President Biden is set to raise more money for his campaign in one night ($25 million) than Trump raised for his campaign all month ($20.3 million). According to the Biden campaign, “The evening will begin with a virtual pre-program for grassroots supporters hosted by Biden-Harris campaign manager Julie Chavez Rodriguez and featuring a conversation with…
President Barack Obama has an inspiring message of hope for you all.
It is scandalous that the President of the United States of America has given more time and attention to whether football players are standing or kneeling during the national anthem before a football game than to the citizens he is accountable for who are dying in Puerto Rico.
Betsy DeVos eliminated President Obama’s policies to make student loan repayment easier and to prevent student loan recipients from defaulting.
The vote comes a day after Trump signed an executive order dismantling environmental protections enacted under President Obama.
President Trump should either provide evidence of his charge that former President Barack Obama wiretapped him or he should retract his accusation, Senator John McCain (R-AZ) said during a Sunday appearance on CNN’s State of the Union.
One does not need to be a Nobel Prize winning economist like Paul Krugman to see the achievements of Obamacare and the deathly dangers of Trumpcare.
Trump accused Obama of secretly communicating with Vladimir Putin while he was President. That is to say, of being President while he was President.
The John F Kennedy Library foundation awarded President Barack Obama its “Profile in Courage†award Thursday, saying “He picked up the torch from President Kennedy” and citing Obama’s profound “grace under pressure.”
From airports to schools and city centers to city streets the people of this country are showing up because they believe in what this country can be.
The long lines to get tickets to see one of the best modern presidents say farewell are indicative of the feelings of a majority of this country.
What lesson is the supposed party of family values teaching our country’s children when its leaders put money and power over the good of the country?
“The next American president and I could not be more different…But American democracy is bigger than any one person.â€
A reminder of his greatness in times of grief as we face it once again. He has promised to lead us now, no less, and he will continue to give nothing short of his wholehearted very best.
President Obama did the right thing this Wednesday morning, because that is who he is and what he does.
The President showed Donald Trump more courtesy and respect than the birther powered to the White House by the KKK and neo-Nazis deserved by calling Donald Trump to congratulate him on his victory.
Trump asks, “Do we really have a choice?” to which Aleena Khan says, “And all I ask is for acceptance and tolerance from others”
Tim Kaine said, “Anybody who would question that leadership, to me is just an irrational hostility to President Obama that they are revealing that has been part of their thinking since the very first day of his office.â€
Guess who gets no credit for record setting job growth that is hardly a one-off since it’s going on for 78 months? Yeah, that’s right. President Barack Obama.
Donald Trump is “unfit to serve as president,” and “woefully unprepared,” President Obama said during a joint press conference with Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong. Obama blasted Republicans for continuing to endorse Donald Trump when they keep having to distance themselves from things Trump is saying.
More than four months after he nominated Justice Garland, the President wrote an impassioned plea about why we must not let the highest court in the land become “political football” because to do so threatens the process of democracy.
The President will give remarks today at 1:40 ET at an Interfaith memorial service in Dallas. As he always does, President Obama will probably break our hearts a bit and then shine a light on the path we need to focus on to be better.
Ryan accuses Democrats of attacking bipartisanship even though he was in the room of GOP luminaries who decided to obstruct Obama
President Barack Obama received huge applause at the conclusion of his speech to the Canadian legislature, accompanied by a rousing, aggressive chant of “Four More Years!”
“I thought it was embarrassing, his utopianism and the implicit apology dishonored our nation. Not something he should have done.”
It turns out, sucking up to President Obama by doing their job is a much smarter strategy. What a sick burn.
Warren said no matter how much it hurt the nation, “Senate Republicans do pretty much everything they can to avoid acknowledging the legitimacy of our democratically-elected President.”
President Obama responded to the news that the economy added 242,000 new jobs and that unemployment was below 5% for the second straight month by dropping a reality bomb on the Republican Party.
It is apparent that Democrats are on pace to repeat the electoral debacle of 2010 that allowed conservatives to take control of Congress
At long last, median household income has finally recovered from the Bush Recession. You know, the one Republicans denied existed but actually started in 2007.
“Really, that’s incredible… and that’s such a statement for family first,” Bear Grylls says to President Barack Obama as the President discusses his tradition of having dinner every night with his family.
PolitiFact concluded, “References or suggestions that Obama claimed ISIS no longer presents an active threat are incorrect.”
The President said it’s right that we express our gratitude with parades and ceremonies, but, “Our tributes today will ring hollow if we do not ensure that our veterans receive the care that you have earned and that you deserve.”
Netanyahu comes crawling to Washington for some foreign aid. Despite all the bluster, he knows who needs whom more in U.S.-Israeli relations
Obama proceeded to bust Republicans on their denial of reality, saying of the Bush years, “To hear them tell it, those were the good old days. The golden years.”
President Obama is hosting the first ever White House Summit on Worker Voice today, during which he condemned the “culture of greed” that steps on workers’ protections and rights.
