Politics
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Watch This: Biden's NAACP Speech
Vice President Joe Biden addressed the NAACP today, rallying support for President Barack Obama and assuring the nation’s largest civil rights organization that Obama has the “character of his convictions.” Biden reminded the group that Obama championed a landmark health care law, launched the mission that killed al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden and stepped in…
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Obama Authorizes Emergency Funding for Mali
The White House announced in a press release today that President Obama has authorized the use of up to $10 million from the Emergency Refugee and Migration Assistance Fund to respond to the crisis surrounding the hundreds of thousands of refugees who have fled Mali or are displaced within the country. Read the full statement…
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Jesse Jackson Jr. Has 'Mood Disorder'
(The Root) — Ending weeks of speculation about his whereabouts, U.S. Rep. Jesse L. Jackson Jr.’s office released a statement late Wednesday saying that he is being treated for a mood disorder. “The congressman is receiving intensive medical treatment at a residential treatment facility for a mood disorder,” said a prepared statement from his staff…
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Was Romney's NAACP Speech Almost Good?
(The Root) — Give Mitt Romney credit. On Wednesday in Houston, he addressed the NAACP’s 103rd annual convention, made his case and gave African-American voters — who will still undoubtedly remain solidly behind President Barack Obama — something to think about. Telling the members of the nation’s oldest civil rights organization that “support is asked…
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GOP Amnesia and the American Jobs Act
(The Root) — The Republican Party has spent the past three years honing its winning political strategy: to lie, keep lying and hope Americans will believe it. The monthly jobs report released by the Labor Department has become a circus event for these shenanigans, giving Mitt Romney, House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), House Majority Leader Eric…
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What Romney Shouldn't Tell the NAACP
(The Root) — No matter what Mitt Romney tells NAACP members Wednesday, nine out of 10 African Americans will still pull the lever for President Barack Obama in November. But that doesn’t mean the former Massachusetts governor’s address to the venerable civil rights organization at its 103rd annual convention in Houston isn’t a big deal.…
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Health Care Ruling: Not a Liberal Victory
(The Root) — Now that the dust has settled on the Supreme Court’s recent decision to uphold the bulk of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, it is perhaps time to examine the decision from the perspective of a traditional civil rights advocate — a person who favors strong federal protection for the rights…
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Watch It Live: Battle for the Oval Office
(The Root) — Join The Root as we live-stream WGBH TV’s Basic Black program as it takes on President Obama’s re-election chances in light of the Supreme Court’s recent ruling on the Affordable Care Act, his stances on immigration and more. Panelists will also weigh in on what some consider to be the black community’s diminishing support for the…
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Obama's Day, July 6: Meeting With Construction Workers and Students
THE WHITE HOUSEOffice of the Press SecretaryFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE DAILY GUIDANCE AND PRESS SCHEDULE FORFRIDAY, JULY 6, 2012 In the morning, the President will tour Summer Garden Food Manufacturing in Boardman, Ohio. There will be travel pool coverage of this tour. Later in the morning, the President will deliver remarks at a campaign event…