By The Admin on August 29, 2010
President Barack Obama says he isn’t worried about a recent poll showing that nearly one-fifth of Americans believe he is a Muslim.
Obama, who is a Christian, says “the facts are the facts.” In an interview broadcast Sunday on “NBC Nightly News,” the president blamed the confusion over his religious beliefs on “a network of misinformation.”
Obama [...]
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By The Admin on August 29, 2010
Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan says solid progress has been made in the last 18 months to return families to their homes in New Orleans.
Donovan said there is still “much ahead of us” to expand housing assistance in the city devastated by Hurricane Katrina five years ago.
But Donovan said in an interview aired [...]
Posted in Policy & Issues
By The Admin on August 29, 2010
Five years after Hurricane Katrina’s wrath, President Barack Obama sought to reassure disaster-weary Gulf Coast residents Sunday that he would not abandon their cause. “My administration is going to stand with you, and fight alongside you, until the job is done,” Obama said to cheers at Xavier University, a historically black, Catholic university that was [...]
Posted in Featured, Policy & Issues, White House | Tagged Hurricane Katrina
By The Admin on August 29, 2010
Yahoo News
- Fox News host Glenn Beck said Sunday that he misspoke last year when he characterized President Obama as a racist.
“I have a big fat mouth sometimes and I say things,” Beck said during an interview with Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace.
Beck last year accused the president of possessing a “deep-seated hatred for [...]
Posted in Media, Race, White House
By The Admin on August 29, 2010
Politico
- Glenn Beck’s program at the Lincoln Memorial on Saturday focused more on God than government.
The Fox News host followed through on a commitment to avoid wading explicitly into partisan politics. So President Barack Obama’s name did not come up once during a 200-minute program that featured multiple prayers, gospel songs and bagpipers playing “Amazing [...]
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