Obama's Presidency Watch

Obama's terrible, horrible, no good, very bad year

2010-12-23T03:15:00.001-08:00

From the start, 2010 delivered a string of setbacks that built up to an electoral shellacking come November, to use the president's own word. link

Obama honors Nobel winner with statement about himself

2010-12-10T14:04:00.000-08:00

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Obama reverses on offshore drilling

2010-12-01T13:17:00.001-08:00

The White House’s uneasy on again, off again relationship with offshore oil drilling is off again. Wednesday, the Interior Department said it would not propose oil exploration off the Atlantic and Pacific coastlines or the eastern Gulf of Mexico for at least seven years. link

Bam AWOL on Vets Day

2010-11-11T07:33:00.001-08:00

With his feeble flame of "hope" thoroughly doused here in the United States by last week's elections, President Obama has set out around the globe in search of throngs still enthralled by his flowery rhetoric.

He found them, of course, in Indonesia this week by telling them about how Americans must stop mistrusting Islam. link

A display of unbelievable Presidential smallness

2010-10-28T02:47:00.000-07:00

If you are Latino not only does Obama want you to punish your enemies he’s criticizing you if you don’t. link

Obama the snob

2010-10-20T05:42:00.000-07:00

"Part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now," he recently told a group of Democratic donors in Massachusetts, "and facts and science and argument [do] not seem to be winning the day all the time is because we're hard-wired not to always think clearly when we're scared. And the country is scared." link

Obama: Dems are in trouble because Americans aren't thinking clearly

2010-10-18T06:20:00.001-07:00

At a Saturday-evening fundraiser held in the home of a wealthy Massachusetts hospital executive, President Obama suggested Democrats are having difficulties in midterm campaigning because Americans simply aren't thinking clearly. link

So what's the White House really after? Payback.

2010-10-15T15:17:00.001-07:00

It's no great mystery what Barack Obama was doing when he accused the U.S. Chamber of Commerce of directing funds collected from overseas to a massive advertising campaign designed to shape the fall congressional elections. link

Why Obama Is Losing the Political War

2010-10-11T17:09:00.001-07:00

Barack Obama is being politically crushed in a vise. From above, by elite opinion about his competence. From below, by mass anger and anxiety over unemployment. And it is too late for him to do anything about this predicament until after November's elections. link

Rove, Gillespie Slam Obama for Spreading 'Baseless Lie' Over Foreign Contributions

2010-10-10T19:10:00.001-07:00

Two top Republicans lit into President Obama and the Democratic Party Sunday over accusations that the GOP strategists and the Chamber of Commerce were using foreign contributions to influence the election, calling the claim a "baseless lie" and accusing the president of "abuse of power." link

Karl Rove: Obama has an 'enemies list'

2010-10-10T19:09:00.001-07:00

Karl Rove charged Sunday that President Barack Obama has an “enemies list,” after the White House escalated its argument that Rove and others are orchestrating a flood of midterm-election ads paid for by unknown donors. link

Obama wrong about Chamber of Commerce, and he knows it

2010-10-10T19:08:00.000-07:00

...a closer examination shows that there is little evidence that what the chamber does in collecting overseas dues is improper or even unusual, according to both liberal and conservative election-law lawyers and campaign finance documents. link

'Obama Has a Considerable Ego'

2010-10-08T14:28:00.000-07:00

Spiegel: One crisis after another for Barack Obama threatens to create a debacle for the American president in November's midterm elections. But Obama still appears to be confident. link

President Obama Says Chamber of Commerce Using Foreign Funds to Influence US Elections

2010-10-08T07:05:00.000-07:00

President Obama this afternoon joined the gang of Democrats and liberal groups alleging that the US Chamber of Commerce is using foreign funds to influence American elections. link

A Man for All Factions

2010-10-05T02:47:00.001-07:00

Once campaigning gave way to governing, it was inevitable that one faction or the other would be disappointed. But lately, Obama has managed the more difficult feat of alienating both of them at once. link

Obama's view from Olympus

2010-10-02T04:53:00.001-07:00

President Obama's latest interview with Rolling Stone magazine is revealing precisely because it is so typical. Everyone -- really just about everyone in American politics -- is chided, challenged, instructed, judged or admonished in one way or another. The president's condescension is universal. link

Woodward: Obama Out of Afghan "Psychologically"

2010-09-29T06:59:00.001-07:00

"Obama's Wars" Author Questions Whether President Should be So Focused on Exit Strategy Instead of Victory. link

Why is the free market rejecting Obama's loan program?

