The talk today will be this: The emergence of a former Guantánamo Bay detainee as the deputy leader of Al Qaeda’s Yemeni branch has underscored the potential complications in carrying out the executive order President Obama signed Thursday that the detention center be shut down within a year. The militant, Said Ali al-Shihri, is suspected […]
Day 4 of being President and the media is already crying foul: A growing media frustration with Barack Obama’s team spilled into the open at Thursday’s briefing, with reporters accusing the White House of stifling access to his oath re-do and giving Obama’s first interview as president to a multi-million dollar inauguration sponsor. Veteran CBS […]
No more secrets! On his first day in office, President Obama put former president Bush on notice. His administration just released an executive order that will make it difficult for Bush to shield his White House records–and those of former Vice President Dick Cheney–from public scrutiny by invoking the doctrine of executive privilege. Shortly after […]
It sure sounds like it: Last session’s senior senator from Minnesota Norm Coleman, still battling Al Franken to be seated in the Senate, has taken a paid job as a consultant to the Republican Jewish Coalition, which harshly attacked Obama last fall, its executive director, Matt Brooks, said. Coleman will join the group as a […]
Obama signs an executive order closing Gitmo within a year. He also signed another one saying we will interrogate pursuant to the Geneva Conventions and Army field manual
Those are the words of Bill Burton, Obama’s spokeman, upon entering the White House. Hopefully that is more change we can see coming.
That’s the big wingnut talking point right now. They are going on how Reagan’s inauguration ratings beat out Obama’s 41.8 million to 37.8 million. Of course those numbers are just television views. How about other things like the internet? Well let’s look at the reported number of stream views for the event: CNN – 21.3 […]
So Obama retook the oath of office last night after John Roberts screwed up the original one on Tuesday. Will that make the wingnuts happy? Of course not. So now FOX and the rest of the right has something to bitch about. I’m sure they will try to claim this also nullifies his presidency, even […]
Got this in my inbox from ABC: President Obama To Sign Executive Order Thursday to Close Gitmo Within a Year [4:20 p.m. ET] He is working fast to erase the eight years of hell Bush put us through.
