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USA News, Aug 25, 2011


Obama's vacation: A golfing trifecta
USA Today
Obama is scheduled to remain on the island until Saturday, then return toWashington for Sunday's dedication of the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial on the National MallWhite House deputy spokesman Josh Earnest gets peppered with questions regularly ...
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Contours of Obama jobs package coming into focus
Reuters
Obama may struggle to convince voters the new measures can help hiring. Though the White House contends the auto bailout and other steps saved jobs that would have otherwise been lost, many Americans are losing faith in Obama's economic abilities. ...
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Obama's 2009 stimulus is still boosting jobs
USA Today
Before entering the White House, Obama's economic advisers predicted a package they wanted to be even larger would hold unemployment below 8%, and it hasn't come close. Thirty months after the law was passed, it remains at 9.1%. ...
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Obama on Libya: 'Difficult days ahead'
USA Today
By Richard Wolf, USA TODAY President Obama has faith in the rebels on the verge of overthrowing Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi's government, but he knows tough times lie ahead for the North African nation. "There are difficult days ahead. ...
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Obama's Red-Tape Relief Doesn't Cut It With Florida Chamber
Sunshine State News
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., agreed, telling USA Today, "The results are underwhelming." Sunstein asserted that the cost burden of new regulations under theObama administration was lower than in the last two years under George W. Bush, ...
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Other views: 'Dr. King would rejoice'
USA Today
Some holdouts remain bigots, but not enough to keep Barack Obama out of the White House, and overall, racism is considered as socially embarrassing as pedophilia. King could never have predicted that this would happen so quickly. ...
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Civil Rights Leader Martin Luther King Honored with Memorial
Voice of America
August 25, 2011 Civil Rights Leader Martin Luther King Honored with Memorial Chris Simkins |Washington, DC US President Barack Obama leads the nation this Sunday in honoring civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. - with the dedication of a new ...
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Race relations: better or worse since Obama?
KETK
Tyler — New Gallup/USA Today poll has some interesting numbers when it comes to the question of race in this country and if race relations since President Obama took office have improved or no. The study shows: larger percentages of blacks and ...
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White House Business Council meets with Vt. business leaders
BurlingtonFreePress.com
"We are excited to have had the White House Business Council in Vermont," Vermont Chamber of Commerce President Betsy Bishop said in the news release. "This was a unique opportunity for some of Vermont's business leaders to share their ideas with Obama ...
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Can The U.S. Super Committee Solve The Debt Crisis?
San Francisco Chronicle
Also served on Obama's debt commission. Sen. Rob Portman of Ohio (Republican): Former White House budget director in the Bush administration, and a member of Budget Committee. Rep. Xavier Becerra of California (Democrat): A senior member of the House ...
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August Is The Cruelest Month: Perry Usurps Romney's Front-Runner Status (The Note)
ABC News (blog)
Rick Perry and Rep. Michele Bachmann (Minn.) -- has one or more super PACs dedicated solely to assisting his or her White House bid. A Democratic super PAC, Priorities USA Action, is raising money to help President Obama in his reelection effort. ...
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Michelle Obama Told to Pay Back $10 Million Holiday Money
Daily Squib (satire)
a White House aide told the ABC news network. "We did it!" Michelle Obama and her husband make a great team The First Lady usually travels with 70 friends as well as personal hairdressers, masseuse, fashion consultants, jeweller, teams of dieticians ...
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USA Could Be Just 3 States Away from ERA
Women's eNews
(WOMENSENEWS)--Nearly a century ago, women campaigning for the vote stood in the freezing snow, the blazing sun and the pelting rain outside the White House silently holding banners asking, "Mr. President, How Long Must Women Wait for Liberty? ...
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CEOs, Hollywood, and Corporations, Oh My! Meet the Super PAC Bankrollers
Mother Jones
Liberal super PACs raked in $7.6 million, with Priorities USA Action, a pro-Obamagroup started by two former Obama White House aides, raising $3.2 million. Other super PAC heavyweights include American Crossroads, the Karl Rove-inspired group that ...
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Ed Henry's Media Diet
The Atlantic Wire
This is drawn from a conversation with Ed Henry, who recently left CNN to become the chief White House correspondent at Fox News. I find it's not just figuring out what sources to use to get information but which devices to use. ...