2010-09-29T06:58:00.000-07:00

President Obama's new plan to offer loans to community banks and small businesses meets a chorus of refusals. link

Obama Stimulus Made Economic Crisis Worse, `Black Swan' Author Taleb Says

2010-09-25T17:52:00.001-07:00

U.S. President Barack Obama and his administration weakened the country’s economy by seeking to foster growth instead of paying down the federal debt, said Nassim Nicholas Taleb, author of “The Black Swan.” link

Obamacare is even worse than critics thought

2010-09-23T16:45:00.001-07:00

Half a year removed from the unprecedented legislative chicanery and backroom dealing that characterized the bill's passage, we know much more about the bill than we did then. link

Obama Administration's spend-and-borrow addiction

2010-09-22T11:04:00.001-07:00

Fed's easy money program enables the Obama Administration's spend-and-borrow addiction. link

Obama hints at Summers, Geithner departures

2010-09-21T03:02:00.000-07:00

President Obama on Monday hinted that he may be switching leadership on his White House economic team. link

Obama skips the “by our Creator” part quoting Declaration of Independence

2010-09-20T18:41:00.001-07:00

During a Congressional Hispanic Caucus event, President Obama quoted directly from the Declaration of Independence, yet he just skipped the part about our Creator, who endowed us certain inalienable rights... link

Obama, facing tough questions, says times still hard

2010-09-20T18:36:00.001-07:00

President Barack Obama on Monday said times were still tough for many Americans, as he defended his policies during aggressive questioning after the worst U.S. recession since the 1930s was declared over. link

Summary of president Obama as a person

2010-09-19T06:08:00.000-07:00

HotAir's post disputing David Brooks's characterisation on Tea partiers as "narcissistic, egomaniacal, self-righteous people who distort the truth" gives as a pretty good list of all the people and groups Obama has demonized. link

Senate approves Obama's small-business aid package

2010-09-16T10:55:00.001-07:00

On a 61-38 vote, lawmakers pass the bill, which would create a $30-billion small-business lending fund and give $12 billion in tax breaks to encourage companies to invest and hire. link

Europe cools towards Obama

2010-09-15T10:32:00.001-07:00

...while Obama remained more popular than his predecessor George W. Bush, there were concerns about the line he had taken on issues such as Iran and its nuclear programme. link

President Obama seeks his inner Bill Clinton and feels voters' pain

2010-09-14T03:00:00.000-07:00

President Obama told a small crowd in Fairfax, Va., on Monday that he would stand in the hot sun with them and “feel their pain.” link

That probably means no golf, no partying, no week night concerts at his home (also known as White House). This going to be tough on him. O wait, I haven't done that for last two years. Not even one time. Now, he feels my pain. (Yeah right).

UK Teenager Banned From America For Life Over Obscene Obama Email

2010-09-13T09:34:00.000-07:00

A British teenager who sent an email to the White House calling President Obama an obscenity was banned from America for life, The Sun reported Monday. link

Obama jobs death toll watch: 150,000 more energy jobs in danger

2010-09-13T07:47:00.001-07:00

Louisiana State University economist Joseph Mason has a new study on the jobs death toll damage that President Obama’s planned energy tax hikes will cause. link

A President's Class War

2010-09-11T14:37:00.001-07:00

Barack Obama may be the most embittered American president any of us has experienced. Read the text of that Labor Day speech he gave in Milwaukee. link

Why Obama's plan won't buy votes

2010-09-08T11:39:00.001-07:00

Economists are already questioning the impact of the latest economic stimulus plan, which appears to be little more than a transparent plea for votes. link

Obama's Foreign Policy Has Failed

2010-09-08T05:15:00.000-07:00

He was supposed to change Washington. But the president’s strategy in the Middle East and Afghanistan has lacked courage and creativity—and pales in comparison with Bush’s. link

Debate over: Obama rules out extending Bush tax cuts for richest taxpayers

2010-09-08T05:13:00.000-07:00

President Obama will rule out on Wednesday any compromise that would extend the Bush-era tax cuts for the wealthy beyond this year, officials said, adding a populist twist to an election-season economic package that is otherwise designed to entice support from big businesses and their Republican allies. link

Obama On GOP: "They Talk About Me Like A Dog"

2010-09-07T07:42:00.001-07:00

"Some powerful interests who had been dominating the agenda in Washington for a very long time and they're not always happy with me. They talk about me like a dog. That's not in my prepared remarks, but it's true," President Obama told an audience in Wisconsin. link

Hold The Stimulus And Pass The Tea

2010-09-06T19:23:00.001-07:00

President Obama “unveiled” his new “stimulus” plan in Wisconsin today. It was a lot like watching an alcoholic unveil his new plan to get sober by switching to lite beer. link

Obama's Misguided Approach. America Has Become Too European.

