Sentences with phrase «obama was the right person for»

You should be asking if Obama was the right person for the job.

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• Speaking of Time's Up... Attorney Tina Tchen, who Bloomberg describes as «arguably the most well - connected person working in women's rights today, thanks to her six years as an assistant to President Barack Obama and as first lady Michelle Obama's chief of staff,» talks about why it was so important that Time's Up include a legal defense fund: «The fastest way to make sure that someone isn't getting bullied by a lawyer for someone rich and powerful is to make sure that person has a lawyer, too.»

«We need to invest every defense dollar to meet the threat that we're facing right now as a nation,» she told CNN's Wolf Blitzer later on Wednesday, arguing that the Obama administration's decision to allow transgender people to serve would cost $ 1.35 billion over a decade just for sex - reassignment surgeries.

Lately, everyone from President Barack Obama to Shakira and Angela Bassett has been encouraging people to «learn to code,» which begs the question: What kind of learning environment is right for you?

If we actuall had a Congress who cared about the People they swore to serve and did not take vacations 1 week for every 2 they work (new Boehner rule when he became Speaker), actually did work and created bills that were other than ending abortion rights or killing Medicare, stopped opposing ending the fraud Bush wars that raise our debt by more than a trillion a month (and Republicans then blame Obama for the rising debt from their wars), and acted like humans we would already be well into recovery.

People of color have voted and will continue to vote for Barak Obama... The only thing he has done for people of color is be of color and be the elected POTUS... When Obama's eight years is at an end the person who runs against the next democrat will only have to campaign by stating repeatedly «I am a Republican»... Whatever doesn't go right in his administration will be blamed on Obama just as he blamed his failures on Bush... His signature health care program exempts Muslims, Scientologists, AmishPeople of color have voted and will continue to vote for Barak Obama... The only thing he has done for people of color is be of color and be the elected POTUS... When Obama's eight years is at an end the person who runs against the next democrat will only have to campaign by stating repeatedly «I am a Republican»... Whatever doesn't go right in his administration will be blamed on Obama just as he blamed his failures on Bush... His signature health care program exempts Muslims, Scientologists, Amishpeople of color is be of color and be the elected POTUS... When Obama's eight years is at an end the person who runs against the next democrat will only have to campaign by stating repeatedly «I am a Republican»... Whatever doesn't go right in his administration will be blamed on Obama just as he blamed his failures on Bush... His signature health care program exempts Muslims, Scientologists, Amish etc..

Obama is for people having equal rights and the right to choose.

Will the Christian right vote for a person they believe is in a CULT or Obama who is a Christian???? Hummm!!!! Better yet, do they still believe he us a Muslim!!!

Tell me something, if the Catholic church rulled the mark of cain refered to black people, and thus would only pay for insurance for their white employees, and the Obama administration said that was not permissable; would you be defending their right to stand on principle, defending their right to deny insurance for their black employees on principle, and complaining about the cost of insuring their black employees?

I'm sure there are people out there praying for Obama, and that there have been prayers and fasts for past candidates as well — Romney's mormonism doesn't necessarily have anything to do with the fact that a woman is scared about the direction on the country and doesn't think Obama has it right.

yes, he has his right wing militant racists as supporters, who if things were right, wouldn't have any voice... but Obama had people that voted for him strictly on his skin color and who hate all white people....

For Obama to be congruent, he should let people off the hook for breaking the law because their heart was in the right plaFor Obama to be congruent, he should let people off the hook for breaking the law because their heart was in the right plafor breaking the law because their heart was in the right place?

For example, when Obama and the democrats forced Obamacare through congress in 2009, with the republic party pretty much excluded from the crafting of the bill, a lot of conservative and right wing people felt disenfranchised - a major change to their lives (that cost them quite a bit of money) was made without their...

For example, when Obama and the democrats forced Obamacare through congress in 2009, with the republic party pretty much excluded from the crafting of the bill, a lot of conservative and right wing people felt disenfranchised - a major change to their lives (that cost them quite a bit of money) was made without their input.

The pair each released a statements acknowledging Obama struck the right tone on several fronts, but they were critical of him for missing out on the chance to rally support behind the movement to make it more difficult for potentially dangerous people to get their hands on guns and ammunition.

At the Democratic Party's lunchtime meeting in Tarrytown, Schumer spoke to his hopes for the future, including that he will become Senate majority leader and, in the event the Republican - controlled Senate does not relent in its opposition to an Obama nominee, «our madam president will surely nominate a person for the Supreme Court who is in the legal mainstream (and) will uphold fundamental rights and common sense precedents now so severely under attack by the right - wing.»

Drew Endy (right) was named one of Esquire's 75 most influential people of the 21st century and one of President Barack Obama's 2013 Champions of Change for his work redesigning genomes and developing genetically encoded computers.

Actually, that's what many people on the left do claim, and that was the basis for the Obama Administration's 2014 Dear Colleague Letter on the topic, which gave the Office for Civil Rights (and Justice Department) the authority to investigate school districts based on racial disparities in discipline rates alone.

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Meanwhile, people right up to President Obama are now touting an «all of the above» strategy for «American Energy,» including more drilling and mining.

A few years ago, when I was first launched into becoming the amateur investigator of what's up with whatsupwiththat, and the flood of really well crafted (certainly not done by ignorant people) anonymous emails conveying little known proof of Obama's secret Islamitude, and other lies that would damage Rush Limbaugh's reputation if he were to personally deliver them... Ah Say, Ah Say (Foghorn Leghorn accent) when I was first launched into all that, from reading prodigious comment - storms in many places, including judithcurry.com, but also invading more liberal venues, I concluded what we have here is less a movement for anything, than a massively stroked and stoked «Great Liberal Hating and Baiting Cult», with a very big self - organizing component, but definitely nourished in all sorts of ways by the folks you can read about in Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right by Jane Meyer (best book yet of its class and I've read many).

What's even more mind - boggling about all of this is that despite the realities of how good things have been for fossil fuel companies in recent years, people on the right still claim that President Obama is anti-drilling, anti-oil and totally in - line with the environmentalists.

«There's no doubt that for us to take on climate change in a serious way would involve making some tough political choices, and you know, understandably, I think the American people right now have been so focused and will continue to be focused on our economy and jobs and growth that, you know, if the message is somehow we're going to ignore jobs and growth simply to address climate change, I don't think anybody's going to go for that,» President Obama said at a press conference in response a question by New York Times reporter, Mark Landler.

[Update - The New York Times» Dealbook also critiques Cox for lack of leadership and considers whether Obama's nominee, Mary L. Schapiro, is the right person to head the SEC].

For a good description of some of the corporations, people, and machinery behind these right - wing message groups, take a look at an article in the latest issue of New Yorker, «Covert Operations, The billionaire brothers who are waging a war against Obama,» by Jane Mayer.