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Scandals put presidential credibility on the line
Jules WitcoverWASHINGTON -- When the storm of administration scandal first hit President Obama, he offered a good impersonation of Claude Raines in "Casablanca," expressing shock that gambling was going on in Rick's saloon. His verbal outrage at the snooping of the IRS...Tags: Barack Obama, U.S. Congress, White House, Politics, John Boehner
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Obama and Rubio: A study in contrasts
Jules WitcoverWASHINGTON -- The anticipated verbal duel Tuesday evening between President Obama and Republican Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida -- the former in his State of the Union Address and the latter in the official Republican response -- was an obvious mismatch....Tags: Barack Obama, U.S. Congress, Politics, State of the Union Address, Mitt Romney
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State of the union, at home and abroad
Jules WitcoverWASHINGTON -- President Obama's first State of the Union address of his second term, following in the fashion of his second inaugural address, focused on the state of the nation at home: the need for more jobs and a revived middle class, as well as such...Tags: Wars and Interventions, Barack Obama, Politics, Afghanistan, Central Intelligence Agency
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A stain on the Democratic brand
Jules WitcoverWASHINGTON -- One consequence of presidential nominee Mitt Romney's loss last November was an internal autopsy on the reputation of the Republican Party itself. Questions were raised whether its "brand" had been seriously damaged as excessively...Tags: Barack Obama, White House, U.S. Congress, Politics, Crime, Law and Justice
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Benghazi hearing give GOP another chance to target Hillary
Jules WitcoverWASHINGTON -- If former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton hoped she could segue quietly into private life as she pondered a presidential bid in 2016, that fantasy has been abruptly harpooned in the resurrection of the political squabble over the...Tags: Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Politics, Elections, Andrew Cuomo
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Should we continue to be the indispensable nation?
Jules WitcoverWASHINGTON -- In Hillary Clinton's farewell remarks in February on stepping down as President Obama's secretary of state, she echoed one of her predecessors, Madeleine Albright, declaring America to be "the indispensable nation." "We are the force for...Tags: Barack Obama, Madeleine Albright, Wars and Interventions, Bill Clinton, Politics
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Where the buck still stops
Jules WitcoverWASHINGTON -- A rare phenomenon occurred on Capitol Hill the other day when two ranking officials of the Obama administration testified that they had differed with the president they still served over providing arms to the rebels in Syria seeking to...Tags: Wars and Interventions, Central Intelligence Agency, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Hillary Clinton, John McCain
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Benghazi yet again
Jules WitcoverWASHINGTON -- The debate over the attack on the American diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya that briefly enlivened the 2012 presidential campaign will be revived today (Wednesday) in a hearing before a House committee exploring allegations that the...Tags: George W. Bush, ABC (tv network), Barack Obama, Politics, White House
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Obama's uncertain trumpet
Jules WitcoverWASHINGTON -- In President Obama's running argument with the Republicans in Congress over who's responsible for the legislative stalemate on Capitol Hill, he suffers self-inflicted wounds by continuing to run up the same white flag that undermined his own...Tags: U.S. Senate, Government, Barack Obama, White House, U.S. Congress
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GOP to showcase Rubio as new face of party
Jules WitcoverWASHINGTON -- In the Republican Party's developing effort to put on a new face after last November's presidential defeat, the latest gesture is trotting out freshman Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida to deliver the GOP response to President Obama's State of the...Tags: Barack Obama, U.S. Senate, Politics, U.S. Congress, John Boehner
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Obama's revealing reflections
Jules WitcoverWASHINGTON -- Probing questions at presidential news conferences sometimes have a way of getting their principals to reflect on their state of mind -- and at the same time the state their presidency, particularly when things aren't going well. Back in...Tags: ABC (tv network), Barack Obama, U.S. Congress, Bill Clinton, Politics
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Honoring the 43rd president
Jules WitcoverWASHINGTON -- To nobody's surprise, all four living former presidents were on their best behavior the other day at the dedication of the library and museum named for the latest of them, George W. Bush, at Southern Methodist University in Dallas. The...Tags: George W. Bush, Barack Obama, Politics, Bill Clinton, September 11, 2001 Attacks
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