2010-09-03T06:13:00.000-07:00

The Obama administration and the Federal Reserve want to fix the United States economy by spending more money. But while that approach might work for Europe, it is risky for the US. The nation would be better off embracing traditional American values like self-reliance and small government. link

Caddell on the Midterm Elections

2010-09-02T15:40:00.001-07:00

“President Obama’s undoing may be his disingenuousness,” Caddell says. After campaigning for post-partisanship, Obama, he observes, has lurched without pause to the left. link

Oval Office speech another low-key effort

2010-09-02T02:57:00.001-07:00

Last night, Obama delivered yet another mediocre performance in what should have been a perfect setting: a war speech as Commander in Chief. link

Obama: Iraq begins and ends with I, I, I

2010-08-30T20:24:00.001-07:00

As a candidate for this office, I pledged I would end this war. As president, that is what I am doing. link

Waiting for Mr. Obama

2010-08-29T18:58:00.000-07:00

If President Obama has a big economic initiative up his sleeve, as he hinted recently, now would be a good time to let the rest of us in on it. link

Germany has real recovery - US has imagined or “summer of recovery”

2010-08-28T06:12:00.000-07:00

American leaders argued that the economic crisis was so bad, governments should borrow billions to stimulate growth. German leaders argued that a little short-term stimulus was sensible, but anything more was near-sighted. link

Obama's Damaging Doublespeak

2010-08-26T11:22:00.001-07:00

Conflicting messages on the “ground zero mosque” are just the latest signal that a clear presidential strategy is missing—and voters are gearing up to retaliate against the president’s incompetence, says Douglas E. Schoen. link

Texas fights Obama's global-warming power grab

2010-08-26T04:38:00.001-07:00

The state's slogan is "Don't mess with Texas." But the federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is doing just that, and at stake is whether the Obama administration can impose its global-warming agenda without a vote of Congress. link

Obama WH knew drilling moratorium would cost 23,000 jobs

2010-08-23T19:25:00.001-07:00

Senior Obama administration officials concluded the federal moratorium on deepwater oil drilling would cost roughly 23,000 jobs, but went ahead with the ban because they didn't trust the industry's safety equipment and the government's own inspection process, according to previously undisclosed documents. link

Missing his moment, and America's

2010-08-21T05:34:00.001-07:00

President Obama, like most of our consequential presidents, arrived at the right time; unlike them, he may have badly misread his moment, and America's. link

The stealth Obama ocean grab

2010-08-20T09:47:00.000-07:00

Michelle Malkin: It’s not enough that the White House is moving to lock up hundreds of millions of acres of land in the name of environmental protection. The Obama administration’s neon green radicals are also training their sights on the deep blue seas. link

The Paradox of a Legislative President

2010-08-19T08:32:00.001-07:00

Democrats in Washington are divided and somewhat puzzled over President Obama’s fading popularity. They reject, of course, the Republican view that the president is basically a closet socialist whose disdain for free enterprise has alienated voters. link

Summer of corruption: Obama’s Big Labor ethics loophole

2010-08-18T08:38:00.001-07:00

Everything you need to know about President Obama’s fraudulent ethics pledge can be summed up in four words: SEIU lawyer Craig Becker. link

Mosque supporters beg George W. Bush to come to Obama's rescue

2010-08-18T08:23:00.000-07:00

There's a new argument emerging among supporters of the Ground Zero mosque. Distressed by President Obama's waffling on the issue, they're calling on former President George W. Bush to announce his support for the project. link

‘Can He Really Think He’s More Important Than the Tens of Thousands of People Trying to Get Home to Their Families?’

2010-08-17T13:22:00.001-07:00

via HotAir: Does the question really even need to be asked? Obama, the hero of the working-class, doesn’t understand anything about how us little people live. link

Mr. President this is not about religious freedom.

