By ASSOCIATED PRESS MIAMI — Stepping up his demand to change the nation’s immigration laws, President Barack Obama on Friday promised graduates at a vast, multicultural community college that he’ll keep working to help students not legally in the U.S. to become American citizens. The president’s renewed endorsement of the DREAM Act, which has become [...]
[..more]SUZETTE LABOY Associated Press MIAMI — Changing demographics mean challenges facing Latino students are of importance to the entire nation, a senior U.S. Department of Education official presenting a report in Miami said Wednesday. “Our numbers have grown so large that the future of the U.S. is inextricably linked to the future of the Latino [...]
[..more]Associated Press WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama says he’s releasing his long-form birth certificate because the country doesn’t have time for the “distraction” and “silliness” of questions being persistently raised about where he was born. The president spoke at the White House on Wednesday after taking the unexpected step of releasing the document, which supplements [...]
[..more]President Barack Obama hopes the release of his birth certificate Wednesday will prove once and for all that he was born in Hawaii, and is therefore a U.S. citizen eligible to be president of the United States.
[..more]By ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — With gas prices climbing and little relief in sight, President Barack Obama is scrambling to get ahead of the latest potential obstacle to his re-election bid, even as Republicans are making plans to exploit the issue. No one seems more aware of the electoral peril than Obama himself. “My poll [...]
[..more]President Barack Obama and his wife donated $131,075 to the Fisher House Foundation last year. God bless them for doing so. But the appearance of the donation as an itemized deduction on the president’s 2010 tax form provides a curious contrast to the speech he gave on taxes and the federal deficit just five days before the filing deadline.
[..more]By Naples Daily News staff report President Barack Obama is promoting his new deficit-reduction plan by drawing sharp contrasts with a House Republican budget that he says offers a vision that “is wrong for America.” In his weekly radio and Internet address Saturday, Obama contended that Republicans want to dismantle venerable safety net programs and [...]
[..more]Staff reports TAMPA — Besides being the potential site of the Republican National Convention next year, Tampa will also host a debate of GOP presidential candidates. The St. Petersburg Times is teaming with NBC News and others to sponsor the debate early in 2012 at the St. Pete Times Forum. That’s the same venue that [...]
[..more]By ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama promised to change Washington’s ways. Yet he’s as caught up in them as ever. As the week began, Obama kicked off his re-election bid with a sunny video of people talking about their hopes and needs, the very image of life outside Washington politics. By week’s end, [...]
[..more]Associated Press TALLAHASSEE — President Barack Obama has some work to do with Florida voters if he hopes to win the state’s 29 electoral votes next year, a Quinnipiac University poll released Thursday shows. Slightly more than half of registered voters said they disapprove of the job Obama is doing and that he doesn’t deserve [...]
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