Senate “No-Show” Cruz says Obama “snuggles up to” radical Islamic regimes, but suggests Obama is too busy golfing to take him up on it
The whole thing seems to predictably clear now, looking back: Obama reaches nuclear agreement with Iran; Republicans throw hissy fit, because Obama; Mike Huckabee goes all Sarah Palin and equates Iran deal to Holocaust; Jewish groups and rational people everywhere condemn remarks; Obama rips Huckabee (and entire GOP); Republicans leap to Huckabee’s defense. With nary…
On Friday, President Barack Obama designated three new National Monuments in the Western United States.
Friday Fox Follies was sure this week’s column would be a slam dunk after Michelle Obama’s forceful speech on race at Tuskegee University, aka Speechifying While Black™. But then her husband had to open his big mouth: Obama Swipes at Fox: Pushing Narrative That Poor People Are ‘Leeches’. No biggie. Add a few words here and there and — voila! — an All Obama!!! All The Time!!! column. However, that plan was dashed as Conservatives Quickly Try to Turn Stephanopoulos into the ‘Next Brian Williams.’
President Obama issued a statement on the murders of three students in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, saying, “No one in the United States of America should ever be targeted because of who they are, what they look like, or how they worship.”
Something is finally about to be done about veteran suicide prevention, as Senate, House, and President join to make the Clay Hunt Act law.
Leading by example, President Obama urged people to get involved in their community, writing “As one people, we will show when ordinary citizens come together to participate in the democracy we love, justice will not be denied.”
The details of President Barack Obama’s proposal to make community college free for the first two years for anyone who is willing to work hard are included in this fact sheet from the White House.
Gross told the media, “In my last letter to President Obama, I said despite my five years of captivity I said I would not want to trade places with him.”
Though there has seemed no reason for the two nations to remain at odds over the past 20+ years, old animosities die hard. Though a small step, this announcement is but one of many we will see in coming days, and it is a long overdue step, one refreshingly taken in the right direction.
President Obama told a huge, pumped up crowd that everyone needs to feel a sense of urgency about this election, and get their friends and neighbors to vote, because “Their vote could decide whether 28 million American workers get the raise they deserve.”
President Obama delivers a statement on Ebola, watch live here at 3PM Eastern.
President Obama warned Democrats about the importance of getting out the vote in the upcoming November 4th midterm elections, in which Democrats are at risk of losing control of the Senate to extremist Republicans.
President Obama went off script while speaking at the Congressional Black Caucus Awards Dinner Saturday evening and deployed a truth bomb on selfish Republicans.
Media reported on Sarah Palin’s ugly mocking of the Michelle Obama and the Obama administration for using “‘hashtagging tweets’ as foreign policy”.
This week, Issa took a page straight out of McCarthy’s tactics and for the first time since the McCarthy era called for a vote to hold a witness in contempt for exercising her Constitutional 5th Amendment right.
The right-wing uses the people’s fear of new technology to try to stop “Obamacare”. Many experts said that Y2K would lead to TEOFTWAWKI (the end of the world as we know it).
President Obama keeps besting Republicans, but they still believe they have the upper hand, even as they play right into his hands.
Sarah Jones explains why she voted for President Obama’s second term with more entusiasm than in 2008.
Most people wouldn’t buy a car without test driving it first and knowing what it cost, but Romney wants to sell us a presidency without telling us anything.
The President made the case for another four years after a debate full of specific policies versus Romney’s anecdotal avoidance tactics, and he also got in the 47% comments.
Obama wasn’t on his game, as he looked down a lot and didn’t speak eloquently like he normally would. Romney seized the opportunity and won. So who is to blame? Jim Lehrer, the moderator.
The Obama camp explains in detail what Mitt Romney is really saying in case he does spend those ninety minutes avoiding the facts and sticking instead to the same hollow plans he’s shown us before.
Obama for America puts out a new ad hitting at Mitt Romney’s tax loopholes, using Paul Ryan to do it, proving that this Republican ticket is its own worst enemy.
Like a father to troubled teens, Obama schooled Congress: I sent you a jobs bill last fall that would have put Americans back to work.
President Obama’s crackdown on health care fraud recovered $4 billion last year alone.
President Obama gets that Mother’s Day is really about honoring America’s mothers every single day of the year.
Is the big tent about to get even smaller? Log Cabin Republicans were left in shock by Obama’s support for same sex marriage and some of them may bolt from the Republican Party.
Mitt Romney took credit again for the auto bailout today while campaigning in Michigan, so the Obama campaign has had to release yet another dose of reality for the Republican nominee.
Robert De Niro knocked down the right wing, mainstream media framing of liberals thrown at him on Meet the Press.
Fired up and ready to go, the President kicked off his campaign in Ohio this afternoon to a huge crowd of supporters. See the pics here.
