Posts tagged president-obama
Will Marshall: The War on Oil?
Jun 16th
President Obama firmly took charge of the Gulf oil disaster last night. That was something he needed to do. But am I the only one who found his martial tone off-putting
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Loading ...Richard Greener: What Obama Should Have Said: Two Truths And Three Actions
Jun 16th
Instead of making another TV “speech” to us, President Obama should have told the American people two simple truths about the debacle in the Gulf followed by the announcement of three Presidential actions.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Marcia DeSanctis: President Expectation
Jun 16th
In his address tonight, the President came across neither as an empath nor a hothead – both characteristics that critics have been calling for, loudly, since the beginning of this disaster in the Gulf.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Adam Hanft: Obama Needs to Talk About the Second Broken Ecosystem Tonight
Jun 15th
It took President Obama 16 days after the arrest of Henry Louis Gates to sit down with him and Sergeant Crowley- the arresting cop – for their famous beer summit.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Janet Ritz: Where Is Dick Cheney During the Gulf Oil Spill?
Jun 15th
Former Vice President (and former Halliburton CEO) Dick Cheney, so vocal during the first year of President Obama’s administration in his attempt to scare us to death on national security, has been remarkably silent since the Gulf oil spill began its slow motion march into the nation’s consciousness. There was not a decision on war or energy the current president made that was not questioned, even ridiculed, by the former Bush Administration number one two. However, since the Deepwater Horizon began its slow motion process of turning the Gulf into a dead zone, Mr
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Christine Pelosi: BP Disaster: Wake Up America and Smell The Crude Oil
Jun 15th
The BP disaster is a wakeup call to America: it’s time we all woke up and smelled the crude oil. We are, as President Bush said, addicted to oil and we must break that addiction before more lives are lost, ecosystems destroyed, and families devastated
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Harry Shearer: A Word to BP Shareholders
Jun 15th
LONDON — The British media have been ablaze with patriotic defensiveness, upset that President Obama keeps calling BP “British Petroleum”. Strange: I was at the Tate Britain museum yesterday, visiting galleries sponsored by…BP. The London Olympics have as a main sponsor…BP
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Alvin McEwen: Anti-gay Congressman attacks Obama for showing ‘partiality’ to African-Americans
Jun 15th
Congressman Steve King (R-Iowa) has a history of making ridiculous comments but today’s attack on President Obama takes the cake: During an appearance on G. Gordon Liddy’s radio show this morning to discuss Arizona’s immigration law, King suggested President Barack Obama was a racist and “favors the black person” while carrying out his presidential duties
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...April D. Ryan: President Obama’s Sympathy Call to Nelson Mandela
Jun 14th
President Obama recently made a call to 91-year-old Nelson Mandela.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Michele Bachmann Taunts Obama: ‘I Took Karate When I Was 17 Years Old, I Am Dangerous’
Jun 12th
Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) said that she could take out President Obama if she were ever caught in the mind-boggling and improbable scenario of engaging the nation’s leader in a physical fight. Bachmann touted her toughness in an interview Thursday with Ben Shapiro of BigGovernment.com: SHAPIRO: I want to ask you, speaking of his violent language, and he’s been brutal on BP, talking about putting his boot on the throat of BP, talking about how he wants to go down there and kick someone’s ass — frankly, Michele, I think you could take President Obama, off the record.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Memo To Deficit Hawks: Here’s $1 Trillion To Cut — From The Pentagon
Jun 11th
When you think about ways to tame the nation’s long-term deficit, what’s the first thing that comes to mind? Slashing benefits for the old and sick? Or taking a few whacks at the spectacularly bloated defense budget
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Harry Moroz: The Battle Was Already Lost
Jun 11th
There has been significant back -and- forth of late about President Obama’s responsibility, power, and influence. Should he don a hard hat and tool belt and set about trying to cap the Deepwater Horizon oil spill
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Obama Was Flying To Private Fundraiser During Deepwater Horizon Memorial Service
Jun 11th
According his official schedule, President Obama did not attend the May 25 memorial service in Jackson, Mississippi for the workers who died in the Deepwater Horizon explosion because he was en route to a fundraiser for Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-California, in San Francisco.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Peter Clothier: Elections: The Success of Women
Jun 11th
I wish I felt more inclined to celebrate what all the pundits were noting yesterday: the success of women in Tuesday’s political primaries.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...HuffPost TV: Roy Sekoff On ‘Ed Show’: 300 Million People Can Tell Obama It’s BP’s Ass He Should Kick (VIDEO)
Jun 9th
Huffington Post editor Roy Sekoff appeared on “The Ed Show” Tuesday to follow up on President Obama’s response to the ecological disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. Obama has been talking tougher since Sekoff and Ed Schultz last assessed the federal response to the BP oil spill , and both men complimented him on his increased use of the bully pulpit
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Marty Robins: Government Isn’t Always the Answer: Thoughts on the Oil Spill
Jun 8th
Perhaps it’s the Midwestern heat getting to me — a staunch, but hopefully enlightened conservative — but I think President Obama is getting too much criticism for his handling of the gulf oil spill.
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