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  • Poll: Obama's appeal slides in Illinois
    Sep 5, 2010 — Chicago Tribune
    So where is the money for these programs coming from?"Retired electrician Joseph Salerno, of Niles, considered himself a lifelong Democrat, but no more. Most of those surveyed favored at least some of the changes going into effect. Only 27 percent of Illinois voters polled said they thought the changes should be repealed outright.Another 43 percent favored carrying out the plans in their entirety or with minor changes.
  • When Is a Muslim Not a Muslim?
    Aug 21, 2010 — New York Times
    Obama is a Muslim is due to a concerted effort from the right. As Obama said, his grandfather was a Muslim. As the Pew poll notes, “Beliefs about Obama’s religion are closely linked to political judgments about him.
  • Should Obama show his faith?
    Aug 19, 2010 — Politico
    When he came to Washington as president, many expected Obama would select a new church or sample many different ones. But in more than 19 months he’s been in office, he has been seen heading to the golf course more than to church. “When Rev. And his faith is very important to him.
  • Who gets the car?
    Aug 18, 2010 — Politico
    Potato Head of campaign stump speech metaphors. The president keeps expanding on it. The other day he decided Republicans were sipping Slurpees as they watched Democrats dig out the car. There’s been a lot of mud in the ditch. Get you back in the mud.” Obama even introduced his 12-year-old daughter Malia to the ditch.
  • Obama begins move to the middle
    Aug 12, 2010 — Politico
    Maybe that’s just what he planned. Facing reporters Wednesday, Gibbs neither apologized nor backtracked. He was angry at the liberal TV pundits who bash the president, Gibbs said, standing by his words. Iran is now getting stiff sanctions along with offers to talk. Still in the works is the yet fully-unfurled Obama the budget hawk.
  • Obama's minister in chief manages matters of faith both public and private
    Jul 31, 2010 — Washington Post
    They aren't usually Democrats.DuBois was drawn to Obama because of his speech at the 2004 Democratic National Convention. In the process, he consults clergy leaders from all religious traditions.DuBois usually prays with the president by speakerphone from his office at Jackson Place, a White House annex. Frequent guests are Bishop Charles Blake of the Church of God in Christ, a conservative-leaning church, and the Rev.
  • Are liberals falling out of love with Obama?
    Jun 21, 2010 — Washington Post
    On Afghanistan, nearly seven in ten (68 percent) of liberals say the war is not worth fighting with a whopping 58 percent saying they feel that way strongly. Bill Bradley was going to exploit liberal discontent with then Vice President Al Gore 's incremental approach to issues in the 2000 Democratic presidential primaries?
  • FULL STORY
    Jun 15, 2010 — CNN
    Bromwich, who was a Justice Department inspector general in the Clinton administration, will oversee the reorganized agencies that formerly comprised the Minerals Management Service in the Department of Interior. Energy was last a topic in 1979, when Jimmy Carter spoke about America's inability to overcome the energy crisis. CNN's Dana Bash, Anderson Cooper, Suzanne Malveaux, Ed Henry, Ed Hornick and Tom Cohen contributed to this report.
  • The politics of anger and race
    Jun 9, 2010 — CNN
    But scholars say Obama's critics ignore a lesson from American history: Many white Americans don't like angry black men. That symbol is hardwired into American history and popular culture. Ambar, from Lehigh University, doesn't think so.
  • Why Obama doesn't dare become the angry black man
    Jun 9, 2010 — CNN
    But scholars say Obama's critics ignore a lesson from American history: Many white Americans don't like angry black men. Franklin Roosevelt was such a president, historians say. Ambar, from Lehigh University, doesn't think so.
  • Obama: 'Furious' at situation in Gulf
    Jun 3, 2010 — CNN
    Watch"Larry King Live," at 9 p.m. ET. In a White House interview for the 25th anniversary of "Larry King Live" on CNN, Obama called the oil spill an unprecedented crisis for the country but added it could have been worse. The interview took place shortly after Obama met with Arizona Gov.
  • Obama's Primary Test
    May 21, 2010 — New York Times
    Let’s count the ways:“Obama ignored the Tea Party movement,” writes Jennifer Rubin at Commentary. “He ignored polls on health-care reform. Obama, either ignoring him or running against him. Not too long ago, before Specter pledged Democrats his troth, Specter voted against the White House nomination of Kagan for solicitor general.
