“If I had a son, he would look like Trayvon,” President Obama said Friday, March 23, regarding the recent killing of Trayvon Martin, an unarmed black teenager who was shot last month in Florida by a neighborhood-watch volunteer …
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Obama Nominates Jim Yong Kim to Head the World Bank
In a surprise move, on Friday, March 23, President Barack Obama named Dartmouth president Dr. Jim Yong Kim as his nominee to head the World Bank.
Coming on the eve of a trip to South Korea, Obama’s announcement turned heads in …
Is Obamacare Constitutional?
Two interesting columns this morning on the Supreme Court’s upcoming consideration of the Affordable Care Act, a.k.a. Obamacare. Jonathan Cohn, one of the very best writers on this subject, cuts to the chase: If the individual mandate — the requirement that everyone purchase health insurance — is unconstitutional, then Medicare and …
Can Photo Ops Lower Gas Prices? Stay Tuned.
“No matter what happens to America,” the satirical pundit Stephen Colbert once observed, “She will always rebound with the most powerfully staged photo-ops in the world.” And so Barack Obama stood before a bunch of big pipes …
Obama’s Campaign Documentary: Gloom You Can Believe In
“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?” …
David Cameron’s Charmed U.S. Tour
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.
Obama’s Love Fest with David Cameron
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 …
Obama’s NCAA Basketball Bracket: Predictable and Pandering
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 Golf Claps President Obama
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 …
Barack Obama Has Always Spoken That Way
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.
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At White House Press Conference, Obama Flexes the Political Muscles of Incumbency
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, …
Obama Courts AIPAC Before Netanyahu Meeting
What a difference a year makes. Last year when President Barack Obama stood before the crowd at the American Israeli Public Affairs Committee’s annual policy conference in Washington, he was on his heels, reeling from a week of …
Barack Obama vs. ‘Folks’ (a.k.a. Mitt Romney)
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.