President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama donated $15,000 today to the Haiti relief efforts, the White House confirms. The donation came from their personal bank account, a check written to the Clinton-Bush Haiti fund. “The President and First Lady have been inspired by the way that millions of Americans have responded with tremendous generosity to the Haiti crisis – even in these tough economic... 

He says “the buck stops with me,” but nearly a year into office, President Barack Obama is still blaming a lot of the nation’s troubles — the economy, terrorism, health care — on George W. Bush. Over and over, Obama keeps reminding Americans of the mess he inherited and all he’s doing to fix it. A sharper, give-me-some-credit tone has emerged in his language as he bemoans... 

When he entered office, US President Barack Obama promised to inject US foreign policy with a new tone of respect and diplomacy. His recent trip to Asia, however, showed that it’s not working. A shift to Bush-style bluntness may be coming. Share/Save Read More →

President Barack Obama has only been in office for just over nine months, but he’s already hit the links as much as President Bush did in over two years. Share/Save Read More →

By Rich Lowry In his address to the United Nations, Pres. Barack Obama did his best impression of a high-school sophomore participating in his first Model U.N. meeting, retailing pious clichés he learned from his ponytailed social-studies teacher. Share/Save Read More →

By David N. Bass One of journalists' favorite pastimes during the Bush years was to poke fun at the president's frequently bumbled speech patterns. Bush's less-than-stellar oratorical moments — such as "Is our children learning?" and "They misunderestimate me" — were proof, they said, that he was just plain stupid. Share/Save Read More →

The Obama administration, in a major shift on housing policy, is abandoning George W. Bush’s vision of creating an “ownership society’’ and instead plans to pump $4.25 billion of economic stimulus money into creating tens of thousands of federally subsidized rental units in American cities. Share/Save Read More →

A rather surprising finding from the newly released CNN poll. Question three on the national survey of 1,136 adults (which includes an oversample of African-Americans) asks, "Do you consider the first six months of the Obama administration to be a success or a failure?" Share/Save Read More →

By Joseph Curl Facing the first real rough patch of his presidency, President Obama and his supporters are once again resorting to a tried-and-true tactic: attacking George W. Bush and Dick Cheney. Share/Save Read More →

By Ralph R. Reiland "This isn't about me," President Barack Obama said last week, maintaining that his manic push for a vote on health care reform is all about us. Share/Save Read More →

President Barack Obama has irked close allies in Congress by declaring he has the right to ignore legislation on constitutional grounds after having criticized George W. Bush for doing the same. Share/Save Read More →