Dave Boyer
Articles by Dave Boyer
Obama defends handling of illegal immigration
President Obama told a largely Latino audience Wednesday that his administration has not become more aggressive in deporting illegal immigrants, despite statistics to the contrary that he calls misleading. Published September 28, 2011
Obama pitches elements of jobs bill in school speech
President Obama Wednesday gave students a not-so-subtle plug for his $447 billion jobs package. Published September 28, 2011
Fundraising in Tinseltown puts Obama in tougher role
President Obama's three-day trip to the West Coast produced gaffes, strange encounters and wads of campaign cash from the Democrats' reliable loving bosom of Hollywood. Published September 27, 2011
Heckler calls Obama ‘the Antichrist’ at L.A. fundraiser
A heckler apparently angry about President Obama's policy toward gays in the military called Mr. Obama "the Antichrist" at a fundraiser in Los Angeles on Monday night before security dragged the man out. Published September 27, 2011
Tax me more, millionaire tells Obama
At an online town hall meeting Monday, President Obama called on a wealthy audience member who had a question that was music to the president's ears: "Would you please raise my taxes?" Published September 26, 2011
Marine awarded Medal of Honor
A retired Marine corporal who was wounded in Afghanistan while rescuing 36 fellow Marines and soldiers from an ambush was awarded the Medal of Honor, the nation's highest military award, Thursday at the White House by President Obama. Published September 15, 2011
Obama’s a flop in states he flipped in 2008
Dismal new poll numbers for President Obama in Virginia and North Carolina underscore a growing danger to his 2012 re-election hopes — his job-approval ratings have dropped below 50 percent in all of the key states that he "flipped" from the Republicans in 2008. Published September 15, 2011
Pennsylvania GOP looks to split electoral votes
Pennsylvania state Republican leaders are pushing to switch from the state's winner-take-all system in presidential elections to a format that would award electoral votes based on the winner of each of the state's 18 individual congressional districts. Published September 15, 2011
Obama targets Republicans for blocking Dream Act
President Obama told an Hispanic audience Wednesday night he will do "everything in my power" to enact the Dream Act, which would prevent the deportation of illegal immigrants studying at American colleges or having served in the military. Published September 14, 2011
White House touts new anti-waste effort
While a deficit supercommittee in Congress works to cut trillions of dollars, Vice President Joseph R. Biden is touting his efforts to find $1 billion in wasteful government spending here and there. Published September 14, 2011
Obama seeks public pressure on lawmakers to pass jobs bill
President Obama took his campaign for a second stimulus bill and higher taxes Tuesday to the home state of Speaker John A. Boehner, urging Ohioans to tell Republican lawmakers to "stop worrying about their jobs and start worrying about your jobs." Published September 13, 2011
Obama: ‘Politics’ impeding jobs plan
President Obama warned Americans on Monday that politics was "stopping" his $447 billion jobs plan, saying so hours before he even sent the legislation laden with tax increases to Congress. Published September 12, 2011
Obama, Bush and Clinton lead U.S. in 9/11 tributes
On the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, President Obama led the nation Sunday in a full day of commemoration by honoring the nearly 3,000 victims in services in New York City, Pennsylvania and the nation's capital. Published September 11, 2011
Obama calls for the end of ‘political circus’ on economy, seeks stimulus plan for jobs
A politically imperiled President Obama called on lawmakers Thursday night to approve another stimulus plan to create jobs, many for his union base, while adding about $450 billion to next year's budget. Published September 8, 2011
Obama faces skeptics in 3rd try for jobs
President Obama will reveal his latest jobs plan Thursday night in a high-stakes speech to a joint session of Congress, facing Republicans opposed to more deficit spending and voters who increasingly don't trust him to fix the economy. Published September 7, 2011
Obama halts EPA air-quality regulations
President Obama ordered the Environmental Protection Agency Friday to shelve proposed regulations for new air-quality standards, citing the potential impact on the weak economy. Published September 2, 2011
Flap over Obama’s speech date and time settled
The White House dismissed Thursday the flap about the date of President Obama's speech to a joint session of Congress as irrelevant "political gamesmanship," even as some Democrats said the president's advisers mishandled the episode. Published September 1, 2011
Obama aware ‘long-lost’ kin detained as illegal alien
The White House finally acknowledged Thursday that an illegal immigrant detained in Massachusetts recently is President Obama's "long-lost" uncle from Kenya. Published September 1, 2011
Obama: From ‘yes we can’ to ‘it takes time’
When he ran for the presidency in 2008, Barack Obama sprinkled his campaign speeches with ambitious catchphrases such as "the fierce urgency of now" and "yes we can." Nowadays, he's been trotting out a stump speech with a far less lofty message for voters: You expected too much from me. Published September 1, 2011
Boehner rebuffs Obama on time for jobs speech
It's the people's House, as Speaker John A. Boehner made clear to President Obama on Wednesday. Published August 31, 2011
