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With his appointment of Sonia Sotomayor and a fiery speech in Nevada, President Obama bought himself a little breathing space with congressional Democrats after taking a big political hit from them last week.
My message to the national media and political pundits on their premature obits on the Republican Party: Quit throwing dirt on our graves!
Former President Carter warned members of Congress on Tuesday that America's failure to achieve energy independence is threatening the country's national security, undermining its long-term potential for economic growth and contributing to global warming.
Today is the 100th day of the Obama administration. Judging a president after 100 days is not realistic -- and may be absurd.
President Obama currently has the polls on his side. In numerous surveys, Americans have said they are pleased with Obama's performance thus far and confident the president can fix the economy, acknowledging this will take some time.
Tomorrow marks the end of the third week of President Barack Obama's Hundred Days. After what can only be described as a euphoric inauguration, Obama has encountered some trouble.
When presidents enter the White House, they have approximately 100 days to show what they are made of.
When a new president strolls into the White House, there's a kick in his step and a twinkle in his eyes.
A new national poll appears to validate the adage that time heals all wounds, at least when it comes to two former presidents of the United States.
Griffin Bell, who served as attorney general in the Carter administration, has died, according to the Carter Center in Atlanta, Georgia. He was 90.
With his appointment of Sonia Sotomayor and a fiery speech in Nevada, President Obama bought himself a little breathing space with congressional Democrats after taking a big political hit from them last week.
My message to the national media and political pundits on their premature obits on the Republican Party: Quit throwing dirt on our graves!
Former President Carter warned members of Congress on Tuesday that America's failure to achieve energy independence is threatening the country's national security, undermining its long-term potential for economic growth and contributing to global warming.
Today is the 100th day of the Obama administration. Judging a president after 100 days is not realistic -- and may be absurd.
President Obama currently has the polls on his side. In numerous surveys, Americans have said they are pleased with Obama's performance thus far and confident the president can fix the economy, acknowledging this will take some time.
Tomorrow marks the end of the third week of President Barack Obama's Hundred Days. After what can only be described as a euphoric inauguration, Obama has encountered some trouble.
When presidents enter the White House, they have approximately 100 days to show what they are made of.
When a new president strolls into the White House, there's a kick in his step and a twinkle in his eyes.
A new national poll appears to validate the adage that time heals all wounds, at least when it comes to two former presidents of the United States.
Griffin Bell, who served as attorney general in the Carter administration, has died, according to the Carter Center in Atlanta, Georgia. He was 90.
It's a position that John Quincy Adams once called downright pathetic: that of a former president.
Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai said Wednesday that Zimbabwe is in shambles and warned that deaths from starvation and a cholera outbreak threaten to surge with the rainy season approaching.
The lame-duck president is believed to be one of the more impotent figures in American politics -- a commander in chief who is unable to do much because he lacks political muscle.
The ten weeks from a President's election to his inauguration are arguably more crucial a period than any during his time in office. And one that history has shown can easily be mishandled
When presidents enter the White House, they have approximately 100 days to show what they are made of.
For decades, Roe v. Wade divided Catholics from their Democratic leanings. But that may all be changing
Sen. John McCain likes to say he enjoys being the underdog. After all, this is the relentless candidate who somehow managed to capture his party's nomination after the political world left him for dead in the summer of 2007.
Which U.S. president famously took down the solar panels which had previously been fitted in the White House?
Solving the energy crisis requires sacrifice. For the good of the country, we should be sweating
Analysis: Why is the Democratic nominee considering former generals and officers to be his running mate?
A form guide to the former military officers under consideration to be Barack Obama's running mate
The next president is likely to have an unprecedented opportunity to name a majority of the Federal Reserve's Board of Governors immediately after being sworn into office.
What Bush and his would-be successors can learn from the fate of the 39th President
Hamilton Jordan Sr., campaign adviser and chief of staff under President Carter, died Tuesday of cancer, his family said. He was 63.
Your paycheck is shrinking, gas costs $4 a gallon, and your house is losing value. Here's what can be done
Thirty-five years ago today, Nixon was the first President to use the term "God bless America" in an official speech. A look at how the phrase has become de rigueur in American politics ever since.