2010-08-17T10:21:00.001-07:00

It is about the importance of the World Trade Center site to the psyche of the American People. It is about a blatant attack on our sovereignty by people whose ideology ultimately demands the elimination of our way of life. link

Critics say Obama's message becoming 'incoherent'

2010-08-17T10:16:00.001-07:00

President Obama's comments on a plan to build a mosque in the shadow of ground zero are not only giving opponents an opportunity to attack him but also reveal a messaging problem from the White House, a communications expert said. link

via HotAir

2010-08-17T07:28:00.003-07:00

The Ecstasy of Empire

2010-08-17T05:26:00.000-07:00

The United States is running out of time to get its budget and trade deficits under control. Despite the urgency of the situation, 2010 has been wasted in hype about a non-existent recovery. link

Obama, the one-term president

2010-08-17T05:16:00.001-07:00

Honest to goodness, the man just does not get it. He might be forced to pull a Palin and resign before his first term is over. He could go off and write his memoirs and build his presidential library. link

Some Democratic candidates distance themselves from Obama

2010-08-16T06:27:00.001-07:00

Fight or flight? That is the question Democratic incumbents and challengers in this fall's elections are asking themselves when it comes to dealing with President Obama. link

Issa: Obama administration conducted propaganda campaigns for agenda

2010-08-16T06:20:00.001-07:00

Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA), the ranking member of the House Oversight Committee, will release a report that claims that the Obama administration has created propaganda using federal funds to promote the agenda of Barack Obama and the Democrats. link

How Many "Top Priority" Issues Does Obama Have?

2010-08-15T15:29:00.001-07:00

After the Senate passed that $600 million Border Security Bill yesterday, President Obama issued a statement asserting that securing the southwest border has been "a top priority" since he took office. link

Fire and Imagination

2010-08-15T03:41:00.001-07:00

The Obama administration seems to be feeling sorry for itself. Robert Gibbs, the president’s press secretary, is perturbed that Mr. Obama is not getting more hosannas from liberals. link

Obama Strongly Backs Islam Center Near 9/11 Site

2010-08-15T03:27:00.000-07:00

President Obama delivered a strong defense on Friday night of a proposed Muslim community center and mosque near ground zero in Manhattan, using a White House dinner celebrating Ramadan to proclaim that “as a citizen, and as president, I believe that Muslims have the same right to practice their religion as anyone else in this country.” link

How Obama is locking up our land

2010-08-14T07:05:00.001-07:00

Have you heard of the “Great Outdoors Initiative”? Chances are, you haven’t. But across the country, White House officials have been meeting quietly with environmental groups to map out government plans for acquiring untold millions of acres of both public and private land. link

Obama stands up for Ground Zero mosque

2010-08-14T06:05:00.001-07:00

President Barack Obama on Friday endorsed a controversial plan to build a mosque and Islamic center just blocks from Ground Zero in Manhattan, despite the strong objections of conservatives, the ADL and those who lost loved ones in the September 11 attacks. link

Which White House reporters had lunch with Obama?

2010-08-13T10:53:00.001-07:00

Reporters wouldn't say Thursday who joined President Obama for an off-the-record lunch at the White House. link

Bush vs Obama: part 2

2010-08-13T08:40:00.001-07:00

Speaking of George W. Bush… link

Bush vs Obama: The deficit

2010-08-13T08:39:00.001-07:00

The One’s” progress on deficit spending vs the lies spread by the lefites. link

Conservative Group Pushes to Enlist Thousands After Obama Suggests It's Foreign Influenced

2010-08-13T05:44:00.001-07:00

A conservative group with a distinctly pro-American agenda will be signing up thousands of new members, it claims, after President Obama suggested the group was doing the political bidding of foreign corporations. link

The stunning decline of Barack Obama: 10 key reasons why the Obama presidency is in meltdown

2010-08-13T05:39:00.001-07:00

The last few weeks have been a nightmare for President Obama, in a summer of discontent in the United States which has deeply unsettled the ruling liberal elites, so much so that even the Left has begun to turn against the White House. link

U.S. Is Bankrupt and We Don't Even Know: Laurence Kotlikoff

2010-08-11T06:42:00.001-07:00

Let’s get real. The U.S. is bankrupt. Neither spending more nor taxing less will help the country pay its bills. What it can and must do is radically simplify its tax, health-care, retirement and financial systems, each of which is a complete mess. link

Obama signs $26b state aid bill after House OK

2010-08-11T06:40:00.001-07:00

House lawmakers scurried back to Capitol Hill yesterday — booking last-minute flights and canceling appearances at town halls — and approved a $26 billion package that will provide aid to states, including an additional $655 million for Massachusetts. link

While he was out

2010-08-11T05:31:00.000-07:00

US media did not report that yet so President may not know it yet but...

