by Mark Silva
Today, on this day of a "distinctly American tradition,'' the president's tradtional weekly address arrives early.
"As much as we all have to be thankful for,'' President Barack Obama says in his address today, "we also know that this year millions of Americans are facing very" [...]
by Mark Silva and updated with the pardons
President Barack Obama hasn't pardoned any people yet -- demonstrating a definitely deliberative tendency in the exercise of his constitutional clemency power -- but today he let a couple of turkeys go.
The White House pardoning of the Thanksgiving turkey, a' [...]
by Jim Tankersley
President Barack Obama will attend the international climate negotiations in Copenhagen next month, according to a senior administration official, a sign of the president's increasing confidence that the talks will yield a meaningful agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
The White House will also announce today that the [...]
by Julian E. Barnes and Christi Parsons and updated
Key players in President Barack Obama's war team are getting ready to testify before Congress about Afghanistan, a sign that a decision about a new war strategy -- and announcement about troop build-up -- is coming soon.
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by Mark Silva
Chalk that new low point in President Barack Obama's approval rating at 48 percentage points. It turned a notch back to 49 points today.
In its path, the president's approval rating has scored an early term-low in a poll that has been watching him daily, [...]
You want proof? Here it is. Organizing For America (OFA) is Barack Obama's perpetual propaganda mechanism, and they sent out hundreds of thousands of the email announcement reproduced in the image here (click to enlarge).
The honeymoon is definitely over for Barack Obama on Saturday Night Live.
And the union people crawled away.by Phyllis Schlafly
Another kooky Barack Obama appointee became publicly known this month and quickly was thrown or voluntarily threw herself under the bus. Anita Dunn, the White House communications director (who led Obama's war on Fox News), said that Mao Tse-tung was one of her two favorite "political philosophers"' [...]
Invoking the memory of Edward M. Kennedy, Democrats united Saturday night to push historic health care legislation past a key Senate hurdle over the opposition of Republicans eager to inflict a punishing defeat on President Barack Obama. There was not a vote to spare.
The 60-39 vote cleared [...]
President Barack Obama's public approval stood at 69 percent in the days after his inauguration in January, shown above, and reached a new low of 49 percent this week in the Gallup Poll's daily tracking surveys.
by Mark Silva
Public approval of the job that President Barack Obama is [...]
by Mark Silva
President Barack Obama, returned from a weeklong tour of Asia where he is promoting "a new era of American engagement," says the continent holds promise for Americn exports that can spur new jobs at home.
"Asia is a region where we now buy more goods and" [...]
Let's recap what recent campaign reforms have brought us:
In 2007, the politicians in the Illinois General Assembly moved the Illinois primary to February in order to help one of it's own (Barack Obama) in the Presidential Primary. No coincidentally, the move had the added benefit of making any challenges [...]Today, members of the Illinois Congressional Delegation joined Congressman Peter Roskam in sending a letter to President Barack Obama (see below) requesting a National Security Council (NSC) briefing, after one of the five Democrat Senate candidates, Alexi Giannoulias, disclosed that he received a [...]
Below, release from six Illinois GOP House members.....
All: Today, members of the Illinois Congressional Delegation joined Congressman Peter Roskam in sending a letter to
President Barack Obama requesting a National Security Council (NSC) briefing, after one of the five Democrat Senate candidates, Alexi Giannoulias, disclosed that he received [...]
Roland Burris (D-Blagojevich), who nominally represents me in the United States Senate, at best got a hand-slap from the Senate Ethics Committee for giving evasive and dishonest answers when he explained how he ended up getting appointed to Barack Obama's former seat.WASHINGTON-- Sen. Roland Burris (D-Ill.) was admonished today by the U.S. Senate ethics committee over his testimony in Springfield concerning how he got appointed to Barack Obama's vacant Senate seat.
But his actions following his appointment by then Gov.-Rod Blagojevich did not rise to level of pursuing ethics charges against [...]
by Mark Silva
President Barack Obama is home.
Home, where the hard work is.
With stops in 20 nations behind him, said to be the most ambitious international itinerary of any first-year president, Obama faces the closing innings of a domestic policy year in which he insisted upon a sweeping health-care reform [...]
by Mark Silva
Sarah Palin was box office on FOX News this week - handing Sean Hannity one of his highest-rated shows.
Someone else drew a crowd at FOX this week, too: President Barack Obama.
While Hannity's audience of more than 4 million viewers with the author of Going Rogue aboard at [...]
Below, release and detailed poll data....
AMERICAN VOTERS LIKE OBAMA, BUT NOT HIS POLICIES,
QUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY NATIONAL POLL FINDS;
SUPPORT FOR PUBLIC OPTION, BUT NOT OVERALL HEALTH PLAN
Three-quarters of American voters - 74 percent - like President Barack Obama as a person, but only 47 percent like [...]
by Mark Rhoads
Say what you will about Barack Obama, he's got chutzpah when it comes to reversing himself in public. According to Reuters, he told Fox News of all news groups (Yup, they're speaking to each other again) yesterday that "It is important though to recognize if we keep on" [...]
Wisdom from China as reported by the AP:
