Yesterday, my colleague AWR Hawkins reported that the White House, on the anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks, had declined a meeting request from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. It is the first time Obama has turned down a meeting
NBC Chief White House Correspondent Chuck Todd, the race-baiter who walked around the GOP convention and accused Republicans of tokenizing non-white delegates for the camera, is now condemning Romney for condemning a Cairo Embassy apology that the President himself would later disavow.
President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke on the phone for an hour late Tuesday. The call occurred after an Israeli official said the White House rejected Netanyahu’s request for a meeting with Obama during the opening
The U.S. embassy in Cairo issued apologetic statements on 9/11–both before and during attacks by a radical mob. Those statements, condemning the supposed abuse of free speech by Americans who had criticized Islam, were later disavowed by the White House–though
NPR’s Morning Edition gave a very warm welcome Tuesday to Michael Lewis, whose interviews of Barack Obama are soon to debut in the October issue of Vanity Fair. On NPR, Lewis’ interviews were called “compelling narratives” and his every utterance
At 11:53pm last night Talking Points Memo released a statement from the Obama campaign condemning Mitt Romney for criticizing something the White House itself disavowed — an appalling apology issued by the State Department. Eight hours later, President Obama finally
The University of Iowa medical student whose lab coat President Barack Obama signed last Friday does not fully know, like most Americans and legislators, what exactly is in Obamacare. “Go Obamacare!,” Obama wrote before signing his name on Shadee Giurgius’s
On the 11th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, Mitt Romney addressed the National Guard Association Conference in Reno, Nevada. He recalled the “smell of war” on 9/11, spoke about an “American century,” paid tribute to member of the National Guard,
Following a White House disavowal of apologies by the U.S. embassy in Egypt on 9/11 for insulting Islam–a disavowal which was itself soon contradicted by the State Department–the embassy has begun deleting tweets from its Twitter feed (@USEmbassyCairo). The embassy–and
For the second time in as many weeks, the State Department has contradicted President Barack Obama, as Secretary of State Hillary Clinton re-affirmed the apologetic stance disavowed earlier this evening by the White House in reacting to the storming of
Faced with increasing criticism over an apology issued by the U.S. Embassy in Egypt for the alleged “abuse” of free speech by Americans critical of Islam–even as Islamist radicals raided the building on the 11th anniversary of 9/11–the Obama administration
With a nation still at war and facing the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, one would think President Barack Obama would be “focused like a laser” on America’s national security and economic rebuilding. But as two investigations by the
President Barack Obama has declined a request to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu later this month. Although the PM will only be in the US for two and half days, his office contacted the White House to express
Even as the Obama campaign tries to recover from its anti-Israel blow-up at the Democratic National Convention, Barack Obama continues to undermine the campaign’s Jewish appeal. Today, the White House declined to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s request to meet President
Left-leaning site BuzzFeed has called the future debates for Barack Obama. No, this isn’t a satirical piece, this is media bias. The three presidential debates, which begin in three short weeks, mark Mitt Romney’s best chance to turn the 2012 election in
U.S. President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama observe a moment of silence at the White House to mark the 9-11 anniversary.
Not only is Barack Obama violating his pledge not to campaign on 9/11, but he is also using the day to issue greetings to the Arab Forum on Asset Recovery, seemingly oblivious to the importance and solemnity of the day,
(AP) Chicago teacher strike poses test for unionsBy SAM HANANELAssociated PressWASHINGTONThe massive teacher strike in Chicago offers a high-profile test for the nation’s teacher unions, which have seen their political influence threatened as a growing reform movement seeks to expand
As we have oft noted, President Barack Obama is killing the Internet. Bad policy after bad policy. Often illegally imposed. As a result, the Tech Sector – 1/6 of our nation’s economy, as big as health care – is hemorrhaging
The U.S. government cut its stake in American International Group Inc to about 21.5 percent on Monday, making a profit of $12.4 billion on the insurer’s crisis-era bailout and bringing the unpopular rescue closer to its end. The Treasury Department
The first rule of manliness is that it is unmanly to try to be manly. Manliness should be an afterthought, or not thought at all. That is where Barack Obama is failing. He is just trying too hard. Oh, I’ll
White House Press Secretary Jay Carney calls a new Government Accountability Institute (GAI) report finding that President Obama has missed over half of his daily intelligence briefings “hilarious.” “It’s revealing that Mr. Carney did not dispute the Government Accountability Institute’s
Some believe the long-anticipated Chicago teachers strike, which began this morning, represents an inevitable showdown in the spiraling war between the education reform movement and the nation’s teachers unions.We think it’s more specific than that. We believe it’s more of
(AP) Obama squeaks out Aug. fundraising win over RomneyBy THOMAS BEAUMONTAssociated PressBOSTONPresident Barack Obama squeaked out a fundraising victory over Mitt Romney in August as the candidates gear up for the final stretch of their closely contested campaign. Obama raised