While President Obama was busy playing games with friends celebrating his birthday, Russia has deployed S-300 air defense missile systems in Georgia's breakaway Abkhazia region. Russian general Alexander Zelin also said that air defenses of other types had been deployed in Georgia's other Russian-backed rebel region, South Ossetia.

The jock in chief, getting his fill of sports?

2010-08-11T05:18:00.001-07:00

"You must always remember that the president is about 6." This advice was offered more than 100 years ago by a British friend of Teddy Roosevelt's. The nation has matured since then, and so has the presidency. Now the president is about 12. link

The Bailout Singularity

2010-08-10T08:35:00.000-07:00

Reuters columnist James Pethokoukis tells us the markets are preparing for a fantastically expensive “August Surprise” from President Obama. link

The Obama presidency increasingly resembles a modern-day Ancien Régime: extravagant and out of touch with the American people

2010-08-09T16:13:00.001-07:00

What the great French historian Alexis de Tocqueville would make of today’s Obama administration were he alive today is anyone’s guess. But I would wager that the author of L’Ancien Régime and Democracy in America would be less than impressed with the extravagance and arrogance on display among the White House elites that rule America as though they had been handed some divine right to govern with impunity. link

A Democratic Panic Attack?

2010-08-09T16:11:00.000-07:00

With the disappointingly soft jobs report for July, and a faltering recovery overall, is Team Obama getting ready for some sort of new, liberal-left, Keynesian, big-bang stimulus package? Will they be desperate to “do something”? link

Time to admit Obamanomics has failed

2010-08-09T16:08:00.001-07:00

It's no coincidence that Christina Romer, chairwoman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, announced her retirement the day before Friday's brutal unemployment report. link

Obama attacks Bush policies in Bush's home state

2010-08-09T16:06:00.001-07:00

President Barack Obama attacked the economic policies of his Republican predecessor George W. Bush in Bush's home state on Monday as evidence of the way Republicans would operate if given power in Nov. 2 U.S. congressional elections. link

Obama Choppers Six Miles For Economy Comments

2010-08-08T11:34:00.001-07:00

He choppered to Gelberg Signs, the Washington, D.C.-based company where he'll deliver remarks on the economy and July employment numbers. According to Google maps, the drive would have taken about 20 minutes from the White House. link

While Obama preaches sacrifice, his family frolics in Spain

2010-08-07T14:09:00.001-07:00

AS THE US economy endures high unemployment and a jittery stock market, President Barack Obama has preached sacrifice and fiscal discipline. But the pictures coming out of a sun-splashed Spanish resort may be sending a different message. link

Obama getting head-faked by Iran again?

2010-08-05T16:00:00.001-07:00

Eighteen months into his term as President, Barack Obama still hasn’t quite figured out that Iran wants to build a nuke and not a friendship with the US. link

Material girl Michelle Obama is a modern-day Marie Antoinette on a glitzy Spanish vacation

2010-08-05T05:59:00.000-07:00

While many of us are struggling, the First Lady is spending the next few days in a five-star hotel on the chic Costa del Sol in southern Spain with 40 of her "closest friends." According to CNN, the group is expected to occupy 60 to 70 rooms, more than a third of the lodgings at the 160-room resort. link

Dem plan to boost manufacturing: raise taxes

2010-08-04T11:02:00.001-07:00

Democrats want to rush a manufacturing stimulus through Congress, but how do they propose to do it — tax credits, rolling back regulation, or suspending capital-gains taxes on the sector? Not exactly... link

No to ObamaCare. Prop C passes overwhelmingly.

2010-08-04T06:28:00.000-07:00

Missouri voters on Tuesday overwhelmingly rejected a federal mandate to purchase health insurance, rebuking President Barack Obama's administration and giving Republicans their first political victory in a national campaign to overturn the controversial health care law passed by Congress in March. link

Democrats shying away from Obama?

2010-08-03T17:12:00.001-07:00

While Democratic candidates have not openly said President Obama is not welcome on the campaign trail, actions speak louder than words. link

Obama to GOP: “You can’t have the keys back. You don’t know how to drive!”

