If you've got the time, President Obama's speech earlier today to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce is worth reading in its entirety. After first watching it live, I went back to reread it it and from my perspective, the best short summary of it is what I wrote in the headline: President Obama went...
Obama to Troops: No ‘Victory Lap’ in Tuesday Night Speech on Iraq
Filed under: Iraq, Terror, Obama Administration, Afghanistan, Military, Middle East, White HouseMeeting with U.S. soldiers at Fort Bliss, Texas, President Obama says he's not celebrating the end of combat operations in Iraq -- but he is thanking the tr...
Some Parents Revolt Over Obama’s Planned Speech to Children
Filed under: Education, Obama Administration, Disputations
President Obama's plan to deliver a speech to public school students in Texas caused an uproar among conservative parents, who demanded that their children be allowed to skip the event, scheduled for Tuesday. "It seemed like a direct channel from the president of the...
Newt Gingrich, Laura Bush Back Obama’s Back-to-School Pep Talk
Filed under: Education
Newt Gingrich and former First Lady Laura Bush bolstered President Obama on Tuesday, saying a president should be able to make a back-to-school speech to the nation's students without critics kicking up a fuss.
Filed under: Barack Obama, Education, Health Care Filed under: Barack Obama, Economy, TaxesHatin’ on Obama
Now that President Obama has actually delivered his pep talk to the students of Wakefield High School in Arlington, Va., one can only suppose that conservative Republicans who raised a fuss in advance of the speech are, out of sheer embarrassment, looking for places to hide.
"As the...
Obama Unscripted: The Q & A With Students
Are we all sick unto exhaustion with the Obama speech to students? Surely the text was just as innocuous as Melinda's "eat your peas" characterization a few days back. But then there was the Q...
Obama Tells Wall Street Bailout Days Are Over: Five Points to Ponder
Five matters to consider in the wake of President Obama's warning to Wall Street Monday, in a major speech a year after the collapse of Lehman Brothers, that the days of big bailouts are over.
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