HAMPTON, Va. — President Barack Obama is employing the services of the first lady on the final leg of his three-day bus tour as they tout proposals in the president’s jobs bill that the White House says would put more of the nation’s unemployed veterans back to work. The president’s day-long swing through Virginia also […]
A new study released by Pew found that President Obama is receiving more negative coverage than any individual GOP candidate for election entering 2012. GOP presidential candidate Rick Perry has received the most positive news coverage; while presidential contender Herman Cain has surged since his Florida Straw Poll victory; and Romney has received balanced coverage. […]
Open your eyes: this is the revolution. Yesterday, the Republican-controlled House of Representatives spent an entire legislative session debating a hollow abortion bill.
President Obama is conducting a White House news conference to discuss his jobs bill and other issues important to the American people: RELATED: A few changes? Senate Dems rewrite Obama Jobs Bill
A fast-food restaurant in Beijing called Obama Fried Chicken was derided in America yesterday as a racist rip-off. Its sign shows a grinning caricature of President Obama’s head on a skinny version of Colonel Sanders’ body. Below it, written in Chinese, is the slogan: “We’re so cool, aren’t we?” “It’s insulting, offensive and plays to […]
President Obama’s approval rating is at an all-time low as concerns for his re-election grow. With a bad economy and an even worse job market, morale in the “Yes We Can” believers has taken a big hit in the past three years. Even though there are now more women serving on the Supreme Court than […]
I’m criticized incessantly at my Factotum-type day gig—well, actually not at the gig, because I’m the HNIC there, but every month we have this thing, a Manager’s call, where bosses from sites around the country phone in and discuss topics. I dread these things like the Black Death. Without fail, there’s some nit to pick […]
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama tapped labor economist Alan Krueger for a top administration post Monday, rounding out his White House economic team ahead of a highly-anticipated announcement next week on a new jobs initiative. Speaking in the Rose Garden, Obama said he expected Krueger, a former Treasury Department official and Princeton economist, to provide […]
President Obama received some bad news this week: A recent Gallup Poll found that the approval rating for the president has dropped below 40 percent for the first time ever. A full 54 percent of Americans disapprove of the job the president is doing. This revelation puts President Obama into George Bush territory. Bush’s approval […]
CHEYENNE, Wyo. — A judge on Friday threw out Obama administration rules that sought to slow down expedited environmental review of oil and gas drilling on federal land. U.S. District Judge Nancy Freudenthal ruled in favor of a petroleum industry group, the Western Energy Alliance, in its lawsuit against the federal government, including Interior Secretary […]
WASHINGTON — It has been a lousy month for President Barack Obama. And August is not yet two weeks old. Running for re-election, he’s getting beaten up from the political left for making too many concessions and for abandoning the positions on which he campaigned. And he’s being attacked from the right by Republican conservatives […]
Rev. Jesse Jackson called into question President Obama’s toughness this weekend in regards to his handling of the debt ceiling talks. Obama, who has been criticized by many for compromising with the stalwart Republicans, struck a deal that helped the country avert a financial crisis. Jackson, who spoke to Politico.com, said that the president is […]
