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How Dare Liberals Suggest Race Has Anything to Do With Obama-Hatred?!
Roger Ailes, you know the guy who runs the favorite news network of right wing America, has some ideas about what makes President Obama tick. As reported here at Raw Story, Vanity Fair has excerpted part of a new book out about Ailes written by Zev Chafets, and he got the…
Bill O’Reilly screams at Alan Colmes for pointing out Obama’s sequester plan
On his show Tuesday night, Fox News host Bill O’Reilly ripped into liberal commentator Alan Colmes for allegedly “lying” about President Barack Obama’s plan to avert across-the-board spending cuts. O’Reilly claimed Obama had not offered any proposal to replace the indiscriminate cuts, known as the sequester. The Fox News host…
Bill O’Reilly falsely claims Obama had no plan to avert automatic budget cuts
On his show Monday night, Fox News host Bill O’Reilly falsely claimed President Barack Obama had no specific plan to avert $85 billion in across-the-board budget cuts known as the sequester. O’Reilly began the segment by imploring Obama to show leadership by bowing to Republican demands to cut spending without…
Barack Obama: Forced spending cuts an ‘empty victory’ for Republicans
Barack Obama warned at the first meeting of his second-term cabinet on Monday that the $85bn in forced spending cuts will mean difficult budget decisions in the weeks ahead and that unemployment will end up being higher than it needs to be. Details of the areas to be cut will…
Biden to pro-Israel lobby: Obama not bluffing about military force against Iran
Vice-president tells Aipac that military option remains on the table for Obama to prevent Iran obtaining a nuclear weapon Barack Obama‘s threats to use military force to prevent Iran securing a nuclear weapon are more than idle bluffs, vice-president Joe Biden told the biggest pro-Israeli lobbying group Aipac on Monday. Biden said that while…
Gay and lesbian couples look to Obama on immigration rights
Erwin de Leon married a US citizen nearly three years ago, but the Filipino is still in immigration limbo for one simple reason — his spouse is a man. De Leon and his husband John Beddingfield, the rector at an Episcopal church in Washington, were wed in the US capital…
Obama confident Republicans will cave on budget cuts
AFP – As the blame game over a stinging package of deficit-reducing spending cuts grinds on, the White House said Sunday that as voters start to feel the pain, Republicans will pivot and seek compromise. But the Republicans did not sound like they were in a mood to budge. The…
Romney says Obama is like a Roman emperor: ‘Nero is fiddling’
Former Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney asserted in a recent interview that President Barack Obama was like the Roman emperor, Nero, who was “fiddling” while Rome burned. “It kills me not to be there, not to be in the White House doing what needs to be done,” Romney told Fox…
Obama appoints new coordinator for Middle East and other regions
President Barack Obama has appointed a new coordinator for the Middle East, North Africa and the Gulf, the White House announced Saturday. Philip Gordon, a veteran foreign policy expert, will take up his post on March 11. The appointment came two weeks before Obama is set to visit Israel, Ramallah…
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Facing deteriorating conditions and the hopelessness of their legal abyss, detainees are starving themselves in protest Despite running on a campaign promise to close the Guantanamo Bay prison, President Obama has presided over an entrenchment of legal controls and deterioration of conditions at the facility. In his letters, Guantánamo Bay…
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