  • Blagojevich attorneys want to subpoena Obama
    Apr 23, 2010 — Chicago Tribune
    In December 2008, shortly after Blagojevich's arrest but prior to the presidential inauguration, Obama said he had "never spoken to the governor on this subject. The filing notes that the two spoke there and that two top aides to Blagojevich later discussed that conversation in a wiretapped phone call.
  • Blagojevich wants Obama to testify at ex-governor's trial
    Apr 22, 2010 — Chicago Tribune
    In December 2008, shortly after Blagojevich's arrest but before the presidential inauguration, Obama said he had "never spoken to the governor on this subject. The filing notes that the two spoke there and that two top aides to Blagojevich later discussed that conversation in a wiretapped phone call. Eve.But after his conviction, Rezko began to cooperate with federal authorities.
  • Obama Aims to Sell Financial Overhaul in N.Y. Speech
    Apr 22, 2010 — New York Times
    Sachs were veterans of the Clinton administration’s Treasury and Mr. Other advisers included Daniel K. Tarullo, whom Mr. Parkinson the Fed’s top banking regulator.) Mr.
  • Ask socialists: Is Obama one of them?
    Apr 15, 2010 — CNN
    But what do actual socialists think about Obama? Not all socialists, though, want to confiscate personal property. Frank Llewellyn, national director of the Democratic Socialists of America, says the bailout had nothing to do with socialism.
  • Obama brushes off criticism, says he's '100 percent' committed to NASA
    Apr 15, 2010 — The Hill
    Bill Nelson (D) joined the president for his trip to Florida.
  • New Yorker editor David Remnick pens new Obama biography
    Apr 9, 2010 — Chicago Tribune
    Remnick is never more comfortable than when doing that. The only magazine left untouched was The New Yorker. Said staff writer Ariel Levy, whom Remnick personally edits, "The first time I met him I was expecting Mr.
  • Obama's Mission: Saving Gov. Patrick
    Apr 4, 2010 — Politico
    Arlen Specter (D-Pa.) to get the president to headline a personal fundraiser for him more than a year before the November election. Later, Patrick came to his Senate office and told him he wanted to run for governor.“And I thought to myself, ‘Well, this guy is crazy. The economic downturn only added to their challenges.Patrick, however, has had a much harder go of it than Obama.
  • Democratic operative Steve Hildebrand goes rogue
    Apr 1, 2010 — Washington Post
    He told Hildebrand that Obama had decided to headline Iowa Sen. And referring to the couple's cocker spaniel, he told Hildebrand, "I've got Oliver."By June 2007, Hildebrand was taking several antidepressants. At that time, according to several former Clinton campaign officials, Hildebrand sent nasty e-mails doubting whether their campaign had enough money to pay salaries, and besmirching the Clintons, according to several recipients.
  • Post-reform polls show little movement
    Mar 30, 2010 — Washington Post
    That 51 percent approval rating is up five points from a week ago, before Congress approved the health care reform bill and the president signed the legislation into law. But Sarah Palin doesn't really do nuance or modulation. Achievement of their decades-long quest for comprehensive health care legislation left Congressional leaders and White House aides jubilant.
  • Obama's presidency turns a corner
    Mar 24, 2010 — Washington Post
    Why did President Obama use 22 pens to sign the healthcare legislation Tuesday? Politico writes: "So much for the 'nuclear' Senate showdown. Plus, the House has already voted on the Senate-passed bill, which the president signed into law Tuesday.
  • From despair to passage, the health-care bill's path
    Mar 23, 2010 — Washington Post
    For days, he had been hearing Pelosi warn that she could not round up the votes for the Senate bill. Bills have passed the House and Senate. "We're right there. Adam Smith (D-Wash.) told Obama that the health-care bill wasn't selling well in some parts of the country.
  • How Obama revived his health-care bill
    Mar 23, 2010 — Washington Post
    For days, he had been hearing Pelosi warn that she could not round up the votes for the Senate bill. Bills have passed the House and Senate. "We're right there. Adam Smith (D-Wash.) told Obama that the health-care bill wasn't selling well in some parts of the country.
