Sentences with phrase «barack obama did»

Although President Barack Obama did not make a stop in the heart of the continent in a recent trip to Africa, the U.S. administration is taking a new responsibility in this region.

Barack Obama did just give a major speech on the environment that has gotten some attention, though — do you think, despite voter apathy on the subject, that the issue could move the needle for a candidate?

Standing before University of California at Irvine's graduating class this June, Barack Obama did something no U.S. president has done before: He stood up for climate science.

I can understand why a politician says the science is settled — as Barack Obama did... in the State of the Union Address, where he said the «debate is over» — because if your mission is to create a political momentum then it helps to brand the other side as a «Flat Earth Society» (as he did last June).

A usually rhythmically eloquent President Barack Obama did all but stutter in his response to a question posed by a Southern University student during his recent visit to Baton Rouge.

Changes to federal education policy signed into law earlier this month by President Barack Obama did not alter the requirement that 95 percent of students participate in testing.

Of all the cool and meaningful things that Barack Obama did when he was in office, who knew that one of the coolest and most meaningful would be his appearance on Zach Galifianakis» weirdo web series Between Two Ferns.

(Clinton and then - candidate Barack Obama did it frequently during the 2008 presidential campaign).

Trump could be on track to spend as much as triple the time former President Barack Obama did on the golf course in his first year in office — and to play more than former President George W. Bush did in eight years in office.

«It remains to be seen if Hillary Clinton is going to drive voters to the polls the way Barack Obama did,» said Brian Baluta, a Heck campaign spokesman.

In the absence of a final legal resolution, Trump so far has authorized the payments each month, as President Barack Obama did before him.

One rationale for the Long Island showing by the Democrats could be the short coattails of Clinton, who took a smaller share of the vote there than President Barack Obama did in 2012.

Scottie Pippen, like Barack Obama did, shared his thoughts on the Chicago Bulls» firing coach Tom Thibodeau and the future of the...

Of particular note was Crowley stepping into fact check Governor Mitt Romney's statement that President Barack Obama did not call the assault on Benghazi a terrorist attack.

Faced with the challenges of motivating people to take action on things like pension contributions, getting health insurance or going to college, Barack Obama didn't roll the dice on a Super Bowl spot.

President Donald Trump has helped Europe in a way that his predecessor Barack Obama didn't, and Europeans should love Trump for it, an asset manager told CNBC on Thursday.

The former secretary of state wrote that in Pennsylvania, her team had 120 more staffers on the ground than President Barack Obama did four years earlier and spent 211 % more on TV ads.

Barack Obama doesn't want it.

Trump's unexpected announcement that he is mulling the pardon of legendary boxer Jack Johnson for violating the Mann Act raises the obvious question: Why didn't Barack Obama do it first?

Rudy Giuliani's comments last February that President Barack Obama doesn't love America prompted some Bracewell clients to complain to the firm from which the former NYC mayor recently parted ways.

With less than a month to go in the US Presidential Election, one debate between John McCain and Barack Obama done and another scheduled for tonight, and the only debate between Joe Biden and Sarah Palin completed, less than 18 % of

For that matter, given the current state of Congress, it's more or less impossible to see Barack Obama doing it either.

With all the reporting on the Facebook / Cambridge Analytica data breach having been used to manipulate voters for Donald Trump in the 2016 election, the liberal media are silent about Barack Obama doing the same and more in 2012.

With all the reporting on the Facebook / Cambridge Analytica data breach having been used to manipulate voters for Donald Trump in the 2016 election, it is noteworthy that the liberal media are silent about Barack Obama doing the same and more in 2012.

His eight years are up in the White House, so what will President Barack Obama do to bide his Biden-less time?

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THE OFFICIAL REACTION: Austan Goolsbee, an economic advisor to U.S. President Barack Obama, said «what the S&P is doing is making a political judgment and it is one that we don't agree with.»

