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Opinion: Obama's Speech About Another Dude's War
By Rachel Sklar - AOL News(Sept. 1) -- President Barack Obama made a speech last night, his second from the Oval Office. Like his first, this one got mixed reviews; like his first, the speech was serious and delivered while sitting at a desk, hands clasped. It was a careful speech, far from what was once seen to be the "typical" Obama barn burner. This one was far more PBS than Glenn Beck. But that's to be expected. The end of the Iraq War is a big deal -- a BFD, as Joe Biden might say -- but it wasn't Obama's BFD. Obama could raise the roof about health care reform, because that was his initiative; controversial as ...
Fact Check: Is Iraq Combat Really Over for US?
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (Aug. 31) -- Despite President Barack Obama's declaration Tuesday of an end to the combat mission in Iraq, combat almost certainly lies ahead. And in asserting the U.S. has met its responsibilities in Iraq, the president opened the door wide to a debate about the meaning of success in the muddle that most - but not all - American troops are leaving behind. A look at some of the statements Obama made in his Oval Office speech and how they compare with the facts: OBAMA: "Tonight, I am announcing that the American combat mission in Iraq has ended." THE FACTS: Peril remains for the ...
Esteemed Makeover: Oval Office Edition
By Deborah Hastings - AOL News(Aug. 31) -- Television viewers will see a newly redecorated Oval Office tonight when President Barack Obama addresses the nation to announce the end of U.S. combat units in Iraq. While Obama vacationed with his family in Martha's Vineyard, the president's office got new wallpaper, a new rug, reupholstered arm chairs and two new couches. White House photographers and camera crews were shown Obama's new digs today, hours before tonight's speech. Gone is the sunburst rug designed by then-first lady Laura Bush. In its place is a beige floor covering -- oval-shaped, of course -- made from 25 ...
Live Video: President Obama's Oval Office Address
By not in system - AOL News(Aug. 31) -- President Barack Obama will address the nation from the Oval Office at 8 p.m. ET on the end of combat operations in Iraq. JOIN THE LIVE CHATVISIT WHITEHOUSE.GOV ...
What I Want to Hear From President Obama on Iraq: Never Again
By Jill Lawrence - Politics DailyHere are the top two words I want to hear President Obama say in his Oval Office speech about Iraq: Never again. The White House says that in his Tuesday night address, the president will praise the troops, outline the situation in Iraq and look ahead in Afghanistan. He won't say "Mission Accomplished," but we are clearly at a point of demarcation: The combat mission is over. I get it. On his list of campaign promises, the president wants to check the box next to "responsibly get us out of Iraq" and quickly move on. But for me, that's not enough. I want to hear about first principles ...
Robert Gates to Retire in 2011: Three Dilemmas He Leaves Behind
By Katie Drummond - AOL News(Aug. 16) -- Robert Gates, the U.S. defense secretary since 2006 and a key player in shaping the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, hopes to retire from his post sometime in 2011. That's the most immediately attention-grabbing detail revealed over at Foreign Policy, in a profile that recounts Gates' unlikely decision to stay on following the end of President George W. Bush's tenure in the White House. "I really didn't want to be asked," he told Foreign Policy. "[But] if I were asked, I would say, 'Yes.' In the middle of two wars, kids out there getting hurt and dying, there was no way that I was ...
A Disaster for the Gulf Coast, A Disaster for Obama
By Peter Wehner - Politics DailyThe oil spill is an environmental catastrophe for the Gulf Coast and a political disaster for Barack Obama. It is doing significant, and possibly irreparable, damage to his presidency. That may not be fully clear now, since Obama's approval ratings have certainly not collapsed during the span of this crisis. The deeper concern for the president, I think, is that what is happening in the Gulf of Mexico right now will accrete and soon metastasize, creating negative impressions that will be durable and difficult to undo. The oil spill calamity may become a metaphor for the Obama presidency. ...
Reader Feedback on Obama's Oval Office Address
By not in system - AOL News(June 17) -- Editor's note: Below is a sampling of reader feedback about President Barack Obama's BP oil spill Oval Office speech Tuesday night. The comments have been edited for length and clarity. (To submit a letter to the editor, write to opinion@aolnews.com.) He Blew It Obama certainly has rhetoric skills in abundance, but he has no concept for how to implement solutions to the country's problems. He had the greatest opportunity he will ever have and totally blew it. The reason he could use examples of accomplishments by two past presidents was because they were able to marshal the ...
Opinion: Obama as Crisis Communicator in Chief
By Bob Maistros - AOL News(June 16) -- There he was, addressing America for the first time from the Oval Office: President Barack Obama, trying desperately to convince a nation disgusted by his government's ineffective response to the Deepwater Horizon spill that he has the right stuff to manage the levers of power as commander in chief. But whether or not he succeeded in that quest, the president was certainly also working overtime pushing all the buttons as crisis communicator in chief. Button No. 1: Adjust expectations. "Dudes, I got a lot on my plate. A recession. A war. And not just any oil spill, but the ...
The Left Bashes Obama's Oil Spill Speech
By Steve Pendlebury - AOL News(June 16) -- President Barack Obama must have known nothing he could say about the BP disaster in his first Oval Office speech would satisfy his conservative critics. He was right about that. But he might not have expected the reaction from the left to be so harsh. "JUNK SHOT," screamed this morning's headline atop The Huffington Post, a reference to one of the failed attempts to plug the gushing oil well. "What was the point?" HuffPo's Jason Linkins wondered. He dismissed Obama's speech as nothing new -- short on specifics and long on sentiment. Among liberal pundits, "short on specifics" ...
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