Category Archives: Speech

White House to fight to preserve National Day of Prayer

By doris | Published: April 23, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — The Obama administration will fight to preserve the law establishing an annual National Day of Prayer, the Justice Department confirmed Thursday. A federal judge declared the law unconstitutional last week. The Justice Department’s official filing of a “notice to appeal” Thursday came as no surprise, after White House spokesman [...]

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Poll: Tea Party backers wealthier, educated

By doris | Published: April 15, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.com NEW YORK – Tea party supporters are wealthier and more well-educated than the general public, tend to be Republican, white, male, and married, and their strong opposition to the Obama administration is more rooted in political ideology than anxiety about their personal economic situation, according to the latest New York Times/CBS [...]

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Palin drills down policy in high-profile speech

By doris | Published: April 10, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com New Orleans, Louisiana (CNN) — Her speeches are typically loaded with partisan zingers and Obama-bashing, but for the first time since the 2008 presidential campaign, Sarah Palin delivered a speech that focused as much on policy ideas as it did on political combat. Her much-anticipated remarks Friday to the Southern Republican [...]

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Biden, Cheney spar via talk shows

By doris | Published: February 17, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com Washington (CNN) — Vice President Joe Biden and his predecessor Dick Cheney sparred Sunday over terrorism and the Iraq war, duking it out on the most prominent of platforms: the political TV talk show. In separate appearances on different programs, Cheney called the Obama administration “dead wrong” about al Qaeda and [...]

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Palin to Tea Party: America ready for another revolution

By doris | Published: February 8, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com Nashville, Tennessee (CNN) — Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin drew many standing ovations from a friendly crowd Saturday night as she blasted Washington Democrats and the Obama administration in a keynote speech for what was billed as the first national Tea Party Convention. “It’s so inspiring to see real people, not [...]

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Obama says deficit could jeopardize recovery

By doris | Published: January 31, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.msn.com WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama renewed his pledge on Saturday to make job creation his top priority in 2010 but said it was also critical to rein in a record budget deficit that threatened an economic recovery. Obama used his weekly radio and Internet address to remind Americans of the various [...]

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War sometimes justified, Obama says in Nobel Peace Prize speech

By doris | Published: December 11, 2009

Full Story at CNN.com Oslo, Norway (CNN) — President Obama accepted the Nobel Peace Prize Thursday by talking about war and the limits of non-violence. But he also praised the peacemakers of the past, and said the world can and should still strive for peace. “Let us reach for the world that ought to be,” [...]

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Helen Keller statue unveiled at Capitol

By doris | Published: October 8, 2009

Full Story at CNN.com “Some are still dismissed and cast aside for nothing more than being less than perfect,” Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky, said at the unveiling ceremony. “The story of Helen Keller inspires us all.” The statue shows Keller — who lost her sight and hearing to illness when she was 19 [...]

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Obama about to pull the ‘trigger’ on health care?

By doris | Published: September 9, 2009

Full Story at CNN.com Surrounded by liberals demanding a government-run public option and centrist Democrats — along with Republicans — who want to dump the option, Obama just might have his finger on something that can get him through this health care showdown: the “trigger” option. The idea would give insurance companies a defined period [...]

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Clinton backs talks with moderate Taliban

By doris | Published: April 2, 2009

Full Story At  CNN.com “We must support efforts by the government of Afghanistan to separate the extremists of al Qaeda and the Taliban from those who joined their ranks, not out of conviction but out of desperation,” Clinton said in an address laying out the new U.S. strategy for the region that President Obama announced [...]

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Obama: The “Day Of Reckoning Has Arrived”

By doris | Published: February 25, 2009

Full Story At CBS News CBS) Proclaiming to a joint session of Congress and an recession-scarred American people that the “day of reckoning has arrived,” President Obama said Tuesday night that the country must now act “boldly and wisely” to take charge of its future. In a speech pegged on dire economic rhetoric, but laced [...]

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Obama speech Tuesday: A time for theater

By doris | Published: February 24, 2009

Full Story At  msnbc.com The first speech by a new president to a joint session of Congress is one of Washington’s magnificent ceremonial events. Filling the House chamber will be almost all of the members of the House and Senate, joined by black-gowned Supreme Court justices, members of the diplomatic corps, and perhaps a few [...]

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