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A Russian official on Friday argued that U.S. democracy was undermined by President Obama's administration and the media, not by Moscow's alleged hacking campaign. Russian Senator Alexey Pushkov offered his criticism following the public release of a U.S. intelligence report that accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of orchestrating an effort to "undermine public faith in the U.S. democratic process." "The U.S. democratic process was undermined not by Russia, but by the Obama administration and mass media, which supported [Hillary] Clinton over [President-elect Donald] Trump," Pushkov tweeted. "The danger to democracy is within U.S. itself," he added, arguing that Obama is...

True to form, President Barack Hussein Obama II has just thrown a monumental tantrum in public, stomping his feet and screaming because his party lost the election and Washington's war lobby has been trash-canned. Now in a last-ditch hissy fit, Obama throws all his toys out the pram. How puerile, infantile, and silly. President Obama came to power, elected by the people of the United States of America twice. Once because he promised "Change", remember? Again because his opponent was less charismatic and had less "umph" than a squashed slug lying under a ton of sea salt. By then Obama...

President Obama's historic election, considered one of the biggest-ever advances for African Americans, has faded in importance for blacks due to his failure to fix race relations, according to a new Gallup report.When elected, 71 percent believed that the "Obama effect" was "one of the most important" advances for blacks, but now just 32 percent agree. More disturbing: Slightly more, 33 percent, believe that his election and presidency is "not that important" for blacks.

Increasingly evident that Obama does not want to fulfill the role of the Presidency to provide leadership in times of foreign and domestic crisis When we elect someone—anyone—to the office of President, it is only natural that we attribute great political skills, intellect, and judgment to that man. We want to believe we have selected someone with the ability to do what must be done in a dangerous and very complex world. This may explain why Presidents who have presided in times of war are more highly regarded than those that have not. Washington brought the nation into being by...

If ever one needed proof of the unsuitability of Barack Obama for the presidency, that proof was visible for the world to see today in Minneapolis. Accusing the GOP of a “block me and call me names strategy,” Obama may have thought he was “going Bulworth” but he was really unleashing his spoiled, petulant two year old. President Obama says he’s been itching to “say what’s on my mind” about Republicans in Washington. And today on the banks of Lake Harriet he let loose, turning an official event on the economy into a rally for Democrats in the midterm campaign....

Gallup tracks daily the percentage of Americans who approve or disapprove of the job Barack Obama is doing as president. Daily results are based on telephone interviews with approximately 1,500 national adults; Margin of error is ±3 percentage point

The recent recession wiped out nearly two decades of Americans’ wealth, according to government data released Monday, with ­middle-class families bearing the brunt of the decline. The Federal Reserve said the median net worth of families plunged by 39 percent in just three years, from $126,400 in 2007 to $77,300 in 2010. That puts Americans roughly on par with where they were in 1992. The data represent one of the most detailed looks at how the economic downturn altered the landscape of family finance. Over a span of three years, Americans watched progress that took almost a generation to accumulate...

There’s something profoundly tragic about the failed presidency of Barack Obama. He was supposed to be a new kind of president, a man who embodied hope and would transcend petty politics and even race. Instead, we’re left with a downgraded America that is stagnating under the weight of its bloated government. As tragic as that alone is, even this is but a mere symptom of Mr. Obama’s larger fundamental failure: He simply does not trust the Americans who entrusted him with the presidency. Most presidents, we believe, ascend to the Oval Office, but for the 44th president, the reverse seems...

Donald Trump may have fired Gary Busey on 'Celebrity Apprentice,' but today on 'The Wendy Williams Show' (weekdays, syndicated), Busey backed Trump for president. "He's a great man," said Busey. "He's got an awareness level that's very high, and I'm going to vote for him for president, and I suggest you all do. Because he has the wherewithal to turn this country over, turn the dump over, get out of where we are now." Busey added that although he respects the sitting president, he thinks there has been a "con job," and that nothing President Obama promised has happened. We're...

Oh, I’ll bet they were. Say what you will about Axe, Gibbsy, and the rest of the crew, but I’d like to think they have the basic political common sense to avoid photo ops where the president has to skip out after a minute or two to go eat gingerbread cookies. I’d like to think The One had the same basic political common sense, but … we learn something new every day, don’t we? The leader of the free world and the ex-leader wandered a deserted hallway, past the offices of the senior advisers, only to discover the door...

