Ahh, the children and grandchildren. Politicians love to describe how big-bad Washington is robbing them blind. “Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren,” then Sen. Barack Obama declared in 2006, when he voted against raising the debt ceiling. “Passing on ever-increasing …
Just how bad is it for Republicans? Multiple choice: A) 76% of Republicans are dissatisfied with their choices for President, says Zogby. B) Only 40% of Republicans are satisfied with their choices, says CBS News. Or C) Just 52% of Republicans are satisfied, says Newsweek.
Answer: None of the above.
Of course, Donald Trump declared victory. “I am really honored and I am really proud, that I was able to do something that nobody else could do,” he said in New Hampshire Wednesday morning, after President Obama released the …
Rep. Ron Paul, the 75-year-old stubborn uncle of the Republican Party, is ready to go again, with his third campaign for President of the United States.
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President Obama’s 2012 campaign manager Jim Messina sent a YouTube message to supporters Monday laying out the strategy for winning in 2012.
Notice anything? Here are four things that stood out to me:
It’s official. Haley Barbour, after months of serious exploration, including the hiring of staff and winning endorsements, has announced he won’t compete in the 2012 presidential race. That sound you hear is an exhale of …
The front-page headlines continue to be about negotiations over long term deficits, Libya, Syria and Guantanamo. But the most consequential news to those gaming out the 2012 presidential race can be seen below. A sustained spike …
“Even though it’s Facebook, no poking the President,” warned Sheryl Sandberg, the chief operating officer of Facebook just moments before President Obama made his live, streaming social network debut at the company’s Palo Alto …
The New York Times Magazine will run a remarkable profile Sunday about President Obama’s mother, Stanley Ann Dunham. Adapted from reporter Janny Scott’s book, “A Singular Woman: The Untold Story of Barack Obama’s Mother,” it shows, in short, how much good reporting can shed new light on well-trod ground.
It had to happen. The gravitational tug was too intense. Like two massive stars colliding, Donald Trump and Sarah Palin, the hybrid king and queen of the political-entertainment, have come together and declared common …
President Obama delivered a campaign speech today in northern Virginia at a town hall gethering. Now, it wasn’t billed as a campaign speech. Officially, the White House says that despite a schedule of fundraisers that has the …
I bet there won’t be a next time.
At the end of this interview with a local Texas correspondent, President Obama all but tells off his interviewer for not respecting White House decorum. “Let me finish my answers the next time we do an interview, all right?” says the clearly piqued president:
Okay, Swamplanders. Who will America choose? First up, Sharron Angle, late from her turn as a candidate for the U.S. Senate in Nevada. She will be performing Lee Greenwood’s God Bless The USA.
