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Barack Obama also trashes working class white males in the interview. The New York Times reported: President Obama said in a radio interview airing on Monday that Donald J. Trump, a leading contender for the Republican presidential nomination, is exploiting the resentment and anxieties of working-class men to boost his campaign. Mr. Obama also argued that some of the scorn directed at him personally stems from the fact that he is the first African-American to hold the White House. Demographic changes and economic stresses, including "flatlining" wages and incomes, have meant that "particularly blue-collar men have had a lot of...

Obama Says Michael Brown’s Death in Ferguson ‘Stains The Heart of Black Children’ By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times - Sunday, September 28, 2014 President Obama said the shooting death of a black teen by a white police officer last month in Ferguson, Missouri, exposed the racial divide in the American justice system that “stains the heart of black children.” Speaking at the annual Congressional Black Caucus Foundation dinner in Washington on Saturday night, Mr. Obama said the death of Michael Brown “awakened our nation” to a reality that black citizens already understood. “In too many communities around the...

Attorney General Eric Holder will brief President Obama Monday on possible actions the federal government can take in Ferguson, Mo., after another night of clashes prompted Gov. Jay Nixon (D-Mo.) to call in the National Guard. "The president has asked the attorney general to come in tomorrow to brief him on the state of the investigation on the ground,” said senior presidential adviser Valerie Jarrett in an interview with American Urban Radio Monday. Jarrett said Holder would also discuss “any further actions that the federal government could play to help reduce the violence down to zero and make sure the...

President Barack Obama chided congressional Republicans Tuesday for "trying to gut our investments in education," and announced new steps to tackle early childhood education that won't require legislation. President Barack Obama chided congressional Republicans Tuesday for "trying to gut our investments in education," and announced new steps to tackle early childhood education that won't require legislation.

President Obama launched a three-day bus tour through two states critical to his 2012 reelection campaign by kicking Senate Republicans for blocking his jobs bill, saying he is breaking up his plan because "maybe they just couldn't understand the whole thing at once."

Washington (CNN) -- A political showdown erupted Wednesday over President Barack Obama's sudden request to deliver an economic address on September 7 to a joint session of Congress, with House Speaker John Boehner recommending the event should take place a night later.

President Barack Obama will hold a press conference tomorrow at 11 a.m., his second in a week, according to a tweet from White House Communications Director Dan Pfeiffer. Obama will face questions on the ongoing negotiations to raise the debt limit and lower the deficit.

Obama tells America that we need to "up our game" in order get the world to "buy America". Link is to the television station web site, but the story was supplied to them by AP, so this is not copied from the web site or story.

RUSH: We found out what it's like last night to sit through a speech by Hugo Chavez or Fidel Castro. And if you didn't see it, and if you want to know what sitting through a speech by Castro or Chavez is like find a way to watch a little bit of it and you'll get a grand idea. It was disjointed. I thought it was pathetic. It's striking to me, and it's utterly predictable, you listen to the pro-Obama people in the media and they talk about, "Oh, it was great, it was the most wonderful speech." It was...