The Romney campaign has decided their best hope of being noticed is to crash Obama campaign events and hope to cause a disruption.
Mitt Romney is pallin’ around with transvaginal ultrasound pushers. Yup, Mitt Romney’s top surrogate in Pennsylvania is the man who told women to “just close your eyes” during a transvaginal ultrasound.
The President and First Lady were in Hinesville, Georgia today talking to our troops and military families about a new executive order that will help protect them from deceptive targeting.
Today while attempting to insult the President, little lost boy Sean Hannity tripped over his own limited knowledge of basic English as he whined that Obama is a “crybaby.â€
Barackness Monster (President Obama) ain’t buying it. The GOP need to find something new to do as Obama slow jams on student loans.
The GOP hates big government, but they love the Price-Anderson Act which is an insurance program that allows nuclear power plants to pass the cost of any Fukushima-type disaster on to taxpayers.
In his ABC interview with Diane Sawyer, Mitt Romney took the opportunity to side step her questions about his refusal to release his tax returns and blamed President Obama for his decision.
CNN’s Erick Erickson made a fool of himself today with psychological and political projection, attacking the President for weighing in on the Augusta female discrimination issue.
Fox News’ latest polling data should alarm the Republican Party, because it shows President Barack Obama winning over Mitt Romney in a general election, the Democratic Party with higher favorables than the Republican Party, Mitt Romney with low favorables and the Tea Party in the dumps. Here’s the data for how the public, per the…
Sarah Palin had a Facebook meltdown last night because President Obama dared to use her own words in context in a campaign ad. Naturally, in writing her defense, she doubled down on the things said in the ad while claiming they were taken out of context. The President’s ads are writing themselves this election season…
Allow me to introduce you to your fierce, pissed off fighter-in-chief, President Barack Obama. President Barack Obama took the stage today in Washington speaking to the United Auto Workers to wild cheers of “Four more years!” And let me tell you something…. This was an epic, genuinely passionate speech about Obama’s betting on the American…
Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum are utilizing lies about President Obama in a dangerously divisive manner designed to reach a boiling point.
If Mitt has to spend millions to beat Santorum in Michigan, what do you figure it’s gonna take to beat President Barack Obama?
Republicans have been plenty busy since Obama became president in 2008, and a large part of what has been occupying their time has been rigging the election of 2012.
Today, CNN contributor Eric Erickson of Red State wrote that the President of the United States “perverted the word of God.â€
I’m guessing there are far more people on food stamps, and at risk of going on food stamps, than there are rich Republicans. There are almost certainly more unemployed folks than there are wealthy Republicans, and there are more unemployed folks collecting unemployment than there are wealthy Republicans. Matter of fact, I suspect there are…
A new McClatchy-Marist poll was released today and it contained some that should give both the White House and President a cause for concern as they implement the President’s new centrist strategy. According to the poll, Obama’s approval rating has dropped to a new low of 42%. This decline is being fueled by a near doubling in his disapproval rating among Democrats.
On his radio show today Glenn Beck fantasized that Muslim extremists could assassinate President Obama while he visits India because, “If anybody thinks he was a Muslim over here, well God forbid, they think he was a Muslim over there because he left his religion for Christianity, death sentence, behead him.”
President Obama participated in CNBC’s Investing in America Town Hall today where he called out the Tea Party and told them to get specific about exactly what spending they would cut. Obama said, “It’s not enough just to say get control of spending. I think it’s important for you to say I’m willing to cut veteran’s benefits, or I willing to cut Medicare or Social Security benefits.”
From the time that Barack Obama campaigned for the Democratic Nomination for President to a year and a half into his Presidency, he has been hammered by the GOP, the media, big corporations, the Tea Party and even some Democrats for not being enough. Every day there is an attack on Obama for never being enough of something. Can we ever be satisfied?
McChrystal arrived at White House ready to tender his resignation Wednesday at 10:00 AM. At 1:15 PM, MSNBC announced that President Obama relieved General McChrystal of the Afghanistan war which McChrystal was commanding. MSNBC is reporting that General Petraeus has been chosen to replace General McChrystal as commander of the Afghanistan forces.
There is a great deal of generalized anger towards President Barack Obama from the Left which reared its ugly head last night after his Oval Office address on the Gulf oil spill. The anger the left has at Obama over his Healthcare Reform bill is based in the fact that Obama sacrificed the public option, but is their anger rational or justified?
A popular argument on the Right and by some in the same proclaimed enlightened Left is that Obama campaigned on the word “change,” but they argue that everything is still the same or in other words a continuation of the Bush policies. However, this is simply not true, and Obama is compiling the record to refute it.
While speaking at Hampton University today, President Barack Obama did something subtle today. He took Thomas Jefferson and the actions of the Revolutionary War patriots away from the Tea Party and applied them to all America, “What Jefferson recognized, like the rest of that gifted generation, was that in the long run, their improbable experiment, America, wouldn’t work if its citizens were uninformed.”
