Tag: Obama
Sonia Sotomayor’s hearings face: A visual record of our national politics
Judge Sonia Sotomayor's face during her Supreme Court nomination hearings is a YouTube-era national treasure. Turn down the volume as you watch her and...
Feds: Obama books pose national-security threat
The federal government rejected a request by Ahmed Omar Abu Ali, an inmate at the supermax prison in Florence, Colo., who asked to read...
Foreclosure-reform barely blipping on Obama radar
Multiplying failed mortgages and home foreclosures were at the heart of the global financial meltdown and remain a national socio-economic disaster. So-called "cramdown" legislation...
Stories the midyear voting records tell
Fort Collins Coloradoan editor Bob Moore wrote short sharp blog today on Congressional Quarterly's midyear voting trends report. Moore says Republicans will blast 4th...
Battle brewing between Obama and civil liberties groups on detentions
It was a blind quote hitting the civil-libertarian solar plexus. Bad enough that, as ProPublica’s Dafna Linzner and The Washington Post’s Peter Finn reported late on Friday afternoon, the Obama administration was readying an executive order that would establish a system of preventive detention in terrorism cases. President Obama himself had indicated in a May speech at the National Archives that he wanted to seek legislation toward the same idea.
But now an administration official had told reporters that those same opponents of preventive detention had given the president cover to pursue it: “Civil liberties groups have encouraged the administration, that if a prolonged detention system were to be sought, to do it through executive order.”
Would-Be-Gov. Penry’s rehashed Republican revolution
Josh "unannounced candidate for governor" Penry threw down the gauntlet Wednesday to fellow GOP officials, calling for an end to "flim-flam, mealy-mouthed Republicans." We must provide a "contrast" and not merely be an "echo chamber" for the Democrats if we're going to win in 2010, he said. What a speech!
Except, aren't we now witnessing the humiliating fallout of the stridently partisan 1990s Republican Revolution?
Obama called the Clintons
Barack Obama called Hillary Clinton last night from a campaign stop in Montana to thank her for her speech endorsing him, according to an Obama...
Unofficial Obama Gear is Hot Commodity in Denver
If pop culture were to decide this year's presidential election, Barack Obama would handily win both the Democratic nomination and the general election.On May...
Vail-area Superdelegate Urges Others to ‘Get Off the Fence’
Superdelegate Debbie Marquez of Edwards, who declared her support for Sen. Barack Obama in early February, said it's time for her undeclared counterparts in...
Stop The Presses! Dobson’s Gonna Vote!
This week, Colorado Springs-based Focus on the Family issued a "Special Alert" informing anyone left who cares that, just like millions of other people,...