Category: Barack Obama
"Speaking to Katie Couric on Feb. 7, Obama said:
I would have loved nothing better than to simply come up with some very elegant, academically approved approach to health care, and didn't have any kinds of legislative fingerprints on it, and just go ahead and have that passed. But that's not how it works in our democracy. Unfortunately, what we end up having to do is to do a lot of negotiations with a lot of different people." Read more.
"The National Rifle Association has a higher mean approval rating among likely voters than Barack Obama. This and other fascinating facts emerged from the Democracy Corps/Third Way national security survey released this week. According to its liberal authors, the "sobering" results of the survey provide 'a wake-up call for President Obama, his party and progressives on national security.'"
The latest poll shows Obama scoring a -21 on the Presidential Approvial Index (that is strongly-approve minus strong-disapprove). This is the lowest number ever recorded for a President.
"I would have loved nothing better than to simply come up with some very elegant, academically approved approach to health care, and didn't have any kinds of legislative fingerprints on it, and just go ahead and have that passed. But that's not how it works in our democracy. Unfortunately, what we end up having to do is to do a lot of negotiations with a lot of different people." Read more.
"U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts said Tuesday the scene at President [Barack] Obama's state of the union address was 'very troubling' and the annual speech has 'degenerated to a political pep rally.'"
More on the CBO's review of President Obama's proposed budget. There is ugly, and then there is the CBO's forecast of Obama's budget, which makes me look like a supermodel.
"The policies of Holder's DOJ have become a political nightmare for the Obama administration. Who says so? Democrats James Carville and Stanley Greenberg. A new poll out from their Democracy Corps (along with another liberal group, Third Way), The Politics of National Security: A Wake-up Call, shows, as they put it, 'Erosion in Public's Trust of Democrats on National Security.'"
"The vice president is off to Israel to play kissy-face with hosts who are in no mood to pucker up. And for good reason: There's abundant evidence that President Obama is no friend of the Jewish state, and the Israelis must decide whether to believe Joe Biden or their own eyes and ears."
The fundraising presentation causing quite a stir up in Washington, D.C., appears to be a little less controversial among Republicans across the country. According to several top Republicans, referring to Obama as a socialist is absolutely a strategy heading into the 2010 elction cycle.
Jeffrey T. Kuhner offers this editorial in The Washington Times. It looks like the socialist language is getting hot again, just in time for the 2010 campaign cycle.
Romney issued his report card on the Today Show. Romney is currently promoting his new book, and says that it is too early to begin thinking about a 2012 presidential run.
The White House health-care summit showed "Barack Obama ... is full of self-righteous talk, mostly about himself, and he twice felt it necessary to remind everyone that he's the president, recalling Richard Nixon's bizarre reassurance that he was not a crook. ... The president was in his favorite role, the long-winded professor trying hard to be patient with half-bright students ... . Like most liberals, he suffers from a severe occupational hazard. Read more »
