Presidential Issues
8/15/2011 | Israel, Presidential Issues
Israel Looms As a Key Issue in GOP Race
CNS News
While foreign policy has not featured strongly in the early stages of the Republican 2012 presidential campaign, events in the comings weeks look set to change that, as candidates seek to burnish pro-Israel credentials in the face of a Palestinian push for U.N. recognition.
Many conservatives, evangelical Christians among them, view firm backing for Israel as a requirement for any sustainable GOP candidacy. It is also an issue of potential vulnerability for President Obama, given the perception that he has been less supportive of Israel than predecessors of either party in recent decades.
The Palestinian Authority (P.A.) plans to seek recognition for “Palestine” during the annual General Assembly session opening next month, and concern that the move – while largely symbolic – could spark fresh violence and worsen chances for a negotiated settlement, provides the nine Republicans currently in the race with an opportunity to distinguish themselves from their rivals on a key foreign policy issue.
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Senate Refuses to Confirm Obama's Liberal Appeals Court Nominee
CNS News
The nomination of controversial Berkeley law professor Goodwin Liu to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals failed by a vote of 52-43 on Thursday with Democratic Sen. Ben Nelson (Neb.) joining Senate Republicans in blocking the long-stalled nomination.
Fifty-one Democrats were joined by Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) in voting to send the Liu nomination to the Senate floor for an up or down vote. The nomination needed to garner 60 votes to be sent to the floor.
Family Research Council President Tony Perkins said the collapse of Liu’s nomination represented a “huge defeat” for President Obama, and that Senate Republicans had “draw[n] the line” on left-wing judges.
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Middle East conflicts reveal media bias
OneNewsNow
A conservative media watchdog says mainstream television networks have shown a blatant double standard when it comes to the coverage of two major incursions under different presidents.
When President George W. Bush made the decision to invade Iraq in 2003, many in the media chastised him, even though he had prior congressional approval to authorize force based on reports that Saddam Hussein possessed "weapons of mass destruction."
However, when President Barack Obama recently ordered air strikes on Libya without congressional approval, the same media failed to challenge him, even reporting it was the right thing to do. Since the operations began last week, the consensus appears to be that Libya does not pose any national security risks for the U.S.
Rich Noyes (Media Research Center)Rich Noyes, director of research at the Media Research Center, says about the Libya situation: "When you listen to liberal reporters, they seem more excited about the fact that the United States is spending its treasure and risking the blood of its sons in something that has no national security implications for United States -- and yet this seems to be where liberals get most excited. They don't like it when we actually do have a security interest."
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Fewer Democratic Candidates Seeking Obama's Help
Associated Press
The days of President Barack Obama traipsing around the country to states like Montana, Indiana or Arkansas in freewheeling campaign mode -- and with sky-high popularity lifting Democratic candidates -- are long over.
With his approval rating sliding, the president in the next few weeks is primarily sticking to big cities -- Milwaukee, Cleveland and Philadelphia -- and other party strongholds, like Connecticut, where he can help fellow Democrats in the midterm election homestretch.
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Obama Touted His Administration’s Anti-Lobbying Pledge, Even Though He’s Violated It
CNS News
In his State of the Union address Wednesday night, President Barack Obama returned to his campaign themes of ethics and transparency, touting his administration as an example of one that is setting new standards.
“That’s what I came to Washington to do,” Obama told a joint session of Congress and the nation Wednesday night. “That’s why – for the first time in history – my administration posts our White House visitors online. And that’s why we’ve excluded lobbyists from policy-making jobs or seats on federal boards and commissions.”
However, the Obama administration has come under scrutiny for violating that pledge. The Pulitzer Prize-winning fact-check Web site PolitiFact was quick to call Obama out regarding lobbyists.
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Obama Closes Doors on Openness
Newsweek
As a senator, Barack Obama denounced the Bush administration for holding "secret energy meetings" with oil executives at the White House. But last week public-interest groups were dismayed when his own administration rejected a Freedom of Information Act request for Secret Service logs showing the identities of coal executives who had visited the White House to discuss Obama's "clean coal" policies. One reason: the disclosure of such records might impinge on privileged "presidential communications." The refusal, approved by White House counsel Greg Craig's office, is the latest in a series of cases in which Obama officials have opted against public disclosure. Since Obama pledged on his first day in office to usher in a "new era" of openness, "nothing has changed," says David -Sobel, a lawyer who litigates FOIA cases. "For a president who said he was going to bring unprecedented transparency to government, you would certainly expect more than the recycling of old Bush secrecy policies."
