Barack Obama

By mutantpoodle President Barack Obama prepares backstage before delivering his speech on Afghanistan at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in West Point, N.Y., December 1, 2009. President Barack Obama prepares backstage before delivering his speech on Afghanistan at the U.S. Mi

By Scott Whitlock 7:12 BILL O’REILLY: It’s President Obama’s favorite book, I hear. I just made that up. But, it can’t hurt, right? ROBERTS: But we do know, if something is passed, Harry Truman couldn't get anything passed. President Clinton couldn't get anything passed. It will be an historic moment.

By Scott As you probably know, health care reform is one of the top issues facing our nation. Congress and the Administration are currently debating how best to address concerns such as the uninsured, rising costs and the quality of medical care provided to Americans. No doubt you have seen recent n...

By Robert Former Alaska governor Sarah Palin is lending her support to a conspiracy theory promoted by fringe groups, saying of the idea that President Obama may not have an American birth certificate, “I think the public rightfully is still making it an issue.“

Boston Globe Joint Chiefs Chair Adm. Michael Mullen, Sec. of State Hillary Clinton and Defense Sec. Robert Gates AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta President Obama gave his ... US Forces Begin Southern Offensive Against Taliban Bloomberg

By The Huffington Post News Team WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama kicked off a White House jobs forum on Thursday by saying he's "open to every demonstrably good idea" to reverse... WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama kicked off a White House jobs forum on Thursday by saying he's "open to every demonstrably good idea" t...

By webmaster@nationalreview.com (Jim Geraghty) But she honed in on why Obama might be an effective messenger: “If the emphasis of the speech were on personal dignity, an aspect of character, that might be helpful from Obama,” Noonan says. “He seems to put a high premium on his conception of personal dignity. This might be helpful for the yo...

By Mark Tran Barack Obama is to send 30,000 more US troops to Afghanistan to 'finish' the job. Will it work? Here are the initial assessments. 11.12am: Dan Balz in the Washington Post said Obama had to address several audiences, not least those in Congress who will have to approve vast news sums of money.

Afghanistan will be Topic A in Washington this week, and President Barack Obama is getting plenty of advice in advance. Afghanistan will be Topic A in Washington this week, and President Barack Obama is getting plenty of advice in advance.

By Dr. Marvin J. Folkertsma Dr. Marvin Folkertsma is a professor of political science and Fellow for American Studies with the Center for Vision & Values at Grove City College. He is the author of several books. His latest release is a high-energy novel titled “The Thirteenth Commandment.”

By Charles Madigan I thought that at the beginning, McCain and Fred Thompson were incredibly eloquent. And they said what was most important. The most compelling thing about McCain, I think, is that he has, in the past, been really open and really productive, often working across the aisle. He has that experie...

Choppy waters for President Barack Obama heading into the weekend: poll numbers slipping, Asia trip with limited successes to boast about, tough health debate opening in the Senate. President Obama faces some choppy waters heading into a big weekend in Washington.

By M.G. Palin claimed "palling around" comment followed report on "friendship" between Obama and Ayers From Pages 306-307 of Palin's memoir, Going Rogue: An American Life: There is a lot of interest, I guess, in what I read and what I've read lately. Well, I was reading my copy of today's New York T...

By Lame Cherry(noreply@blogger.com) For those who used the American system and American government against Americans, there will come a time when that America is taken back and that American system is going to be unleashed legally on the international criminal element which has hijacked America.

By Mark Silva OBAMA: Right. OBAMA: Right. OBAMA: Right. OBAMA: Congress needs to know that when I say this has to be deficit neutral, I mean it. OBAMA: Well, the... OBAMA: Yes. OBAMA: Yes. OBAMA: Yes. OBAMA: Right. OBAMA: Yes. OBAMA: Yes. OBAMA: Yes. TAPPER: Thanks for your time, Mr. President.

By Rutherford It’s the Economy, Stupid None of us can forget that day in late September of 2008 when John McCain said he would suspend his campaign until the economic crisis had passed. In particular, he was suggesting that his upcoming debate with Barack Obama be cancelled. Obama responded that a Presid...

By Brian Moylan On the show, it is definitely a space lizard (maybe Balloon Boy's dad's conspiracy theories about lizard people were right all along!), but like a Chicago Tribune review by Glenn Garvin points out, it could also be about our nerd president.

