"Sure, supporting the loser stinks, but if everyone around you supported the loser, it isn't as bad because you feel connected to those around you. In other words, it is more comforting to be a Democrat in Massachusetts or Rhode Island when George W. Bush was re-elected than to be the lonely Democrat in Idaho or Oklahoma."
my take: (almost) licked inflation, caused a recession, failed on energy policy, took human rights seriously, botched hostage rescue effort, all around likable fellow, rational christian. was his presidency a success or failure?
(click to watch video) We have everyone from Will Ferrell’s W. and Darrell Hammond’s Clinton to Dana Carvey’s H.W. Bush and Chevy Chase’s Gerald Ford coming together to instruct Obama how to man up and fix the country’s finance industry … or “Grow a pair for the Gipper,” as Jim Carrey’s Reagan instructs.
On Wednesday, U.S. President Barack Obama will deliver his State of the Union speech, which will be broadcast live on YouTube’s CitizenTube channel as well as on The White House’s brand new iPhone app.
WASHINGTON -- If Cook County had had its druthers, President Barack Obama would have shown up Monday for jury duty.
But court officials were told several weeks ago the prospect was a no-go, a White House official said today. The summons showed up at the president's home in Chicago's Kenwood neighborhood.
The Republican riff on President Obama's first year is that he hasn't accomplished anything, that he's all hat and no cattle, to borrow a phrase from the Bush years. At the same time, conservatives yowl that all the socialistic programs and policies he's put in place are destroying the country. Which is it?
Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele today called for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to resign his leadership position after it was revealed he had made racially insensitive remarks about then-candidate Barack Obama, saying that an apology was not enough.
Supporters and critics alike say the former GOP vice presidential candidate's resignation, announced Friday afternoon and effective July 26, is an inexplicable move for a high profile Republican widely seen as a contender for a White House run in 2012. A half-term governor campaigning for president?
Mrs Alford, who is breaking her silence after more than 45 years, maintained the secret about her relationship with the womanising president until a new Kennedy biography was published in 2003.That book revealed that he began an affair in June 1962 with Mimi Beardsley. The 19-year-old student working in the White House press office was described as a "tall, slender, beautiful" by Kennedy's biographer, Robert Dallek.
Here's some play-by-play from tonight's presidential news conference in the East Room.
8:53 p.m. - The Wall Street Journal asks about the government's new role as "shareholder" in big business. Obama said his first goal as shareholder is to "get out." Says, "I don't want to run auto companies. I don't want to run banks." He already has "too much to do," including two wars. Obama said he wants to help these companies make "tough decisions," and then get out when the economy gets better. Denies he wants to "grow government," and wants "a nice, lean portfolio."
(Feb. 17) - The relationship between former Vice President Dick Cheney and former President Bush has apparently soured. Why? Cheney is reportedly "furious" that Bush declined to pardon Scooter Libby, the vice president's one-time chief of staff, who was convicted of perjury and obstruction of justice in the investigation into the leak of a CIA operative's name.