Fox News yesterday tried their best to spin a mistake he made at a speech the other day about the proposed savings of his health care bill, where he stated it would bring down the deficit by $ 1 trillion over the next decade.
Instead they made it a point to call out that the actual [...]
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
I think this pretty much speaks for itself.
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
The White House has begun a full frontal assault to get President Obama’s first budget through Congress. During an appearance on Tuesday at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, Mr. Obama took a swipe at Republican critics of his $3.6 trillion budget and its agenda for health care, energy, taxes and economic recovery.
“If there are members of [...]
Monday, February 23, 2009
Here’s this week’s address. Interesting semi-related observation: As of this post, the video isn’t at Whitehouse.org – so I had to search around for it. Also, this is the first time I’ve seen the address with subtitles.
In this episode: President Obama says the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act will have an impact as soon as [...]
Sunday, February 22, 2009
After a string of costly bailout and stimulus measures, President Obama will set a goal this week of cutting the annual deficit at least in half by the end of his term, administration officials said. The reduction would come in large part through Iraq troop withdrawals and higher taxes on the wealthy.
Story on NYTimes
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
All that starts well doesn’t necessarily end well, it seems.
Even as it pulls back from harsh interrogations and other sharply debated aspects of George W. Bush ’s “war on terrorism,” the Obama administration is quietly signaling continued support for other major elements of its predecessor’s approach to fighting Al Qaeda.
In little-noticed confirmation testimony recently, Obama [...]
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
We only have two more Weekly Addresses to post in order to catch up. Apologies to everyone’s RSS feed.
1/31/09: Your Weekly Address from White House on Vimeo.
In this episode: Obama focuses on the financial crisis, acknowledges that Americans are suffering, warns the recovery will take years, and addresses CEO abuses.
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Swedish newspaper E24 ran a story yesterday with the headline “Made in Sweden is hot again”.
Not since prime minister Olof Palme compared the bombings of Hanoi with Treblinka has Sweden been so debated on the other side of the Atlantic. In the times of financial crisis and regressing export markets the panicked Americans doesn’t want [...]
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Several sources seem to have sources that claim Obama is about to decide when/how many troops will be added to the war in Afghanistan, something that have been anxiously expected but delayed. Yesterday the White House promised he would make a decision “shortly” – whatever that means in politi-speak.
Story on Google News
In other news about [...]
Monday, February 16, 2009
Every Saturday President Obama posts his weekly address on the internet. I can’t believe we at WIOD haven’t already started posting these.
Thankfully, we aren’t that far behind – so I’ll start from the Valentine’s Day address two days ago.
Topics: Economic stimulus, Economic crisis, Hope
