All Posts Tagged With: "President Obama"
SOTU — Put Your Pundit Hat On
This evening, President Obama goes to the House and delivers his State of the Union Address, and address that is widely advertised as either a bookend to the Osawatomie speech from last month, or an extension of it.
24Jan2012 | cassandra_m | 23 comments | Continued
BREAKING: More Recess Appointments
Think Progress is reporting:
President Obama is planning to announce today that, in addition to his recess appointment of former Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray as the first director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, he will also use his recess appointment powers to place Department of Labor Attorney Sharon Block, labor lawyer [...]
What Have You Done For Me Lately?
If you think Obama’s done nothing, think again.
24Oct2011 | nemski | 3 comments | Continued
Crawling in the Gutter
Fay Voshell over at that right-wing “blog,” decided to post a video she found humorous. The video is a scene from some movie with Hitler in it, being briefed by his high command. But the translation is supposed to be President Obama’s staff telling him that a website set up to fight [...]
22Sep2011 | MJ | 16 comments | Continued
Al Gore on Obama
“Instead of relying on science, President Obama appears to have bowed to pressure from polluters who did not want to bear the cost of implementing new restrictions on their harmful pollution—even though economists have shown that the US economy would benefit from the job creating investments associated with implementing the new technology.”
8Sep2011 | nemski | 3 comments | Continued
What Rift with Obama Supporters
“Four more years! Four more years!”
6Sep2011 | nemski | 17 comments | Continued
As The DC Turns
Jobs speech, we don’t need no stinking jobs speech.
1Sep2011 | nemski | 6 comments | Continued
Something Broke
I think that there has been a shift that may have broken many things. I think that the whole debt deal and the recriminations have emboldened the detractors on both sides of the President. And I think that the people that have trusted and continue to trust the President to do the right thing are [...]
5Aug2011 | liberalgeek | 40 comments | Continued
BREAKING: Obama To Make Statement On Debt Ceiling At 10:20
This should be very interesting.
Use this thread to help live blog the speech. Thanks!
Late Night Video — President Obama Discusses Getting Politics Done
This video is from the White House and comes from a surprise visit President Obama made to a group of College Democrats, Republicans and Independents back in March. This is very compelling — if anything because this philosophy of governing is very evident in how he has worked to date.
18Jul2011 | cassandra_m | 6 comments | Continued
President Obama’s Debt Deal Press Conference Today
President Obama is scheduled to give a press conference at 11AM today to talk about the debt talks, and presumably make his case to “independent” voters. Feel free to use this thread to discuss or live blog.
11Jul2011 | cassandra_m | 6 comments | Continued
Good Advice from President Clinton to President Obama (mostly)
Don’t Blink.
5Jul2011 | cassandra_m | 6 comments | Continued
“Wonder why many minorities have problems with GOP?”
Comedian and Obama impersonator Reggie Brown appeared at the Southern Republican Leadership Conference to tell a few crowd-pleasing jokes.
20Jun2011 | Unstable Isotope | 17 comments | Continued
Uhhhh…Thanks? Donald Trump
Washington Post’s Greg Sargent hypothesizes that Trumop’s humiliation has changed the narrative about Obama and his supposed weakness.
17May2011 | Unstable Isotope | 4 comments | Continued
Will Bin Laden’s Death End The Afghanistan War?
Will Obama use his popularity bump from the success of getting bin Laden to end the war in Afghanistan?
5May2011 | Unstable Isotope | 4 comments | Continued
Dithering
Bin Laden may have lived in his Pakistan mansion for 6 years.
3May2011 | Unstable Isotope | 122 comments | Continued
These Grapes Are Very Sour
Donald Trump is not amused. There are people in the world suffering, don’t you know.
2May2011 | Unstable Isotope | 5 comments | Continued
Osama Bin Laden Is Dead
New thread. Use this to liveblog the presidential announcement.
1May2011 | Unstable Isotope | 82 comments | Continued
Something Big Is Happening
It’s just announced that Obama will address the nation at 10:30 tonight. The press has no idea what this is about. I am officially nervous.
Update: it’s national security related
Rumor is that bin Laden has been killed.
Update 2: Multiple sources say bin Laden is dead, US has the body.
That’s Going To Leave A Mark
President Obama skewered Donald Trump last night at the White House Correspondent’s Dinner.
1May2011 | Unstable Isotope | 16 comments | Continued
Second Class Citizens
Reactions from African-Americans on the release of President Obama’s long form birth certificate.
28Apr2011 | Unstable Isotope | 44 comments | Continued
Obama’s Open Mic
At Jason330’s request… Obama’s Bring It moment.
Perhaps not realizing his mic was on, Obama’s private remarks were caught by CBS correspondent Mark Knoller, who was able to listen to through a live audio feed.
“I said, ‘You want to repeal health care? Go at it. We’ll have that debate,” Obama said, describing his [...]
Video and Transcript of President Obama’s Speech Today
This is posted and linked for the folks (like me) who couldn’t watch or listen to the speech this afternoon. The video is about 43 minutes long. Link to the transcript at whitehouse.gov is also provided if you’d rather read it.
13Apr2011 | cassandra_m | 6 comments | ContinuedSocial Media
