August 28, 2009 – 9:40 am
New Washington Post-ABC News poll today that is supposed to be good news for President Obama and congressional Democrats, but probably isn’t. The details: Most Americans approve of the way President Obama is handling energy issues and support efforts by him and Democrats in Congress to overhaul energy policy — including the controversial cap-and-trade approach […]
August 20, 2009 – 6:46 am
The editorialists at the Wall Street Journal have been listening closely to President Obama’s town halls on health care and what they’ve heard implicates the president as his own fiercest opponent. A sample: Maybe you’re starting to fret about all those bureaucrats and bean-counters again. You shouldn’t, according to Mr. Obama. “The only thing I […]
August 17, 2009 – 11:19 am
In early May, President Obama announced that a series of health industry organizations had agreed to trim $2 trillion in costs from their operations. The move signaled that the big players in health care were aligning with, not against, systemic reform. It may have been the high water mark of the president’s push for government […]
August 15, 2009 – 8:50 am
Not since Teddy Roosevelt carted carcasses into the White House have the press found so much meaning in presidential pastimes. Earlier this week Time magazine told us how President Obama’s golf game offers insight into his leadership style. Friday, CNN.com previewed the president’s trip to Montana with a story headlined: “Obama’s fly-fishing trip is apt […]
August 13, 2009 – 2:33 pm
Sorry, that should read “White House unleashes viral email,” according to Jake Tapper at ABC News. The email, from Obama political adviser David Axelrove — er, Axelrod — is meant to combat those other viral emails, which contain false information about health reform and manage to spread like wildfire. It’s a smart strategy by the White […]
August 12, 2009 – 3:32 pm
Well, well, well. Just days after Time gave us the 411 on President Obama’s golf game — and let us know it’s a solid indicator of the overall quality of his presidency — we find out that, uh-oh, golf ain’t so cool anymore. At least among the global socialist elite. The New York Times reports that Venezuelan […]
August 10, 2009 – 10:52 am
Yahoo! teased a Time magazine article on President Obama’s golf game with the headline, “What Obama’s golf game reveals about the way he governs.” Because I’m so ga-ga over the president, I just had to know. The answer? He’s everything we could ever hope for. Natch. According to Time’s Michael Scherer, “Presidents, like normal people, […]
August 7, 2009 – 11:21 am
Shepard Fairey, the “street artist” who designed those iconic red and blue Obama posters during the campaign, is back with another portrait of Mr. Obama for the August 20th issue of Rolling Stone. As the New York Daily News reports, “the portrait [pictured here] depicts Obama with a brow knit in determination, surrounded by a […]
August 6, 2009 – 11:02 am
Senator Barack Obama, June 3, 2008: I am absolutely certain that, generations from now, we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was the moment … when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal. Bloomberg, August 6, 2009: Hurricane Outlook in Atlantic Cut […]
Jennifer Senior’s New York magazine article analyzing President Obama’s ubiquitous media presence contains one superb observation: Rahm Emanuel is, she says, “so profane he’d embarrass a toilet.” But as I read Senior’s depiction of a White House fully comfortable using every communications method available, I found myself wondering to what end. The president’s poll numbers have […]
Interesting piece by Christi Parsons in the LA Times, describing the drafting process for President Obama’s landmark speech in Cairo this past June. Here’s how it begins: “Reporting from Washington — He sat with his legs crossed in an armchair in the Oval Office, his brow furrowed. Aides clustered on the couches around him. They […]
Recognizing the escalating concern about his remarks in reference to the Cambridge, Massachusetts, police department during Wednesday’s press conference, President Obama went to the briefing room this afternoon to announce that he’d just spoken with James Crowley, the officer at the center of the story, and to acknowledge that he had probably gone too far […]
At Wednesday night’s press conference, President Obama sought to get to the heart of Americans’ concerns about health care: I realize that with all the charges and criticisms that are being thrown around in Washington, a lot of Americans may be wondering, “What’s in this for me? How does my family stand to benefit from […]
The big health care presser wasn’t the only press conference President Obama held Wednesday. Earlier in the day he held a joint press conference in the Rose Garden with Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki of Iraq. It was brief – just one question on each side – but each leader said something important. President Obama […]
Any doubt that Republicans (and conservative Democrats) are winning the argument over health care reform was erased within moments of President Obama opening his mouth at tonight’s press conference. While delivering his opening statement, the president looked and sounded chastened – like the teacher’s pet who got unexpectedly scolded in front of class. The president […]
