Getting two standing ovations at his first speech since leaving office, former President George W. Bush said that if President Obama wants help, “he can pick up the phone and call.” Otherwise, Bush said: “He deserves my silence.”
“There’s plenty of critics in the arena,” Bush told a crowd in Calgary, Canada. “I think it’s time for the ex-president to tap dance off the stage and let the current president have a go at solving the world’s problems. If he wants my help and I agree with him, I’ll give it.”
03/18/2009
— Filed under: Politics
Tags: Bush, Obama, speech
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The Democratic National Committee aims to create a year-round campaign apparatus in Florida and across the country to help President Obama implement his agenda.
03/18/2009
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Tags: Democrats, Obama, Republicans
The Obama administration will endorse a U.N. declaration calling for the worldwide decriminalization of homosexuality that then-President George W. Bush had refused to sign, The Associated Press has learned.
U.S. officials said Tuesday they had notified the declaration’s French sponsors that the administration wants to be added as a supporter. The Bush administration was criticized in December when it was the only western government that refused to sign on.
03/18/2009
— Filed under: Society
Tags: declaration, homosexuality, Obama
Senior members of the Obama administration are pressing lawmakers to use a shortcut to drive the president’s signature initiatives on health care and energy through Congress without Republican votes, a move that many lawmakers say would fly in the face of President Obama’s pledge to restore bipartisanship to Washington.
03/18/2009
— Filed under: Politics
Tags: administration, budget, Obama
His stimulus package adds $200 million to a fund that supports new teacher compensation systems.
In a major speech on education last week, President Obama echoed a call he’d made many times on the campaign trail: Reward excellent teaching with extra pay.
03/17/2009
— Filed under: Society
Tags: education, Obama
President Barack Obama nominated David Hamilton, an Indiana federal district judge with bipartisan support, for a U.S. appeals court seat in the new administration’s first judicial appointment.
Hamilton, 51, a former aide to then-Governor Evan Bayh of Indiana, is a 15-year veteran of the federal trial court in Indianapolis. He has backing from Bayh, now a Democratic U.S. senator, and Richard Lugar, Indiana’s Republican senator, the White House said. If confirmed by the Senate, Hamilton would serve on the Chicago-based 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
03/17/2009
— Filed under: Society
Tags: Hamilton, judge, Obama
President Obama defended his proposed $3.6 trillion budget on Tuesday against critics who say it is too ambitious, declaring that American families cannot always choose which crises to tackle first and neither can he as president.
03/17/2009
— Filed under: Economy
Tags: budget, crisis, Obama
U.S. President Barack Obama and Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen on Tuesday praised Northern Ireland’s response to a spate of political violence as they marked a St. Patrick’s Day tinged with reminders of the provinces’s recent troubles.
03/17/2009
— Filed under: Politics
Tags: attacks, Cowen, Obama
