The article makes clear that President Obama decided months ago that 2010 was going to be the year to repeal DADT. Which makes it all the more troubling that the Pentagon is clearly trying to derail the President’s plan by suddenly calling for yet …
I’ll be on vacation this week, both from work and from blogging. But before signing off, I want to comment on President Obama’s appearance in Baltimore on Friday before the House Republicans.It was, as just about everyone agrees, an impressive perf…
President Obama’s greatest need is to escape the ideological grip of congressional Democrats and the liberal base of the Democratic party (they’re one and the same). But he either doesn’t recognize this or, as a conventional liberal himself, i…
For the past few months, progressives have been lamenting the fact that the Barack Obama they saw on the campaign trail was nowhere to be found in the White House. But then, a funny thing happened on the way to the State of the Union address &mdash…
For a guy who doesn’t want Wall Street’s elite to make any more money, President Obama sure did a good job lining their pockets last week.
The Republican House members invited President Obama to their retreat. The White House suggested that the whole session including the Q & A be on camera. The Repubs agreed. But as Luke Russert tweets from Baltimore.GOP aides telling me it was a…
Thirty-seven words. In this week’s State of the Union address — which was more than 7,000 words long and lasted longer than an hour — all President Obama devoted to the issue of immigration reform was 37 measly words.
In his State of the Union speech, President Obama gave this challenge: As temperatures cool, I want everyone to take another look at the plan we’ve proposed. There’s a reason why many doctors, nurses, and health care experts who …
Yesterday, ThinkProgress joined a handful of journalists for a wide-ranging discussion with David Axelrod, Senior Adviser to President Obama. In his State of the Union address on Wednesday night, Obama announced a discretionary spending freeze that …
Remember all the pearl-clutching over Obama going to visit his childhood home in Hawaii last year, calling it “elitist”? Or when visiting his dying grandmother in her Oahu home, Cokie Roberts complained that it made Obama appear “foreign” and “exot…