Tag: Barack Obama

Asked whether President Obama would have delivered a different address if Donald Trump weren't the leading candidate, White House spokesman Josh Earnest said the president has consistently tried to strike optimistic themes throughout his two presidential campaigns and time in office. (AP Photos)

White House: Obama speech not a response to Trump

Susan Crabtree · January 13, 2016 9:34 pm

Obama spent a "significant portion" of the call with Putin talking about Ukraine. (Alexei Nikolsky/Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Obama urges Putin to back off in Ukraine

Susan Crabtree · January 13, 2016 9:14 pm

"The threat is growing so quickly both in sophistication and in magnitude that it's hard to keep up with. But we're not catching up right here," said House Armed Services Chairman Mac Thornberry, R-Texas. (AP Photo)Â

Thornberry: Clinton would be stronger on national security than Obama

Jacqueline Klimas · January 13, 2016 8:29 pm

For the third year in a row, the Obama administration is hosting a "Big Block of Cheese" day. (iStock Photo)

White House hosts third ‘big block of cheese’ day

Nicole Duran · January 13, 2016 8:08 pm

But Louie Gohmert said Joe Biden has been in charge of other things under Obama, and had little success in getting things done. (AP Photo)

Lawmaker: Putting Biden in charge means getting nothing done

Pete Kasperowicz · January 13, 2016 6:49 pm

"People are right to be -- and understandably -- uneasy," said White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough. (AP file photo/Charles Dharapak)

White House still blaming 2008 recession for economic woes

Sean Higgins · January 13, 2016 4:31 pm

"Sad to see Obama citing U.S. approach to Syria as a 'smarter approach,'" Kristof said on Twitter. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP file)

Liberal NYT writer: Obama ‘glided over foreign policy weaknesses’

Eddie Scarry · January 13, 2016 3:40 pm

In 2008, Hillary Clinton said then-Sen. Barack Obama's attack against her healthcare plan was a "deep disappointment," and said it only helps the GOP when Democrats hit each other over healthcare. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Flashback: Clinton said Dems shouldn’t attack Dems on healthcare

Pete Kasperowicz · January 13, 2016 1:36 pm

"It's one of the few regrets of my presidency, that the rancor and suspicion between the parties has gotten worse instead of better," President Obama said. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, Pool)

Partisan Obama was never the man to unite America

W. James Antle III · January 13, 2016 11:47 am

National Security

A dispiriting final speech from an out of touch president

Washington Examiner · January 13, 2016 6:25 am

CBS reporter: Obama speech ‘one, long, sustained’ attack on GOP

Becket Adams · January 13, 2016 5:08 am

Haley delivers in State of the Union rebuttal

David M. Drucker · January 13, 2016 4:58 am