www.odysseynetworks.org– Just back from the COP-15 meeting in Copenhagen, Reverend Richard Cizik, founder of the New Evangelicals is continuing to push for climate justice. At a White House holiday reception this week, he delivered a personal request to President Obama, who will attend the climate conference on Thursday, [...]
On Wednesday, President Obama nominated Oregon State Representative Sara Gelser (HD -16) to serve on the National Council on Disability. If confirmed by the Senate, Gelser would become one of fifteen members of the Council, which advises Congress, Obama and executive branch departments on policies and programs that ensure equality [...]
Obama flew into Hopenchangen in a desperate bid to achieve concensus on a plan to Save The Planet from Man-Made Global Warming. It was a quick trip: it was snowing over there, and he had to leave quickly because blizzards were headed for the east coast of the USA. [...]

According to the New York Post:
Wen (of China) later attend(ed) a meeting with President Lula de Silva of Brazil as well as the leaders of India and South Africa. Obama decided he wanted to go, and was forced to barge into the meeting.
“Mr. Premier, are [...]
There are any number of reasons to admire Peter DeFazio. This is merely one of them:
Rep. Peter DeFazio’s phone rang. On the other end was Rahm Emanuel.The White House chief of staff last month expressed frustration with DeFazio’s resignation calls for President Barack Obama’s top two economic aides — [...]
By BJ Bjornson
At this point I don't give a damn about Obama. If he's going to govern like Clinton or a Republican we might as well have a Republican.
Ron Beasley from I agree with Howard
Sure, Republicans will be worse, but only by degree and not categorically worse.
Dave Anderson from [...]
It's hard not to notice Barack Obama is taking some major heat these days. The right, of course, is in a state of perpetual, almost comical, "the sky is falling" hysteria over the guy and now a good portion of the left is pissed at him as [...]
I guess just anybody can wander in off the street, shake hands with Obamama, and have a meal.
Yep, it’s happened again!
It's looking like the Senate health care reform bill won't have either a public option or Medicare buy-in for people under 65.
That's disturbing. It sure isn't what I and other progressives expected when Obama was elected president and the Democrats won solid majorities in both houses of Congress.
I [...]
Lady Obama
Children at your feet
Wonder how you manage
To make ends meet?
Congressional investigators looking into the abrupt firing of AmeriCorps inspector general Gerald Walpin have discovered that the head of AmeriCorps met with a top aide to First Lady Michelle Obama the day before Walpin was removed.
He denied it, but [...]
This afternoon the White House held a reception that they very kindly invited me to. Both the President and Mrs. Obama were there. President Obama made a few brief remarks about the spirit of the season. He acknowledged the difficulties being faced by the country (two [...]
by anderson
This is a direct rebuttal to any argument presented that sees basis in a political pragmatism, one that is the elemental force of politics, and therefore one that should be not only heeded but embraced, and that therefore, Obama's actions and policy trajectories heretofore must be dismissed through an' [...]
By Derrick Crowe
Once again, the United States is rattling a saber about killing people in Quetta, despite all the inevitable civilian death and mass outrage. Such a move would show the shallowness of the "just war" talk in President Obama's disgraceful Nobel paean to Mars. Quetta is a' [...]
By Steve Hynd
It's the accepted Beltway wisdom that Obama's diplomatic outreach to Iran over its nuclear program is already over, failed. He was always going to be given one chance which was expected to not succeed and now that it has failed it's time to move on to further punitive' [...]

Transcript of President Obama’s speech at the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony in Oslo on Wednesday, as released by the White House:
Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, distinguished members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, citizens of America, and citizens of the world:
I receive this honor with deep gratitude [...]