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Brewer, Obama speak ‘intensely’ on airport tarmac
When President Barack Obama landed at Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport on Wednesday he probably didn’t expect Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer to welcome him by sticking her finger in his face. According to a White House pool report, the two “spoke intensely for a few minutes” after the president walked onto the…
Is the American Dream still achievable in 2012?
President Barack Obama’s populist vision of a fairer US society comes at a time when the American Dream is becoming tougher to achieve after three decades of rising inequality, experts said. With a US election in his sights, Obama used his State of the Union speech to urge large tax…
Maddow: PolitiFact is undermining the word ‘fact’
MSNBC host Rachel Maddow tore into the fact-checking website PolitiFact on Wednesday for confirming that President Barack Obama’s job numbers were correct, but rating his comments only “half true.” During the State of the Union address on Tuesday night, Obama stated: “In the last 22 months, businesses have created more…
Kornacki: Boehner ‘entirely at the mercy’ of the tea party
Steve Kornacki, news editor at Salon, explained Wednesday night that President Barack Obama had given up on trying to negotiate with Republican lawmakers, even though he appeared to be willing to negotiate in his State of the Union address. Although Obama tried to work with the Republicans, he learned during…
Soros: Not much difference between Obama and Romney
Billionaire investor and philanthropist George Soros told Reuters Global Editor-at-Large Chrystia Freeland that he still supported President Barack Obama, but predicted voters would not be very enthusiastic about the 2012 elections if former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney was nominated by Republicans. “Well, look, either you’ll have an extremist conservative, be…
Geithner says wouldn’t serve in an Obama 2nd term
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said on Wednesday he would not expect to be asked to continue as Treasury chief if President Barack Obama wins re-election. “He’s not going to ask me to stay on, I’m pretty confident,” Geithner said during a Bloomberg television interview conducted in North…
Sen. Bernie Sanders blasts U.S. wealth gap
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) on Wednesday rebutted Republicans who accused President Barack Obama of engaging in class warfare. “They talk about class warfare — the fact of the matter is there has been class warfare for the last thirty years,” he said on MSNBC’s Politics Nation. “It’s a handful of…
Nader astonished by ‘lawless militarism’ in Obama’s address
Former presidential candidate Ralph Nader railed against President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address during an appearance Wednesday on Democracy Now. “I think his lawless militarism, that started the speech and ended the speech, was truly astonishing,” he said. “I mean, he was very committed to projecting the American…
Bill Gates: ‘Taxes are going to have to go up’ on rich people
Gates has joined fellow billionaire Warren Buffett in the belief that America’s rich need to be paying more taxes. In an interview with the BBC Wednesday morning, the founder of Microsoft expressed his desire to see “a sense of shared sacrifice” from his fellow high earners. “Well, the United States…
Santorum: Obama’s college reforms part of ‘indoctrination’ plot
Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum on Wednesday suggested that President Barack Obama wanted to every kid to go to college so they could be brainwashed into being a liberal. Speaking to a crowd of Floridians at the First Baptist Church of Naples, Santorum said that churches and families were under…
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