Dave Boyer
Articles by Dave Boyer
Obama touts rising high school graduation rates
In full legacy-building mode, President Obama highlighted his administration's achievements in public education Monday but said the nation still needs to help more minorities graduate from high school and attend college. Published October 17, 2016
Obama notifies Congress of missile strikes in Yemen
President Obama formally notified Congress Friday afternoon that U.S. forces launched "limited and proportionate" missile strikes on radar facilities in Houthi -controlled territory in Yemen in response to missiles targeting a U.S. warship in the Red Sea. Published October 14, 2016
Obama mocks Trump as a ‘whiner’ who knows election is lost
Ratcheting up his mockery of Donald Trump, President Obama said Friday that the Republican nominee is behaving like a crybaby who knows he's losing the race for president and intends "to drag this election as low as it can possibly go." Published October 14, 2016
Obama mixes it up with pro-Trump heckler at Clinton rally
President Obama taunted a heckler who interrupted him Friday at a Hillary Clinton rally, speculating that the supporter of Donald Trump was "being paid to be here." Published October 14, 2016
Obama ridicules ‘family values’ GOP for nominating Donald Trump
President Obama mocked Republicans Thursday night for embracing Donald Trump at the expense of the party's traditional family values and its long-standing tough talk about Russia. Published October 13, 2016
Michelle Obama slams Donald Trump: He’s ‘bragged about sexually assaulting women’
First lady Michelle Obama blasted Republican nominee Donald Trump Thursday as a sexual predator, saying his lewd comments about women have "shaken me to my core." Published October 13, 2016
Emails show cozy relationship between media and Clinton campaign
Leaked emails show that Hillary Clinton's campaign officials boasted about getting favorable news coverage from compliant journalists, received political advice from cozy reporters and circulated the names of journalists who were "friendly" to the candidate. Published October 13, 2016
Biden caused alarm, suspicion in Clinton camp
Clinton campaign officials were alert and anxious in late summer 2015 to any sign that Vice President Joseph R. Biden might decide to enter the Democratic presidential primary at the last minute. Published October 13, 2016
Obama pledges ‘full support’ for Antonio Guterres, new U.N. secretary-general
President Obama Thursday pledged the "full support" of the U.S. to newly elected U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres of Portugal. Published October 13, 2016
Hillary Clinton email shows Syria advice to Obama in 2014
Hillary Clinton dismissed a question in the second presidential debate about President Obama's weak policy toward Syria's civil war by saying "I was gone" from the administration by then, but a newly leaked email shows that she was still advising the White House on the Middle East more than two years after leaving her post as secretary of state. Published October 12, 2016
Obama ‘feels good’ about Hillary Clinton’s election
Less than a week after the airing of an old tape of Donald Trump's lewd comments about women, the White House said Wednesday that President Obama is "feeling confident" about the election of Hillary Clinton. Published October 12, 2016
White House says Podesta email hack ‘consistent’ with Russian cyber attacks
The White House said Wednesday that the email hacking of Hillary Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta is "consistent" with previous cyber attacks committed by Russia. Published October 12, 2016
Obama, Al Gore urge voters to reject Donald Trump
President Obama and former Vice President Al Gore hit the campaign trail Tuesday in key swing states, urging voters to reject Republican Donald Trump -- but the president's rally was derailed several times by protesters wearing t-shirts and carrying signs proclaiming, "Bill Clinton is a rapist." Published October 11, 2016
Obama recalls his own troubled youth in address at black college
At a town-hall meeting at a historically black college, President Obama said Tuesday he made "all kinds of bad decisions" as a teen and that more black boys in America need people to tell them "you are worth something." Published October 11, 2016
Obama slams Donald Trump’s comments on women, calls on GOP to abandon him
President Obama's blasted Donald Trump's "terrible" comments about women Tuesday evening during a campaign rally for Hillary Clinton in Greensboro, North Carolina, that was interrupted several times by protesters wearing t-shirts and carrying signs proclaiming, "Bill Clinton is a rapist." Published October 11, 2016
White House calls Trump tape an example of ‘sexual assault’
President Obama's spokesman said Tuesday that a tape of Republican Donald Trump making lewd boasts about groping women 11 years ago constitutes "sexual assault" in the view of most Americans. Published October 11, 2016
Court deals setback to Obama on consumer board
In a setback for President Obama, a federal appeals court curtailed the power of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, ruling Tuesday that the agency championed by Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts violated the Constitution with a structure that gives too much unelected authority to its sole director. Published October 11, 2016
Obama wants to go to Mars within a generation
President Obama said Tuesday that man will land on Mars within 30 years, while critics accuse the president of diverting money from space exploration to climate-change research. Published October 11, 2016
Hillary Clinton campaign’s WikiLeaks emails expose political calculations, fears
The Clinton campaign allowed political calculations to infuse many of its biggest decisions, according to emails leaked Monday that show her planning her Wall Street reform stance to satisfy liberals, plotting to use Keystone pipeline politics to distract from her secret email server and debating how much outrage to show at congressional hearings on Benghazi. Published October 10, 2016
Obama’s ‘racial political era’ topic of book
President Obama's name isn't on the ballot this year, but his skin color is. That's the thrust of a new book by a political scientist, Michael Tesler, whose research of politics in the Obama era asserts that both major political parties have become more racially polarized as a response to the nation's first black president. Published October 10, 2016