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Detainees Say They Planned Sept. 11
The New York Times
The five detainees at Guantánamo Bay charged with planning the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks have filed a document with the military commission at the United States naval base there expressing pride at their accomplishment and accepting full responsibility for the killing of nearly 3,000 people. The document, which may be released publicly on Tuesday, uses the Arabic term for a consultative assembly in describing the five men as the “9/11 Shura Council,” and it says their actions were an offering to God, according to excerpts of the document that were read to a reporter by a government official who was not authorized to discuss it publicly. President Obama halted the military proceedings at Guantánamo in the first days after his inauguration, and the five men’s case is on hiatus until the government decides how it will proceed.
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Staff Finds White House in the Technological Dark Ages
WashingtonPost.com
If the Obama campaign represented a sleek, new iPhone kind of future, the first day of the Obama administration looked more like the rotary-dial past. Two years after launching the most technologically savvy presidential campaign in history, Obama officials ran smack into the constraints of the federal bureaucracy yesterday, encountering a jumble of disconnected phone lines, old computer software, and security regulations forbidding outside e-mail accounts. What does that mean in 21st-century terms? No Facebook to communicate with supporters. No outside e-mail log-ins. No instant messaging. Hard adjustments for a staff that helped sweep Obama to power through, among other things, relentless online social networking.
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Bush set to say farewell to the nation
My Way News
WASHINGTON (AP) - President George W. Bush's farewell speech is more than a goodbye to the nation that elected him twice. It is his last chance in office to define his tumultuous presidency in his own, unfiltered terms - a mission that will keep his fire burning even after he fades off to a quieter life. Bush will say goodbye to the country Thursday night. He will follow the script of Presidents Bill Clinton and Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Carter and many before them: Express thanks to the country and pride in the honor of serving, wish the next president well and outline what he considers to be the biggest challenges ahead. And there will be looking back. For presidents, parting thoughts are not about parting shots. This will be no different. But Bush is proud of his record and will go out defending it. In that sense, the goodbye address will underscore the competing accounts of his presidency one last time. Bush and his loyal backers see his record this way: He kept the country safe from attack after terrorism redefined his presidency, cut taxes, freed the people of Afghanistan and Iraq, reformed education, oversaw 52 straight months of job growth, acted decisively when the economy tanked, stuck to principle no matter what his poll numbers, retooled the military and improved federal crisis management after the worst U.S. natural disaster happened on his watch.
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RNC draft rips Bush's bailouts
The Washington Times
In what would amount to a slap in the face to a sitting Republican president and the party's Senate and House leaders, national GOP officials, including the vice chairman of the Republican National Committee, are sponsoring a resolution opposing the resort to "socialist" means to save capitalism. "We can't be a party of small government, free markets and low taxes while supporting bailouts and nationalizing industries, which lead to big government, socialism and high taxes at the expense of individual liberty and freedoms," said Solomon Yue, a cosponsor of a resolution that would put the RNC -- the party's national governing body -- on the record as opposing the U.S. government bailouts of the financial and auto industries. Republican National Vice Chairman and constitutional law attorney James Bopp Jr. authored the resolution and is asking the rest of the 168 voting members of the committee to sign it.
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Obama Cabinet Is Shy on Southerners, Republicans
Bloomberg
Dec. 16 (Bloomberg) -- Barack Obama has moved faster than any modern president-elect in selecting his Cabinet, scouring Wall Street, academia and the Senate to assemble a diverse team that has won bipartisan praise. “He has every basic entity within his government,” said U.S. Representative David Scott, a Georgia Democrat. “He’s got Jewish people, he’s got Protestants, he’s got white, black, you name it.” Republicans including Arizona Senator John McCain, Obama’s opponent in the presidential election, also have applauded his choices. Still, the Democrat’s star-studded roster lacks representatives from two groups: Southerners and the Republicans that he vowed to appoint during the campaign. Forty-two days since winning the presidency, Obama has picked 11 members of his Cabinet and 11 senior White House aides. That’s more than twice the number named by Bill Clinton at this point in his transition to the presidency. It also puts Obama ahead of former Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush, according to the White House Transition Project.
