Politics

THE WHITE HOUSEOffice of the Press SecretaryFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEDAILY GUIDANCE AND PRESS SCHEDULE FORWEDNESDAY, MAY 9, 2012In 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 host NATO Secretary-General Rasmussen for a meeting in the Oval…

The Washington Post‘s Jonathan Capehart wishes that President Obama would stop playing games and follow the lead of Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and Vice President Joe Biden, who have taken clear stances on the issue of gay marriage. And where is President Obama? “Evolving.” Still. It’s as if he’s playing a big game of…

Last month a front-page story in the New York Times emphasized two studies that appeared to challenge the notion that food deserts — districts with limited or no access to affordable and nutritious foods, yet rich in stores hawking junk food — are a real problem. The studies, recently published in the journals Social Science…

Of the many hollow critiques offered by President Barack Obama’s rivals, one of the hollowest is the snide charge — from opponents of same-sex marriage — that on the issue of same-sex marriage, “the president’s position, as it sits today, is the same position as Mitt Romney’s,” as Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus said…

As Vice President Joe Biden makes a bold pro-marriage-equality statement, Ebony‘s Michael Arceneaux wonders when President Obama will do the same. With the niceties out of the way, let’s be clear: President Obama has never said he was “absolutely comfortable with the fact that men marrying men, women marrying women” deserve the same rights and…

THE WHITE HOUSEOffice of the Press SecretaryFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEDAILY GUIDANCE AND PRESS SCHEDULE FORMONDAY, MAY 7, 2012In the morning, the President will receive the Presidential Daily Briefing and meet with senior advisors in the Oval Office. These meetings are closed press.In the afternoon, the President will hold a conference call with elected officials and student…

Politico reports that after quietly preparing for re-election during the last few months, President Barack Obama officially began his run for a second term on Saturday with a speech in Columbus, Ohio. Introduced by first lady Michelle Obama, who spoke about her husband’s understanding of what it means to come from humble beginnings, Obama took sharp…

President Obama speaks with graduating seniors and their parents on May 4 at Washington-Lee High School in Arlington, Va., during a roundtable discussion on the interest rates of federally subsidized student loans. Without congressional intervention, student-loan interest rates are set to double on July 1.