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Obama stories in our blog
Price of gas when Obama took office: $1.81
January 22, 2012
Gasoline prices were lower when President Obama took office. Can you remember why the price of gas was so low?
Debt, Medicare, spending, deficit: Obama speech, April 13, 2011
April 13, 2011
President Obama’s speech: Video and full text of his remarks at George Washington University in Washington, D.C.
Obama in the news: He quit smoking
February 8, 2011
President Obama quit smoking, and you can quit smoking too.
Obama a Keynesian? Ron Johnson says 'start digging'
November 3, 2010
Meanwhile, Ron Johnson, soon-to-be senator from Wisconsin, knows how to get out of a deep hole.
Al Franken speech: Obama's car-in-the-ditch metaphor
October 26, 2010
Sen. Al Franken revises President Obama’s car-in-the-ditch analogy during a rally at the University of Minnesota supporting Mark Dayton for governor.
Pledge to America: Republican tax cuts cost jobs, hurt grandchildren
September 23, 2010
What if there was a plan with a proven history of creating lots of jobs while balancing the budget? As it turns out, there is.
Ditch Day plus 2 years: Obama, the Tea Party, and the attention of Americans
September 18, 2010
Exactly 2 years after America’s economy crashed into a ditch, Americans are considering taking the same wrong turn yet again.
Barack Obama speech, town hall meeting in Racine, Wis.
July 3, 2010
President Barack Obama visits Racine, Wisconsin for a town hall meeting as midterm election season begins to warm up.
The Tea Party and a warped sense of time
April 20, 2010
Can the 1-year-old Tea Party really be credited for Wisconsin’s 5-year trend toward lower taxes? Our newspaper thinks so.
Dick Cheney: A record of recklessness
February 14, 2010
When Dick Cheney sounds off on safety and security, someone should ask him about Tora Bora or the liquid bomb plot.
'Prayer for Obama': Psalms 109:8
November 17, 2009
Psalms 109:8 is a “prayer for Obama,” according to an Internet meme: Let his days be few; and let another take his office.
Heart-shaped potato
September 22, 2009
The heart-shaped potato that dazzled David Letterman and President Obama is not the only one in existence.
Glenn Beck on Fox News + Jon Stewart, Keith Olbermann = Hilarious!
September 5, 2009
Keith Olbermann and Jon Stewart’s segments on Glenn Beck’s lunacy have been hysterical. Do not miss these.
Stephen Colbert reports from Iraq this week
June 8, 2009
‘The Colbert Report’ should be especially good this week, with Stephen Colbert on location in Baghdad, Iraq.
Portuguese Water Dog for the Obamas, as recommended by Janet Dahl
February 25, 2009
The People magazine story comes out on Friday. Janet Dahl wrote about them on January 12.
MSNBC: Interactive inauguration, complete text and video
January 20, 2009
MSNBC’s ‘Explore’ feature is a cool new marriage of online video and text.
Breathtaking images
January 20, 2009
We’re watching the inauguration on C-SPAN, and the streaming HD video from CBS.
Barack Obama loves Dixie Kitchen on 'Check, Please!' (updated)
January 7, 2009
A lost episode of ‘Check, Please!’ featuring restaurant reviewer Barack Obama will finally air on Chicago’s WTTW before the inauguration.
Barack Obama: Jerk or Jedi?
December 29, 2008
Does the media really have to fan every flame and cover every sandwich?
Live blogging Election Day 2008
November 4, 2008
Election Day 2008, as experienced in our living room.
Early voting in Racine
October 22, 2008
Barack Obama and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. both said early voting was the way to go this time, and so that’s what we did.
Racine's minute in ABC's 'World News' spotlight
October 11, 2008
The Dow drops 679 points and throng of Obama supporters gathers in downtown Racine. ABC World News, here in our city to cover the election, shows none of this.
Warning in America: Andrew J. Bacevich on 'Bill Moyers Journal'
August 18, 2008
Andrew J. Bacevich tells Bill Moyers that America’s profligacy and its imperial presidency are leading the nation into big trouble.
Saddleback forum followup
August 18, 2008
John McCain will give us hope and inspiration, Rick Warren’s “Cone of Silence” was apparently a joke.
It's God time in Campaign '08
August 15, 2008
The presidential campaign enters a religious leg with a new story on John McCain’s fervor as a POW and a forum moderated by Rev. Rick Warren.
Aloha from Siberia
February 15, 2007
Our Wisconsin winter was making us nearly suicidal, but the music and food of Hawaii and Barack Obama all give us the audacity of hope.
