being criticized for agreeing to play the SuperPAC game like everyone else does.
Will the Obama Administration’s decision on contraceptive coverage by the Catholic Church have an impact in November?
The Birthers have suffered yet another totally predictable loss in Court.
Things aren’t all sunshine and roses for the Obama 2012 campaign.
American politics is as polarized as ever, and it shows no signs of changing regardless of who wins in November.
Could things possibly get worse on Capitol Hill? Grover Norquist seems to relish the possibility.
On it’s own, the so-called “Buffett Rule” is unlikely to do much to reduce the deficit.
It doesn’t necessarily add very much to what we’ve already heard about what happen, but the Associated Press has released video of President Obama’s arrival in Arizona yesterday, and his encounter on the tarmac with Arizona Governor Jan Brewer. Unfortunately, the President’s limosene was between the cameraman and where the President or Governor were standing [...]
