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Showing posts with label barack obama. Show all posts
Showing posts with label barack obama. Show all posts
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Sunday, August 14, 2011
Obama Shows Martyr Complex by Comparing Himself to Martin Luther King
President Barack Obama, while attending a New York fund raiser that contained a lot of Hollywood glitterati, such as Harvey Weinstein and Gwyneth Paltrow, compared himself to Martin Luther King, says White House Dossier.
Tuesday, August 09, 2011
Obama Plan to Destroy Mitt Romney Likely to Fail, Backfire
The Obama 2012 campaign, having been bereft of any positive record to defend, has hit upon a strategy of sorts. It plans to destroy Mitt Romney, the presumed frontrunner for the Republican nomination.
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barack obama,
mitt romney
Monday, August 08, 2011
Wednesday, August 03, 2011
Monday, August 01, 2011
Debt Ceiling Compromise Weakens Obama, Empowers Tea Party
The debt ceiling agreement has been struck between President Obama and congressional leaders almost at the last minute and is expected to pass both houses of the Congress and be signed into law literally at the last minute.
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barack obama,
debt ceiling,
tea party
Sunday, July 31, 2011
Young People Abandoning Obama, Democrats Over Economic, Cultural Issues
As President Barack Obama contemplates his prospects for the 2012 election, he surely must be anxious about the fact that a key constituency that helped to elect him is 2008, young people, are abandoning him in droves, according to Michael Barone.This phenomenon was apparent in the 2010 midterm elections as the youth vote abandoned the Democrats, thanks to the weak economy and poor job prospects, Barone reports that this process is accelerating and deepening.
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2012 election,
barack obama
Tuesday, July 26, 2011
Monday, July 25, 2011
Sunday, July 24, 2011
Boehner's New Debt Ceiling Plan Backs Obama into a Corner
According to Byron York at the Washington Examiner, House Speaker John Boehner is preparing a new proposal to avert the debt ceiling crisis and to enact long term tax reform and spending reductions.
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barack obama,
debt ceiling,
john boehner
Wednesday, July 20, 2011
Monday, July 18, 2011
Obama Threatens Veto of of Cap, Cut and Balance Due to Lack of Tax Increases
The White House has responded to the House plan to raise the debt ceiling by $2.4 trillion and cut spending by the same amount over the next 10 years. President Obama has threatened to veto the bill if it comes to his desk.
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barack obama,
cut cap and balance,
veto
Friday, July 15, 2011
House Advances Debt Plan, Obama Stalls with Speech
While President Obama held his third press conference on the debt ceiling crisis, offering no specifics and no plan but lots of attempts at blame shifting, the House Republicans have decided to proceed without him.
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barack obama,
debt ceiling,
house
Thursday, July 14, 2011
Obama Brand Fading with Latest Gallup Poll
Gallup has released a new poll that must be keeping the people at the White House awake at nights. The poll suggests that a generic Republican will beat President Barack Obama 47 percent to 39 percent in the 2012 election.
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barack obama,
gallup poll,
republican
Obama to Celebrate Birthday Bacchanalia Day After America Goes Broke
President Barack Obama is scheduled to have his 50th birthday party Aug. 3, the day after America is supposed to go broke if an agreement is not reached to raise the debt ceiling. Worse timing cannot be imagined.
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barack obama,
birthday,
deby ceiling,
fund raising
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