It will either go down as the day that the Obama officially became a lame duck, or the day that Obama hit the bottom, and had nowhere to go but up. But either day, it's the worst. *snip* The tax deal is falling apart, and on this sinking ship Obama is going down with... the Republicans? Obviously it took a series of mis-steps to get into it this badly. Negotiating with Mitch McConnell without gauging the temperature of Democrats was idiotic. Beyond that, Obama gave up all his bargaining chips before sitting down. *snip* But instead he used that...

A soon-to-be released media study documents how ABC, NBC and CBS repeatedly have portrayed President Obama as a leader who is cutting taxes while ignoring the potential $4.2 trillion in taxes – that about $14,000 apiece or $56,000 for a family of four – that could start hitting Americans as early as January 1. "Those potential tax increases are almost 20 times the size of the $214 billion temporary tax cuts Obama included in the stimulus bill. Tax cutter? Hardly," said a summary of the new report by the Media Research Center's Business & Media Institute. The study looked at...

Ticked off at Obamacare? Does your bank account still reflect the government takeovers of Wall Street or the automobile companies? Do you have fundamental moral objections to the president's promotions of abortion and homosexuality? Aghast that the president has bowed to foreign rulers, including the king of Saudi Arabia? Whatever your concerns about the current White House policies for the United States, there's a rally going on for you Saturday at noon at the west front of the U.S. Capitol assembled by a lifelong Democrat who is suggesting one solution for all of these problems. Obama's resignation. "This is the...

And of course, this wouldn’t have been news all the time while Barack Obama kept claiming that these “shovel ready jobs” had prosperity just around the corner, right? Brooks says that the admission came in an off-the-record session with the President, which kept him from reporting it. I wonder if Brooks or anyone else would have been that particular had George Bush admitted “off the record” that he knew Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction in 2003 or 2004, while continuing to make the argument that the war was necessary because of them. What happened to sourcing as “a...

An impeachment is coming for Barack Obama if the Republicans move into the majority in the U.S. House on Nov. 2, but they won't be able to remove him from the White House. That's the forecast from Jonathan Chait at The New Republic, a statement that pushed him in front of a buzz saw of criticism. "Hear me now and believe me later: If Republicans win and maintain control of the House of Representatives, they are going to impeach President Obama. They won't do it right away. And they won't succeed in removing Obama. (You need 67 Senate votes.) But...

NEW YORK, Sept 23 (Reuters) - Weaker-than-expected economic data boosted U.S. government securities prices on Thursday and seemed to increase the likelihood the Federal Reserve would buy debt to aid the economy. An unexpected rise in new U.S. jobless claims and overnight reports showing a slower pace of growth in the euro zone's services and manufacturing sectors boosted demand for safe-haven government debt. The benchmark 10-year Treasury note US10YT=RR was up more than half a point, its yield easing to 2.50 percent from 2.57 percent late on Wednesday. The 30-year Treasury bond US30YT=RR, rose more than a point, its yield...

New Anti-Obama Billboard. Carter: They Can’t Call Me The Worst President Anymore! By Jason Published: March 19, 2010 It looks like we have another winning billboard making fun of the current administration. This time they an ad to point out how people have compared Obama to Carter’s horrible presidency. The billboard reads: They Can’t Call Me The Worst President Anymore!

Mr. Carter’s political problems in July 1979 are easy to chart. The energy crisis was in full, ripe bloom; there were gas lines across the country, and truckers were organizing protests. Mr. Carter’s close friend Bert Lance, a former director of the Office of Management and Budget, had just been indicted for defrauding the government through illegal loans. And one of Mr. Carter’s former speechwriters, James Fallows, had published a devastating article called “The Passionless Presidency” in the May issue of The Atlantic Monthly. “I came to think that Carter believes 50 things,” Mr. Fallows wrote, “but not one thing.”...

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell tells CNN’s John King that the stimulus was a big mistake and a failure after six months of Obama in office. (see 1:20min video) Sen. McConnell’s statement comes at the same time that the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office issues a second warning regarding the Obama Health Care Reform. The President is touting his Reform as a fix for health care and a cost saving measure. Not so says the CBO, they say that the bill actually saves no money over 10 years.

Well, that didn’t take long. Less than a month ago, Barack Obama was sworn-in as chief executive amid historic promises of “change we can believe in.” But there won’t be a second Obama term if he doesn’t admit that, no matter how adroitly he wraps himself in Reaganesque rhetoric, Leviathan is no better suited for 2009 than it was in 1933 for FDR. Contrary to conventional wisdom, the New Deal’s Big Government spending failed to end the Great Depression. That is clear to anybody who reads Paul Johnson’s masterful chapter on the New Deal in “Modern Times.” Or Amity Schlaes’...