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Obama Heckled Over Biden 'Terrorist' Comment

Iowa Tea Party founder Ryan Rhodes confronts him at town hall

(Newser) - President Obama was greeted with some unexpected spice at the end of his town hall meeting in Iowa last night, when the founder of the Iowa Tea Party confronted him about Joe Biden's alleged remark that Tea Party members acted like "terrorists" (the VP denies saying it )....

The Secret Service Pimps Obama's Bus Ride
  Meet Obama's 'Beast' of a Bus 
Aug 15, 2011 4:57 PM CDT

Meet Obama's 'Beast' of a Bus

Two new buses built from the ground up for Midwestern tour

(Newser) - This bus is Barackin', so don't bother knockin': President Obama is cruising the Midwest in a customized bus that is essentially a pumped-up version of his five-ton hulking limo, dubbed "the Beast." The bus, one of two ordered up by the Secret Service, sports bulletproof black windows,...

Starbucks CEO to DC: No Donations for You!

Howard Schultz wants budget answers before opening his wallet

(Newser) - Maybe he should just refuse coffee to politicians. Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz is pleading to other corporate execs to stop contributing to political campaigns until the president and Congress come up with a realistic way to cut budget deficits, reports Politico . “This is a time for citizenship, not partisanship,...

Obama Kicks Off Heartland Tour With Town Hall

Accuses Congress of not putting the country first

(Newser) - Barack Obama kicked off his Midwestern bus tour today with a town hall-style meeting in Minnesota, where he lambasted Congress for putting politics first. "You've got to send a message to Washington that it's time for the games to stop, it's time to put country first,...

Obama Approval at Record Low
 Obama Approval 
 Rating Falls 
 Below 40% 
Gallup Poll
Aug 15, 2011 1:18 AM CDT

Obama Approval Rating Falls Below 40%

54% disapprove of how president's doing his job, only 39% approve

(Newser) - President Obama's approval rating has hit an all-time low, with just 39% of Americans satisfied with how he's handling his job, the latest Gallup poll has found. The poll found 54% of Americans disapprove of Obama's job performance, another bad-news record for the president, reports The Hill...

US to Demand Assad Go: Sources

Obama administration will call for Syrian president to step down

(Newser) - After months spent turning up the heat on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, the Obama administration is finally ready to demand his departure. Officials tell the AP that the White House's new, tougher line will come tomorrow or by the end of the week, as a direct response to Assad'...

Obama: The Talker in Chief


 Obama: The 
 Talker in Chief 
Andrew Malcolm
Aug 9, 2011 10:00 AM CDT

Obama: The Talker in Chief

President's frequent speeches starting to sound empty

(Newser) - Every president has a major flaw, and Andrew Malcolm of the LA Times thinks he’s figured out Barack Obama’s: He loves to talk. Obama seems to think “he can talk his way in or out of virtually any opportunity or difficulty,” Malcolm observes. “When in...

Palin Lashes 'Clueless' Obama for Debt Debacle

Stop dithering, drill for natural gas, she urges

(Newser) - Sarah Palin skewered President Obama on Facebook last night over the nation's credit rating downgrade, saying he doesn't have "even a notion" of how to deal with the current fiscal meltdown. She blasted his latest press conference as another orgy of "old talking points and finger-pointing....

Obama: We&#39;ll Always Be AAA
 Obama: We'll Always Be AAA 
Aug 8, 2011 1:23 PM CDT

Obama: We'll Always Be AAA

President addresses downgrade with optimism

(Newser) - Barack Obama did his best to reassure the country after the Standard & Poor’s downgrade of the US credit rating. S&P pulled the trigger “not so much because they doubt our ability to pay our debt,” Obama explained , but because “they doubted our political system’...

Nader 'Almost 100%' Certain Obama Will Face Primary

He's just not sure what the 'stature' of the candidate will be

(Newser) - The debt ceiling deal has so inflamed liberals that "the chances of there being a challenge to Obama in the primary are almost 100%," Ralph Nader said yesterday in an interview with the Daily Caller . Nader has said for a while that he’s trying to get someone...

