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High Profile Helps Drive Obama Agenda
High Profile Helps Drive Obama Agenda
analysis
Mar 20, 2009 10:53 AM CDT

High Profile Helps Drive Obama Agenda

Omnipresent president risks diluting his brand, experts warn

(Newser) - Don’t look now, but President Obama’s on TV again. And gracing magazine covers, delivering a radio address, even on the Web making NCAA tournament picks. The "Everywhere President” strategy is a gamble, as evidenced by the fact that Republicans haven't retired the "celebrity" put-down. One...

New Israeli Government on Collision Course With US
New Israeli Government on Collision Course With US
ANALYSIS
Mar 20, 2009 10:42 AM CDT

New Israeli Government on Collision Course With US

Is confrontation ahead between Obama and Netanyahu?

(Newser) - Israel’s incoming governing coalition is expected to take a harder line on a Palestinian state than its predecessors, even as the US may be moving more toward a conciliatory position, reports the Washington Post. Incoming Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu thinks American-backed talks are a waste of time, and he...

Noonan to Obama: Get Focused
 Noonan to Obama: Get Focused 
OPINION
Mar 20, 2009 9:19 AM CDT

Noonan to Obama: Get Focused

President has to stop bouncing around

(Newser) - There are two crises facing the new president, writes Peggy Noonan in the Wall Street Journal: the economy and the threat of terrorism. Either one would warrant near-obsessive focus, but President Obama can’t seem to zero in. “What strikes one is the weightlessness of the Obama administration, the...

Apologetic Obama Invites Special Olympic Athletes

He reaches out after gaffe on Leno

(Newser) - The head of the Special Olympics said today that Barack Obama called to apologize for his cringe-inducing gaffe on the Tonight Show, even before the episode aired last night, the AP reports. "He apologized in a way that was very moving," Tim Shriver told ABC. "He expressed...

Prez Offers Iran 'New Beginning'

Obama reaches out with unprecedented video greeting to the people of Iran

(Newser) - President Obama has offered Iran a fresh start in relations with the US in an unprecedented video message to the Iranian people and leadership, reports the BBC. The president, in a message released to mark the start of Iranian New Year and distributed to news outlets across the region, said...

Prez Trips Up With Special Olympics Gaffe

Major flak expected for Tonight Show quip on his clutzy bowling

(Newser) - President Obama is expected to be zinged by critics today after a quip he made about his bad bowling and the Special Olympics during the taping of yesterday's Tonight Show appearance, ABC News reports. "I scored a 129," the president said when Jay Leno asked him if the...

It's Now or Never for Health Care Reform: Grassley

Election politics will only make reform more difficult, Grassley says

(Newser) - Barack Obama’s promised health care reform must happen this year—or it won't happen at all in the next four years, says a key GOP senator. Charles Grassley—he'll play a major role in any new legislation as the ranking Republican on the finance panel—warns that election politics...

Butt Out of Primetime, Prez: Networks

Execs complain Obama's addresses cost them money

(Newser) - President Obama is addressing the nation during primetime—again—and networks aren’t happy about it, notes the Hollywood Reporter. When Obama hits the airwaves Tuesday, he’ll bump American Idol's results show to Thursday, causing it to compete with the NCAA finals, and force the Big Four to cancel...

AIG's Money Lined Pockets in Washington

Dodd, Bush, Obama campaigns benefited from insurer's largesse

(Newser) - Chris Dodd has been a major AIG critic of late, but the Senate Banking chairman also has the uncomfortable distinction of being the politician to benefit the most from the insurer’s generosity, the Wall Street Journal reports. AIG employees have donated $280,000 to Dodd over the years, including...

Geithner Swinging in Wind After Fed Drops AIG Ball

Treasury says Fed kept them in dark, despite sec's previous role

(Newser) - Officials at the Fed knew about AIG's plan to award $165 million in bonuses for months but failed to tell the Obama administration, reports the Washington Post. Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner said this week he was "stunned when I learned how bad this was"—belatedly on March 10—...

How Obama Can Reboot Geithner
 How Obama Can 
 Reboot Geithner 
ANALYSIS
Mar 19, 2009 7:55 AM CDT

How Obama Can Reboot Geithner

Treasury sec needs a freer hand and more staff to survive

(Newser) - Three times in 3 days the president has had to offer a defense of Tim Geithner, who will almost certainly remain Treasury secretary despite calls to resign. As Eamonn Javers reports in Politico, the White House now has to perform some crisis management: Keep Geithner out of the spotlight, allow...

