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- Seven years ago, then-President George W. Bush stood beneath a banner on an aircraft carrier and declared that “major combat operations” in Iraq had ended. Wednesday, they actually did — and, by design, Bush was nowhere to be seen.
- President Barack Obama is a grumpy guy these days.
- Everyone here is focused on the Gulf of Mexico, but in the White House they’re also keeping a close eye on another oily, dangerous spill: the Chicago corruption trial of former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich.
- President Barack Obama likes to play poker, so he knew he had a very bad hand headed into his first press conference in months.
- Unless there’s something big we don’t know — really big — Solicitor General Elena Kagan is going to become the 112th justice of the Supreme Court sometime this summer.
- At Democratic Party headquarters they’ve launched a “Palin’s Primary” website. The idea is to track the most “divisive” and “bloody” Republican 2010 House races — contests which find established GOP candidates being challenged from the farther right.
- If I were a broker and Barack Obama were a stock, I’d have a one-word piece of advice today: buy.
BARILOCHE, Argentina - This Andean vacation spot has great cellular coverage, which is lucky, because Wednesday, when Sen. Evan Bayh, D-Ind., returned the call I’d placed to him two days earlier, I could hear him loud and clear.
- One year and one week ago, Barack Obama stood on the steps of the Capitol to give his inaugural address. His challenge then was to re-inspire Americans’ confidence in themselves. Tonight, inside that building, his challenge is to re-inspire their confidence in
- Life is about choices, and so is a presidency. When the history of Barack Obama’s is written, the scribes will look at his decision to focus on health care and to let Congress write the bill. The verdict will likely be harsh.
- Glory and honor aside, politics is about one thing: taxes. President Obama’s State of the Union predicament is an example.
- With its pomp and glitter, a White House state dinner is a symbol as much as a meal — social evidence of the central leadership role that America plays in world affairs.
- President Barack Obama believes in the saving grace of the federal government.
- The Beltway consensus, aka the conventional wisdom, has turned on President Barack Obama.
President Obama emerged as prosecutor in chief in his speech on health care to Congress, a transformation that came just in the nick of time to revive (although not completely) a wobbly effort to sell his plan.
Of all the Kennedy brothers, Ted best embodied the Irish spirit – he was the prosaic survivor, not a hero, and not so much a romantic as the one who carried the load. Howard Fineman explains.
When the history of President Barack Obama’s first year in office is written, scholars will try to answer this question: What went wrong with health care? Howard Fineman gives his list of Obama mistakes.
- I’ve been covering Barack Obama for a few years, and it’s usually crystal clear what he is up to. Not last night. This is the first time I’ve asked myself: What was THAT all about?
- I have covered politics for a long time. I can tell when someone is running for president. Sarah Palin is running for president.
- Here’s a small but revealing sliver of news concerning our cool, hard-to-fathom president: According to his closest advisor, David Axelrod, Barack Obama really likes the novel he’s reading right now. In fact, he likes it “a lot.”
- I’ve covered presidents and presidential candidates for a long time. I’ve interviewed Barack Obama in quiet, empty rooms; I’ve seen him on a football field, surrounded by 80,000 spectators; and I’ve observed him from near and far as commander in chief.
- Captains are back — as in Sullenberger and now Phillips — and with them, the idea that our leaders can be trusted to know what they are doing, and to do it.
- As the old gospel song goes, “He’s got the whole world in his hands.”
- Pundits are declaring Barack Obama’s speech to Congress was “Reaganesque” in style and tone.
- President Barack Obama is launching his first diplomatic mission.
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