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Obama's a Secret Muslim: O'Donnell's Old Campaign Chief

A 'commie-influenced Muslim,' even

(Newser) - Another day, another person calling President Obama a secret Muslim —only this time, the person in question has a history with Christine O’Donnell. Jon Moseley, who's described himself as manager of O'Donnell's failed 2008 Senate campaign and also worked as its treasurer, is a longtime activist who's toiled...

Clinton: Whoops, I Thought Health Care Would Be Popular

Long Timeline and GOP Opposition Have Stifled Support

(Newser) - Bill Clinton thought that once it was signed into law, Barack Obama's health care reform bill would become amazingly popular. But the polls are in, and now Clinton admits he miscalculated, the Hill reports. "First of all, the benefits of the bill are spread out of three or four...

Blame Obama for Nutty Candidates
Blame Obama for Nutty Candidates 
Maureen Dowd
Sep 19, 2010 12:25 PM CDT

Blame Obama for Nutty Candidates

Maybe he needs to visit Christine O'Donnell's fantasy land

(Newser) - Christine O’Donnell—the “Palin Mini-Me” running for Senate in Delaware—is off in her own fantasy world, writes Maureen Dowd of the New York Times : Middle Earth, to be precise. “I aspire to be soft and gentle like Arwen, but realistically, I’m a fighter, like Eowyn,...

UK Teen Banned From US for Drunk Email to Obama
UK Teen Banned From US
for Drunk Email to Obama
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT
Sep 18, 2010 7:06 PM CDT

UK Teen Banned From US for Drunk Email to Obama

FBI says British kid banned 'forever' over threatening missive

(Newser) - Drunk emailing: Never a good idea, especially not when you're emailing the president. That's what Luke Angel did, and now the British teen is banned from entering the United States. Angel, 17, tells Bedfordshire on Sunday he was "drunk and high" when he penned his missive about a month...

White House Bashes Forbes for 'Kenyan' Article

'Did they not fact-check this at all?'

(Newser) - The White House lashed out at Forbes yesterday over a recent cover story accusing Obama of inheriting the "cause of anti-colonialism" from his Kenyan father. Most critics have attacked writer Dinesh D'Souza or Newt Gingrich, who parroted the ideas in a recent interview. But Robert Gibbs took aim at...

See? He Wasn't So Bad
 See? He Wasn't So Bad 
OPINION
Sep 16, 2010 1:56 PM CDT

See? He Wasn't So Bad

Obama's making Bush look good

(Newser) - George W. Bush left office with the lowest approval rating since Richard Nixon, while Obama took over with stratospheric numbers. But then a funny thing happened: “America woke up from its 2008 trance and is concluding that Bush was never as bad, and Obama never as good, as...

Tea Party's Whip-Wielding Obama Float Stirs Anger

NAACP official calls it 'sad'

(Newser) - A local Tea Party float has caused a mild media stir thanks to its less-than-sensitive mascot: a man in a Barack Obama mask whipping a "future tax payer." Organizers of the parade have gotten complaints about the float, which some saw as political, racist, or just plain "...

Obama, Earn Your Peace Prize in Sudan
 Obama, Earn Your 
 Peace Prize in Sudan 
OPINION
Sep 14, 2010 1:38 PM CDT

Obama, Earn Your Peace Prize in Sudan

President must find a way to prevent another war

(Newser) - Finally, President Obama has a chance to earn that Nobel Peace Prize. "He can prevent war from igniting in Sudan," suggests the Christian Science Monitor in an editorial. Sudan "is again on a knife-edge. A referendum is scheduled for Jan. 9 in which the oil-rich south is...

Obama Publishing Children's Book

It comes out two weeks after midterm elections

(Newser) - In addition to "president," Barack Obama can already call himself an author—but now you can add "children's author" to his many hats. His Of Thee I Sing: A Letter to My Daughters was written before he took office and will be released Nov. 16, the Christian ...

Obama May Sneak Warren in as 'Interim' Consumer Chief

...for an indefinite period of time

(Newser) - President Obama is considering making Elizabeth Warren the quote-unquote interim director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, as a way of avoiding a Republican filibuster, a White House source tells the Huffington Post. Appointing Warren on an interim basis would allow her to begin setting up the agency she invented...

