Obama Defense Spending

Don't Kid Yourself -- The F-22 Lives

Chris Kelly | Posted 05.07.2009 | Politics


Chris Kelly

The defense budget is being cut in the sense that it's going up. The F-22 has been killed in sense that we've appropriated all the money we need to keep building them until we have to think about it again. The good news is that we're calling bad news good news.

Jason Linkins

First Shot Fired In Defense Budget Battle

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 04.04.2009 | Politics


No one in politics ever looks bad vowing to "take on the lobbyists," and in his latest YouTube missive, President Barack Obama got downright bellicose...

Obama Calls For Defense Spending Cuts

Fox News | Posted 03.04.2009 | Politics


The Obama administration has asked the military's Joint Chiefs of Staff to cut the Pentagon's budget request for the fiscal year 2010 by more than 10 ...

Defense Budget '09: Still Fighting the Soviets, or Preventing Genocide?

Lorelei Kelly | Posted 02.05.2009 | Politics


Lorelei Kelly

We have to do something about our current situation. We're spending more and more on defense and purchasing less and less security for it.

A Progressive Case for Gates

Max Bergmann | Posted 01.01.2009 | Politics


Max Bergmann

In keeping Gates, Obama is actually indicating that he is very serious about instituting significant reform of the Pentagon.

Sam Stein

McCain Robocall: Obama Wants To Downsize The Military

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 12.03.2008 | Politics


The newest McCain campaign robocall, hitting households in Ohio, is accusing Barack Obama of wanting to cut military spending and, in the process, ris...