Obama Washington

Obama Unveils New Proposal

AP | KEN THOMAS | Posted 04.18.2012

EVERETT, Wash. — President Barack Obama on Friday called for more steps to help U.S. companies compete overseas, standing in front of an enormou...

Obama Memos Reveal Key Difficulties

The New Yorker | Ryan Lizza | Posted 01.23.2012

On a frigid January evening in 2009, a week before his Inauguration, Barack Obama had dinner at the home of George Will, the Washington Post columnist...

Obama Asked To Admit To Mistakes

The Huffington Post | Luke Johnson | Posted 12.22.2011

President Barack Obama reflected on his first term in an interview with ABC News' Barbara Walters to be aired Friday. Walters asked whether he coul...

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Obama Campaign Unveils Star-Studded 'Obama Classic Basketball Game'

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 11.19.2011

WASHINGTON -- When you're a president running for reelection, it apparently helps to be a hoops junky, especially when the National Basketball Associa...

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Obama Deficit Commission Pushes Back Against 'Washington Assassins Of Change'

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

Even before its first official meeting, the bipartisan National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform (a.k.a. the White House Deficit Commiss...

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McCain: Obama Has Come Up Short On Post-Partisanship (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

Barack Obama's rival in the 2008 election gave him good marks for the job he has done in the White House so far. But Sen. John McCain suggested Sunday...

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Obama To GOP: You Have To Start Meeting Me Halfway

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

One hundred days into office, Barack Obama's list of accomplishments is certainly immense. From the budget, passed by the Senate on Wednesday night, t...

President Obama Returns To Washington (VIDEO)

AP | JENNIFER LOVEN | Posted 05.25.2011

WASHINGTON — "There is still a lot of work to do here," President Barack Obama declared in Baghdad. He could have been talking about every stop...

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Bush Blames Others For Washington's Still-Partisan Tone

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

George W. Bush ended his final news conference on a note of lament. Slightly more than a week before he cedes the Oval Office to Barack Obama, the 43...

Obama Comes Back To Washington

washingtonpost.com | William Wan and Nikita Stewart | Posted 05.25.2011

With a brief glance out his car window -- barely visible through cordons of Secret Service officers, black SUVs and security barricades -- the soon-to...

Obama Washington Arrival Sunday; Family Landed Saturday Night

AP | PHILIP ELLIOTT and DINA CAPPIELLO | Posted 05.25.2011

WASHINGTON — Michelle Obama and her two daughters arrived Saturday in Washington, ahead of President-elect Barack Obama who was expected to make...

Obamas Moving To Washington DC This Weekend

New York Times | Peter Baker | Posted 05.25.2011

Even in a town where the hotels are swamped for the inauguration, it turns out to be easy to get a room if you're the one being inaugurated. Presiden...

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Shrum And Begala On Obama's Next Bailout Move

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

With members of Congress, President Bush and John McCain each taking various amounts of blame for the failure to pass a financial bailout package, a q...

Hill Dems Annoyed, Feel Ignored By Obama

Politico | Posted 05.25.2011

After a brief bout of Obamamania, some Capitol Hill Democrats have begun to complain privately that Barack Obama's presidential campaign is insular, u...

Clinton Superdelegates In Washington Wavering

Seattle Post-Intelligencer | Gregory Roberts | Posted 05.25.2011

With the anxiety level among Democrats ratcheting up daily at the prospect of a bloody presidential nomination struggle, some Washington state superde...

Pro-Obama Governors Challenge Hillary "Big State" Spin

Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

The Obama camp has rounded up four governors of big states to argue against Hillary's claim that she wins big states while Obama wins caucuses: FR: I...