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Limbaugh's Wrong: Gallup's Obama Approval Below 50%

New survey is latest disappointment for President

2 hours, 34 minutes ago
(Newser) - A new Gallup poll is the latest this week to show President Obama's approval ratings falling below 50%. Today's results, which appear to refute Rush Limbaugh's contention that Gallup's results are tilted to favor Obama, show 49% of voters approve of his handling of the presidency and 44% do not.... More »

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Barack Obama • Rush Limbaugh • Quinnipiac University • approval ratings • Gallup poll • Gallup • President Obama • Limbaugh Obama • Public Policy Polling

men of the year

 Eastwood Is 
 Top 'Badass' 

Kobe Bryant, Chris Pine, Barack Obama make 2009's elite list

Nov 19, 09 7:33 PM CST
(Newser) - GQ has broken this year's Man of the Year honors into several categories. That's why Clint Eastwood is Badass of the Year, Barack Obama is Leader of the Year, and Tom Brady the Comeback of the Year. Click the source link for the full list, and see the photo... More »

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Barack Obama • Kobe Bryant • Alec Baldwin • Clint Eastwood • Tom Brady • Eric Holder • Chris Pine • JJ Abrams • Leighton Meester

 America's 
 Best Political 
 Memoirs 

Sarah Palin hasn't got anything on Ulysses S. Grant

Nov 19, 09 4:38 PM CST
(Newser) - With Going Rogue flying off the shelves, Time looks back on the best political memoirs ever, including:
  • Ulysses S. Grant—The first presidential memoir to take the nation by storm, Grant finished his book just days before he died, and loaded it with thoughtful reflections and Civil
... More »

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Barack Obama • memoir • autobiography • Richard Clarke • Ulysses Grant • Dwight Eisenhower • Sarah Palin Going Rogue

Obama to Cuban Blogger: Next Move Is Castro's

President sidesteps question on Castro government's legitimacy

Nov 19, 09 3:33 PM CST
(Newser) - Prominent Cuban blogger Yoani Sánchez emailed a list of questions to President Obama, and in an unusual move, he responded. Obama's answers, which Sánchez posted today, largely reiterate his stated positions on Cuba. But he also indicates he has no interest in "talking for the sake of... More »

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Barack Obama • Cuba • Raul Castro • blogger • President Obama • Yoani Sanchez • Obama Cuban blogger

Disgruntled Dem Wants Geithner, Summers Sacked

Peter DeFazio says White House betrayed Main St. for Wall St.

Nov 19, 09 10:42 AM CST
(Newser) - Rep. Peter DeFazio wants Barack Obama to fire the Larry Summers and “Timmy Geithner” for being Wall Street lap dogs, and says there’s a “growing consensus” in the Progressive Caucus that agrees with him. Summers and Geithner oppose a Progressive proposal to use unspent TARP funds to... More »

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Barack Obama • Wall Street • Goldman Sachs • Larry Summers • Wall Street bailout • Timothy Geithner • TARP • Peter DeFazio • progressives

NOT A KID ANYMORE


 Stress Takes 
 Its Toll on 
 Obama's 
 Face 

Gray hair, worry lines betray pressures of presidency

Nov 19, 09 8:40 AM CST
(Newser) - Ten months into his presidency, Barack Obama is looking markedly less boyish. Flecks of gray hair and new worry lines have the president looking like the 48-year-old he is rather than the enthusiastic youth of the 2008 campaign. Obama denies it's the stress of the job—"My hair has... More »

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Barack Obama • wrinkles • stress • aging process • Obama aging • Obama looking old • Obama gray hair

 Shirt's Message: 
 Pray for Obama's Death 

Verse reads, 'Let his days be few' and 'let his children be fatherless'

Nov 18, 09 5:50 PM CST
(Newser) - A seemingly innocent shirt asking readers to pray for the president has ulterior motives. Shirts and bumper stickers are cropping up with the phrase "Pray for Obama Psalm 109:8." As Gawker points out, the verse in question reads in part, "Let his days be few; and... More »

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Barack Obama • assassination • Christian conservatives • shirt • t-shirts

 Decade's Best Live TV Moments 

From Barack Obama's victory speech to the tumbling of Saddam's statue

Nov 18, 09 1:02 PM CST
(Newser) - Paste looks back on the decade’s 25 best—not necessarily most important—moments on live TV. The top 10:
  1. Barack Obama: His victory speech captured the moment when one part of Martin Luther King’s dream came true.
  2. Miracle on the Hudson: Pilot Chesley “Sully”
... More »

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Barack Obama • live television • President Obama • Chesley Sullenberger • Flight 1549



 Obama: 
 We Won't 
 Make Gitmo 
 Deadline 

Pres tells Fox's Major Garrett prison will close after Jan 2010

Nov 18, 09 5:40 AM CST
(Newser) - Guantanamo Bay prison won't close by the January deadline he set when he took office, President Obama admitted today, but he still hopes to shut it next year. Obama is "not disappointed" in missing the deadline, he says in a FoxNews interview airing this morning, since closing the facility... More »

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China • Barack Obama • Guantanamo Bay • Fox News • Guantanamo prisoners • Uighurs • Gitmo • guantanamo deadline • closing guantanamo • obama fox news

