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Obama Is Riding High
 Obama Is Riding High 
Analysis
Mar 30, 2010 3:00 PM CDT

Obama Is Riding High

The president's got his groove back

(Newser) - When Barack Obama signed a sweeping overhaul of the federal student loan program today along with the finalized health care bill, the mood was decidedly celebratory. As Obama touted his “two major victories in one week,” supporters chanted “fired up!” and “Yes we can!”...

Hate-Crime Wave Is Just Lefty Fakery
 Hate-Crime Wave 
 Is Just Lefty Fakery 
OPINION
Mar 27, 2010 5:00 AM CDT

Hate-Crime Wave Is Just Lefty Fakery

Past incidents overblown at best, duplicitous at worst

(Newser) - Reports of political hate crimes against Democrats since the passage of the health care reform bill are overblown at best, and downright lies at worst, Michelle Malkin writes, charging that Nancy Pelosi & Co. “can’t stand the heat” and so manufactured “a Tea Party epidemic of racism,...

Obama Bumper Sticker Leads to Road Rage Outburst

Driver hit with felony charge after incident in moving traffic

(Newser) - A Tennessee man and his 10-year-old daughter who were in a car with an Obama bumper sticker are grateful for their safety after another motorist allegedly rammed them in traffic. Mark Duren was driving when he noticed Harry Weisiger behind him, pointing to the bumper and flipping him off. Duren...

Obama, Medvedev Sign Off on Nuclear Treaty

Move a step toward repairing US-Russian relations

(Newser) - President Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev agreed today to sharp cuts in the nuclear arsenals of both nations in the most comprehensive arms control treaty in two decades. "We have turned words into action," Obama declared. He said the pact, to be signed April 8 in Prague,...

A History of Political Cussing
 A History of Political Cussing 
it's not just you, joe
Mar 24, 2010 1:33 PM CDT

A History of Political Cussing

Joe Biden will go down in history with these other respected figures

(Newser) - Quite a big deal has been made over Joe Biden dropping the F-bomb . “But America has a long and honorable tradition of top elected officials using salty language,” writes John Dickerson on Slate . Allow him to educate you:
  • Barack Obama: Famously called Kanye West a “jackass.”
...

US, Russia Reportedly Agree to Nuclear Arms Treaty

Deal will be finalized in upcoming meeting between Obama, Medvedev

(Newser) - The United States and Russia have reached an agreement on "all documents" necessary to sign a new nuclear arms treaty, a senior Kremlin official said today, and the White House said the two nations are "very close" to signing it. President Obama spent an hour today in the...

Stupak Abortion 'Compromise' a Lie

 Stupak Abortion 
 'Compromise' 
 a Lie 
Kathleen Parker
Mar 24, 2010 9:40 AM CDT

Stupak Abortion 'Compromise' a Lie

Democrats resorted to political flim-flam to pass health care bill

(Newser) - Bart Stupak tried to be a hero for social conservatives everywhere in the health care debate, but when “all the power of the moment was in his frail human hands, he dropped the baby,” writes Kathleen Parker of the Washington Post . The deal Stupak struck with Barack Obama...

With Health Bill, Obama Ends the 'Age of Reagan'
With Health Bill, Obama Ends the 'Age of Reagan'
Analysis
Mar 24, 2010 6:56 AM CDT

With Health Bill, Obama Ends the 'Age of Reagan'

Marks biggest assault on wealth inequality since the '80s

(Newser) - The health care reform bill was the government’s biggest attack on economic inequality in more than 30 years, a period of time that’s seen government policy and market forces consistently push the opposite direction. That’s why Barack Obama fought so hard for it, writes David Leonhardt for...

US-Israel Clash Marks Limits of American Clout

But shifting sands unnerve Israel supporters

(Newser) - The clash between the US and Israel over East Jerusalem settlements is underscoring the shifting sands of the nations' relationship and highlighting the limits of America's clout with Israel. It's also raising concerns among Israel's supporters because US leaders appear to be linking Israeli positions to imperiling American lives. Gen....

Public Flip-Flops, Now Likes Health Care Reform
Public Flip-Flops, Now Likes Health Care Reform
That Was Fast
Mar 23, 2010 2:23 PM CDT

Public Flip-Flops, Now Likes Health Care Reform

Poll shows 49% in favor of new law, to 40% opposed

(Newser) - The ink is barely dry on the new health care reform law, but the public has already come around on it, says a new USA Today/Gallup poll . Among those surveyed, 48% called the law “a good first step,” saying more should be done to reform the system. Roughly...