Former President Carter very politely denied Wednesday that the secretary of state or anyone else in her department had warned him against meeting with Hamas leaders during his recent trip to the Middle East.
A group of Nigerian rebels who wrote a letter to U.S. President George W. Bush, stating that they attacked two oil pipelines Monday, have asked for former President Jimmy Carter and actor George Clooney to help solve issues in the oil-rich Niger-delta.
After talks with former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, Hamas' exiled leader Khalid Meshaal said Monday the militant group has no plans to recognize Israel.
Former President Carter met Friday with a top Hamas politician, exiled leader Khalid Meshaal, in Damascus, Syria, Carter aides said.
Former President Carter met with senior Hamas officials in the Egyptian capital Thursday, rankling the Israeli and U.S. governments, which say it runs counter to their policies of not negotiating with terrorists.
The Bush administration has urged former President Jimmy Carter not to go forward with plans to meet with the leader of Hamas, the U.S. State Department said Thursday.
It was a woman's raw, bleeding hands that led Jock Brandis to make a promise.
The presidential candidate beat both former Presidents Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter to win best spoken word album for his audio version of his book "The Audacity Of Hope: Thoughts On Reclaiming The American Dream"
Some historians credit Republican President Warren G. Harding with running the first campaign that made use of celebrity endorsement.
Big decisions will be made in Iowa on Thursday. Caucus-goers will vote based on politics, leadership, group psychology -- and sometimes just 'cause Daddy told them so
"I have a dream". Martin Luther King's famous speech cemented his status as one of the world's greatest peace makers. The American civil rights activist was the youngest man ever to win the Nobel Peace Prize. His life mission was to make the planet a better place.
It's one year until Election Day 2008. Do the current polls tell us anything a year before the election? Yes, they tell us something, but you have to be careful.
The United States tortures prisoners in violation of international law, former President Carter said Wednesday.
Former President Carter got in a shouting match Wednesday with Sudanese security officials who blocked him from a town in Darfur
Former President Jimmy Carter welcomed Democratic presidential hopeful John Edwards to South Georgia on Wednesday, embracing the fellow Southerner as a kindred spirit on poverty and the environment.
For weeks now, many of my colleagues have been torn between either wringing their hands about how soon the presidential campaign is starting or plunging full-scale into overcovering it. But let's take a bold step toward the next thing to worry about -- how soon it will end.
Former President Jimmy Carter's controversial book and subsequent remarks about the Israel-Palestinian conflict have prompted the resignations of 14 people from an advisory board of the Carter Center, the 25-year-old Atlanta-based humanitarian organization.
The body of former President Gerald Ford ended its sentimental journey Wednesday afternoon in Grand Rapids, where his body was placed in a hillside tomb as the sun declined in the cloudless winter sky.
Former President Gerald Ford, who became president in 1974 after the resignation of Richard Nixon, died Tuesday at 93.
It was at Jeane Kirkpatrick's funeral this week that I finally heard of some good achieved by the United Nations amidst all its dithering and graft. According to Jeane's pastor, during her momentous tenure as our U.N. ambassador, Jeane was so wobbled by the international body's cynicism and moral emptiness that she forsook years of atheism and became a person of faith. Mind you, she had always had an abundance of secular faith before President Ronald Reagan tapped her for the United Nations. Her faith in the American way of life, its freedom, democracy and equality was as ardent as it was intelligently conceived. But after leaving the house of hustlers on the East River, she became deeply Christian; and religion gently informed all she thought and did thereafter.
So, one of the most secretive and repressive nations on Earth has tested a nuclear device: the "real" question, obviously, is not what this means for the peace of the world, but whether it pushes the Mark Foley scandal to the political sidelines. So let's ask: When does an unexpected news event change the subject?
Facts are facts, and such is the degree of politicization in the republic today that when a political organization announces a literary prize the perspicacious among us have a pretty good idea who the winner will be. When the left-leaning New York Times Book Review announced on its cover that a survey of litterateurs had chosen the finest novel of the past 25 years, close students of that tribe knew before opening the magazine that the award had gone to Toni Morrison. Thus, you will not be surprised to hear that the conservative panel that annually awards the J. Gordon Coogler Award for the Worst Book of the Year has conferred the 2005 prize on Jimmy Carter. Jimmy published a book; he wins the Worst Book of the Year Award -- once again. This is not Jimmy's first Coogler. He has now won the award twice. No other literary impostor can make that claim.
