Politics

THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE DAILY GUIDANCE AND PRESS SCHEDULE FOR TUESDAY, DECEMBER 18, 2012 In the morning, the President will receive the Presidential Daily Briefing in the Oval Office. This meeting is closed press. In the afternoon, the President will meet with Secretary of Defense Panetta in the…

(The Root) — America the beautiful, with all its celebration of democratic freedoms, has become a place where children are gunned down in their first-grade classrooms, and teenagers are killed walking home with Skittles and iced tea. The latest blight on the nation’s social consciousness is a massacre of unconscionable proportion: A lone gunman, identified…

(The Root) — Poised to begin his second term as head of state and leader of the free world, there’s really no question that Barack Obama — the nation’s first African-American president — remains the most important and influential politician in America, regardless of ancestry. Now, though, the second-most-important black politician in the land might…

Monday, Dec. 17, 3:04 p.m. EST: NBC pre-empted the first quarter of Sunday night’s football game between the San Francisco 49ers and the New England Patriots to televise President Obama’s speech at the Newtown, Conn., memorial for victims of the Sandy Hook school shooting. That riled several football fans who were so upset about the…

THE WHITE HOUSEOffice of the Press SecretaryFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE DAILY GUIDANCE AND PRESS SCHEDULE FORMONDAY, DECEMBER 17, 2012 In the morning, the President and the Vice President will receive the Presidential Daily Briefing in the Oval Office. This meeting is closed press. In the afternoon, the President and the Vice President will meet for lunch…

In his Washington Post column, Jonathan Capehart sums up Susan Rice’s withdrawal from consideration for nomination as secretary of state as yet another sorry episode in the politics of personal destruction in Washington, D.C. Somewhere on Capitol Hill, Sens. John McCain, Lindsey Graham and Kelly Ayotte must be smiling now that UN Ambassador Susan Rice has…

THE WHITE HOUSEOffice of the Press SecretaryFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE DAILY GUIDANCE AND PRESS SCHEDULE FORFRIDAY, DECEMBER 14, 2012 In the morning, the President and the Vice President will receive the Presidential Daily Briefing in the Oval Office. This meeting is closed press. In the afternoon, the President will sign H.R. 6156, the Russia and Moldova…

(The Root) — The latest installment of CNN’s docuseries Black in America asked the question “Who Is Black in America?” and examined the issue of colorism: bias based not just on race but also on actual skin color. The news special cited well-documented research confirming that lighter-skinned immigrants earn more than their darker-skinned counterparts. But…

THE WHITE HOUSEOffice of the Press SecretaryFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE DAILY GUIDANCE AND PRESS SCHEDULE FORTHURSDAY, DECEMBER 13, 2012 In the morning, the President and the Vice President will receive the Presidential Daily Briefing in the Oval Office. This meeting is closed press. Updated: In the afternoon, the President will do a round of regional interviews…

President Obama’s second inauguration is set to take place next month in Washington, D.C., with a National Day of Service Jan. 19, a private swearing in on Jan. 29 and the big event — the public swearing-in, followed by a parade and the official inaugural balls — on Monday, Jan. 21.   In 2009 the…