Barack Obama will NOT allow you to go back your lives as usual... “Barack Obama will require you to work. He is going to demand that you shed your cynicism. That you put down your divisions. That you come out of your isolation, that you move out of your comfort zones. That you push yourselves to be better. And that you engage. Barack will never allow you to go back to your lives as usual, uninvolved, uninformed.” Michelle Obama, 2008. Little did I know how prophetic Michelle Obama’s infamou

The White House spokesman says President Barack Obama has not yet seen a new assessment of the Afghan war . “I think they (the Obama administration) thought this would be more popular and easier,” a senior Pentagon official said. ” We are not getting a Bush-like commitment to this war. ” Monday’s assessment initially was to include troop recommendations, but political concerns prompted White House and Pentagon officials to agree that those recommendations would come later, advisers to

Five months after President Barack Obama ordered a dramatic increase in American civilian experts in Afghanistan to undergird a new military push, the so-called civilian surge is moving too slowly, with fewer than one-quarter of the extras in place, U.S. officials and outside experts warn.

Five months after President Barack Obama ordered a dramatic increase in American civilian experts in Afghanistan to undergird a new military push, the so-called civilian surge is moving too slowly, with fewer than one-quarter of the extras in place, U.S. officials and outside experts warn.

Former Arkansas GOP Gov. Mike Huckabee on Sunday defended his remark last week suggesting that recently-deceased Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.) would have been told to “go home to take pain pills and die” if he had been covered under President Barack Obama’s proposed health care overhaul. In his weekend Fox News show “Huckabee,” the 2008 Republican [...]