The CNN anchor moderated a debate between President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney during the 2012 election and took a lot of heat for doing exactly what Fox News» Wallace has said a moderator should avoid.

THE OFFICIAL REACTION: Jay Carney, press secretary to U.S. President Barack Obama, conceded that America «must do better to make clear our nation's will, capacity and commitment to work together to tackle our major fiscal and economic challenges.»

The Jobs Act didn't pass muster with Congress, so Barack Obama has issued some proposals without legislation.

What has former president Barack Obama been doing since leaving office in January 2017?

«Barack and I were raised with so many of the same values: that you work hard for what you want in life; that your word is your bond and you do what you say you're going to do,» Michelle Obama said in 2008.

Appointed to the position in 2009 by President Barack Obama, his job was to overhaul how the government spends money on technology, a task he did until departing last summer.

Even President Barack Obama's chief information officer declared himself an acolyte, saying, «I am killing projects that don't investigate [cloud computing] first.»

Environmentalists heartened by Barack Obama's refusal to issue a permit for the Keystone XL oil pipeline didn't have long to bask in their victory.

The unilateral statement issued by the White House press secretary, Sean Spicer, initially caught some defense, military, and intelligence officials off guard, NBC News and BuzzFeed reported late Monday, and struck many as President Donald Trump's attempt to draw a red line for US military intervention in Syria — something he had criticized President Barack Obama for doing in the past.

This one, sent by «Barack Obama,» has the semi-stalker-ish subject line «If I don't call you» and says Obama will contact donors this week to thank them for contributing to his campaign before the end of the third quarter.

Comey, 56, was nominated by President Barack Obama for the FBI post in 2013 to a 10 - year term, though that appointment does not ensure a director will serve the full term.

MM.LaFleur works off the same basic assumption that President Barack Obama and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg did when they made the decision to pare down their wardrobe selections to only two colors of suits or the same grey shirt for public appearances.

Apart for the cuts Barkan outlines, the legislation also does away with the individual mandate that is part of President Barack Obama's healthcare law, a move that would leave millions without insurance again and could raise costs for consumers.

What this is about is whether or not we will hold to our constitutional republic, because Barack Obama has decided that he is going to arrogate power to himself, and that we don't count with our voice in the House.

Not only has the billionaire businessman turned president - elect called for doing away with trade deals favored by President Barack Obama, he expressed interest in renegotiating the North America Free Trade Agreement, a 22 year - old trade pact between the U.S., Canada and Mexico that eliminated most tariffs on products traded between the countries and strengthened intellectual property enforcement.

If this sounds familiar, it's because former President Barack Obama spent eight years doing it to limited effect.

Medium is aimed at anyone who wants a publishing platform but either doesn't have the time or knowledge to set one up themselves, and the site has hosted commentary from a wide range of celebrities including President Barack Obama.

To find out answers to that and related inquiries, I did some research and also spoke to Richard Painter and Norman Eisen, the former top White House ethics counsels for George W. Bush (2005 - 2007) and Barack Obama (2009 - 2011).

It's like arguing against «corporate personhood» or claiming that Barack Obama is a «socialist»: all you're doing is demonstrating to the world that you don't know what the words you're using really mean.

A Republican president and Republican Congress are threatening to do what President Barack Obama never could: raise taxes on the rich.

Whole Foods CEO John Mackey, who aspires to using his business for a «higher purpose» than just raking in cash (though he's doing that, too), took a public stand against President Barack Obama's healthcare reforms, describing them as akin to «fascism.»

But President Barack Obama, too, has a soft spot for entrepreneurs and is doing what he can from the White House to make it easier to start a business.

Matt Miller, a Justice Department spokesman under President Barack Obama, said he realized after Trump fired Comey that «we all need to expand our imagination about what [Trump] might do to stop this investigation.»

(«I do not view the labor movement as part of the problem,» President Barack Obama said this morning at a White House reception.