  • Reform's fate a question of trust
    Mar 12, 2010 — Washington Post
    I can't remember when Barack Obama said that. Rogers, the White House social secretary, and Mr. The Hill writes: "Seeking to trump Democrats, House Republicans on Thursday approved a moratorium on all earmarks for the rest of the year.
  • Israel's Challenge to the U.S.
    Mar 11, 2010 — New York Times
    It is Obama who is unwittingly fueling the pro-settlement movement.Nor do Israelis trust the Palestinians. Its second message, no less vociferous, has been that Israel has no intention of ending its control over the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip. President Obama has shown Israelis neither consideration nor resolve.
  • Michelle: No Longer A 'caricature'
    Mar 4, 2010 — Politico
    They don’t see a caricature of me; they don’t see a sound bite of me; they see all of me. It’s understandable that he struggles with it. Michelle Obama dismissed the notion of a problem.“Fortunately, Barack, he’s a steady kind of person.
  • Obama heads west to help Reid
    Feb 19, 2010 — Washington Post
    Leading up to the 2006 election, we had a Republican-controlled Congress and a Republican president, and Washington was dysfunctional. Now we have a Democratic Congress and Democratic president, and the federal government is still dysfunctional. After November's midterm elections, we may very well have a Republican House and a marginally Democratic Senate to go with a Democratic president.
  • Jon Stewart, Mocking Both Sides
    Feb 1, 2010 — Washington Post
    But Stewart, who makes no secret of leaning left, is a pop-culture bellwether. And while the White House notes that Obama used the prompter to address journalists, not the students, the details matter little in comedy.Stewart's barbs are generating partisan buzz. With Obama, he's merely using a popgun.
  • Obama, all over the map
    Jan 29, 2010 — Washington Post
    But the Republicans wouldn't even applaud tax cuts! And Nancy Pelosi is cool to the spending freeze that is supposed to demonstrate that Obama cares about out-of-control spending. Maybe it was a year ago when President Obama first addressed Congress.
  • One year after taking office, President Obama offers potent model for the young
    Jan 29, 2010 — Washington Post
    Feels that Obama is talking directly to him. They said to their dad, 'Baba, you are as smart as Barack Obama. Khalil sweeps in, drops his green and black cricket backpack.
  • Middle-Class Man A Regular 'joe'
    Jan 28, 2010 — Politico
    Since June, Biden held six out of the past seven meetings of the White House Middle Class Task Force in the Washington area. That was a week after unemployment hit 10 percent for the first time and Obama took a political hit in the Virginia and New Jersey elections. He’s a very bright guy, but his intellect is much more accessible.”It’s not the first time Biden has played this role for Obama.
  • Obama's address: The Twitter response
    Jan 28, 2010 — CNN
    Yeah..." -- Heather Wade on Facebook "SOTU not inspiring. Need more than rhetoriic" -- Twitter user, Rep. Too relaxed? #SOTU" -- Twitter user davecatanese "Obama sounds like Otter in Animal House.
  • Social media mirrors Americans' frustration
    Jan 28, 2010 — CNN
    Yeah..." -- Heather Wade on Facebook "SOTU not inspiring. Need more than rhetoriic" -- Twitter user, Rep. Too relaxed? #SOTU" -- Twitter user davecatanese "Obama sounds like Otter in Animal House.
  • Speech: The Twitter response
    Jan 28, 2010 — CNN
    Yeah..." -- Heather Wade on Facebook "SOTU not inspiring. Need more than rhetoriic" -- Twitter user, Rep. Too relaxed? #SOTU" -- Twitter user davecatanese "Obama sounds like Otter in Animal House.
  • Pressured Obama Resets For Year 2 -- Education Budget Will Be +6.2% -- Ed. Sec. Arne Duncan: 'we Can't Be Scared Of Doing The Right Thing' -- Nrcc Debuts 'the Plouffe Project' -- Si Picks Colts
    Jan 27, 2010 — Politico
    The CFPA, which has been championed by Democrats as part of financial services reform legislation, is anathema to Republicans. Obama will call for eliminating capital-gains taxes on investments in small businesses. However, he will need Congressional approval to freeze the salaries of political appointees at some agencies, officials said.
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