Why Obama Might Lose
 Why Obama Might Lose 
Analysis
Aug 4, 2011 3:40 PM CDT

Why Obama Might Lose

Don't believe the hype that the president is unbeatable: Politico

(Newser) - Conventional wisdom has it that despite everything, Barack Obama is so politically adept, and his Republican opponents so flawed, that he’ll cruise to victory in 2012. “Don’t buy into it,” advise Jim Vandehei and Mike Allen of Politico , who offer an in-depth look at everything ailing...

Birthday Greetings Congress Wishes It Could Send Obama

Dana Milbank's hilarious imagining of the cards Congress might send Obama

(Newser) - President Obama is officially 50, and he rang in the milestone with a joke. At a fundraiser in Chicago last night—where he was feted by the likes of Jennifer Hudson, OK Go, and supporters willing to pay up to $35,800 a plate—Obama predicted what his first day...

Obama to Empty Congress: End FAA Shutdown

But there's no one in town to do it

(Newser) - The White House called on Congress to end a standoff over the FAA that has put 74,000 people out of work—but there were absolutely no signs it would do so, in part because everyone’s left town. Press Secretary Jay Carney said Obama was “looking at different...

Obama: Still on the Nicorette?

White House Flickr photo seems to indicate that he is

(Newser) - Did the debt ceiling debate drive President Obama back to the arms of ... Nicorette? Politico's sharp-eyed Josh Gerstein spotted what appears to be a piece of the nicotine gum in a photo recently posted on the official White House Flickr stream. In the picture, Obama is having a phone...

How Obama Will Celebrate the Big 5-0

With, what else? A fundraiser

(Newser) - President Obama got what he wanted for his birthday , so now he can celebrate turning 50 under a little less pressure. The big day is tomorrow, but the festivities start tonight in his hometown of Chicago, where he will fly this afternoon, reports the Tribune . A $35,800-a-head dinner fundraiser...

Obama to Attend 9/11 Events in NYC, DC, Pennsylvania

10th anniversary of attack is next month

(Newser) - President Obama and the first lady will attend events in New York City, Pennsylvania, and Washington in September to mark the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, says the White House. The attacks killed nearly 3,000 people at the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan, at the Pentagon,...

Obama: Now It's Time to Work on Jobs

Obama delivers debt ceiling address

(Newser) - Barack Obama gave a Rose Garden address today after the Senate passed its bill boosting the debt ceiling, saying it was just “an important first step,” and that more compromises would have to come out of the committee created by the bill. Obama, who signed the bill into...

Nate Silver: Obama Got a Crappy Debt Deal



 Obama Could 
 Have Gotten 
 a Better Deal 
Nate Silver
Aug 2, 2011 7:35 AM CDT

Obama Could Have Gotten a Better Deal

Nate Silver says the vote tally shows the Republicans cleaned up

(Newser) - The debt ceiling deal President Obama struck with Republicans passed the House by a wide margin, which leads Nate Silver to one conclusion: Obama gave up too much. “Mr. Obama could have shifted the deal tangibly toward the left and still gotten a bill through without too much of...

Death Toll Surges to 100 in Syria Crackdown

Tanks roll in to derail Ramadan protests

(Newser) - The death toll in the massive pre-Ramadan crackdown on Syrian rebels has surged to 100 and climbing. Tanks stormed Hama, ground-zero of the uprising, as well as several other towns in the second-bloodiest day since the revolution began in March, reports the Washington Post . President Obama said he was "...

Obama, Congress Reach Debt Deal

John Boehner reportedly called Obama to say deal was a go

(Newser) - At long last: President Obama and Republican congressional leaders reached historic agreement tonight on a compromise to permit vital US borrowing by the Treasury in exchange for more than $2 trillion in long-term spending cuts. Officials said John Boehner telephoned Obama at mid-evening to say the agreement had been struck....

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