“I do get discouraged, I mean, there are times where I thought the economy would [have] gotten better by now.”
— PRESIDENT OBAMA, addressing the slow economic recovery on CBS’s 60 Minutes on Sunday (via Slate)
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Demoted: Obama No Longer the World’s Most Powerful
Talk about kicking a man when he’s down.
Quotes: Sylvester Stallone on Barack Obama
“I voted, did you? Gotta get the Manchurian Candidate out of the driver’s seat before we’re all soaring off a cliff into oblivion. Be smart. […] The Manchurian Candidate was a movie about a fake president who was put there by
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2010 Election Soundbites: Yes, They Really Said It
Anything’s possible when lodged in the heat of a victorious moment. Even Dracula made it in to the 2010 political yearbook.
What Will Obama Say Tomorrow?
With the Democrats looking like they will suffer major losses in today’s midterm elections, tomorrow is the first day of Obama’s Act II. How will he handle it?
Quotes: Young Voters Feeling Ambivalent
“It’s not the fad anymore. It’s not the fad to be politically knowledgeable and active.”
— JESSICA KIRSNER, University of Miami junior and vice president of the school’s College Democrats; many former Obama volunteers …
Quotes: Esquire Thinks David Brooks Is Forgiving Of Racism
“Culturally, [Obama] will have to demonstrate that even though he comes from an unusual background, he is a fervent believer in the old-fashioned bourgeois virtues: order, self-discipline, punctuality and personal
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President Obama Posts ‘It Gets Better’ Video for Gay Youth
“You are not alone. You didn’t do anything wrong. You didn’t do anything to deserve being bullied. And there is a whole world waiting for you, filled with possibilities.”
— PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA, in a YouTube message directed …
Quotes: Indian-American Scholar on Barack Obama’s Plans to Visit Pakistan
“This is going to do some damage to the relationship. Now you will hear the expression in New Delhi ‘re-hyphenation.'”
— SUMIT GANGULY, Indian-American scholar, on U.S. President Barack Obama’s intention to visit Pakistan, …
Quotes: David Axelrod on Obama Administration’s ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ Stance
“This president has made a commitment, and it’s not a question of whether that program, whether that policy will change, but when. We’re at the end of a process with the Pentagon to make that transition, and we’re going to see it
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Quotes: U.S. President Barack Obama on the Country’s Electorate
“People out there are still hurting very badly, and they are still scared. And so part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now, and facts and science and argument does not seem to be winning the day all the time,
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Surprise: President Obama Related to Sarah Palin and Rush Limbaugh
They say you should keep your friends close and your enemies closer. Luckily for President Obama, two of his biggest detractors are actually members of his family.