How Is This Possible?
balloon-juice.com 3/8/2009 — I don’t understand : Factory jobs disappeared. Inflation soared. Unemployment climbed to alarming levels. The hungry lined up at soup kitchens. It wasn’t the Great Depression. It was the 1981-82 recession, widely considered ...

President Obama: 'Pick ourselves up'
swamppolitics.com 1/20/2009 — By Mark Silva President Barack Obama, calling on Americans to embrace "a new era of responsibility,'' delivered an inaugural address sober in its recognition of crises that Americans confront at home and abroad yet soaring in its assignment.  ...

Go Obama!
alarmingnews.com 4/21/2009 — I think Barack Obama is in way over his head. Way. He seems to still have "wow, I'm actually president!" moments just a little too often. He doesn't understand the big deal about shaking hands with our enemies or essentially...

Candidate Obama vs. President Obama
dcexaminer.com 3/19/2009 — Byron York Chief Political Correspondent 3/19/09 AP In September 2008, during the first debate between John McCain and Barack Obama, McCain said his Democratic opponent had the most liberal voting record in the United States Senate it s hard to ...

Weekend Opinionator: Barack Obama, Culture Warrior?
opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com 2/1/2009 — Whether or not the election of Barack Obama will end the culture wars, it might at least raise the tone of the conflict.

On the Lack of Left-Wing Pressure On Obama
openleft.com 2/16/2009 — Back on Friday, John Judis and Glenn Greenwald both published articles decrying the lack of concerted, effective, institutional left-wing pressure on President Obama. The specific context of their complaints was the smaller than needed size of the ...

The Speech
corner.nationalreview.com 1/22/2009 — It's hard to say anything about it that hasn't already been remarked upon in here or elsewhere. Like others, I was struck by how pedestrian the prose was, but on re-reading it, I like the plainspokenness of it. The weakest moments were when it, ...

Back then we thought it was cool
americanthinker.com 3/9/2009 — Why Obama is like cigarettes.

Barack Obama Gifts
niyae.com 12/1/2008 — Home Barack Obama Gifts Checkout Barack Obama Barack Obama Details Barack Obama Gift Item: Art Print Size : 19x13 Artist: H Abavista Price: $15.00 Barack Obama (Vibe Magazine Cover) Barack Obama (Vibe Magazine Cover) Details Size: 8 x 10- Mousepad ...

Obama's morning in America
theweek.com 3/3/2009 —

Obama to name Locke as Commerce Department chief — CNN Political Ticker 2/25/2009
WASHINGTON (CNN) — President Barack Obama will announce Wednesday morning that former Washington Gov. Gary Locke is his nominee for commerce secretary, two senior administration officials told CNN. Locke, 57, was the country's first ...

Obama Seeks to Snap Gloom — WSJ.com: Politics And Policy 2/25/2009
Obama, in his first formal address to Congress, straddled the divide between fear and hope, declaring the "day of reckoning has arrived" for an indulgent nation but vowing to lead a recovery from the deepest recession since World War II.

Biden warns states to use stimulus as intended — msnbc.com: Politics 2/25/2009
The vice president says if states don't use the money correctly, the Obama administration may take it back or mount a public campaign to embarrass them.

iReporters praise Obama's speech — CNN.com - Politics 2/25/2009

Poll: Obama's speech scored with viewers — CNN Political Ticker 2/25/2009
Two-thirds of those who watched the President's speech reacted favorably, according to a CNN/Opinion Research Corp. poll conducted after the speech Tuesday night. WASHINGTON (CNN) – A new national poll indicates that two-thirds of those ...