Videos: Barack Obama, Mr. Bipartisan
• Mondo FrazierPresident Obama has made appeals to Republicans for bipartisanship. Are the appeals genuine? Two short video clips to help readers make up their minds.
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Obama Administration
No sanctions for lawyers who OK'd torture
• APBush administration lawyers who drafted legal theories that led to waterboarding and other harsh treatment of terrorism suspects showed poor judgment but won't face sanctions for professional misconduct, according to a published report.
Why I haven’t watched a SOTU address in 20 years
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Obama to America (and Congress): Yes, we still can
• ChristianScienceMonitor.com“I will not give up on trying to change the tone of our politics,” Obama said. “I know it's an election year. And after last week, it's clear that campaign fever has come even earlier than usual. But we still need to govern. “
In State of the Union, Obama finally clocks in for job creation
• ChristianScienceMonitor.comThe clear-as-a-bell message from Wednesday night’s State of the Union address is this: Job Number One for President Obama is job creation.
Pentagon calls for ‘Office of Strategic Deception’
• RawStory.comRemember the Pentagon Office of Special Plans that helped collect dubious intelligence that led to the war in Iraq? Or the program where the Pentagon secretly briefed military analysts to promote the Iraq war?
Hillary Clinton says she won't serve eight years
• RawStory.comUS Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has said she would not serve a full eight years if President Barack Obama wins another term, hoping eventually to retire to writing and teaching.
FACT CHECK: Obama and a toothless commission
• APPresident Barack Obama told Americans the bipartisan deficit commission he will appoint won't just be "one of those Washington gimmicks." Left unspoken in that assurance was the fact that the commission won't have any teeth.
President Obama's LIVE "State of the Union Speech"
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Chief of Staff Draws Fire From Left as Obama Falters
• Wall Street Journa;President Barack Obama's liberal backers have a long list of grievances. The Guantanamo Bay prison is still open. Health care hasn't been transformed. And Wall Street banks are still paying huge bonuses.
Obama's goal: Get agenda moving, people believing
• YahooFacing a divided Congress and a dissatisfied nation, President Barack Obama will unveil a jobs-heavy agenda in his State of the Union address Wednesday, retooling his message more than his mission.
When did the State of the Union become a red carpet event?
• ChristianScienceMonitor.comThe Constitution directs the president to periodically brief Congress about the nation's needs. But not until Woodrow Wilson did a president deliver an address in person – and launch a tradition that is now in large part theater.
Obama will seek additional $33 billion for wars
• RawStory.comThe Obama administration plans to ask Congress for an additional $33 billion to fight unpopular wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, on top of a record request for $708 billion for the Defense Department next year, The Associated Press has learned.
Whitehouse in bed with the media
• APABC News reporter Bianna Golodryga is engaged to White House budget director Peter Orszag. She made the announcement on ABC's "Good Morning America." Golodryga described her fiance as "tall, dark and he could say Golodryga and spell it after the firs
Old Regime: Obama Official Refers to Bush Terms as ‘Regime’
• Mondo FrazierAn unnamed Obama official talked to a Politico reporter and called the Bush years "the old regime". We don't have no stinkin' regimes in America. Do we? Does this make anyone who's discussed the recent attacks on civil liberties feel any better?
Both Napolitano Systems Worked: If Only
• Mondo FrazierMaybe when Janet Napolitano said “the system worked” and then, hours later, “the system failed miserably”, she was right both times. Which system was the Secretary of DHS referring to? It might have been just a case of the “if-onlys”.
Mao on the White House Christmas tree
• LA TimesThe latest fiasco is the Great Christmas Ornament Scandal. Breitbart's Big Government blog got its knickers in a twist over one of the Obama White House's Christmas trees decorated with the face of Chinese Communist dictator, Mao Zedong.
White House: President Obama Monitoring Failed Terror Attempt From Hawaii
• Fox NewsAs President Barack Obama vacations in Hawaii, officials say he's keeping up to date on what's described as a terror attempt on board a Northwest Airlines plane that was about to land in Detroit. A Nigerian man was detained on the flight from Am
Zero-Fifths of a Person
• Wendy McElroyWe've been saying for over a year that Obama is no better than Bush. If you thought he was going to do something about torture or civil liberties, think again. It happened earlier this week,
Obama Year One - Betrayal and Failure (Part II)
Stephen LendmanBarack Obama - worse than George Bush
Lawyer files lawsuit against Obama administration for health deal records
• The HillConservative attorney Larry Klayman filed a lawsuit against the White House Monday demanding that it release information on healthcare meetings with lobbyists. The lawsuit, filed in federal district court, charges the Obama administration violated
Rasmussen: Obama Approval at -21
• Mondo FrazierLowest approval numbers yet for this president, after the 60th Senate vote was secured for his health care proposals. Now, that's bounce you can believe in.
Obama Year One: Betrayal and Failure
Stephen LendmanObama administration - the audacity of corrupted power
Feds defy order to provide same-sex benefits
• APThe Obama administration refused Friday to follow a federal judge's order to provide insurance benefits to the wife of a lesbian court employee in San Francisco and said its hands were tied by a discriminatory law.
Kenyan-Born Obama All Set For U.S. Senate ( Sunday, June 27, 2004)
• Sunday StandardKenyan-born US Senate hopeful, Barrack Obama, appeared set to take over the Illinois Senate seat after his main rival, Jack Ryan, dropped out of the race on Friday night amid a furor over lurid sex club allegations.
Progressive Breakfast: Is 'Hopenhagen' Now Hopelesshagen?
• www.ourfuture.orgAs President Obama flies to Copenhagen later today to join dozens of other heads of state at the climate change talks there, The New York Times joins other media outlets in concluding that "continued bickering among delegations would seem to be maki
Ill Prison to Get Some Gitmo Detainees
• APThe White House plans to announce Tuesday that a rural Illinois prison will be acquired by the federal government to become the new home for a limited number of Guantanamo Bay detainees. Administration officials as well as Illinois Sen. Richard Du
Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid of Obama's Latest Big Brother Plan
• Fox NewsThe Obama administration has now ordered a purging of Republicans from federal government civil service.
Is Obama Really Preparing For Civil War?
• ChuckBaldwinLive.com"...Barack Obama has issued an order... in what these reports warn is an expected outbreak of civil war within the United States before the end of winter."
Obama's Big Sellout
• News LinkBarack Obama... has for some reason allowed his presidency to be hijacked by sniveling, low-rent shitheads.
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