Who Is Getting Gulf Cleanup Contracts?
 Who Is Getting Gulf 
 Cleanup Contracts? 
ANALYSIS
Sep 13, 2010 5:15 PM CDT

Who Is Getting Gulf Cleanup Contracts?

Review finds some oddball examples of big spending by feds

(Newser) - It might have been cheaper if the feds had plugged BP's blown wellhead with dollar bills—or so an early AP analysis of Uncle Sam's expenditures on the response and cleanup. Mind you, these details are for the first $142 million the government is disclosing, a small fraction; BP , however,...

Dems Blast Newt Over His Obama 'Kenyan' Jab

Gingrich thinks president has played a 'wonderful con' on the public

(Newser) - Democrats are outraged over an interview Newt Gingrich gave the National Review this weekend, in which he offered what he called a “stunning insight” into President Obama’s mind. “What if [Obama] is so outside our comprehension, that only if you understand Kenyan, anti-colonial behavior, can you begin...

Barry Needs a Backbone


 Barry Needs 
 a Backbone 
Maureen Dowd
Sep 12, 2010 7:13 AM CDT

Barry Needs a Backbone

Dowd's Republican sister, like many, is deserting her inept hero

(Newser) - The would-be savior of Washington, Barack Obama, is losing fans fast, writes Maureen Dowd for the New York Times, including Dowd's sister, Peggy, a Republican who changed sides to vote for Obama. She, like many, believed Obama would change Washington. He hasn't. And, with the country more divided than ever...

Obama's New Economic Adviser: Austan Goolsbee

'Inner circle' member will replace Christina Romer

(Newser) - Austan Goolsbee will succeed Christina Romer as the chair of President Obama's Council of Economic Advisers. The president made the announcement today at the beginning of his press conference on the economy; administration sources leaked Goolsbee's name last night. Goolsbee, 41, is a University of Chicago economist and member of...

Obama Takes Back Clinton's Comments on Mexico

Hillary called drug war an 'insurgency'

(Newser) - President Obama took Hillary Clinton’s foot out of the administration’s mouth yesterday, taking back her comments that likened Mexico to the Colombia of the ‘80s and ‘90s. “Mexico is an ample democracy, with a growing economy,” Obama said in an interview with the Spanish-language...

Koran-Burning a 'Bonanza for al-Qaeda': Obama

President fears 'stunt' will endanger troops, lead to violence

(Newser) - President Obama weighed in on the Koran-burning controversy for the first time today, calling it "a recruitment bonanza for al-Qaeda." His comments came during an interview with George Stephanopoulos airing today on Good Morning America . Highlights:
  • His message to Pastor Terry Jones: "This stunt that he is
...

Obama for Chicago Mayor!

 Obama for Chicago Mayor! 
OPINION
Sep 8, 2010 1:54 PM CDT

Obama for Chicago Mayor!

Forget president—here's a job he's much more suited to

(Newser) - Reihan Salam's career advice for Barack Obama: Give up the presidency and run for mayor of Chicago. No, wait, he's serious! Richard Daley's decision to retire has thrown the city into a tizzy, and who better to take over than a person who knows Chicago's neighborhoods, feels "passionately" about...

Obama to Democrats: Let the Bush Tax Cuts Expire

But he won't veto a compromise that extends them

(Newser) - President Obama intends to take a clear stand against extending the Bush tax cuts for the top 2% of earners in a speech today, sending a message to Congressional Democrats who are leaning toward a compromise with Republicans. Obama won’t actually threaten to veto a bill that extends the...

Stewart Smacks Obama's $50B Plan

By way of really elaborate football metaphors

(Newser) - It is September, which means just one thing to Jon Stewart ... it's time for midterms, and really elaborate football metaphors. First up last night , analyzing Obama's "version of a rousing morale booster between recessions half-time speech." But would he play the part of the inspirational coach, or be...

Obama's Not Sexy Anymore
 Obama's Not Sexy Anymore 
OPINION
Sep 7, 2010 2:48 PM CDT

Obama's Not Sexy Anymore

Failure in office makes president less dreamy

(Newser) - Barack Obama’s lost something much worse than political capital in his first term: He’s lost his sex appeal, writes Tunku Varadarajan at the Daily Beast . “Not so long ago, Obama’s sex appeal lay at, or near, the top of a list of his attributes that turned...

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