Politics
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Jobs Still a Campaign Issue for Obama
This week, President Obama headed to Massachusetts to attack Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s gubernatorial history, while Romney focused on the now-defunct solar energy company Solyndra to attack Obama’s leadership record. However, according to the Washington Post, Obama may need to focus all his energies on America’s unemployed. On Friday the U.S. Labor Department released…
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Artur Davis' Almost Principled Defection
(The Root) — If, as Jesse Jackson said a couple years back, “you can’t vote against health care and call yourself a black man,” then put me down in the almost-black category of former Alabama Democratic Rep. Artur Davis, who took a principled stand in 2010 as the only Congressional Black Caucus member who voted…
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Obama's Day, May 31: Bush Portrait Unveiling
THE WHITE HOUSEOffice of the Press SecretaryFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE DAILY GUIDANCE AND PRESS SCHEDULE FORTHURSDAY, MAY 31, 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 First Lady will meet for lunch with…
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Black Doc Sues UCLA, Cites Racist Treatment
(The Root) — It’s no surprise that Dr. Christian Head’s account of being depicted as a gorilla sodomized by his white supervisor in a slideshow shown at a UCLA School of Medicine graduation “roast” has been the subject of national attention and outrage. The African-American head-and-neck surgeon’s tale of over-the-top racism by the university went…
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Living While Obama: The Highest of Honors
Renowned author and Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison grins as President Obama bestows upon her the Medal of Freedom on Tuesday, May 29, in the White House’s East Room. The Medal of Freedom is the country’s highest civilian honor. Like The Root on Facebook. Follow us on Twitter.
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Obama's Day, May 30: Reauthorizing Export-Import Bank
THE WHITE HOUSEOffice of the Press SecretaryFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE DAILY GUIDANCE AND PRESS SCHEDULE FORWEDNESDAY, MAY 30, 2012 In the morning, the President will attend an annual hurricane preparedness briefing in the Situation Room. This meeting is closed press. Later in the morning, the President will sign the reauthorization of the Export-Import Bank at the…
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Romney: Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire
Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson details what he says is GOP presidential contender Mitt Romney’s dishonesty. There are those who tell the truth. There are those who distort the truth. And then there’s Mitt Romney. Every political campaign exaggerates and dissembles. This practice may not be admirable — it’s surely one reason so many Americans…