Barack Obama

I am still at the Clinton Global Initiative Annual Meeting and I want to suggest a few tactical political themes that arose as sub-context in the Monday night meeting I had with the former President. Bill Clinton is on message. Back in…

Via Bloomberg: White House officials expect Lawrence Summers to leave his job as the president’s National Economic Council director after November’s congressional elections, according to three people familiar with the matter. His…

Electoral disaster has a way of focusing the mind. Perhaps this is the best way to explain President Obama’s latest initiatives: an investment in the nation’s roads, railways and runways that would cost at least $50 billion, along with a…

Critiquing Obama's economic policy How Obama Got Rolled by Wall Street – Newsweek FT.com / Columnists / Martin Wolf - Obama was too cautious in fearful times Michael Gerson - Obama's wandering economic message My take:…

Topic: The President's Performance To Date Eugene Robinson - President Obama's winning streak Michael Gerson - The lost promise of Barack Obama The Usual Fare Greek crisis refuses to go away - Telegraph Nytt bonussystem hos…

Recently Press Secretary Robert Gibbs made an unsuccessful attempt to pin blame for the Obama Administration's failed economic policies on the "professional left." Gibbs said "those people ought to be drug tested" and…

In looking back on the efficacy of stimulus in the United States, Ezra Klein has a few thoughts in the Washington Post's "You've seen the stimulus. Now, meet the anti-stimulus." A multiple choice question for you: Did the…

Jon Stewart manages to be funny while still skewering President Obama for not living up to a lot of his campaign promises. Not exactly change you can believe in, is it?

Must read: Obama and Wall Street/ Obama and Civil Liberties / Obama and Big Oil / Obama and China Psychoanalyzing the Relationship Between Obama and Wall Street -- New York Magazine Obama wins the right to detain people with no…

Is the Euro depreciation planned or just a by-product of currency revulsion? No one knows. However, the events of the past week following the European shock and awe package are curious to say the least. Here's one curiosity. In the…