2010-08-03T16:53:00.001-07:00

Thus spaketh the man with a 41 percent approval rating. I like his metaphor, actually, even if he has the particulars wrong: After two years of watching him swerve all over the road and sideswipe the occasional telephone pole, the public’s decided that he’s drunk and it’s time to take his keys away. link

Manufacturing slid 1.2% in June, private-sector wages dropped

2010-08-03T11:44:00.000-07:00

Today the Commerce Department released two reports on economic activity in June, finalizing numbers that had been hinted at through other indicators. Manufacturing fell 1.2%, which followed a 1.8% decrease in May. link

AMERICA'S NEW HEALTH CARE SYSTEM REVEALED

2010-08-03T11:42:00.000-07:00

Chart shows Obamacare's bewildering complexity. Four months after U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi famously declared "We have to pass the bill so you can find out what’s in it,"a congressional panel has released the first chart illustrating the 2,801 page health care law President Obama signed into law in March. link

Obama tells veterans that end of Iraq war is about to begin

2010-08-02T19:59:00.000-07:00

President Barack Obama declared Monday that the Iraq war was nearing an end "as promised and on schedule," touting what he called a success of his administration. link

President Obama, Shamelessly and Hypocritically Lying. Again.

2010-08-02T08:17:00.001-07:00

President Obama gave an interview to CBS on Sunday, wherein he attempted to explain his stance against Arizona’s SB 1070 Immigration bill. link

President Obama: Auto industry on right road

2010-08-02T08:15:00.001-07:00

President Barack Obama on Friday wrestled to reclaim the definition of one of the most charged words in Washington’s political lexicon: bailout. link

Obama must break his tax promise

2010-08-02T06:48:00.000-07:00

Between now and the November elections, the biggest political fight in the US is likely to be about taxes. Unless Congress acts, big tax cuts enacted in 2001 and 2003 during George Bush’s presidency will expire at the end of the year. link

Democrats Scatter Monday as Obama Comes to Town

2010-08-02T06:45:00.001-07:00

President Obama makes his first Atlanta appearance since his inauguration. If you think this will be a time for Democrats running for office to rally around the chief executive- -you probably haven't been following the campaigns this summer. link

Will Washington's Failures Lead To Second American Revolution?

2010-08-01T05:30:00.000-07:00

The Internet is a large-scale version of the "Committees of Correspondence" that led to the first American Revolution — and with Washington's failings now so obvious and awful, it may lead to another. link

SEC Says New Law Exempts it From Public Disclosure

2010-07-31T17:26:00.000-07:00

So much for transparency. Under a provision of the financial-reform legislation, the Securities and Exchange Commission no longer has to comply with requests for information, including those filed under the Freedom of Information Act. link

G.M.’s Electric Lemon

2010-07-30T09:46:00.001-07:00

G.M.’s vision turned into a car that costs $41,000 before relevant tax breaks ... but after billions of dollars of government loans and grants for the Volt’s development and production. And instead of the sleek coupe of 2007, it looks suspiciously similar to a Toyota Prius. link

Cavuto to Obama: It isn’t we don’t like you … we just don’t believe you

2010-07-30T07:45:00.001-07:00

What makes the commentary so good is how he outlines many if not all of the Obama promises that were only later contradicted by Obama actions. link

Neither Roosevelt nor Reagan. How Obama blew his opportunity.

2010-07-29T07:46:00.000-07:00

... he destroyed the best chance the Democrats had for enduring center-left governance since the mid 20th-century, shattered the coalition that brought him to power, and dealt his party and faction a political setback from which they may not recover for years. link

Obama targets ‘soccer moms’ to halt poll slide

2010-07-28T17:00:00.001-07:00

When Barack Obama appears on Thursday on the homey set of The View, all couches and coffee cups, he can expect laughs and soft questions from “the ladies” – led by television mavens Barbara Walters and Whoopi Goldberg. link

Lockerbie release: So much for “smart diplomacy.” So much for “surprised.”

2010-07-27T04:29:00.000-07:00

Correspondence obtained by The Sunday Times reveals the Obama administration considered compassionate release more palatable than locking up Abdel Baset al-Megrahi in a Libyan prison. link

The Obamas Prove They Aren’t Far Removed From What Most Americans are Going Through

2010-07-27T04:26:00.001-07:00

Obama says the first couple is “not that far removed from what most Americans are going through.” A college fund for daughters Malia and Sasha has gone “up and down” with the stock market. link