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“President Obama’s staff arranged for him to be personally briefed last summer on a loan program to help clean-energy companies, two months before the program was thrust into headlines by the collapse of its flagship, the solar company Solyndra, records show,” the Washington Post writes. “About the same time, then-White House Chief of Staff William Daley resolved a dispute among administration officials over another project in the program, clearing the way for a $1.4 billion loan, according to documents and sources familiar with the situation. The documents, a series of e-mails among Energy Department staff members involved in managing the program, provide new details about the level of White House involvement in the controversial initiative. White House officials have said in the past that final decisions about which companies would receive the loan guarantees were made by career staff members at the Energy Department, not political appointees. Administration officials said Wednesday that the e-mails show that the White House involvement was appropriate and that there was no pressure on agency officials.”
Politico: "Advisers to President Barack Obama are scripting a Democratic National Convention featuring several Republicans in a prime-time appeal to independents — and plan a blistering portrayal of Mitt Romney as a heartless aristocrat who “would devastate the American middle class,” Democratic sources tell POLITICO. According to convention planning documents, the three-night convention in Charlotte, N.C., early next month will seek to “[e]xpose Mitt Romney as someone who doesn’t understand middle class challenges” while also burnishing “the President’s image as someone whose life story is about fighting for middle class Americans and those working to get into the middle class.”
National Journal: The Obama campaign is out with a rebuttal ad, addressing a Mitt Romney spot that attacked the president on welfare reform.
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I hope President Obama continures to focus on the major differences between his policies, which are slowly bringing the US economy back to life, and Romney's proposed return to the failed policies that caused the problems in the first place.
The worst thing we could do is go backwards to the Bush "tax cut and spend, deregulate everything" approach that are proven failures.
I beg to differ. The worst thing that could happen is the President gets re-elected and we continue down the path of deeper debt and more give aways.
America will not stand another term of this President. He has created nothing but debt and despair.
rukidding47
interesting that you claim that because president Obama spends less than his predecessors.
Who Is The Smallest Government Spender Since Eisenhower? Would You Believe It's Barack Obama?
It’s enough to make even the most ardent Obama cynic scratch his head in confusion.
Amidst all the cries of Barack Obama being the most prolific big government spender the nation has ever suffered, Marketwatch is reporting that our president has actually been tighter with a buck than any United States president since Dwight D. Eisenhower.
Who knew?
Check out the chart –
http://www.forbes.com/sites/rickungar/2012/05/24/who-is-the-smallest-government-spender-since-eisenhower-would-you-believe-its-barack-obama/
Now, can you imagine what Obama could do had he been the President in 2001 instead of Bush?
Bush took good and turned it into a big pile of $hit. Obama took the big pile of $hit and is slowly turning it into good.
Deeper debt and more give away's is what you conservative republicans did from 2001 to 2008 rukidding. You took a surplus and turned it into a deficit with two unfunded tax cuts for the rich, two unfunded wars and an unfunded drug bill. Remember the Bush rebate of 2002 that cost the tax payer billions of dollars, or the tax rebate of 2004 which cost tax payers billions of dollars. Well over a trillion dollars in rebates just to get reelected. Sad thing is it worked, a lot of voters voted for Bush just because he gave them money. So if you want to talk about deeper debt and give away's you need to look in the mirror rukidding.
Lighten up Ruddie - we survived 8 years of reaygun plus 4 of georige 1's trickle down and then survived another 8 years under a complete idiot, I know I'll keep doing better and better if President Obama is re-elected and we can get a good congress (not all one party mind you, I do like a good honest mix where the working/middle class interests are fairly represented) for him to work with. Hope and change are working very well for my working/middle class family, thanks for asking!
I believe the GOP will have to rethink their priorities. The fractious nature of politics has been amplified by the Tea Party movement. They co opted it, hoping to catch some of that energy. The problem is that it is the same kind of think that brought us a slew of "reality" shows where people compete to sleep with someone. You really think those women were into Flava Flav? No, everyone with half a brain knows the score and all you are doing is watch the train wreck happen. Unlike those reality shows, the GOP is obligated to have a relationship with the people they thought would help them get ahead. Some have balked, and rightfully so. Those that compromise are called traitors and worse, cast aside for more candidates with even more extreme viewpoints.
The Citizens United ruling isn't turning out to be what you expected, eh?
Especially since the only 'citizens united' is really 'corporations are people too'! Corporations united against everyone else.
The ruling of course is for the mega rich to be able to control the low-information portion of the electorate with their money.
I just have to ask why it is a bad thing to be rich in this country? This is all i have read about for the last 2 years how the rich are the evil... I just have to ask are you better off now then 3 and half years ago? If it isn't fixed now will it be fixed in 4 more years or will we hear it was worse then i thought so re-elect me for a third term... oh wait there is only two terms... I don't care who is the president but i hate the fighting that this president (that i voted for so i could see transparence ) what a joke... i have to ask also just how much does it cost for birth control.. my daughter get is for free from plan parenthood.. my wife gets it for ten dollars a month at wal-mart... so why is this a issue???? Want a job? that is important..
Larry, sorry things are not working out for you and your family, ours is doing so much better than we were 4 years ago, it is shocking. My husband and I both make more money than we did then, have better positions, and enjoy life a lot more, so do our grown children. Good hard honest work will do that for you if you happen to have a boss who is not of the me, my generation. It is not evil to be wealthy, it is evil to be greedy and wealthy and it is evil to become wealthy due to your greed.
WOW where did you get that i was doing badly? I own my own business in the auto repair business but things have slowed down... but it amazes me when you can say how my family is doing and you don't know me... I quess that is just how people think now adays... I have to ask if your saying that your honest and hard working and i might not be?
Planned parenthood will be a vague memory if the GOP has their way
larryincalif96007
whether it's mechanical or autobody business, things have slowed down for you because 98% of Americans have less money to spend. You don't live off of the top 2%. You live off of the 98%. So let Republicans keep chipping away at out wages, benefits, jobs, and you will see even bigger slow down. Let Republicans increase our payroll tax so the top 2% can get more Romney tax breaks, and you will remember 2012 as a GOOD year.
detroit storm do you really believe that? Please think about all the scare politics out there do you believe them all?
Larry, do some research:
And also:
So it's a scare tactic if they said it in their own words? Really?
Obama's actions and words never match. He sounds great but his policies don't work!!!