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June 2009
- Obama Proposes More Powerful Fed
  
  Wall Street Journal | Jun 17, 09 1:21 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - President Obama today proposed broad new powers for the Federal Reserve and the creation of new national regulator to ensure against another financial crisis, the Wall Street Journal reports. Under the new plan, the Fed would oversee all components of any banking concern, even its foreign affiliates, and Treasury would have the power to take over and restructure any company. Obama called it a “sweeping overhaul.” More »
- The Real Deal on 10 Lies About Obama
  
  Time | Jun 16, 09 2:45 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Opponents are saying a lot of things about President Obama that just aren’t true. Mark Halperin clears up the record in Time . Obama ... has Israeli security interests at heart. is not blind to the costs of a revamped health care system. "is not captive to his party's liberal interest groups." "is not captive to liberals in Congress." More »
- As With Bush, Obama Won't Release WH Visitors List
  
  MSNBC | Jun 16, 09 10:27 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Despite President Obama’s promise of transparency, the administration is blocking requests for the White House visitors list, MSNBC reports, defying two federal court rulings that the lists are public record. In addition to denying MSNBC’s request for a list of all visitors since Jan. 20, the Secret Service turned down a nonpartisan watchdog group’s request for records of visits by coal executives. More »
- Anti-Biz Obama 'Loathes Profit Motive': Barnes
  
  Weekly Standard | Jun 13, 09 4:33 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - “Anti-business may be too crude a label” for President Obama, Fred Barnes writes in the Weekly Standard , but America's leader certainly "has a dark view of profits." Surveying Obama's appointments, policies, and remarks about business, Barnes concludes that "Obama loathes the profit motive or at least what he thinks it causes.” Yet Obama maintains that "he's a free-market guy who hates 'meddling in the private sector.'" More »
- Obama's Approval at 62%; Government Less Popular
  
  Fox News | Jun 11, 09 4:05 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Though opinions of the government vary, most Americans continue to have a favorable view of President Obama, Fox News reports. In a new poll, 62% of respondents approve of the job Obama is doing; 31% disapprove. 64% like the president as a person. But on the administration’s takeover of General Motors and handling of the economy, the country divides along party lines. More »
- 6 Conservatives Worth Obama's Time
  
  The Atlantic | Jun 10, 09 2:48 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - There are a few in the conservative camp who the Obama administration respects. “By respect, I mean, quite simply, the degree to which the White House responds to their worries and needs and believes that the time spent responding is useful and necessary,” Marc Ambinder writes in the Atlantic . Here’s a list of six: The Maine senators: "On major issues where a 60-vote supermajority is needed for cloture," Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins are "the only Republicans who matter." More »
- Israeli Minister Urges Sanctions Against US
  
  Jerusalem Post (Israel) | Jun 10, 09 2:18 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - An Israeli cabinet minister has suggested his country stop buying technology from the US and even try to influence US elections because of the Obama administration’s perceived shift on Mideast policy, the Jerusalem Post reports. Yossi Peled, a “minister-without-portfolio,” said “Obama’s ascendance represents a turning point in America's approach to the region” in a letter to PM Benjamin Netanyahu. More »
- Wright: 'Them Jews' Won't Let Me Talk to Obama
  
  Daily Press (Newport News, Va.) | Jun 10, 09 2:07 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - The Rev. Jeremiah Wright has no hard feelings against President Obama and will speak to him again when able, the Newport News (Va.) Daily Press reports. Wright, at a ministers conference, said, “them Jews aren’t going to let him talk to me. I told my baby daughter, that he’ll talk to me in 5 years when he’s a lame duck, or in 8 years when he’s out of office.” More »
- US Offers $200M to Send Gitmo Inmates to South Pacific
  
  Associated Press | Jun 9, 09 2:50 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - The US wants to resettle Uighur detainees held at Guantanamo Bay on the Pacific island nation of Palau, the AP reports. Palau, whose eight main islands lie 500 miles east of the Philippines, has strong ties to the US and depends on it for aid and protection. Daniel Fried, the envoy appointed by the Obama administration to administer the closing of Guantanamo, visited the country recently. More »
- Obama Rips Holocaust Deniers at Buchenwald
  
  Reuters | Jun 5, 09 4:55 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - President Obama blasted Holocaust deniers today on a tour of a Nazi concentration camp, Reuters reports. At Buchenwald, Germany, the president called Holocaust denial “baseless, ignorant and hateful.” Obama did not mention Mahmoud Ahmadinejad by name, but after Iran's president called the Holocaust a "great deception" this week, Obama suggested he visit Buchenwald himself. More »
- SC Court Orders Gov to Take Stimulus Cash
  
