President Obama has chosen Richard Blanco, author of Looking for the Gulf Motel, to recite a poem at his inauguration on January 21. Blanco will be the first Hispanic, first LGBT, and youngest Inaugural poet.
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Obama and the Liberals: Three Quarters of a Loaf Is Never Enough
Grunwald explains the three genres of lefty delusion: Ivory Soap, Choose Your Own Adventure, and Heighten the Contradictions.
A Tragedy Like Newtown Should Be Politicized, But Changing Anything Will Take Different Politicians
I haven’t read any stories about the innocent children and teachers whose lives were cut short because they went to school at Sandy Hook Elementary on Friday. I couldn’t read about the innocent victims who died because they …
‘These Tragedies Must End’: Obama Promises Change at Newtown Vigil, but Can He Deliver?
At a moment of almost incomprehensible horror and suffering, Barack Obama delivered elegiac remarks at a Sunday-night prayer vigil in Newtown, Conn. The powerful speech hit a haunting apex as the President quietly read off …
Obama Abroad: Scenes of a U.S. President in Burma
Images capture President Obama’s historic tour of Burma, the first visit to the isolated nation by an American head of state.
Exclusive: Obama’s 2012 Digital Fundraising Outperformed 2008
Nearly a year ago, Barack Obama’s campaign manager Jim Messina took to YouTube with an expletive-laden post-holiday message for supporters. “People have speculated that this is a billion dollar campaign,” Messina said. …
Blue Truth, Red Truth
Both candidates say White House hopefuls should talk straight with voters. Here’s why neither man is ready to take his own advice
Campaign Poll: Which Candidate Is Being More Truthful?
Both the Obama and Romney campaigns have made claims that the other side is lying, and that the ensuing scrutiny of such claims has been biased. Now it’s time to cast your vote.
Obama Comes to New York for Barbara Walters and, sorta, the United Nations
Though Gotham is full of visiting heads of government and state, the President is meeting no one this time around. Is it insurance against possible gaffes? Or just a broader excuse not to meet the Prime Minister of Israel?
Obama Is Wrong: He Made Change from the Inside
Barack Obama campaigned as a change-the-system outsider, but he has governed as a work-the-system insider. There’s no shame in that. But that’s what made his comment about how change doesn’t happen from the inside so …
Obama’s DNC Speech: Hope Urged, Tough Slog Promised
I’m not on President Obama’s payroll, no matter what Stephen Colbert says, so I can say this without fear of being fired: I didn’t get that speech. It felt subdued and clichéd. It felt like it was a few speeches stitched …
Obama Argues for a Second Term Without Closing the Deal
The President gave a fine speech Thursday night. His vision of the country is much closer to the place where I live — and, I daresay, where most Americans live — than Mitt Romney’s. It is an America that includes truck …
How the Clintonites Launched Obamanomics
It’s well known that Barack Obama stocked his Administration with Bill Clinton’s people, including his extremely Clintonesque Secretary of State and all three chiefs of staff as well as most of his top economists and dozens …