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Emanuel, Blagojevich Aides Discussed Senate Seat
Barack Obama had begun thinking about his Senate successor even before the presidential election, and dispatched Rahm Emanuel days after the vote to contact aides of Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich to begin talking up Mr. Obama's preferred candidates, associates of Mr. Emanuel said this weekend. Mr. Emanuel, a congressman from Chicago, had been approached about being Mr. Obama's White House chief of staff the week before the election, though he hadn't yet officially decided to take the post. Nonetheless, the issue of Mr. Obama's Senate replacement was sensitive enough that senior Obama aides wanted to keep the matter within the circle of Illinois political figures, according to people familiar with campaign deliberations at the time. Among those in Mr. Obama's inner circle, Mr. Emanuel had one of the closest relationships to Mr. Blagojevich, a Democrat. He had succeeded Mr. Blagojevich in 2002 to the House seat that covered Chicago's near north side. Mr. Emanuel didn't talk to Mr. Blagojevich directly about the matter, by phone or in person, according to people familiar with the matter. He spoke by phone with aides to the governor, those people say. Neither Mr. Emanuel nor representatives of the transition team would comment for this article.
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Worker says 'Joe the Plumber' cover-up was forced upon her
The Columbus Dispatch
The state worker who unwittingly ran an improper child-support check on the man known as Joe the Plumber told lawmakers yesterday that a deputy director later "dictated" how she was supposed to cover it up. Vanessa Niekamp, an administrator for the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services' Office of Child Support and a 15-year state employee, said that when Deputy Director Doug Thompson came into her office, "He appeared very upset, his neck was bright red, and he was shaking. He closed my door." Thompson told her she must write an e-mail to the agency's information-security officer, and then "dictated word for word" what she wrote, Niekamp said. He also reminded her that she could be fired at any time, she said. "Within an hour, I took the rest of the day off -- again using my vacation time -- and went directly to the office of the inspector general. I told them everything I knew about what happened."
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Will Supreme Court take case on Obama's citizenship?
The Chicago Tribune
CHICAGO — The U.S. Supreme Court will consider Friday whether to take up a lawsuit challenging President-elect Barack Obama's U.S. citizenship, a continuation of a New Jersey case embraced by some opponents of Obama's election. The meeting of justices will coincide with a vigil by the filer's supporters in Washington on the steps of the nation's highest court. The suit originally sought to stay the election, and was filed on behalf of Leo Donofrio against New Jersey Secretary of State Nina Mitchell Wells. Legal experts say the appeal has little chance of succeeding, despite appearing on the court's schedule. Legal records show it is only the tip of an iceberg of nationwide efforts seeking to derail Obama's election over accusations that he either wasn't born a U.S. citizen or that he later renounced his citizenship in Indonesia. The Obama campaign has maintained that he was born in Hawaii, has an authentic birth certificate, and is a "natural-born" U.S. citizen. Hawaiian officials agree. Among those filing lawsuits is Alan Keyes, who lost to Obama in the 2004 Illinois Senate race. Keyes' suit seeks to halt certification of votes in California. Another suit by a Kentucky man seeks to have a federal judge review Obama's original birth certificate, which Hawaiian officials say is locked in a state vault.
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The Race About Race
The Bulletin
As Americans were dragged across the finish line on Nov. 4, concerns initially existed that Sen. Barack Obama's presidential ambitions could be derailed by the dreaded Bradley Effect - white voters saying publicly they'd vote for a black candidate, but privately voting for a white candidate instead. Such fears failed to materialize.
