NYT has a new poll out. I’ll let you read for yourself what it says about the state of politics. (Americans still love Obama.) What intrigued me was this little juxtaposition down in the story: The poll found that 70 percent of respondents are very or somewhat concerned that someone in their household will be [...]
Two months after announcing the Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, the White House released the full list of council members just a few hours before they meet for the first time this evening. The full list is below the jump, but just a few initial observations: * Only two of the 25 council [...]
On Sunday, I spent a few morning hours filing another pool report for Michelle Obama, this time because her originally scheduled pool reporter had dropped out. As before, the full post follows below. The only change from the original is that I had mispelled a name in the version I first sent out. This mistake [...]
The headline from Obama’s address to the Turkish Parliament is already clear. “The United States is not, and never will be, at war with Islam,” declared the president to much applause. But perhaps more noteworthy is how open and personal he has become in his outreach to global Muslims. For the second time on this [...]
I’m posting this for Michael Scherer, who sends it from his cameraphone.
I’m not at all sure how seriously to take this. Is it a real threat or cheap bluster? Either way, it’s hard to imagine Boston without the Globe.
Signs at speech: “Yes You Can Stop The Radar” (As in the planned U.S. missile defense radar in the Czech Republic) “Lead Change on the Climate” (This one was signed, “Greenpeace”) “Obama: Sorry For Berlusconi” (Not gonna guess) Signs at entrance to Prague castle grounds: “Say No To USA Military Base” (The radar again) “No [...]
PRAGUE–On Friday, I wrote a blog post on Barack Obama’s new more collaborative approach to foreign policy, and contrasted it with the approach of President Bush and John McCain, which I described as “American exceptionalism,” or the vision that the United States operated on a plane above and beyond the rest of the world’s nations, [...]
The latest from our White House Photo Blog is in desperate need of a caption. Swampland commenters, have at it.
For all of the outcry from anti-abortion activists about Kathleen Sebelius’ insufficient support for abortion restrictions and the opposition that was supposed to endanger her nomination to head up HHS, the abortion issue was virtually absent from her Senate confirmation hearings. Tom Coburn asked her about the possibility that RU-486 will be reclassified as “emergency [...]