By Glenn Greenwald Is there any doubt at this point that, as TalkingPointsMemo put it in a headline:  "Obama Mimics Bush on State Secrets"?  Or can anyone dispute what EFF's Kevin Bankston told ABC News after the latest filing from the Obama DOJ:

By Brad Wilmouth BIG BIRD: Well, look who's here to push her husband's socialist health care agenda. MICHELLE OBAMA: Well, Big Bird. BIG BIRD: Or maybe you're here to finally show us your husband's United States birth certificate. OBAMA: No, Big Bird, I'm not. OBAMA: I'm sure, Big Bird.

By Jill Lawrence McDonnell, a former state legislator and attorney general, said "the Republican presidents" kept taxes low and right to work laws strong and invested in education. Then McDonnell took aim at Congress and the Obama agenda. His own leadership as governor, he said, "will not reflect the lea...

By Farai Chideya But in addition to the health care wars, whose rhetoric is even bloodier than the floor of a triage ward, we now have individuals bringing weapons to presidential rallies and polls about whether the man in the Oval Office should be killed. So often we have asked the world to follow us... to follo...

By Michael Eden Does Obama Get It? In fact, Bush had more than DOUBLE the ratings of the Democrat Congress: And don’t just say Vice President Joe Biden is an idiot and dismiss him.  He IS an idiot, of course.  But he is the official spokesidiot of the Obama Administration.

By Daniel Nasaw Barack Obama will address a prominent US gay advocacy group on Saturday, as gay and lesbian voters who backed him for president grow sceptical about his desire to push aggressively to expand their rights and curb discrimination. Obama is the second president to speak at the Human Rights C...

By Andrew Malcolm Daley's also delighted that his city has lived down its police storm trooper image from the riotous Democratic National Convention of 1968 (also on the South side), when his politically old-fashioned father, Richard J. Daley, presided over the mayor's office with portly aplomb. Also a b...

By James Warren No matter how much he might disdain the George W. Bush presidency, especially when it comes to misuse of executive branch power, Barack Obama may be a "self-entangling giant" who is going down the same perilous path argues no less an initial Obama sympathizer than journalist-historian G...

By Nick Sabloff I'm going to be asking some very hard questions," Obama said. The White House said it was a good way for him to reach yet another audience as Obama wraps up a blitz of TV appearances, trying mainly to build support for his health care plan.

By The Huffington Post News Team PRAGUE — Czechs and Poles expressed rancor and relief Thursday that President Barack Obama had scrapped plans for a U.S. missile defense shield on their... PRAGUE — Czechs and Poles expressed rancor and relief Thursday that President Barack Obama had scrapped plans for a U.S. missile defense s...

By Ronald Bailey In June, President Barack Obama disbanded Bush's controversial President's Council on Bioethics. He is expected to appoint a replacement panel sometime this fall. This is no small matter. Before terrorism became the all-consuming interest of his presidency, it looked like bioethics p...

By Michael Brenner Serious health care reform is gone with the wind. It cannot be retrieved. All other domestic issues pale in importance by comparison -- except for the financial crisis. On that front, Obama has behaved exactly as he now has done on the health care front. That is to say, viewing the world from the...

By Patrick Wintour, Richard Norton-Taylor Britain will come under fresh pressure to send more troops to Afghanistan this month when General Stanley McChrystal, the Nato commander in the country, tells President Barack Obama that a further troop surge by the military alliance is necessary.

By halmasonberg But still, the birthers ask, why won’t President Obama release his original birth certificate and possibly bury the issue once and for all? According to the right-leaning World Net Daily: If Lolo Soetoro [Obama's step-father] adopted Obama

By Eric Alterman Rush Limbaugh. During the July 24 broadcast of his radio show, Limbaugh stated that Obama's response was "the reaction of a community agitator. We got the reaction of a community organizer. We got the reaction of an ACORN leader."Glenn Beck. On the July 24 broadcast of his radio show, Beck said...

By Pareene Barack Obama was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, on August 4, 1961. Here is is birth certificate. Hawaii was and is an American state. When Barack Obama was elected, he was 47 years old and had lived in the US since 1971. According to the Constitution, the president must be a natural-born citizen 35 ye...

