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Boehner: Obama ‘diminishing the presidency’ with student loan fight
House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) says that President Barack Obama is “diminishing the presidency” by fighting for low student loan rates, a fairer tax structure and regulations on oil speculators. “The president and I have a very good relationship,” Boehner told CNN’s Candy Crowley on Sunday. “And as a result,…
Obama roasts Romney at White House Correspondents’ dinner
Cheered by Hollywood stars, President Barack Obama lampooned Mitt Romney’s wealth and mimed a shaggy dog story about his foe, striking a rare light note in the bitter White House race. Obama used an annual star-studded dinner with White House correspondents and Hollywood A-listers, which presidents use to rip their…
Bin Laden an issue in 2012 campaign for President
Osama bin Laden is dead and gone but his demise has been trotted out as a campaign issue by President Barack Obama, whose new ad questions whether his Republican rival would have ordered such a risky military raid. The video features ex-president Bill Clinton hailing Obama for a brave call…
Obama threatens to veto booby-trapped student loan bill as Rove pitches youth vote
President Barack Obama threatened on Friday to veto a House Republican bill that would keep government-backed student loan interest rates at their current level because of a poison-pill amendment, even though his veto would play directly into an obvious trap laid by Republican political strategist Karl Rove. President Obama has…
Romney campaign: Obama ‘divides’ America by talking about bin Laden
Presumptive Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s campaign is accusing President Barack Obama of dividing the country when his campaign talks about killing terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden. In a new web advertisement, President Bill Clinton says that Obama chose the “more honorable path” by ordering the 2011 attack that resulted…
Bob Dylan, Toni Morrison among 13 tapped for Presidential Medal of Freedom
WASHINGTON — Music legend Bob Dylan and Nobel-winning writer Toni Morrison lead a list of 13 people who will receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest US civilian honor, the White House said Thursday. “These extraordinary honorees come from different backgrounds and different walks of life, but each of…
Michelle Obama rules out White House run
WASHINGTON — US first lady Michelle Obama on Thursday excluded a possible White House run in the footsteps of her husband Barack, saying the job was “really hard.” The first lady confided in a child visiting the White House during the annual Take Your Child To Work Day who asked…
Biden: Obama ‘has a big stick, I promise’
In a major speech on Wednesday touting current administration’s foreign policy accomplishments, Vice President Joe Biden drew a contrast with presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney and bragged about President Barack Obama’s “big stick.” Speaking to an audience at New York University, Biden recalled that Obama had “made one of…
Obama’s ‘get Bin Laden’ memo now public
President Barack Obama’s order to “go in and get Bin Laden” was made public Thursday, as recorded in a memo scribbled by then-CIA chief Leon Panetta shortly after the decision was made. Published by Time magazine as the first anniversary of the Al-Qaeda leader’s killing in Pakistan approaches, the succinct…
Marine discharged over anti-Obama Facebook posts
WASHINGTON — A US Marine sergeant has been given an “other than honorable” discharge after posting remarks critical of President Barack Obama on Facebook, the Marine Corps announced Wednesday. Gary Stein, 26, a nine-year veteran, has been “separated from the Marine Corps” for his “misconduct,” the Marines said in a…
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