During the 2008 Democratic primaries, then-Sen. Barack Obama caused a stir when he said, “Ronald Reagan changed the trajectory of America in a way that, you know, Richard Nixon did not, and in a way that Bill Clinton did not.” Pundits speculated whether the optimistic, charismatic Obama could move the nation’s politics to the left in a way comparable to how President Reagan had moved the country to the right.
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The South of Market district became a commute nightmare Thursday due to President Barack Obama’s visit.Street closures around the St. Regis Hotel at 125 Third St. turned surrounding roadways into parking lots. Several Muni lines had to be rerouted.The president was set to deliver remarks at a Democratic National Committee event at the St. Regis Hotel. His motorcade was set to head out of The City around 10:30 a.m., police said.
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‘There is no magic formula to driving gas prices down,” President Barack Obama told a Pennsylvania crowd earlier this month. Although he was correct that there is no magical combination of words involved, there is a formula. It involves either persuading Obama to reverse his opposition to significant expansion of domestic energy production, or replacing him in November 2012 with a president who will promote such expansion.
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Anybody who thought President Barack Obama would step up and provide genuine leadership on the issue large majorities of Americans worry most about — the federal government’s out-of-control spending, including its $14.3 trillion national debt — must have been bitterly disappointed by his address at George Washington University.
There were a multitude of flaws in this speech, but let’s focus on two.
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Opening a hearing on Capitol Hill on labor union financial transparency, House Education and Workforce subcommittee Chairman Phil Roe (R-Tenn.) declared:
“Congress has a long-standing responsibility to shine a bright light on how the dues of union workers are being spent. In 2009, unions reported collecting more than $8 billion in workers’ dues. This figure alone highlights the importance of union transparency.”
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Depending on how you ask the question, public support for the U.S. role in the bombing campaign in Libya is either unusually tepid or extremely robust. Gallup pegs it at just 47 percent — well below the levels the pollster measured in the opening weeks of the 2003 Iraq (72 percent) and 2001 Afghanistan (82 percent) wars.
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When President Barack Obama signed the $938 billion health care reform bill into law a year ago today, it capped a long march by advocates that began in this country years before Medicare was approved in 1965.
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Among Muhammad Ali’s many formidable weapons in the ring was his famous “rope-a-dope” in which he went into a defensive crouch and allowed his opponent to throw punch after punch, round after round. Sooner or later, the opponent would tire or make a mistake, and Ali would pounce — often landing a knockout punch.
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A San Bruno man accused of threatening to kill public officials and attorneys in dozens of raging phone messages was deemed not competent to stand trial Monday.
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The mental evaluation of a San Bruno man who allegedly threatened to kill public officials and attorneys on the Peninsula is complete, with the results set to be revealed Monday.John Costa’s attorney postponed criminal proceedings against the “paranoid” 64-year-old after questioning his competency to stand trial, according to San Mateo County District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe.
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