'Uhhh…Uh…Uhhh….People!' Obama at Total Loss for Words When Staff Forgets His Speech. Obama: 'Global War on Terror' Is Over. President Barack Obama speaks about his administration's drone and counterterrorism policies at the National Defense University in Washington, D.C., on May 23, 2013. The "Global War on Terror" is over, President Barack Obama announced Thursday, saying the military and intelligence agencies will not wage war against a tactic but will instead focus on a specific group of networks determined to destroy the U.S. This shift in rhetoric accompanies new or updated efforts to defeat al-Qaida and its affiliates, the president said in a speech at the National Defense University within Washington, DC's Fort McNair. Al-Qaida in Pakistan and Afghanistan is on a "path to defeat," he said, so the U.S. must focus instead on al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula -- "the most active" in plotting against the U.S. -- homegrown violent extremism and unrest in the Arab world that leads to attacks like the assault on the Benghazi diplomatic post. [ RELATED: Obama: No Armed Drones in U.S. ]
To critics, Obama’s scolding tone with black audiences is getting old. The half-hour speech in Atlanta drew a rousing response from those who had sat in pouring rain waiting for the president to speak. Coleman, a former speechwriter for former Michigan governor Jennifer Granholm, said that although parts of the talk were strong and lofty, including passages honoring Morehouse graduate Martin Luther King Jr., he was disappointed that Obama almost always defaults to the clean-up-your-act message when talking to predominantly black audiences. First lady Michelle Obama issued a similar tongue-lashing last week at Bowie State University’s commencement ceremony. She told graduates at the historically black Maryland school that too many young people are “fantasizing about being a baller or a rapper.”
“The first couple of times, it was okay, but I and a lot of other people are beginning to grow weary of it,” said Coleman, adding that the message was particularly galling at Sunday’s event at the historically black Georgia school. On this front, A. Behind the Curtain: D.C. turns on Obama. The town is turning on President Obama – and this is very bad news for this White House. Republicans have waited five years for the moment to put the screws to Obama – and they have one-third of all congressional committees on the case now. Establishment Democrats, never big fans of this president to begin with, are starting to speak out. And reporters are tripping over themselves to condemn lies, bullying and shadiness in the Obama administration. Continue Reading Buy-in from all three D.C. stakeholders is an essential ingredient for a good old fashioned Washington pile-on — so get ready for bad stories and public scolding to pile-up. ( PHOTOS: 10 slams on the IRS ) Vernon Jordan, a close adviser to President Bill Clinton through his darkest days, told us: “It’s never all right if you’re the president.
Obama’s aloof mien and holier-than-thou rhetoric have left him with little reservoir of good will, even among Democrats. . ( Also on POLITICO: Watchdog: IRS used 'inappropriate criteria' ) Obama: ‘I Bear Responsibility for Everything--To Some Degree’ Dana Milbank: Obama, the uninterested president. And yet President Obama reacted much as he did to the equally astonishing revelation on Friday that the IRS had targeted conservative groups based on their ideology : He responded as though he were just some bloke on a bar stool, getting his information from the evening news. In the phone-snooping case, Obama didn’t even stir from his stool. Instead, he had his press secretary, former Time magazine journalist Jay Carney, go before an incensed press corps Tuesday afternoon and explain why the president will not be involving himself in his Justice Department’s trampling of press freedoms.
“Other than press reports, we have no knowledge of any attempt by the Justice Department to seek phone records of the Associated Press,” Carney announced. The president “found out about the news reports yesterday on the road,” he added. And now that Obama has learned about this extraordinary abuse of power, he’s not doing a thing about it. The press secretary laughed. Carney had a point there. Axelrod: Government ‘So Vast,‘ Obama Can't Know About Wrongdoing. Blinded by Obama | Letters to the Editor. Well, our nation and our people were attacked again by the believers of Islam, which we are being told over and over is a religion of peace. Barack Hussein Obama used to be known as Barry Soetoro up until 1982 when he turned 21. All good Muslim men change their names to an Islamic name when they become adults, at least those who are pledging themselves in alliance to Islam. If this name change of his was just a foolish youthful thing and it doesn't really mean he has any alliance to Islam in his heart, why on earth didn't he reverse this decision, especially when he decided to enter the political arena?
