WASHINGTON — In a searing denouncement, President Barack Obama slammed Donald Trump as “unfit” and “woefully unprepared” to serve in the White House on Tuesday. He challenged Republican lawmakers to drop their support for their party’s nominee, declaring “There has to come a point at which you say enough.” The president’s blistering critique of his […]
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Barack Obama says U.S. will leave 8,400 troops in Afghanistan
Afghan Armed Forces Over Time | FindTheData WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on developments regarding U.S. troop levels in Afghanistan (all times local): Updated11:30 a.m.: Republican leaders in Congress are welcoming President Barack Obama’s decision to keep a larger number of forces in Afghanistan. But they’re criticizing him for not keeping even more. Obama says […]
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Hillary Rodham Clinton, Obama campaign in North Carolina
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Eight years after Hillary Clinton helped unite Democrats behind Barack Obama’s presidential campaign, he’s returning the favor. Obama and Clinton are making their first joint appearance of the 2016 campaign Tuesday in North Carolina, hours after FBI Director James Comey announced he was not recommending charges be brought against Clinton for her […]
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Barack Obama slams Donald Trump’s anti-Muslim rhetoric
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama angrily denounced Donald Trump’s anti-Muslim rhetoric on Tuesday, blasting the views of the presumptive Republican presidential nominee as a threat to American security and a menacing echo of some of the most shameful moments in U.S. history. Obama’s rebuke was his most searing yet of the man seeking to take […]
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President Obama endorses Hillary Rodham Clinton as his successor
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama formally endorsed Hillary Clinton’s bid for the White House on Thursday, praising his former secretary of state’s experience and grit, and urging Democrats to unite behind her in the fight against Republicans in the fall. “Look, I know how hard this job can be. That’s why I know Hillary will be […]
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How long will we ignore Syria’s suffering?
NEW YORK — As the conflict in Syria has raged and spilled over its borders, I have been skeptical that there is an American military solution to the complex political and religious problems at the heart of the crisis. I remain skeptical, and am glad that the Obama administration has been reluctant to engage in […]
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Can’t blame Obama for Trump’s rise
WASHINGTON — Blaming President Obama for the rise of Donald Trump is popular among Republican leaders. They don’t want to take responsibility for the choices made by their own voters or their complicity in tolerating and even encouraging the extremism Trump represents. They also don’t want to face the fact that many Trump ballots were […]
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U.S. troops continuing buildup in Iraq
The emerging policy shaping the Obama Administration’s slow war against ISIS stirs very bad memories for the U.S. military — Vietnam memories. That policy is “gradual escalation.” The Obama Administration does not use the term, but that is what we witness. Gradual escalation proved to be the strategic curse of the Johnson Administration, an error […]
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President Barack Obama to visit Hiroshima in May
World Map of Every Recorded Nuclear Detonation | FindTheData WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama will travel to Hiroshima this month, making the first visit by a sitting American president to the site where the U.S. first dropped an atomic bomb, decimated a city and shot the world into the Atomic Age. The White House announced […]
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GOP senators should do their job
Some members of the U.S. Senate have indicated that they will, again, block President Barack Obama. Senators have a constitutional responsibility to confirm a Supreme Court justice nominated by the president. However, the Republicans in power have stated that they will not even conduct hearings regarding the president’s nominee, Merrick Garland. Garland should not be […]