Around the Bigs: Even the media bigs who have been President Obama’s biggest cheerleaders find little economic cheer this morning, as a growing list of indicators point to an economy that is barely growing and in many sectors is either stagnant or even declining. That paints a bleak picture that immensely complicates Obama’s 2012 prospects.
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Republicans have just exited a meeting with President Obama and by the sound of things, the two sides remain far apart on how to move forward with a plan to shrink the nation's massive deficit in exchange for raising the Treasury's $14.3 trillion borrowing limit.
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., suggested that Obama told the the House Republican conference he wants to keep up federal spending, which didn't go over well with the GOP lawmakers in the room.
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Sen. Jim Inhofe, R-OK, has posted on his web site a video clip of John Bryson, President Obama's nominee as Secretary of Commerce, explaining why he found Waxman-Markey, the House-passed version of cap-and-trade, "moderately acceptable."
That ought to spark some interesting questions for Senate Democrats, since they refused to approve Waxman-Markey or any other cap-and-trade program proposed by Obama or anybody else.
Here's the video:
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President Obama and other U.S. allies are looking to provide $40 billion in aid for emerging democracies in the Middle East and North Africa, officials announced as the Group of Eight summit in France concluded Friday.
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President Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev touted a strong working relationship after a meeting in France Thursday, pledging to find a solution for a missile defense shield that would appease both superpowers.
One need not be a body-language expert, however, to determine the pair isn’t exactly chummy.
In other words, there was no Bush-Putin-style soul-searching or eye gazing.
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President Obama on Wednesday sought to define the American-British alliance as "indispensable" in leading a swiftly changing world even as Western nations face economic perils that threaten to undermine their standing on the global stage.
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President Obama signed the guestbook at Westminster Abbey earlier today but according to a photo of his signature, the date is May 24th, 2008.
I'm sure everyone reading this remembers a time when they have written the wrong year, while writing a date. But have you ever missed it by a few years?
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President Obama on Tuesday called Chrysler's return of $5.1 billion to the U.S. government a "significant milestone" for the "turnaround of the American auto industry."
Obama couldn't resist harping on the development amid a six-day European trip and as Democrats lambast Republicans for opposing the loans with predictions that such government intervenion would cripple the auto industry.
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You could forgive President Obama for pushing to add Ireland to the Electoral College.
He received a thunderous reception that rivaled any stop on the presidential campaign trail, as he spoke to thousands of cheering Irish at College Green in Dublin Monday.
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President Obama vowed an "unbreakable" commitment to Israel during remarks to the pro-Israeli lobby Sunday, while dismissing the controversy surrounding his push for the country to return to its pre-1967 borders.
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