I'll tell you why -- because he was counting on the fact that we would be fooled by his smooth lies and the color of his skin and unfortunately, he was right. Now, almost for four years now, we have been witnessing this man and his blinded followers destroy our nation piece by piece. Cheryl Meyer Praire du Rocher. Biden: Opposing senators 'have seen the Lord' on gun control. Vice President Joseph R. Biden said in a wide-ranging magazine interview that gun-control legislation will pass eventually because several senators who voted against it are experiencing a public backlash.
“To use the vernacular, there’s suddenly a lot of senators out there who have seen the Lord,” Mr. Biden told Rolling Stone magazine. “You find out that the senator from New Hampshire [Republican Kelly Ayotte] is in trouble; she voted no. I can name you four senators who called me and said, “Jesus, I guess you were right — maybe we can find some other way of doing this. SPECIAL COVERAGE: Second Amendment and Gun Control He said four senators who voted against expanded background checks of gun purchases in April have since approached him to say they’ve changed their minds.
In the hour-long interview, Mr. “It’s been a really good relationship, and everybody knows that — around here and around the world,” Mr. Some other highlights from the interview: On Mr. Obama to Attend 3 Democratic Fundraisers. President Barack Obama will start the week by attending 3 Democratic fundraisers in New York City, according to the White House. "In the afternoon, the President will travel to New York City. The departure from the South Lawn and the arrival at John F.
Kennedy International Airport will be open press," the president's schedule reads. "While in New York City, the President will deliver remarks at two DNC events at private residences and a joint DCCC/DSCC event at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel. "In the evening, the President will depart New York City en route Washington, DC. As the New York Post reported previously, one of the events tonight will be at the home of Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein.
"The invitation explains attendees get 'a frank and intimate discussion with the president' where they can ask questions, and afterward Obama will 'say thank you to each guest and take a photo with them.' "It’s already Obama’s eleventh outing this year and the 122nd since Inauguration Day in 2009. " Obama Tells Harvey Weinstein, Justin Timberlake to Blame Rush Limbaugh - Elspeth Reeve. President Obama told donors like Jessica Biel, Justin Timberlake (who was wearing hipster glasses), and Tommy Hilfiger that Washington gridlock is pretty much Rush Limbaugh's fault on Monday evening at a fundraiser at Harvey Weinstein's house in New York's Greenwich Village. Obama admitted that his theory — that after the 2012 election, the Republican "fever" would break, and they'd decide to co-sign some of his agenda — was wrong. "My thinking was when we beat them in 2012 that might break the fever, and it’s not quite broken yet," Obama said, according to the White House pool report.
This is because of a certain corpulent radio host. "I genuinely believe there are Republicans out there who would like to work with us but they’re fearful of their base and they’re concerned about what Rush Limbaugh might say about them. And as a consequence we get the kind of gridlock that makes people cynical about government. " And if Republicans refuse to cooperate? Govt obtains wide AP phone records in probe. WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department secretly obtained two months of telephone records of reporters and editors for The Associated Press in what the news cooperative's top executive called a "massive and unprecedented intrusion" into how news organizations gather the news.
The records obtained by the Justice Department listed outgoing calls for the work and personal phone numbers of individual reporters, for general AP office numbers in New York, Washington and Hartford, Conn., and for the main number for the AP in the House of Representatives press gallery, according to attorneys for the AP. It was not clear if the records also included incoming calls or the duration of the calls. In all, the government seized the records for more than 20 separate telephone lines assigned to AP and its journalists in April and May of 2012. "There can be no possible justification for such an overbroad collection of the telephone communications of The Associated Press and its reporters. Rep. Sen. IRS Mess. The Internal Revenue Service’s targeting of conservative groups is outrageous. Those who did this should be fired immediately. That’s obvious. It continues a slovenly week for Barack Obama.
The President has been very proud of the absence of scandal in his Administration, and rightly so. The inability of his opponents to find any significant corruption in the historic $800 billion stimulus package was a real achievement, given the speed of the payout. As in most presidencies, there have been an awful lot of political hacks populating the midreaches of this Administration. Lois G. Does anyone actually believe this? Yet again, we have an example of Democrats simply not managing the government properly and with discipline.