By Chris Weigant Comparing Clinton in his first term to Obama at this point shows what poll numbers falling off a cliff look like (which, incidentally, didn't stop him from eventually being re-elected). At this point in his first term, Clinton had weaseled out of a strong stance with his "Don't Ask / Don't T...

By Glenn Greenwald And here again, with this Executive Order proposal, we see this same mentality at play.  According to the Post article, one motive behind the Executive Order is that "White House officials are increasingly worried that reaching quick agreement with Congress on a new detention system m...

By Simon Jenkins Vietnam began with Kennedy's noble 1963 intervention, to keep the communist menace at bay and thus make the world safe for democracy. That is what George Bush and Tony Blair said of ­terrorism and Afghanistan. Vietnam escalated as the Diem regime in Saigon failed to contain Vietcong aggre...

By Bob Burnett America's 44th President outlined his healthcare proposals in a speech to the American Medical Association. His plan guarantees access to healthcare for every American. It mandates health insurance for children and guarantees affordable care to adults - with a "hardship waiver" for t...

Remarks of President Barack Obama - As Prepared for Delivery American Medical Association Chicago, Illinois The question now is, how do we finish the job? How do we permanently bring down costs and make quality, affordable health care available to every American?

By Wing Chun Geologist Prior to 1990, when Barack Obama contracted to write Dreams From My Father, he had written very close to nothing.  Then, five years later, this untested 33 year-old produced what Time Magazine has called—with a straight face—“the best-written memoir ever produced by an American politi...

By Clay Waters Barack Obama is not just trying to reach out to Muslims for the sake of it," says Mr. Gerges, a professor of Middle Eastern studies at Sarah Lawrence College and an authority on modern jihad. "He's trying to hammer a deadly nail in Osama bin Laden's message." What President Obama understood m...

By The Huffington Post News Team Mired in a brutal recession, the United States needs Beijing to buy more American goods, allow its currency rise and make other moves to narrow an enormous trade gap. The U.S. also needs China's help to confront any military threat from North Korea.

By Amitai Etzioni This is a very brief summary of a much more elaborate discussion published in the September 2006 edition of Cambridge Review of International Affairs, 19(3) and Part I of Security First: For a Muscular, Moral Foreign Policy (Yale University Press, 2007). For commentary by others see the...

President Barack H. Obama BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: Well, there are some benchmarks that you have to works and how the American people live. OBAMA: Right. time, you should be able to afford health care. car. OBAMA: I have. SCULLY: Mr. President, thank you.

By The Huffington Post News Team Peter Kirsanow of the National Review Online says that Cheney was the "adult": I think Greg Sargent would agree. He wrote: "The national security speech Barack Obama just wrapped up is a sign that he has returned to persuasion mode with a vengeance."

By Dawn Teo ASU and the state's other two universities are politically progressive, unlike Arizona itself. Unfortunately, once again, because of ASU's bureaucratic ineptitude, Arizona is perceived as racist and ignorant. It is the responsibility of ASU President Michael M. Crow to make a dramati...

By Ken Layne In an effort to be “objective” and feel like “a big deal,” the Washington Political Press has decided Barack Obama’s 16-day presidency is in Crisis Mode, possibly collapsing exactly like Nixon, late in his second term, right now! The evidence, so far, consists of Obama doing pretty much...

By Carl Sferrazza Anthony Beyond their love and children, if it's not politics that binds the Obamas, there is a fluid mutual influence in their harkening a call to community service. It's already legendary how she first recognized Obama as different and gifted when she first witnessed his passion at a community m...

By Tim Graham A: I'll give you a couple from MSNBC, interestingly, to show that I am trying to be fair. Chuck Todd -- the political director for NBC who was on MSNBC every day during the campaign? I thought he was fair. I thought he was reasonable. The morning show on MSNBC -- "Morning Joe"? There are more liber...

GLOR: John McCain coming up. That's our next segment. WALTER SHAPIRO, Washington Bureau Chief, Salon.com: John McCain is the first presidential candidate to be born in--wait for the beat--the Panama Canal Zone. MCCAIN: His name is Admiral John McCain.

By eriposte Earlier this month, another one of Sen. Obama's key Washington Establishment foreign policy advisors, Anthony Lake, had this to say: I get the sense that Barack Obama is also extremely intelligent, though I've not had the same kind of encounters with him that I have had with Hillary Clint...