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?
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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 …
‘You Were a Senator’: Joe Biden’s Weird Relationship with His Boss
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 …
Charlie Crist Is Back – and Democrats Are Smart to Take Him In
It’s hard to believe now that the GOP ever allowed such a thing. In 2007, the host of a major climate-change summit was none other than Florida’s then governor — and then Republican — Charlie Crist. “If you go back to …
Obama’s Soaring Rhetoric: A Bright, Shining Lie
The President has walked away from the ideals that launched his career.
A Brief History of U.S. Presidents and the Olympics
Mitt Romney is not the only politician with an Olympic past. From Teddy Roosevelt to Barack Obama, the biennial games have been a fixture in politics. As the 2012 Summer Olympics kick off in London, TIME looks back at how …
Why on Earth Would the Obama Campaign Call Solyndra ‘Successful and Innovative’? Because It Was.
In this cauldron of stupidity we call a presidential campaign, the scandal of the minute is Obama campaign spokeswoman Lis Smith’s description of Solyndra as “successful and innovative.” She actually said Solyndra was …
Obama’s Secrets: Even His Declassification Effort Lacks Transparency
Barack Obama disappointed many on the left who thought they were getting a liberal president on national security issues. The man who pledged to roll back George W. Bush legacy as a candidate for the Democratic nomination in 2008 …
On Midwest Bus Trip, President Obama Charms, Hugs and Swigs
Pittsburgh
On the campaign trail, it’s good to be President–and not just because your bus gets to run red lights and has all the equipment you need to watch Wimbledon or run a war. It’s good because Americans respond, …
Obama Welcomes Campaign Season with China Trade Complaint
Maumee, Ohio.
“It’s campaign season, again,” Barack Obama announced Thursday, after emerging in the sweltering summer heat behind hay bales and before a giant American flag draped across the roof of a nearby building. …