Previous Presidents, including great ones like Roosevelt, have used the IRS against their enemies. Michelle Obama Says To Exercise Your Dogs And Feed Them A Balanced Diet, As If We Didn't Know. As if the American public is not smart enough to figure out how to take care of their animals, First Lady Michelle Obama tells us on her Google Hangout today that it is important to “worry about every member of our family.†The First Lady let the audience know that dogs need to eat a proper diet and exercise also, just like our children do, in case you didn't know that. Michelle also said that President Obama liked to tease their own dog, “Bo†for being lazy, but that they encouraged her girls to take him on walks. I'm guessing that the girls are not walking Bo around the neighborhood on Pennsylvania Avenue, do you think?
€œDogs are no different,†Michelle explained to a woman on the Google Hangout chat. “You want to make sure they are eating a balanced diet, and if they are not an active dog, make sure that their food is reflective of an inactive dog and then get them out there and throw that ball and get them running.†Related Posts For You: VIDEO: Obama's meltdown over gun control defeat. By DAN CALABRESE - Reaping what he's sown. This is almost too much to take. You can't hold it against the father who lost his son, but what kind of cretin uses a guy like this as a prop in a cynical power grab that seeks to shamelessly exploit such a tragedy?
The fact that senators looked at photos of the victims obviously does not make Obama's proposed policy response a wise one. Nor does Obama's deep, heavy sigh before he begins speaking. We can all do without the lecture, ace. You're the one who tried to shove this crap down the nation's throat, knowing full well that background checks can't do anything to stop someone who is willing to buy a gun illegally on the black market - as anyone willing to commit murder, let alone mass murder, would surely be willing to do. Making it harder to legally buy a gun will not protect people from gun violence. Go ahead and pout. What You Need to Know About Obama's Labor Secretary Pick, Thomas Perez. President Obama has chosen Thomas Perez, the assistant attorney general for civil rights, as the next Labor secretary. The nomination, announced Monday, will require Senate confirmation. (Related Story: Perez in 3 Charts) In a ceremony to unveil the pick, Obama said Perez was someone who is committed to championing important causes on behalf of labor and to protecting the rights of immigrants.
Obama also said Perez would be a point person in advocating for a rise in the minimum wage. “I'm confident that Tom's going to be able to work to promote economic growth, but also make sure that that growth is broad-based,” Obama said in the East Room of the White House. “He's going to be an integral part of our overall economic team.” Perez, at times speaking in his parents’ native Spanish, said he looked forward to working with organized labor, the business community, and grassroots organizations to make progress on the economy.
Here is what you need to know about Perez: Labor loves him. Amish prosecuted because scissors ‘crossed state lines’ Text smaller Text bigger What does the federal hate crimes law inspired by the murders of Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. have to do with an internal dispute among the Amish in which the beards of men and the hair of women were forcibly sheared? “The scissors used to cut the hair were manufactured in one state and used in another,” explained Edward Bryan, defense lawyer for Amish bishop Samuel Mullet Sr., who was sentenced to 15 years in federal prison. Bryan, in an interview with radio host Michael Savage Thursday night, said the Commerce Clause is one of the federal government’s primary justifications for intervening in the dispute in eastern Ohio among members of the Christian sect.
U.S. Attorney Steven M. The 2009 Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. In a September trial, Mullet was convicted of organizing a series of raids in 2011 against religious enemies and disobedient family members in which the men’s beards were forcibly sheared and women’s hair was cut. ‘Abuse of power’ Obamas' Tax Return Shows Lower Earnings. Medicare hike could also hit some in middle class. WASHINGTON (AP) — Retired as a city worker, Sheila Pugach lives in a modest home on a quiet street in Albuquerque, N.M., and drives an 18-year-old Subaru. Pugach doesn't see herself as upper-income by any stretch, but President Barack Obama's budget would raise her Medicare premiums and those of other comfortably retired seniors, adding to a surcharge that already costs some 2 million beneficiaries hundreds of dollars a year each. More importantly, due to the creeping effects of inflation, 20 million Medicare beneficiaries would end up paying higher "income related" premiums for their outpatient and prescription coverage over time.
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