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Campaign Coverage in the Time of Twitter
American Journalism Review
Bill Burton, until last year a deputy press secretary in the Obama White House, runs Priorities USAand Priorities USA Action. The former is a nonprofit that fights on behalf of the middle class. The latter is a superPAC – a political action committee ...
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Poll: Race relations no better under Obama; new WH painting may explain why
Examiner.com
The bloom is off the rose when it comes to the perception of improved race relations under BarackObama, according to a new poll released Wednesday. The poll, jointly conducted by USA Today/Gallup organization, found that only 35% of Americans say they ...
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Photographing Gadhafi up close
CNN (blog)
I was just a few feet away from the podium where Obama was actually speaking. And I was surrounded back stage with all Obama's security guys, the White House Secret Service sniffer dogs, the medic teams. Hillary was there. Rahm Emanuel, Axelrod. ...
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2001-2011: A decade of civil liberties' erosion in America -- Part One
OpEdNews
According to July 2011 ACLU report "Establishing the New Normal," the current White House has not just failed to meaningfully follow through on its promises, but has also taken abusive policies, and, as shown in the case of targeted and interminable ...
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Did the stimulus work? What the studies tell us
Yahoo! News Blogs (blog)
That debate which tends to assume that because the White House already tried stimulus and the economy is still hurting, it's now "out of bullets," and can only propose more targeted job creation ideas. Not that what experts say tends to cut to much ...
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George W. Bush speaks about day of terrorist attacks
The Hill (blog)
“[Former White House Chief of Staff] Andy Card's Massachusetts accent was whispering in my ear, 'A second plane has hit the second tower. America is under attack.'” President Bush said he made the decision at that point to “project a sense of calm” ...
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Speak Out 8/25/11
Southeast Missourian
WHAT will it take? A Rasmussen Poll, USA Today and Standard & Poor's all agree, our political machinery is dysfunctional. President Obama said the same thing during his bus tour. If you agree that our political machinery is dysfunctional, why would you ...
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Four decades of the rising obesity epidemic
Exchange Morning Post (press release)
These include the UK's cross government strategy for obesity, marketing restrictions, and improving school food; and also the US White House Task Force on Childhood Obesity, championed by US First Lady Michelle Obama. But the authors add that, ...
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The Obama administration love affair with GMOs is selling America down the ...
Axis of Logic
“It is frankly depressing that the top White House official for ecosystem recovery is hustling genetically altered soybeans on slivers of land set aside for wildlife,” said PEER Staff Counsel Kathryn Douglass concerning the GMO wildlife proposals in a ...
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Forbes Lists World's 100 Most Powerful Women
Newser
If you had the President of Brazil and Secretary of State Clinton in a meeting, Brazil would have more of a say, cause Clinton would have to pass her decisions/comments through the White House first. By Comments (NEWSER) - As if Barack Obama wasn't ...
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US asks UN to unfreeze $1.5 billion Libyan assets
Reuters UK
White House spokesman Josh Earnest said earlier that the Obama administration wanted to free up funds to provide humanitarian assistance and support to the Transitional National Council (TNC), the rebel government, which controls of most of Libya now ...
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Great news: Obama hit the golfing trifecta on vacation « Hot Air
By Ed Morrissey
Earlier this morning, USA Today's Richard Wolf reported with more than a little snark that BarackObama achieved an important milestone at Martha's Vineyard while the world turned, the Atlantic churned, and Tripoli burned: ... White House deputy press secretary Josh Earnest gets peppered with questions regularly about whether Obama will cut short his trip, or interrupt it — say, to meet with his national security or economic team as he continues to monitor events in Libya ...
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NewsDaily: Contours of Obama jobs package coming into focus
By Laura MacInnis
The package, to be unveiled in early September, is Obama's chance to convince skeptical voters he can bring down the 9.1 percent unemployment rate and steer the United States away from another recession -- ahead of next year's election. ... Republicans, who control the House of Representatives, are broadly opposed to any big new spending and have argued Obama's previous stimulus spending stretched budget deficits and added to the national debt without making a dent in ...
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