Wednesday, January 04, 2012

Obama



may 3

  • Also, David Weigel describes the scene outside the White House following Obama 's announcement, Anne Applebaum applauds America 's use of human intelligence over expensive technologies, and Brian Palmer explains Bin Laden 's burial at sea. Slate
  • The Pakistani military, which the Obama administration says it kept in the dark about the mission, made sure that throngs of journalists stayed at a distance. LA Times World News
  • " Fox News cites senior Obama administration officials who say the United States shared intelligence on the compound with no other country. Slate
  • Obama should use Osama Bin Laden 's death to declare victory and end the legal war on terror. Slate
  • So far, the Obama administration has said that initial intelligence came from Guantanamo detainees, who provided the name of Bin Laden 's most-trusted courier. Slate
  • The most acute recent moments of compartmentalization for Obama had to have been Friday and Saturday. Slate
  • Many ordinary Americans -- and one billionaire -- persistently questioned whether Obama was born in the U.S. despite lacking any evidence that he was n't. CTV News Latest
  • Obama planned to travel to New York on Thursday to visit Ground Zero and meet families of September 11 victims. Reuters International


  • may 24

  • As a group, multinational companies with current or former chief executive officers on Obama's advisory Council on Jobs and Competitiveness - including Intel Corp. - have devoted a growing pool of their non-U.S. earnings to investments in other countries. SFGate.com
  • Obama’s national security adviser, Tom Donilon, and his British counterpart, Peter Ricketts, will head the group, which is to share information and deal with long-term security challenges. VOA News
  • Obama articulated that vision on Thursday in a major policy speech on the Middle East. Reuters International
  • Obama, who had been scheduled to spend Monday night in Ireland, was forced to fly to London early because of the ash cloud. ABC News
  • " My name is Barack Obama, of the Moneygall Obamas, and I 've come home to find the apostrophe we lost somewhere along the way, " a clearly tickled Obama — make that O'Bama — told the overflow throng at Dublin's College Green with his wife, Michelle, right by him. "We feel very much at home." ABC News
  • The measure supports the limited use of military force and concurs with Obama that the stated goal of U.S. policy " is to achieve the departure from power of Moammar Gadhafi and his family, including through the use of nonmilitary means, so that a peaceful transition can begin to an inclusive government that ensures freedom, opportunity and justice for the people of Libya. Huffington Post
  • President Obama landed in London on Monday night for a state visit at a time when Britain faces a reckoning over whether it can afford the global reach its allies in Washington have come to expect. Washington Post World
  • A dispute over a plan to send oil from Alberta to the Texas Gulf Coast moved to Capitol Hill on Monday, where a House panel debated whether to speed a decision by the Obama administration. CTV News Latest
  • Chris Matthews brought up recent Republican criticism of Obama 's proposal. Huffington Post Full Feed
  • Charging that Obama has failed to tackle difficult issues like entitlement reform and warning that " the pain of the recent recession will pale in comparison to what 's coming, " Pawlenty chided the president for backing a " pork-filled stimulus bill " and financial bailouts for well connected businesses, and called his healthcare plan " an unmitigated disaster for our country. LA Times National News


  • jul 26

  • President Obama awarded Little the Presidential Medal of Freedom at a posthumous ceremony earlier this year. Slate
  • Bill Clinton also raised the possibility that Obama could raise the debt ceiling without Congressional approval, using a provision in the 14th Amendment. Slate
  • Vickers ' resignation comes as the Obama administration proposes giving DHS greater oversight over computer networks in both the public and private sector and as hackers continue to expose widespread gaps in government cybersecurity. Huffington Post Full Feed
  • President Obama defended his deportation policies and said Republicans remain an obstacle to overhauling the immigration system to give illegal immigrants a pathway to legal status. LA Times National News
  • " President Obama, like Democratic and Republican presidents before him, will make clear that failure to compromise and raise the debt ceiling would, in the words of former President ( Ronald ) Reagan, do ' incalculable damage ', " a White House official said. Reuters Economy
  • President Obama said in a May statement that " Mueller has set the gold standard for leading the bureau, " and " Given the ongoing threats facing the United States, as well as the leadership transitions at other agencies like the Defense Department and Central Intelligence Agency, I believe continuity and stability at the FBI is critical at this time. Fox News Top Headlines
  • President Obama said it 's not him or Democrats who are holding up comprehensive immigration reform, it 's Republicans. Fox News Top Headlines
  • Once Obama was for it, all the Republican sponsors of the bill immediately decided they were against it. Huffington Post Full Feed
  • Here is one creative suggestion to solve one of the great problems of the Obama presidency: President Obama should hire a Hollywood agent to negotiate on his behalf with Republicans in Congress. Huffington Post Full Feed
  • President Obama will spoke at 9 p.m. and two minutes after his speech, Speaker Boehner gave his own address. NPR News Headlines
  • President Obama honored the San Francisco Giants at the White House today for winning their first World Series title in 56 years and for being, as he described, a “team of characters with character.” ABC News Politics
  • President Obama addresses the nation about the ongoing debate over the nation 's debt ceiling. VOA News