National Journal Senior Political Correspondent Ron Fournier said that President Obama’s comments that ISIS can be made “a manageable problem” were “awfully passive” and “unsettling” on Wednesday’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports” on MSNBC. “That’s awfully passive language to be using about
The White House issued a statement praising CVS for banning cigarette sales from their stores, promoting their decision as a positive step forward in community health. Earnest reminded reporters that Obama “has made creating a tobacco-free generation a top priority.”
BAGHDAD (AP) — An international rights group accused the extremist Islamic State group on Tuesday of systematic “ethnic cleansing” in northern Iraq targeting indigenous religious minorities, as well as conducting mass killings of men and abducting women. In a new
Weird how things work out among the White House Press Corps and the White House. After eight months, two beheadings, and weeks of being a top story, a reporter finally asked White House spokesman Josh Earnest about President Obama’s January
Barack Obama went to Wisconsin for Labor Day and Mary Burke “the Democrat at the top of the ticket there was nowhere to be seen. Burke is running against incumbent Republican Gov. Scott Walker but stayed away during Obama’s visit to
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. is adding 350 more troops to help protect the American Embassy in Baghdad and its support facilities in the capital, raising the number of U.S. forces in the country to over 1,000, officials said Tuesday.
President Obama insists that he still plans to make an executive decision on immigration reform, but his timeline for action grows increasingly convoluted. Obama and his team spent most of the summer previewing his executive action on immigration reform, vowing
The AFL-CIO wants President Barack Obama to give “affirmative action” to illegal immigrants who are in the shadows and to go “bold” on executive amnesty. At a Christian Science Monitor breakfast last week, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka reportedly said that he
Monday at the White House press briefing, press secretary Josh Earnest said several times he had no update on the timing of President Barack Obama potentially using an executive order to grant amnesty for an estimated 6 million illegal immigrants
White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest reacted to the news of a second American journalist beheaded by ISIS. Earnest said that he hadn’t seen the reports but that the administration had been watching the situation “very carefully.” Just minutes before
Bob Cusack, Editor-in-Chief of The Hill, argued that a report by Fox News that President Barack Obama received briefings on ISIS a year ago showed that “some frustration” with Obama in the intelligence communityon Tuesday’s “America’s Newsroom” on the Fox
On Tuesday’s “New Day” on CNN, Associated Press White House correspondent Julie Pace pointed out that Democrats facing reelection are avoiding President Barack Obama as he has made trips around the country, sometime going to extraordinary lengths to do so.
PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — North Korea gave foreign media access on Monday to three detained Americans who said they have been able to contact their families and — watched by officials as they spoke — called for Washington to
“Now I believe for the first time there will not be war”. This was an English diarist in September 28, 1938, slightly less than a year before the Second World War broke out, writing on the eve of the Munich
WASHINGTON (AP) — Cities in the United States and Western Europe are being eyed as Islamic State militants’ future targets and President Barack Obama needs to take action, U.S. lawmakers say. Without offering specifics on any threats or suggestions on
If Barack Obama’s hideous foreign policy debacles were a stage play, this is the point where Hillary Clinton would be lowered on wires to fly around the stage shrieking “WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES IT MAKE?” Tripoli has fallen to Islamists, prompting
POCANTICO HILLS, N.Y. (AP) — Setting aside for a few hours the pressures of trying to calm the world’s trouble spots, President Barack Obama assumed the role of spectator for something more joyous: the wedding of the first family’s longtime
The White House has rejected a recent report that claims president Obama took as long as a month to initiate a rescue mission into Syria to attempt to save James Foley, the American journalist recently beheaded by a member of
Politico brands it “Obama’s campaign no-fly zone.” What it is, is proof of how disastrously low Barack Obama’s ratings are in a number of states crucial for Democrats if they want to hold off the GOP from taking control of
New York Times columnist David Brooks said that he supports the “substance” of executive amnesty, but believes the president does not have the authority to do so unilaterally. “On matters of substance, I agree with the policy [of granting amnesty
The AP is using Labor Day to kick off “a two-month sprint toward Election Day” by pointing out five key points in both the House and Senate mid-terms elections. As for the Senate, Kentucky is certainly one key and some
Barack Obama’s Democrats are walking a tightrope 10 weeks before US congressional elections: do they solicit the unpopular president’s support or shun him as they try to maintain their Senate majority? The president’s party is in a pickle with an
A day after President Barack Obama revealed to the world that he had no strategy to combat ISIS, he said that people are only noticing that the world is complicated, dangerous, and “messy” because of social media. Obama, who perhaps
Note from Senior Management: Daily Mail Senior Political Editor David Martosko connects the various elements of our Commander-in-Chief’s horrific week. Lawmakers are fuming over President Barack Obama’s admission on Thursday that his White House lacks a strategy for dealing with
It would not be wise to risk a government shutdown over President Obama’s executive actions on immigration when the GOP is so close to taking the Senate and can confront Obama later as a unified legislature, according to Alabama Republican
