President Obama has yet to react to the news that the Supreme Court upheld the legality of Obamacare subsidies, but many of his former staffers cheered as the the latest legal attempt against Obama’s signature healthcare law failed.
“Hey, listen, you are in my house,” Obama said. “You know know what? It’s not respectful when you get invited to somebody…” he trailed off before lecturing the protester. “Shame on you, you shouldn’t be doing this,” he said.
“I think the pattern is the prosecutorial decisions are made on a daily basis over at the Department of Justice absent any political interference,” White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest says.
Vice President Joe Biden is expected to attend a White House reception being held to observe LGBT Pride Month.
“No family of an American hostage has ever been prosecuted for paying a ransom for the return of their loved one,” Obama said. “The last thing we should ever do is to add to the family’s pain with threats like that.” During conversations with families of the hostages, Obama said, they expressed frustration with the government bureaucracy to bring their loved ones home.
Later this afternoon, Obama is expected to meet with some of the families of the slain hostages and announce his new policy that would allow families to privately pay ransoms to terrorists to recover their loved ones. According to Foreign Policy, only 24 of the 82 families that the administration contacted chose to participate in the hostage review.
Citing Hamilton’s history as the first Secretary of the Treasury and as one of the Founding Fathers of our country, Bernanke described him as, “without doubt the best and most foresighted economic policymaker in U.S. history.”
As the public outcry continues over the existence of the Confederate Flag, prominent online retailers Amazon and eBay announced Tuesday afternoon that they would ban merchandise that depicted the flag.
During the White House press briefing today, Press Secretary Josh Earnest noted that the decisions made by the retailers to ban the sale of confederate flags were “consistent with the kind of position that the president has taken when it comes to the Confederate flag.”
According to the Amazon “Movers and Shakers” sales rankings in the past 24 hours in Patio, Lawn, & Garden merchandise, the flag is the top three slots. One 3×5 flag selling for $3.95 is up 2,305 percent, moving from a sales ranking of 914 to 38.
“It was a really important point for people to hear. I think he’s glad that he said it,” Jarrett told Politico. “And he is encouraged that people were able to hear his broader message.”
The president has responded personally to the shooting, saying both he and Michelle Obama knew Pinckney as well as other members of the church.
Press Secretary Josh Earnest also insisted that Obama didn’t walk into the interview intending to use the word, but that it was part of the honest conversation on multiple issues.
Press Secretary Josh Earnest defended Obama’s comments about gun control, pointing out that he had many conversations with both urban and rural voters about the importance of gun ownerships and the need to restrict it for safety reasons.
Republican primary voters are asked to name the one candidate they would pick for the nomination. Jeb Bush, who announced his candidacy last week, leads with 22 percent. Behind him are Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin, with 17 percent, and Marco Rubio, of Florida, with 14 percent. Ben Carson, a retired neurosurgeon, was fourth, with 11 percent.
Obama used the word during a conversation about racism in America, in which he challenged the notion that just because it wasn’t polite to use the word in public, the nation no longer had to struggle with it.
“We’re not in a common conversation,” he said. “If you watch Fox News you inhabit a completely different world with different facts than if you read (the) New York Times,” he said.
“Each time that these events occur, ironically, gun manufacturers make out like bandits, partly because of this fear that’s churned up that the federal government and the black helicopters are all coming to get your guns,” he said.
Referring to the church shooting in Charleston, Obama insisted that mass shootings were “unique” to America because of its gun laws, adding such events don’t happen as often in other “advanced countries.”
Obama is in California this weekend for a series of fundraisers with Hollywood stars and producers. According to Variety, Obama also had a roundtable meeting with 30 Hollywood stars at the home of Chuck Lorre, the executive producer of “Two and a Half Men.”
Christie said that the only thing to combat the kind of evil that was perpetuated in that church was the nation’s prayers and “display of love and good faith.” “Laws can’t change this, only the good will and love of the American people can let those folks know that that act was unacceptable, disgraceful and that we need to do more to show that we love each other,” he said.
“If you’re dissatisfied that every few months we have a mass shooting in this country, killing innocent people, then I need you to mobilize and organize a constituency that says this is not normal and we are going to change it, and put pressure to elect people who insist on that change,” Obama says.
“I am frustrated, and you have every right to be frustrated, because Congress doesn’t work the way it should,” President Obama said during a fundraiser in California, asserting that many political leaders were “more interested in scoring political points than getting things done.”
Barack Obama said he was eager to discuss the issue of climate change with the pope, particularly during his pontiff’s visit to the White House in September. But the president did not mention the areas of the encyclical that said the protection of nature was “incompatible with the justification of abortion.”
“We will not forsake those who have been victimized by gun violence,” Hillary Clinton said. “This time we have to find answers together.”