  State (Columbia, SC) | Jun 4, 09 4:34 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - The South Carolina Supreme Court has ruled that Gov. Mark Sanford must apply for $700 million in federal stimulus money aimed at education that the governor had strenuously resisted, the State reports. The state’s General Assembly had already mandated the move, but Sanford argued it had no authority to do so. Earlier this week, the GOP governor anticipated the court's decision and said he would not press it further. More »
- Gays Rankle at Obama's Unkept Promises
  
  Politico | Jun 4, 09 1:39 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Gay-rights supporters in and outside of Washington are getting fed up with President Obama’s perceived inaction on their core issues, Politico reports. Obama has been unwilling to back gay marriage, and has yet to fulfill his campaign promise of repealing the Defense of Marriage Act, which bars federal recognition of the same. “Obama is out of step with his party,” one activist said. “He’s out of step with the next generation.” More »
- Limbaugh May Back Sotomayor After All
  
  Politico | Jun 3, 09 2:21 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Rush Limbaugh is willing to back Sonia Sotomayor if her nomination to the Supreme Court offers even the “opportunity” of overturning Roe v. Wade, Politico reports. Limbaugh noted today on his radio show that Sotomayor “doesn't have a clear record on abortion” and is a Catholic. “I don't know if it will ever happen,” the host said, but he may support her if an anti-abortion decision is possible. More »
- Bloomy: Obama Doesn't 'Get Paid That Much'
  
  New York Times | Jun 2, 09 12:07 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Billionaire New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg added to a growing store of off-the-cuff comments yesterday when he defended the Obamas’ theater outing to his Big Apple by saying the president “lives on a budget,” the Times reports. Obama, who makes $400,000 a year, “does not get paid that much,” Bloomberg continued, before clarifying his comments. “The president is worth a lot more than we pay him.” More »
- Obama's Financial Regulation Plan Nearly Ready
  
  New York Times | Jun 1, 09 4:46 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - The Obama administration is finalizing a legislative proposal that would strengthen the reach of financial regulatory agencies, the New York Times reports. The plan wouldn’t likely consolidate the four major bank regulators, which could meet with fierce opposition in Congress. “I don’t mind overlap as much as the idea of concentrating too much power in the hands of one agency,” said Sen. Chris Dodd. More »
May 2009
- Gen. Disputes Story, Says He Hasn't Seen Photos
  
  Salon | May 30, 09 1:33 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Retired Army Gen. Antonio Taguba has seen photos of rape at Abu Ghraib, but they aren’t the ones the Obama administration is trying to keep from the public. “The photographs in that lawsuit, I have not seen,” he told Salon. The general says he was not misquoted in the Telegraph , but that when he described “torture, abuse, rape, and every indecency,” he was referring to other photos he saw during his investigation of the Iraqi prison. More »
- Woodward Working on Obama Book
  
  New Republic | May 30, 09 11:59 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - It's almost a political rite of passage at this point: Bob Woodward is writing a book about the Obama administration, reports Gabriel Sherman in the New Republic . No word on the focus, but Sherman notes that Woodward has a knack for making administrations nervous. “Every White House is wary of Woodward,” a veteran reporter tells him. “If you want to hide things from Bob, it always comes out,” another says. “It always does.” More »
- Sotomayor's 'Word Choice Was Poor': Gibbs
  
  The Hill | May 29, 09 5:02 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Robert Gibbs said today Sonia Sotomayor regrets the way she phrased 2001 comments that have some Republicans calling the Supreme Court nominee a racist, the Hill reports. “I think she'd say that her word choice was poor,” the White House press secretary said. He suggested that Sotomayor was not trying to say Latina women make better judges than white men, but that “your experiences impact your understanding.” More »
- Paper Runs 'Unfortunate' Obama-Assassination Ad
  
  Editor & Publisher | May 29, 09 4:47 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Federal authorities are on the case after a Pennsylvania paper ran a classified ad that appears to call for the assassination of President Obama, Editor & Publisher reports. “May Obama follow in the footsteps of Lincoln, Garfield, McKinley & Kennedy!” the ad read. Those presidents were assassinated in office. The publisher called police after being informed of the ad by irate readers. More »
- Sotomayor Lax in the Voting Department
  
  NY1 | May 29, 09 1:28 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Sonia Sotomayor isn't much of a voter. She skipped multiple New York elections in the past decade, including three for state supreme court, reports NY1. The 2nd Circuit appeals judge failed to vote for governor in 2002 and 2006, and for court positions in 1995, 1999, and 2007. Sotomayor is not registered with any party and thus cannot vote in party primaries. She did vote in the 2008 general election, the one won by the guy who wants to put her on the Supreme Court. More »