Obama Oval Office Speech

This Iraq Veteran says "Thank You, Mr. President"

Rob Diamond | Posted 05.25.2011

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President Obama has ended the war in Iraq in a way that has protected the honor and dignity of each and every American who did not come back.

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On the Iraq Speech Tonight

Jon Soltz | Posted 05.25.2011

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The war in Iraq is not over. The president must make that clear tonight. Though planned combat operations are done, every single one of the 50,000 remaining troops is a combat troop.

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Obama Iraq Speech To Signal Shift To Afghan Focus

AP | MARK S. SMITH | Posted 05.25.2011

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VINEYARD HAVEN, Mass. (AP) -- With his Oval Office speech Tuesday night, President Barack Obama will signal a shift in America's focus from the Iraq W...

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TUNED OUT: Fewer Americans Watch Obama's Oil Spill Speech

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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NEW YORK — President Barack Obama's audience of 32.1 million people for his address on the Gulf oil spill is fewer than for some of his other bi...

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Obama's Oil Speech Postmortem

Jerry Weissman | Posted 05.25.2011

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Thumbs Down, Thumbs Up In last week's post on Obama's Oval Office speech on the oil spill you read how Mike Allen, the Washington columnist the New Y...

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Obama, the Oval Office, and Lots of Oil

Anushay Hossain | Posted 05.25.2011

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Someone should make sure the President and his advisers are listening to Rachel Maddow, and taking note. Because frankly Mr. President, the time has come to go beyond "kicking some ass".

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Lots of folks are dissecting Obama's Oval Office speech and delivering diatribes on what's right and wrong with him and the oil world. So I figured I might as well join the fracas since it's the thing to do.

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Obama Oil Spill Speech Criticized By CNN's Language Analyst For Not Being Moronic Enough [UPDATE]

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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CNN has talked to a "language analyst" who reported that Obama was too "professorial." To "connect" with Americans, Obama should have said: "OIL GO BOOM! ME NEED HELP FROM BIG BRAINS. I CALL THE CHU-MAN ON THE RINGY PHONE."

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Rallying the Superstitious for the New Angel Plan!

Frank Dwyer | Posted 05.25.2011

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You believe in the efficacy of prayer? Then pray, baby, pray! (Just not to the Jesus of Cincinnati.)...

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The Audacity of Impotence

Shan Wells | Posted 05.25.2011

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No Oscar for This Oval

Craig Crawford | Posted 05.25.2011

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Obama seems to view the presidency as all about big ideas that should not be cluttered by management issues like cleaning up an oil spill -- until political pressure forces him into the weeds.

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Obama and the Oil Spill Speech

Jerry Weissman | Posted 05.25.2011

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William Shakespeare wrote, "To take arms against a sea of troubles and, by opposing, end them." Will Obama's calls to action end the troubles in the Gulf?

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Obama's Missed Opportunity to Tell it Like it Is

Robert Reich | Posted 05.25.2011

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The man who electrified the nation with his speech at the Democratic National Convention of 2004 put it to sleep Tuesday night. President Obama's address to the nation from the Oval Office was, to be frank, vapid.

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After Blasting BP In Oval Office Address, Obama Must Negotiate With Leaders At White House

Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Fresh from admonishing BP before the world, President Barack Obama now gets his moment with the oil company's leaders. It will be ...

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What Obama Should Have Said: Two Truths And Three Actions

Richard Greener | Posted 05.25.2011

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If President Obama can send our children and our treasure to war for Iraq and Afghanistan certainly we can expect him to fight for us right here on our own beachhead.

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Obama's Oil Spill Speech: What Was The Point?

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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I am really not entirely sure what the point to this Oval Office address was! Were you looking for something that resembled a fully-realized action plan, describing a detailed approach to containment and clean up? Or perhaps a definitive statement, severing the command and control that BP has largely enjoyed, in favor of a structured, centralized federal response? Maybe you were looking for a roadmap-slash-timetable for putting America on a path to a clean energy future? Well, this speech was none of those things. Here's what we learned, instead: there was a huge oil spill, did you hear?

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Obama's "Fireside Chat" (FDR or Jimmy Carter?)

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 05.25.2011

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Obama's talk tonight was dominated by a technocratic laundry list of actions he plans to take. We've heard it all before. Obama should have made it clear tonight that the coddling of BP is over.

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Obama Plans Oval Office Address To The Nation On Gulf Oil Spill

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama plans an Oval Office speech Tuesday night about the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. White House adviser David Axe...

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