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By Jorge Barake, on August 30th, 2010%
 Foreign Policy
I was having dinner with friends the other night and the subject turned to a recent Wall Street Journal op-ed by Fouad Ajami called “The Obsolescence of Barack Obama.” The subject of the piece — which I had not seen, but now have read — was essentially the decline and fall of the . . . → Read More: Obama’s Political Death Greatly Exaggerated
By Jorge Barake, on August 28th, 2010%
Source: The Observer
Despite an impressive record by the president, discontented American voters are turning against the Democrats.
They won’t give him a break – literally so. Barack Obama has reached that point of his presidency when he can’t even join his fellow citizens in the all-American tradition of the August vacation without taking a . . . → Read More: Great Piece: Barack Obama is Down, but It’s Far Too Early to Count Him Out
By Jorge Barake, on August 26th, 2010%
Source: Religion Dispatches
Last night on his Fox television program, Glenn Beck (now fashioning himself a religion expert) tried to launch a theological attack on President Barack Obama‘s Christianity, opportunistically pasting together a predictable string of Jeremiah-Wright-Michael-Pfleger-Jim-Wallis clips to suggest that the President’s espoused a rogue brand of Christianity that was not Christianity at . . . → Read More: Religious Dispatches: Beck Claims Obama is “Not Christian”
By Jorge Barake, on August 21st, 2010%
Source: The Huffington Post
Reverend Franklin Graham, son of renowned Christian evangelist Billy Graham, said Thursday that the reason a growing number of peoplebelieve President Obama to be a Muslim is because he was, in fact, born into that religion due to the “seed of Islam” that was passed to him through his father, Barack . . . → Read More: Another Embarrassment to Christianity, Franklin Graham. Franklin Graham, Evangelical Minister: Obama’s ‘Problem Is That He Was Born A Muslim’ (VIDEO)
By Jorge Barake, on August 19th, 2010%
Source: MSNBC
Domenico Montanaro writes: NBC‘s Mike Viqueira, who is traveling with the president in Martha’s Vineyard, reports that on the heels of polls showing a substantial number of Americans either don’t know what religion President Obama is, or think –falsely – that he’s a Muslim, the White House is out with a statement on . . . → Read More: White House Response to Pew Poll: Obama, a Christian, for the Record (Again)
By Jorge Barake, on August 19th, 2010%
 Source: Pew Research Center
A substantial and growing number of Americans say that Barack Obama is a Muslim, while the proportion saying he is a Christian has declined. More than a year and a half into his presidency, a plurality of the public says they do not know what religion Obama follows.
A new . . . → Read More: Ignorance, Intolerance and Bigotry: Growing Number of Americans Say Obama is a Muslim
By Jorge Barake, on August 2nd, 2010%
Jennifer Haberkorn/Politico
Republicans may not be able to repeal the Democrats’ health care reform law next year, but they’re eyeing the next best thing: Deny the Obama administration the money it needs to implement the law.
GOP candidates across the country are running on a promise to repeal the law. But simply winning the Houseand the Senate wouldn’t get . . . → Read More: GOP Eyeing To Deny Funding For Health Care Law. More Evidence GOP Does Not Give A Damn About The American People
By Jorge Barake, on July 27th, 2010%
 Daniel Stone/The Gaggle
D.C. flacks like to complain that sometimes a juicy Washington narrative can take on a life of its own based on nothing but rumors. It was certainly the case last week when, seemingly out of no where, Jeb Bush waswidely floated as a candidate in the race for the 2012 GOP . . . → Read More: Another Bush In The White House? No Thank You! Jeb Bush Says No To 2012
By Jorge Barake, on July 24th, 2010%
Christi Parsons/Tribune Washington Bureau
In his weekly radio address, the president says a House GOP plan would kill jobs. Republicans respond that the administration’s policies have failed.
President Obama on Saturday took a shot at a House Republican economic plan he said would kill jobs and endanger the country’s economic recovery.
But Republicans fired back . . . → Read More: Obama And Republicans Trade Charges Over Economy
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