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“What do we remember in November of 2008?” asks Tom Hanks in the opening narration of Davis Guggenheim’s new Barackumentary, a 17-minute paean to President Obama paid for and distributed by his reelection campaign. “Was it this?” Hanks continues as triumphant slo-mo footage of Obama’s Election Night debut in Grant Park rolls onscreen. “Or this?”: [...]
Fifteen photos of the British Prime Minister’s three-day hangout session with Barack Obama, which included a basketball game, a glamorous state dinner and George Clooney.
Washington rolled out the red carpet for David Cameron this week. President Obama feted the British Prime Minister with a 19-gun salute, a White House banquet, a joint press conference in the Rose Garden and a trip to Ohio on Air Force One for an NCAA March madness basketball game (at which Cameron looked mostly confused [...]
Like your poker winnings and fantasy teams, nobody cares about your NCAA basketball tournament bracket. Unless you are the President of the United States. Barack Obama has a squad of professional scribes devoted to tracking his every waking movement. Surely he knows his March Madness picks are laden with meaning.
Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell, a potential Republican vice presidential nominee and booster of Mitt Romney, greeted President Obama on a airport tarmac Friday with a golf glove in hand. “I thought that it would be an appropriate gift,” McDonnell told reporters after the encounter. “He was very impressed that I knew he was wore a [...]
The most fascinating part of this video showing law student Barack Obama speaking to a rally at Harvard in 1991 is how much he speaks like, well, President Barack Obama in 2012.
During George W. Bush’s 2004 re-election campaign, his staff would often rent out minor league baseball fields. Bush would land in Marine One in the outfield and come strolling out to the soundtrack of the Harrison Ford movie, Air Force One, to deliver his stump speech from home plate. It was an impressive spectacle, one [...]
Obama rejected any notion that his administration has not been in Israel’s corner. “Over the last three years, as President of the United States, I have kept my commitments to the state of Israel.” The President then ticked off the number of ways he has supported Israel in the last year.
Barack Obama never mentioned Mitt Romney when he spoke at the United Auto Workers Convention on Tuesday. But when Obama said “folks,” he meant Romney. When Obama said “these politicians,” he meant Romney. And when Obama said “some politicians,” he meant Romney.
New poll numbers illustrate both why President Obama has chosen the auto bailout to make his case for re-election, and why Mitt Romney continues to talk about his own vociferous opposition to the policy. If that sounds like a contradiction, that’s because it is. Such is the nature of the American public’s view of government.
