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Text of the President's Remarks on the Situation in Libya
By Politics Daily Staff - Politics DailyTHE PRESIDENT: Good afternoon, everybody. I want to take this opportunity to update the American people about the situation in Libya. Over the last several weeks, the world has watched events unfold in Libya with hope and alarm. Last month, protesters took to the streets across the country to demand their universal rights, and a government that is accountable to them and responsive to their aspirations. But they were met with an iron fist. Within days, whole parts of the country declared their independence from a brutal regime, and members of the government serving in Libya and abroad chose ...
Libya Says It Will Free Missing New York Times Journalists Today
By Politics Daily Staff - Politics DailyFour New York Times journalists missing in Libya since Tuesday will be released Friday, the U.S. State Department said it has been told by Libyan officials. Also, Moammar Gadhafi's son, Seif Islam Gadhafi, confirmed to ABC News' Christiane Amanpour Thursday night that one of the four, photographer Lynsey Addario, would be freed. The New York Times identified the journalists as Anthony Shadid, the Times' Beirut bureau chief and a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning foreign correspondent; two photographers, Tyler Hicks and Addario, who have extensive experience in war zones; and a reporter and ...
Newt Gingrich: President Obama 'Fixated' on Final Four
By Politics Daily Staff - Politics DailyNewt Gingrich says President Obama is acting like the "spectator in chief instead of the commander in chief." Appearing on Fox News Thursday night, the former House speaker and presumed 2012 GOP presidential contender told Sean Hannity: "Yes, the administration has just sort of checked out. You know, the president has this fixation with the Final Four -- spent time on ESPN giving us his version of what really mattered to him, which was the Final Four," said Gingrich. Obama, said Gingrich, "may be the most out-of-touch president in modern American history." Related ...
Poll: Slim Majority Supports Gay Marriage
By Politics Daily Staff - Politics DailyFor the first time, more Americans support legalization of same-sex marriage than oppose it, according to a Washington Post-ABC News poll. The survey, showing 53 percent backing for gay marriage, comes amid signs of increased acceptance of homosexuals in the U.S. Just five years go in polling by the same news group, only 36 percent favored gay marriage, the Post said. Taken last weekend, the new survey asked a random sample of 1,005 adults, "Do you think it should be legal or illegal for gay and lesbian couples to get married?" Support for that proposition grew among college-educated whites, ...
Donald Trump Has 'Doubt' That Obama Was Born in the U.S.
By Politics Daily Staff - Politics DailyDonald Trump, who says he's weighing a run for president next year, waded into the "birther" controversy this week, telling ABC's "Good Morning America" that he has "a little doubt" that Barack Obama was born in the United States. The reason? Trump said he finds it strange that "nobody knew" Obama as a young child in Hawaii. "Let me tell you . . . if I got the nomination, if I decide to run, you may go back and interview people from my kindergarten. They'll remember me. [With Obama,] nobody comes forward. Nobody knows who he is until later in his life. It's very strange." Birther proponents ...
Obama Re-election Donors Urged to Raise $350,000 Each in 2011
By Politics Daily Staff - Politics DailyA group of 450 Democratic donors have been asked to raise $350,000 each this year as part of President Obama's re-election campaign. If successful, the effort would amass $157 million in 2011 alone, more than double what that same group generated four years earlier. The New York Times reports that the fundraising appeal came during a Washington meeting of the Democratic Party's national finance committee and advisory board. The fundraisers were exhorted to do their part by Jim Messina, who is managing the president's re-election campaign. In his 2008 run for the presidency, Obama raised $750 ...
Transcript of President Obama's March 17 Remarks on Japan Crisis
By Politics Daily Staff - Politics DailyBelow is the transcript of President Obama's March 17, 2011 remarks on the crisis in Japan, delivered at 3:35 p.m. EDT in the White House Rose Garden, as posted by The Wall Street Journal. THE PRESIDENT: Good afternoon, everyone. Over the last several days, the American people have been both heartbroken and deeply concerned about the developments in Japan. We've seen an earthquake and tsunami render unimaginable - an unimaginable toll of death and destruction on one of our closest friends and allies in the world. And we've seen this powerful natural disaster cause even more catastrophe ...
House Rejects Proposal to Pull Troops from Afghanistan
By Politics Daily Staff - Politics DailyThe House on Thursday rejected a proposal calling for the removal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan by the end of the year, news agencies reported. The resolution, sponsored by Ohio Rep. Dennis Kucinich, was turned down 93 to 321. But The Hill and The Plain Dealer in Cleveland noted it had more support this time than in 2010 when the House rejected a similar Kucinich measure 65 to 356. Kucinich said Congress should assert its authority over the war, though others argued that lawmakers should trust military leaders and President Obama. Support for continued U.S. involvement in Afghanistan has ...
Sarah Palin Heading to Israel, Taking Path of Other GOP Hopefuls
By Politics Daily Staff - Politics DailyIn what has become almost a rite of passage for aspiring American politicians, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is heading to Israel, where next week she will meet with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and visit historic sites. Palin, perhaps the most closely watched of all potential 2012 Republican presidential candidates, is scheduled to arrive in Israel Sunday after making a weekend speech to business leaders and politicians in New Delhi, India, the Jerusalem Post and Politico reported Thursday. She plans to meet Monday with the conservative Netanyahu, and separately with Danny Danon, ...
Support for Construction of Nuclear Plants in the U.S. Drops Following Japan Crisis
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyThe nuclear crisis in Japan has had its impact on U.S. public opinion about construction of nuclear power plants here, with 47 percent now in opposition to building more plants compared to 44 percent who favor doing so, according to a USA Today/Gallup poll conducted March 15. Nine percent were undecided. Prior to the Japan disaster, a large majority of Americans supported the construction of nuclear power plants, peaking at 62 percent last year, and slipping only slightly to 57 percent in Gallup's last pre-crisis survey in early March. Seventy percent of those surveyed said they now were a ...
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