24% of GOPers Believe Obama's the Antichrist

(Newser) - A recent Harris poll reveals some pretty alarming attitudes regarding our 44th president, especially among GOPers. For starters, 67% of Republicans who responded believe that Obama is a socialist, despite his markedly centrist leanings. Second, over half of Republicans polled (57%) believe that the president is a closet Muslim, a...

Al Sharpton Admits Obama Is a Socialist!*
Al Sharpton Admits Obama
Is a Socialist!*
OPINION
Mar 23, 2010 11:05 AM CDT

Al Sharpton Admits Obama Is a Socialist!*

*According to right-wing pundits and an out-of-context sound bite

(Newser) - The conservative media is doing backflips over a video they’re touting as the long-sought smoking-gun proof that Barack Obama is a socialist. In an interview with Geraldo Rivera Sunday on Fox News, Al Sharpton uttered—get this!—that “the American public overwhelmingly voted for socialism when they...

Like Health Reform? Thank John Edwards

Remember, that was his deal in '08 campaign

(Newser) - If there’s one person to thank for the health-reform measure that passed the House yesterday, it’s John Edwards … really. It was Edwards, Chris Good points out, who was on stump talking about health care in 2007, even when it wasn’t a huge issue for voters, and...

How Obama Did It —and What We Now Know About Him

You can forget all those comparisons to Jimmy Carter

(Newser) - Barack Obama earned a historic victory when the House passed health care reform last night. How did he do it and what does it mean? Here’s what people are saying:
  • “Obama didn't just work harder to clear this hurdle. He worked deeper,” writes John Dickerson of Slate
...

Obama Gets Another Twitter Death Threat

Man says he's 'dead serious,' has been reported to FBI

(Newser) - Meet Jay Martin, the latest level-headed individual to tweet to the world that he’d like to see Barack Obama shot. “f--- YOU You should be Assassinated!! @BarackObama,” he tweeted last night after the health care vote, with a subsequent tweet adding, “If I lived in DC...

Blogger Urges 'Bullet for Obama' on Twitter

Secret Service investigating

(Newser) - Secret Service authorities are investigating tweets by a conservative blogger apparently urging "a bullet" to President Obama's "head." Solomon Forell, upset by the impending passage of the health reform bill, noted yesterday that because the nation survived the killings of Lincoln and Kennedy, "we'll surely get...

Yes, We Did It

 Yes, We Did It 
EJ DIONNE
Mar 22, 2010 2:57 AM CDT

Yes, We Did It

Dionne hails historic moment that launches US on 'new path'

(Newser) - At long last, the US will no longer be the "outlier among wealthy nations in leaving so many without basic health coverage," crows EJ Dionne. The passage of the health care bill is "incontestable evidence that Washington has changed" and that Democrats "can govern, even under...

Agreement in Abortion Debate: Stupak Deal Stinks

Executive order inflames one side; 'yea' votes enrage the other

(Newser) - Activists on both sides of the abortion issue slammed a deal crucial to the passage of health care reform in the House. President Obama agreed to trade a reaffirmation of the ban on federal funding for abortion for the support of key House Democrats, led by Bart Stupak of Michigan....

Tomorrow, Obama Validates Presidency
 Tomorrow, 
 Obama 
 Validates 
 Presidency 
GAIL COLLINS
Mar 20, 2010 10:09 AM CDT

Tomorrow, Obama Validates Presidency

Through it all, president stubbornly pushed for change

(Newser) - When the right and left can't even agree on which St. Joseph had his feast day yesterday, "the moral is that nothing about health care reform is easy," writes Gail Collins in the New York Times . "Nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing." Yet against all odds, we...

Israelis Still Love Obama: Poll

Most still see him as fair, friendly despite diplomatic row

(Newser) - The recent diplomatic kerfluffle over East Jerusalem hasn’t hurt President Obama at all with Israelis; in a new Haaretz-Dialog poll , a “sweeping majority” say they still believe he is “fair and friendly” to Israel. Most don’t believe politicians who try to paint Obama as anti-Semitic, anti-Israel,...

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