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Georgia ‘Birther’ suit attempts to remove Obama from 2012 ballot
According to Dustin Baker of the blog Georgia Politico, a suit has been filed with the office of Georgia’s Secretary of State Brian Kemp challenging Barack Obama’s legitimacy to appear as a presidential candidate on the ballot in the November 2012 elections. Georgia State Representative J. Mark Hatfield (R-Waycross) will…
Senate passage of payroll tax cut extension forces Obama to deal with Keystone
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Senate voted on Saturday to extend a payroll tax cut for two months in legislation that also attempts to force President Barack Obama to approve construction of an oil pipeline. The Senate overwhelmingly passed the legislation by a vote of 89-10. It is expected to be…
GOP tries again to attach Keystone pipeline to payroll tax cut
By Stephen Collinson WASHINGTON — Republicans launched a new bid Friday to make President Barack Obama’s effort to extend a tax holiday for 160 million Americans conditional on a contentious US-Canada pipeline project. The president’s conservative foes warned they would not extend the payroll tax cut without a measure designed…
Obama on 2012: ‘We’re going to win this thing’
WASHINGTON — US President Barack Obama confidently predicted he would overcome tough odds and win his 2012 reelection fight Tuesday, selling the premise of his campaign to influential donors. “Here is my message to you. You guys stick with this. If you don’t falter, if you stay steady we are…
Iraq has ‘enduring partner’ in U.S., Obama vows
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama Monday vowed an “enduring” partnership with a “self reliant” and sovereign Iraq, touting his promise kept to end a wrenching war as he met Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki. Obama said the last US soldiers would leave Iraq this month “with heads held high” but left…
McLaughlin: Did Obama’s Roosevelt speech sound like Hugo Chavez?
Long time Sunday talk show host John McLaughlin provided his show a rare notable moment this past weekend, asking his panel guests a peculiar question. Beginning a discussion over President Barack Obama’s speech in Kansas invoking Teddy Roosevelt this past week, McLaughlin was curious as to whether it resembled a…
Obama in annual festive showdown with Republicans
WASHINGTON — It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas — with tree lights twinkling, sleigh bells ringing and President Barack Obama locked in his annual Yuletide power struggle with Republicans in Congress. This year’s fight — over Obama’s demands for an extension of a workers’ tax cut and unemployment…
Uygur calls rival Sharpton an Obama cheerleader
Responding to a reader poll on Thursday night, Current TV’s “The Young Turks” host Cenk Uygur suggested that Al Sharpton, whose MSNBC program “PoliticsNation” airs at the same time as Uygur’s, is a cheerleader for President Barack Obama. The Current reader poll Uygur was responding to showed that 84 percent…
Sen. Bernie Sanders: GOP obstructionism a ‘sad state of affairs’
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) on Thursday night suggested Republicans were only interested in defeating President Barack Obama in 2012, even if it meant ruining the country. “The day after Obama got elected the Republicans made a decision: They would do everything they could to stop his agenda,” he explained on…
Obama rejects Republican ‘appeasement’ claims
WASHINGTON — With the icy riposte “ask Osama bin Laden,” President Barack Obama on Thursday rebutted Republican claims he is blind to the threat from radical “thugs” and guilty of appeasing US enemies. Obama’s use of lethal force as US commander-in-chief against Al-Qaeda and other groups has partly insulated him…
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