Showing posts with label Barack Obama. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Barack Obama. Show all posts
Thursday, February 12, 2026

AOH v. Trump's Racist Post

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Many posts have discussed bigotry . The  Ancient Order of Hibernians condemned the racist depiction of President Barack Obama and Mrs. Mich...
Thursday, July 24, 2025

DNI Makes False Claims About Russian Interference

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  Many posts  have  analyzed  how  foreign governments  try to  influence   American politics  and policy.  Russia  and China are   prominen...
Tuesday, April 1, 2025

Injunction Junction

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Many posts have discussed the power of the courts . Miles's Law : where you stand depends on where you sit . Sophia Cai at Politico...
Sunday, March 31, 2024

Easter Messages

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At Easter, presidential statements include explicitly Christian content . Biden 2024 Jill and I send our warmest wishes to Christians around...
Wednesday, February 15, 2023

Bush-Obama Transition

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Peter Baker at NYT: The world was a volatile place when President George W. Bush was leaving office. So on the way out the door, he and his ...
Tuesday, December 29, 2020

Low Approval of US Leadership

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Julie Ray at Gallup : In 20 of the 29 countries and areas that Gallup has results for so far in 2020, approval ratings of U.S. leadership ...
Saturday, November 21, 2020

Transitions

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John Dickerson at The Atlantic : In his new memoir, Barack Obama reveals that there was a terrorist threat on his Inauguration Day. As he ad...
Thursday, August 20, 2020

Obama on the Constitution

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Obama 2020 convention speech : I'm in Philadelphia, where our Constitution was drafted and signed. It wasn't a perfect document. ...
Sunday, September 2, 2018

Obama on the Man He Defeated

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From President Obama's eulogy for Senator John McCain: We didn't advertise it, but every so often over the course of my presidenc...
Sunday, August 26, 2018

Former Rivals on McCain

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Our statement on the passing of Senator John McCain: pic.twitter.com/3GBjNYxoj5 — Barack Obama (@BarackObama) August 26, 2018 Heav...
Friday, May 11, 2018

Miles's Law: "A Bill The President Can Sign"

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House GOP leaders oppose an effort to bring immigration reform to the House floor via a discharge petition.  The issue illustrates Miles...
Thursday, February 1, 2018

State of the Union Audience

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Thank you for all of the nice compliments and reviews on the State of the Union speech. 45.6 million people watched, the highest number in...
Wednesday, June 14, 2017

Reacting to a Shooting

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On January 12, 2011, President Obama spoke at a memorial for the victims of the Tucson shooting : You see, when a tragedy like this strikes...
Saturday, April 15, 2017

Trump Transparency

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John Wagner reports at The Washington Post : The Trump administration announced Friday that it will not follow former president Barack Oba...
Monday, March 20, 2017

A Really Unpopular President

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Erin Dooley reports at ABC: President Trump 's approval rating has fallen to 37 percent -- the lowest of his fledgling presidency , ...
Friday, February 17, 2017

Ranking Presidents

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From C-SPAN: As the nation marks Presidents Day 2017, C-SPAN is releasing the results of its third Historians Survey of Presidential Lead...
Saturday, January 28, 2017

Catholic Conspiracy Theorists and the Fake Tocqueville

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The New American , the publication of the John Birch Society, reports on a group of Catholic conspiracy theorists who want Trump to investig...
Friday, January 27, 2017

Back When the White House Checked Facts

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Trump and his aides routinely lie to the public and do not bother to check their facts.  Meredith Bohen writes at Vox: As a research as...
Wednesday, January 25, 2017

Obama: A Divider, not a Uniter

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Jeffrey M. Jones reports at Gallup: Throughout his presidency, Barack Obama averaged 83% job approval among Democrats and 13% among Republ...
Saturday, January 21, 2017

Clemency

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Pew reports: Barack Obama ended his presidency having granted clemency to more people convicted of federal crimes than any chief executiv...