The White House disputes a New York Times cover story Monday that President Obama’s political team is considering nationalizing the midterm elections, a strategy that political analysts say could resonate with certain demographics like the African-American community.
It took only a few minutes into CNBC’s town-hall-style meeting for President Obama to get questions that cut to the heart of his political problem.
President Obama urged Congressional Black Caucus members to help rally their constituents and remind them that more work must be done to move the country forward.
Given the suggestion that President Obama might be a drag on the ticket in blue state Connecticut – which hasn’t elected a GOP Senator since 1982 – you might wonder just how busy the president’s campaign schedule will be.
Newt Gingrich said this weekend that President Obama exhibited “Kenyan, anticolonial behavior,” an observation that drew angry if puzzled responses from Democrats and questions about Mr. Gingrich’s meaning and motivation.
The latest back-and-forth between President Obama’s team and potential House Speaker John Boehner deals with extending the George W. Bush tax cuts, and Boehner’s suggestion that he might back a package that covers only the middle class.
The White House wants tomorrow’s ninth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks to be a day of service as well as remembrance.
While Obama’s speech alluded to policies he’d like to implement that might help restore jobs – like permanently extending a research and development tax credit, and allowing companies to immediately write off their capital investments instead of staggering them over different tax years – its main focus was political. Every time President Obama comes to Ohio we get […]
A former soldier arrested after a hostage incident at a military base in Georgia faces multiple charges that include threatening to kill President Barack Obama and former President Bill Clinton, according to federal court documents filed Tuesday.
President Barack Obama will call on Congress to pass new tax breaks that would allow businesses to write off 100 percent of their new capital investments through 2011, the latest in a series of proposals the White House is rolling out in hopes of jump-starting economic growth ahead of the November elections.
The prospect of finally fixing America’s public schools looks better now than ever, but there’s still a chance that this golden economic and moral opportunity could slip away.
A fired-up President Obama used a Labor Day address to roll out a new jobs program – and to trash opponents he says have called him “a dog.”
