Tag: Barack Obama

"Police are having a really difficult time in communities where they know guns are everywhere." (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Obama: Legal guns drive wedge between cops and communities

Joel Gehrke · July 9, 2016 6:42 pm

Obama: ‘Very Hard to Untangle’ Dallas Shooter’s Motive

Michael Warren · July 9, 2016 5:44 pm

President emphasizes the underlying unity of Americans, despite the racially-charged violence. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Obama: This is not the 1960s

Joel Gehrke · July 9, 2016 5:42 pm

The president must take his focus off NATO to return to a country divided. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

National Security

Obama returns from Europe to a nation on edge

Susan Crabtree · July 9, 2016 3:37 pm

President Obama will cut short his trip to Europe to get back to the U.S. a day earlier than scheduled. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Obama will visit Dallas early next week

Anna Giaritelli · July 8, 2016 11:48 pm

As the reports came in about the sniper attacks on police in Dallas Thursday night, former Rep. Joe Walsh, R-Ill., called for Obama to "watch out" in a Twitter post, declaring that "this is now war." (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

White House: Walsh, other critics casting ‘aspersions’

Susan Crabtree · July 8, 2016 9:17 pm

White House press secretary Josh Earnest said, "Too many innocent lives have been claimed because of the easy access people have to guns — in some cases, guns that were never intended to be on city streets." (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

National Security

White House again calls for gun control after Dallas attacks

Susan Crabtree · July 8, 2016 7:41 pm

FILE - In this April 25, 2013, file photo former President George W. Bush turns to wave as he leaves with President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama after the dedication of the George W. Bush Presidential Center in Dallas. Bush has successfully undergone a heart procedure after doctors discovered a blockage in an artery. (AP Photo/LM Otero, File)

Washington Secrets

Still Bush’s fault: W blamed for rotten economy more than Obama

Paul Bedard · July 8, 2016 6:36 pm

Law? We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Law

Alice B. Lloyd · July 8, 2016 5:45 pm

The American flag also will fly half staff at all U.S. military posts, all public buildings and grounds. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Obama orders flags flown at half-staff for Dallas victims

Susan Crabtree · July 8, 2016 5:01 pm

Too often, President Obama, Hillary Clinton, John Kerry and their foreign policy teams stood idle as terrible events unfolded, as if the United States were the least influential country in the world. (AP Photo)

Why I wrote ‘A Perilous Path’

Anne Pierce · July 8, 2016 2:38 pm

National Security

Obama blamed for fanning anti-police hate, new surge in gun sales expected

Paul Bedard · July 8, 2016 2:02 pm