ANALYSIS

 Obama Tone in China 
 Reflects New Power Realities 


US needs China's help as never before

Nov 18, 09 5:20 AM CST
(Newser) - President Obama's starkly different tone in his visit to China—more congratulatory than confrontational—is less a shift in policy from his predecessors than a change in the two country's roles, write Andrew Higgins and Anne Kornblut in the Washington Post . When President Clinton visited in 1998, the US was... More »

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China • Barack Obama • diplomacy • US-China trade deficit • Hu Jintao • President Obama

 Great Wall of China 
 'Magical': Obama 

President visits landmark, heads to South Korea

Nov 18, 09 4:33 AM CST
(Newser) - Following in the footsteps of Richard Nixon and every president since then, Barack Obama today wound up his visit to China with a stop at the Great Wall, where he stoked his hosts' pride in ancient Chinese civilization by reflecting on the wall's enduring nature. "It's magical," Obama... More »

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Interview

 Clinton: I Didn't Want The Job 

Obama gave his secretary of state the hard sell

Nov 17, 09 3:48 PM CST
(Newser) - Hillary Clinton accepted the Secretary of State job only because Barack Obama badgered her into it. In a glowing profile in Vogue , Clinton tells Jonathan Van Meter that she was “stunned” Obama wanted her. “I didn't want to do it. I just really had a lot of... More »

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Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • State Department • David Miliband • Vogue • interview • Obama administration

Analysis

In Afghanistan Debate, Obama Focuses on Exit

White House wants
to make sure surge
will enable handover

Nov 17, 09 8:15 AM CST
(Newser) - The Obama administration’s extended ruminations on an Afghan surge aren’t really over how many troops to send in—they’re about how they’ll get those troops out. Obama’s main problem with the initial military plan was that it seemed too open ended, administration sources tell Gerald... More »

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Afghanistan • Barack Obama • troop surge • Hamid Karzai • troop levels • Afghanistan war • President Obama • Afghanistan exit strategy

 Obama, Hu Begin 
 Bridging Divide 

Superpowers work to find common ground on nukes, climate, economy

Nov 17, 09 6:08 AM CST
(AP) - President Barack Obama and Chinese President Hu Jintao emerged from intense talks today determined to marshal their combined clout on crucial issues, but still showing divisions over economic, security, and human rights issues that have long bedeviled the two powers. "The relationship between our two nations goes far beyond... More »

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survey says

 Palin Not Fit for Presidency: Poll

Voters think Hillary Clinton would be swell, though

Nov 16, 09 3:43 PM CST
(Newser) - With a blockbuster memoir and national tour, Sarah Palin is again grabbing headlines. But does she have what it takes for a 2012 presidential bid? The answer is a resounding “no,” according a CNN and Opinion Research poll. Only 28% believe she’s qualified for the nation’s... More »

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Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • Joe Biden • presidency • Mike Huckabee • president • Sarah Palin • Election 2012 • Republicans

 China Censors Obama Speech 

National coverage of school event cut after a few minutes

Nov 16, 09 2:41 PM CST
(Newser) - President Obama’s entreaty for greater personal freedoms in China did not reach most of nation’s residents, apparently because of a last-minute decision by censors. Though authorities initially agreed to broadcast the speech, which Obama hoped would be the central event of his China visit, all national transmission was... More »

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China • Barack Obama • censorship • Beijing • freedom of speech • control

 Obama: I Don't Really Do Twitter 

But the president wants the Chinese to be able to

Nov 16, 09 1:34 PM CST
(Newser) - If you’re one of Barack Obama’s 2.6 million Twitter followers, you’ve been suckered—the president says he’s never sent a tweet in his life. In a Q&A session in Shanghai, Obama was asked what he thought of China’s restriction of Twitter. “I... More »

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China • Barack Obama • social networking • Shanghai • Internet censorship • Great Firewall of China • Twitter • President Obama • Barack Obama Twitter

 Inside Obama's 
 Extended Family 

Half-siblings, step-family of president are famous now

Nov 16, 09 11:14 AM CST
(Newser) - New York takes a look at President Obama’s far-flung—and now famous—family, complete with a handy PDF diagram and nicknames to help you remember who is who. George, the youngest half-brother, is arguably the (second) most famous, thanks to a minor drug arrest followed by a memoir... More »

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Obama, Dems Catch Flak From MSNBC

Left-leaning networks not afraid to hammer prez for moving right

Nov 16, 09 8:48 AM CST
(Newser) - Forget Fox News, Barack Obama is catching just as much grief from MSNBC, as the network’s liberal hosts hammer Democrats for drifting right. Rachel Maddow, for example, spent most of last week lambasting House Democrats over the anti-abortion Stupak amendment, calling it an “electoral defeat,” and contemplating... More »

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Barack Obama • abortion • MSNBC • Keith Olbermann • health care reform • Rachel Maddow • left wing • Stupak-Pitts

UPDATED

 Obama Nudges 
 China on 
 Internet Freedom 

Openness makes nations stronger, president tells students

Nov 16, 09 5:37 AM CST
(Newser) - China and the US don't have to be adversaries and can work out their differences, President Obama told students in Shanghai today. "More is gained when great powers cooperate than when they collide," Obama said. But the president also prodded for more freedoms in China, reports CNN , telling... More »

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China • Barack Obama • Asia • Beijing • Shanghai

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