Former President Jimmy Carter said Wednesday that he opposes the House's version of immigration legislation, and he encouraged Israel to negotiate directly with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas.
For weeks now civilized observers around the world have been astonished by the dispendious angers vented by indignant young Muslims. These young indignados have listened to the counsel of their venerable leaders in government and in the mosques. They have noted the intolerable provocations of the unbelievers. Finally, they have taken to the streets and city squares to burn flags, bash passersby, rush the cops, and -- from what I have observed on the TV news -- take a swing or two at each other. Their righteous anger could be contained only so long.
A U.S. president's cabinet can indeed be bought, if you've got enough money.
Hamas deserves to be recognized by the international community, and despite the group's militant history, there is a chance the soon-to-be Palestinian leaders could turn away from violence, former President Jimmy Carter said Wednesday.
We live in interesting times, we do, we do. We can read in our daily newspapers that our government is about to launch a three-day propaganda blitz to convince us all that its secret program to spy on us is something we really want and need. "A campaign of high-profile national security events," reports The New York Times, follows "Karl Rove's blistering speech to national Republicans" about what a swell political issue this is for their party.
Americans are, by actual measurement, the most optimistic people on the planet. It's deep in our genes. With the exception of those whose ancestors were here when Columbus arrived or those whose ancestors were brought here against their will in chains, every American is either an immigrant or the direct descendant of immigrants.
Former President Jimmy Carter said Friday that there isn't "any doubt" the American people were misled about the war in Iraq and that President George Bush's policy on the war is a "radical departure from the policies of any president."
I think it was Broadway impresario David Merrick who once advertised a show using blurbs from people who had the same names as New York theater critics.
Former President Jimmy Carter said Monday that the new Palestinian Authority leadership has expressed support for the U.S.-backed Middle East peace plan, but that Israel still had concerns.
When people learn that my adult life has been spent either working in or covering American politics, they often ask what I think was the best run national campaign. My answer surprises many: the 1976 Republican campaign in behalf of Gerald Ford.
It's the question Ronald Reagan used to win the presidency in 1980: Are you better off now than you were four years ago?
The Thursday before Tuesday's presidential election, I gave a noontime speech to a group that politically, one of its members told me privately, was somewhere to the right of Romania's late, unlamented boss, Nicolae Ceausescu.
To those of us who eat, sleep and occasionally drink politics, nearly everything that happens in a presidential campaign is interesting, but very few things are really important.
As long as the crowds keep coming, Will Smith will be ready to walk down the red carpet to promote his latest movie.
Former President Jimmy Carter addressed the Democratic National Convention Monday night. This is a transcript of his speech.
Former President Jimmy Carter called on Americans Monday night to repudiate the "extremist doctrines" of the Bush administration that he said have "cost our nation its reputation as the world's most admired champion of freedom and justice."
Hours before former President Jimmy Carter was to speak at the Democratic National Convention on Monday evening, CNN's Judy Woodruff asked him if his party has changed in the 28 years since he was first nominated for president.
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A veritable who's who of the Democratic establishment gathered with presumptive presidential nominee Sen. John Kerry for a fund-raising gala designed to show off party unity in the coming battle with President Bush.
Not all of president bush's critics are Democrats. "I guess the word I have to use is 'disappointing,'" says James Gattuso, who researches regulatory policy at the conservative Heritage Foundation....
Former President Jimmy Carter said Friday he was embarrassed by the Georgia Department of Education proposal to eliminate the word "evolution" from the state's curriculum.
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The consumer spending party may be winding down in a hurry. Credit card debt has been the stimulant that's kept the party hearty. But even though many lenders are still offering whatever they can t...
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The present writer has long tended to twitch uncontrollably any time somebody speaks warmly of Jimmy Carter, so he has been more spastic than usual lately. Esteemwise -- there is no denying it -- J...
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We turn now to a fascinating and strangely unanalyzed moment in recent history. It is Wednesday, August 17. President Zia of Pakistan has just died in a plane crash. Senator Quayle of Indiana has b...
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