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Obama's Deep-Space Plan Puts NASA on a Bold Course
By Ria Misra - Politics DailyIt's been nearly 41 years since NASA, after a series of technological small steps (not to mention a few missteps) and giant leaps, was able to fulfill President John F. Kennedy's seemingly far-fetched promise: to put a man on the moon within the decade. Since then, though, NASA's directive has been less clear. Should it concentrate again on the moon to understand it better? Should its sights be trained on goals closer to home, on earth and environmental science? Or perhaps it should be looking much farther afield, toward the final frontier -- deep space? ...
Obama Tells Wall Street Bailout Days Are Over: Five Points to Ponder
By Lynn Sweet - Politics DailyFive matters to consider in the wake of President Obama's warning to Wall Street Monday, in a major speech a year after the collapse of Lehman Brothers, that the days of big bailouts are over.1. Obama said that next time, the federal government won't be there to provide a fiscal safety net and he wants to avoid a next time. "While full recovery of the financial system will take a great deal more time and work, the growing stability resulting from these interventions means we're beginning to return to normalcy. But here's what I want to emphasize today: Normalcy cannot lead to complacency," ...
Obama Unscripted: The Q & A With Students
By Jeffrey Weiss - Politics DailyAre we all sick unto exhaustion with the Obama speech to students? Surely the text was just as innocuous as Melinda's "eat your peas" characterization a few days back. But then there was the Q & A after the speech, with 9th graders at Wakefield High School in Arlington, Va., where Obama spoke.The White House had the transcript out not long after the event was over. And it shows that Obama wandered into territory that went beyond "go to school and study hard." ...
Hatin' on Obama
By Carl M. Cannon - Politics DailyNow that President Obama has actually delivered his pep talk to the students of Wakefield High School in Arlington, Va., one can only suppose that conservative Republicans who raised a fuss in advance of the speech are, out of sheer embarrassment, looking for places to hide. "As the father of four children, I am absolutely appalled that taxpayer dollars are being used to spread President Obama's socialist ideology," Florida Republican Party Chairman Jim Greer said prior to the speech. "I do not support using our children as tools to spread liberal propaganda." Yeah, Jim, that was some wacky ...
Newt Gingrich, Laura Bush Back Obama's Back-to-School Pep Talk
By Lynn Sweet - Politics DailyNewt Gingrich and former First Lady Laura Bush bolstered President Obama on Tuesday, saying a president should be able to make a back-to-school speech to the nation's students without critics kicking up a fuss. ...
Some Parents Revolt Over Obama's Planned Speech to Children
By David Sessions - Politics DailyPresident Obama's plan to deliver a televised speech to public school students caused an uproar among conservative parents in Texas, who demanded that their children be allowed to skip the event, scheduled for Tuesday. "It seemed like a direct channel from the president of the United States into the classroom, to my child," said Brent Curtis, an engineer who is keeping his three kids at home. "I don't want our schools turned over to some socialist movement." Most of the opposition was along similar lines, complaining either that the speech was indoctrination or that it had not been screened ...
Obama Could Have Said More About Women
By Bonnie Goldstein - Politics DailyObama's speech, though historic and resplendent with images, was a little weak on programs to support women's equality for his mostly Muslim audience. ...
Newt Gingrich Calls Obama Speech 'Carter-like'
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyFormer Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich had some sharp words for President Barack Obama, calling the speech Obama gave to the House Democratic caucus retreat in Williamsburg, Virginia, "Carter-like." Obama flew down to the retreat Thursday night to rally Democrats in support of his economic stimulus package on the eve of the Senate debate on its version of the bill. Gingrich said that the rhetoric President Obama employed in his speech, "shrinks his presidency.""I thought last night's speech in Williamsburg actually was a lot more like Carter and a long way from Reagan.Reagan would never ...
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