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Obama to use executive orders for immediate impact
My Way News
WASHINGTON (AP) - President-elect Obama plans to use his executive powers to make an immediate impact when he takes office, perhaps reversing Bush administration policies on stem cell research and domestic drilling for oil and natural gas. John Podesta, Obama's transition chief, said Sunday Obama is reviewing President Bush's executive orders on those issues and others as he works to undo policies enacted during eight years of Republican rule. He said the president can use such orders to move quickly on his own. "There's a lot that the president can do using his executive authority without waiting for congressional action, and I think we'll see the president do that," Podesta said. "I think that he feels like he has a real mandate for change. We need to get off the course that the Bush administration has set." Podesta also said Obama is working to build a diverse Cabinet. That includes reaching out to Republicans and independents - part of the broad coalition that supported Obama during the race against Republican John McCain. Defense Secretary Robert Gates has been mentioned as a possible holdover.
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Post-Election National Conference Call
Conservative Commentators Reflect
Newsguests would like to welcome and thank our panel of national leaders and the members of the press for joining our teleconference call today. I'm Debbie Hamilton, president of Newsguest, and Felicia Horton, who's on the line, is our national media director. Newsguest.com is a public relations firm providing prepared guests on a wide variety of provocative topics to local, regional, and national media. The reason for our series of teleconference calls is to give the media the opportunity to hear the perspectives from top conservative leaders in the country. And today it is, of course, regarding the results of the 2008 presidential election. We ask that members of the press go ahead and ask questions but, importantly, because this conference call is being recorded, when asking a question, please announce your name and media organization and direct the question at one of our commentators by name. We do have the silent entry and exit on the line so as not to distract the call for the recording. Our commentators today are Connie Mackey, senior vice-president from Family Research Council Action, FRC Action; Alan Chambers, president of Exodus International; Dr. Gerald Kieschnick, president of the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod; Marjorie [Deniselser], president of the Susan B. Anthony List; Ken Blackwell, chairman for the Coalition for a Conservative Majority and vice-chair of the 2008 Republican Platform Committee; and Colin Hanna, president of Let Freedom Ring.
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Chuck Colson, Prison FellowshipTom DeLay, Former House Majority Leader, United States House of RepresentativesWilliam Devlin, National President, Redeem The VoteFrank Gaffney, Founder and President , Center for Security PolicyRick Green, President, Torch of Freedom FoundationColin Hanna, Colin Hanna, President, Let Freedom Ring USADr. Janice Hollis, Bishop, Progressive Believers MinistriesBishop Harry R. Jackson, Senior Pastor, Hope Christian ChurchGary Marx, Executive Director, Judicial Confirmation NetworkJoe Murray, Columnist, The BulletinGrover Norquist, President, Americans for Tax Reform (ATR)10/28/2008 | Presidential Issues
Obama: Constitution Outdated
The Bulletin
Did the Supreme Court of the United States under Chief Justice Earl Warren err by not taking steps to redistribute wealth during the Civil Rights era? In a 2001 interview given to WBEZ, a Chicago public radio station, Barack Obama suggested the answered was yes. After praising the victories of the Civil Rights movement, Mr. Obama said, "But the Supreme Court never ventured into the issues of redistribution of wealth and the more basic issues of political and economic justice in this society, and to that extent, as radical as, I think, people try to characterize the Warren court, it wasn't that radical; it didn't break free from the essential constraints that were placed by the Founding Fathers and the Constitution, as least as it's been interpreted." Mr. Obama defended the use of the Supreme Court, the least democratic of the three branches of government, to bring about economic change by arguing he could craft a "theoretical justification for it legally" and that he "could come up with a rationale for bringing about economic change through the courts." And where the Court refused to break free of the constitutional restraints placed on it, Mr. Obama argued community activists became too reliant on the court system to usher in civil rights change and such a reliance thwarted efforts to bring about "redistributive change."
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Group Puts Together Ads That Focus On Small Town Pa.
The Bulletin
If John McCain can win Pennsylvania, then he wins the White House, the latest banter from the Beltway goes. But with the presidential race tightening just days before the election, Pennsylvania holds the keys to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., and a West Chester-based grassroots organization is reminding Pennsylvania voters - many of whom live on the rolling countryside between Philadelphia and Pittsburgh - just how Sen. Barack Obama views small town America. "Sen. Obama, we are Pennsylvanians from small towns," an unidentified woman says before a number of faces appear in the ad questioning Mr. Obama's view of small-town Pennsylvania. Let Freedom Ring, a group dedicated to "constitutional government, economic freedom and traditional values," is airing the ad as part of a $5 million campaign to raise voter awareness.
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