"president-obama" Articles & Blogs:
President Obama Addresses the Economy
| It’s been a busy week for Barack Obama. Tuesday, the president unveiled his new strategy for the war in Afghanistan. Today, in the wake of his announcement of 30,000 additional American troops headed overseas, he addressed another daunting issue of his ...[Read on] |
Happy Birthday Mr. President: Obama Turns 49 Today
| Watch CBS News Videos Online
Wednesday, August 4 is the 49th birthday of America’s 44th president, Barack Hussein Obama II. “I think his plans for tomorrow are dinner with some friends in Chicago. And I think he is looking forward to spending the nigh...[Read on] |
Dee Dee Myers: President Obama Cannot Afford to Get His Deficit Plan Wrong
| Obama in September 2010. Photograph by Joshua Roberts/Bloomberg via Getty Images.This afternoon, President Obama will lay out his plan for deficit reduction and entitlement reform. Finally. Substantively, the plan will likely borrow a number of important ...[Read on] |
Christina Romer to Resign: Top Obama Economics Aide Out
| Christina Romer will abdicate her responsibilities as the president of the Council of Economic Advisers in favor of a return to her professorship at Berkeley. (In 2008, Romer was actually tapped for a position at Harvard, but her invitation was inexplicab...[Read on] |
President Obama becomes first sitting president to attend WNBA game
| U.S. President Barack Obama, his daughter Sasha, and Shelia Johnson, owner
of the Washington Mystics, attend a Women’s National Basketball Association
(WNBA) game between the Washington Mystics and the Tulsa Shock in
Washington on August 1, 2010...[Read on] |
Activists Split on White House's Women's Council
 |
While some lauded the new White House Council on Women and Girls, others had hoped President Obama would have gone furtherWomen's Council | Today 10:10 am
President Obama made headlines yesterday when he established the White House Council on Women and ...[Read on] |
President Obama on The View: So, How’d He Do?
| This afternoon, Barack Obama joined the gals of the midday news-and-gossip program The View. It was the first time a sitting president has ever appeared on a daytime television show, which is thrilling news for The View and an equally superlative honor fo...[Read on] |
Obama Administration Takes Tough Tone on GM, Chrysler
 |
President Obama insists his administration’s plans will help insure auto industry’s futureAmerican Auto Industry | Today 1:55 pm
Barack Obama refuses to sit by and let the American auto industry squander its bailouts.
As Chrysler and Gen...[Read on] |
Obama creates women's council
| President Obama signs an executive order that establishes the White House Council on Women and Girls.
Embedded video from CNN Video
...[Read on] |
2016 Olympics in Chicago? Nastia Liukin, President and Michelle Obama say “yes”
 |
Personally, I think it would be cool to have the Olympics in Chicago in 2016. Nastia Liukin thinks so (click picture below), as well as President and Michelle Obama – they’re traveling to Copenhagen today to pitch Chicago’s bid to the International ...[Read on] |
Obama welcomes UConn women’s team to White House
 |
President Barack Obama welcomed the University of Connecticut’s national champion women’s basketball team to the White House Monday, and it was a reunion for many of the players and the Prez.
The UConn women won their second straight NCAA championsh...[Read on] |
Obama to Tap Kathleen Sebelius for HHS Post; Abortion Issue Rears Head
 |
Anti-abortion groups are up in arms over reports that President Obama will name the Kansas governor to head Health and Human ServicesPost | Today 9:35 am
President Barack Obama will announce Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius as his pick for Health and Human...[Read on] |
What we missed: Obama Speech in Cairo Edition.
 |
There have been some really good posts from around the blogosphere about Obama, Cairo and women's rights. Here are a few that caught my attention.
Sarah MC takes Obama to task on not being afraid to offend religious fundamentalists and make a statement...[Read on] |
Elena Kagan Has Support From Both Left and Right as Supreme Court Nominee
 |
As Internet gurus get ready for Supreme Court fight, some wonder whether nominees’ health records may come into play
Supreme Court | 05/14/2009 11:20 am
Though President Obama has reportedly been considering at least a half dozen potential Supr...[Read on] |
Obama to give benefits for same-sex partners of federal employees
 |
Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy
Maddow discussed it on her show last night, but this is what the Associated Press had to say:
President Barack Obama plans to extend health care and other benefits to the gay and ...[Read on] |
Translating Obama's (Socialist) Speech to Schoolchildren
| President Obama’s much-anticipated speech to America’s schoolchildren has come and gone. So in the end, was it in fact an attempt to brainwash the nation’s youth into becoming communists and/or Nazis, as many conservatives suggested it w...[Read on] |
10 Facts About Diane Wood, Potential Supreme Court Justice Pick
 |
Hon. Diane P. Wood is believed to be one of the women on President
Barack Obama’s short list of Supreme Court justices. Tell us what you
know about herPost | Today 3:24 pm
President Barack Obama is beginning interviews with prospective replacement...[Read on] |
Obama Establishing White House Women's Council
 |
Women’s groups have been calling for women’s issues to get top billing in the Obama White House. Have they gotten their wish?Women's Rights | Today 11:45 am
Women will soon have a larger voice in the White House.
President Obama plans on ...[Read on] |
In the Heart of the Muslim World, Obama Delivers a Message to Women Everywhere
 |
by Debra Eichenbaum, Legal Intern, National Women's Law Center
When President Obama spoke at Cairo University last week, press outlets from around the world covered his overtures of peace and reconciliation to the Muslim world. Without doubt, it was an...[Read on] |
Unfair: Obama Chats with the Gals of The View During a Week When Saturday Night Live Isn’t On
| • According to a Pentagon official, Bradley Manning, the Lady Gaga–loving Army analyst who claimed that he leaked the “Collateral Murder” tape to Wikileaks, is the main suspect believed to have provided the whistle-blower site with...[Read on] |
Sisters Unite! Executive Order creates White House Council on Women and Girls…
 |
President Barack Obama signed an executive order today creating a White House Council for Women and Girls to focus the federal government’s efforts on advancing the interests of a group that has long done less well than men by a number of measures.
Oba...[Read on] |
Michelle Obama Wears Shorts, Media Up in Arms
| • No help from Republicans on health care reform, Mr. President. Looks like you’re going to have to do it all by yourself. [Politico] • Meet Heathrow’s writer-in-residence. Yes, because all airports need a writer-in-residence. [New York Times] •...[Read on] |
Tell the President – A Strong Woman Belongs on the Court
|
by Marcia D. Greenberger, Co-President, National Women’s Law Center
We need a good woman.
As Justice David Souter prepares to retire from the Supreme Court, it is critical that President Obama nominate a strong person who is committed to the legal ...[Read on] |
President Obama fills out women’s brackets for ESPN
 |
We all know President Barack Obama is a huge hoops fans. In fact after last year’s NCAA title, Obama invited the UConn women’s team to a championship ceremony at the White House and even ended up shooting baskets with the players. At the time, he sa...[Read on] |
|
|
