Category: February 2010

THE PRESIDENT: Thank you. Thank you. Hello, Nashua! Thank you very much. Thank you, guys. Thank you so much. Everybody, please have a seat. Thank you. Well, it is — AUDIENCE MEMBER: We love you! THE PRESIDENT: I love you back! (Applause.) It’s great to be here. Great to be back in New Hampshire. Now,…

Nashua High School North, Nashua, New Hampshire 2:05 P.M. EST THE PRESIDENT: Thank you. Thank you. Hello, Nashua! Thank you very much. Thank you, guys. Thank you so much. Everybody, please have a seat. Thank you. Well, it is — AUDIENCE MEMBER: We love you! THE PRESIDENT: I love you back! (Applause.) It’s great to…

MR. GROVE: Hello, everyone. We’re here at the White House today for a very unique event — an exclusive interview with President Obama in which the questions come from American people who have submitted them and chosen them online. My name is Steve Grove and I’m the news and politics at YouTube. Mr. President, thank…

THE PRESIDENT: Good morning, everybody. This morning, I sent a budget to Congress for the coming year. It’s a budget that reflects the serious challenges facing the country. We’re at war. Our economy has lost 7 million jobs over the last two years. And our government is deeply in debt after what can only be…

After a gap of over thirty years, America will once again begin constructing nuclear power plants. President Obama’s State of the Union address proclaimed the commitment to a “new generation of safe, clean nuclear power plants in this country”. In accordance with that promise, a pair of 1,150 MW reactors will be built in Augusta,…

On Saturday, 13 February 2010, President Barack Obama announced that he had appointed Rashad Hussain, a lawyer in the White House to be his special envoy for the Organization of the Islamic Conference. The announcement was made by the President via a video conference being made to the US-Islamic World Forum held in Doha, Qatar.…

Welcoming his invitees to the East Room of the White House on Tuesday, President Barack Obama stated that the civil rights movement was fuelled and sustained by music. The transformed grand ballroom, which resembled a concert hall, featured an event with an all-star line up of top performers who paid tribute to such music. In…

In the State of the Union address, President Barack Obama stated that combating unemployment was his top priority. Since then Obama has focused on healthcare and bipartisanship. This is not a deliberate attempt to ignore promises, as experts point out, but rather a practical move as creating jobs is not an easy task. But the…

Early in February 2010, President Obama cancelled NASA’s Constellation program challenging the space agency to do more than put a man back on the moon. Though nothing has been spoken of publicly regarding President Obama’s new game plan for NASA, the entire scheme was part and parcel of his 2011 budget request. Major federal agencies…

After the unthinkable happened in Massachusetts, the Republicans now believe anything is possible. The Republican Party has its sights set on Illinois and is moving in for the kill, all its guns blazing. A victory in Illinois for the Republicans would be far worse for President Obama than the Massachusetts affair as it is his…