AP – Careening toward a politically toxic tax hike, President Barack Obama implored House Speaker John Boehner on Wednesday to get behind a two-month stopgap until a longer deal could be struck early next year, calling it the only real way out of a mess that is threatening the paychecks of 160 million workers and isolating House Republicans.
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Obama to Boehner: Two-month tax cut only option
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Reuters – Despite some recent signs the sluggish U.S. economy might be improving, President Barack Obama warns it could be years before the country is on a sound footing.
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Obama says economic fix could take years
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AP – Republican presidential hopeful Rick Perry says President Obama’s call for the resignation of the Syrian president is long overdue.
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Perry: Obama overdue in call for Assad to quit
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AP – The rising profiles of Republican presidential candidates Rick Perry and Michele Bachmann are giving the White House a new opening: linking the entire GOP field to the tea party, whose popularity has recently sagged.
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White House paints GOP field with tea party brush
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AP – A proposal to sell copies of President Barack Obama’s birth records to anyone for $100 is going nowhere in the Hawaii Legislature.
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HI lawmaker: Obama birth certificate bill tabled
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AFP – US President Barack Obama beseeched supporters to “defy the conventional wisdom” and confound polls and pundits and stave off a Republican wave in mid-term elections.
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Obama to voters: defy predictions of Democratic defeat
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AP – In a last-ditch effort to prevent electoral disaster, President Barack Obama and Democratic allies are vigorously wooing women voters, whose usually reliable support appears to have softened.
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Fearing rout, Obama, Dems reach to female voters
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AFP – US President Barack Obama will Friday step up his mid-term election campaign and appeal to voters dismayed by the stuttering economy with his first White House press conference since May.
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Obama to tout economic strategy in press conference
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AP – President Barack Obama is planning his second back-to-school speech to the nation’s students.
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Obama planning second back-to-school speech
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