Go All In on Afghan War, McCain, Lieberman Say
Go All In on Afghan War, McCain, Lieberman Say
OPINION
Mar 19, 2009 7:16 AM CDT

Go All In on Afghan War, McCain, Lieberman Say

(Newser) - Barack Obama’s strategy for Afghanistan must roundly reject the so-called “minimalist” approach being whispered about in DC, write John McCain and Joe Lieberman in today’s Washington Post. The minimalists want the US to focus on limited, “realistic” counterterrorism goals. But McCain and Lieberman remind Obama that...

'AIG Buck Stops With Me'
'AIG Buck 
Stops 
With Me' 

Mar 19, 2009 4:56 AM CDT

'AIG Buck Stops With Me'

'I'll take responsibility,' he tells Californians

(Newser) - President Obama began a two-day swing through California yesterday, again accepting blame for the AIG mess and urging Washington to stop its finger-pointing, the Wall Street Journal reports. “Washington is in a tizzy and everybody is pointing fingers at each other and saying it's their fault, the Democrats' fault,...

Where's the Council on Men and Boys?
Where's the Council on Men and Boys?
OPINION
Mar 18, 2009 10:52 AM CDT

Where's the Council on Men and Boys?

Obama's Council on Women and Girls a misplaced gesture

(Newser) - When President Obama last week created the White House Council on Women and Girls—a body that looks out for the fairer sex in federal policy-making—it seemed an almost laughable “act of paternalistic magnanimity,” writes Kathleen Parker in the Washington Post. Unfortunately, it also perpetuates “the...

Obama Trounces Rush: Poll
 Obama Trounces Rush: Poll 
COMMENTARY
Mar 18, 2009 9:38 AM CDT

Obama Trounces Rush: Poll

Radio host's favorable rating at 19%, 43 points lower than Obama

(Newser) - The war of personalities between President Obama and Rush Limbaugh is closer to a massacre, notes Brian Montopoli, commenting on a CBS News poll that shows only 19% of respondents rate the radio host favorably. That’s 43 points lower than President Obama’s rating. "Not surprisingly," Limbaugh...

Obama Army's New Mission: Pass the Budget
Obama Army's New Mission: Pass the Budget
ANALYSIS
Mar 18, 2009 8:49 AM CDT

Obama Army's New Mission: Pass the Budget

Prez calls on legion of campaign supporters, but will they follow?

(Newser) - Four months after propelling Barack Obama to victory, his millions-strong army of volunteers is being asked to help out again, writes Jeff Zeleny in the New York Times. Anyone who contributed $5 or more to the campaign has been enlisted to support Obama's effort to pass his 2010 budget, which...

Portfolio Misses Another Historic Cover
 Portfolio Misses 
 Another Historic Cover 
OPINION
Mar 18, 2009 8:20 AM CDT

Portfolio Misses Another Historic Cover

Magazine editor becoming known for bad decisions

(Newser) - The bad cover decisions at Portfolio just keep on coming, writes Ryan Tate in his continuing persecution of the mag on Gawker. Sure, “diva editor” Joanne Lipman has made some poor choices of what to feature instead of the current economic crisis—a clothier, Sarah Palin. But her worst...

US to Sign UN Gay Rights Declaration

Decision to back global decriminalization reverses Bush policy

(Newser) - The Obama administration will endorse a UN declaration calling for the worldwide decriminalization of homosexuality that President Bush refused to sign, reports AP. The US was the only western government that refused to back the declaration last year, triggering stinging criticism of the Bush administration. Some 70 UN nations still...

White House Greens Fountains for St. Pat's

First Lady takes a page from her native Chicago

(Newser) - Fountains on the White House lawns run green today in honor of St. Patrick’s Day, the Chicago Tribune reports. The dye was suggested by the First Lady, perhaps to make Pennsylvania Ave a bit more like her native Chicago, which dyes the Chicago River green to mark the holiday....

Obama's CIO Once Pleaded Guilty to Theft

Embattled Kundra swiped less than $300 back in 1997

(Newser) - Vetting blunders don't get much more basic than this: Vivek Kundra, Barack Obama’s embattled Chief Information Officer, has a criminal record, Gawker’s Owen Thomas reports. Kundra, who’s currently suspended because of unrelated bribery charges against an employee, pleaded guilty to stealing less than $300 in 1997, according...

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