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While speaking Tuesday at Rice University’s Baker Center with author Jon Meacham and former White House chief of staff, James Baker, former President Barack Obama discussed identity politics and its history regarding race in the United States. Obama said that America, particularly American elites, have had a history of “great smugness” when it comes to wealth and status, Partial transcript as follows: OBAMA: We did not adapt quickly enough to the fact that there were people being left behind. And that frustrations were going to flare up and that all of these changes that were happening were happening really quick,...

Republican Rep. Darrell Issa, the chairman of the House Oversight Committee, held a hearing Wednesday on the rollout of HealthCare.gov. copyrighted image One aspect of the hearing focused on the so-called "anonymous shopper" feature of the ObamaCare website, which House Republicans contended wasn't launched because the White House feared higher premiums might drive people away. Copyrighted Image The “anonymous shopper” feature would have allowed people to browse for health insurance without signing into the website. Copyrighted Image Henry Chao, the Deputy Chief Information Officer at the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services said the feature was not launched because “it...

Gibbs calls Obamacare rollout ‘excruciatingly embarrassing’ October 15, 2013 by Michael Dorstewitz 1 Comment With most officials in the Obama administration will admit only that HealthCare.gov, the website that handles the Affordable Care Act, has a “few glitches,” Obama supporter and former White House chief spokesman Robert Gibbs is at least willing to call it the train wreck that it is, and observed that it’s “excruciatingly embarrassing.” When he appeared on “Now With Alex Wagner,” which airs on MSNBC, arguably another White House spokesman, he also said that the website’s designers should be fired. The site is so bad that...

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) -- Former Vice President Dick Cheney walked onstage without any assistance and spoke for an hour and 15 minutes without seeming to tire in his first public engagement since he underwent a heart transplant three weeks ago. "He has been an unmitigated disaster to the country," Cheney said of President Barack Obama. "I can't think of a time when I felt it was more important for us to defeat an incumbent president today with respect to Barack Obama. I think he has been an unmitigated disaster to the country," Cheney said at the Wyoming Republican Party state...

Dick Cheney, just weeks after undergoing heart transplant surgery, plunged back into the political theater Saturday -- praising presumptive nominee Mitt Romney while slamming President Obama as an "unmitigated disaster." The tough words came during an hour-and-15-minute talk at the Wyoming Republican Party state convention in Cheyenne on Saturday. He sat in a plush chair throughout the long chat with daughter Liz Cheney and looked decidedly healthier than recent appearances where he has been gaunt and used a cane. After Rick Santorum dropped out of the race this past week, Cheney in his address urged the party to pull together...

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