Weekly Address: President Obama Calls for Real Health Care Reform

The President makes clear that as Congress works through health care reform legislation, it must include fundamental changes that lower costs, ensure Americans have choices, and establish access to quality, affordable health care for all Americans. But what we cant welcome, the President says, is reform that just invests more money in the status quo reform that throws good money after bad habits.

Weekly Address: President Obama on Judge Sotomayors Experience

The President discusses the breadth and depth of experience held by his nominee for the Supreme Court. In the course of a life that began in a housing project in the South Bronx and brought her to the pinnacle of her profession, Judge Sonia Sotomayor accumulated more experience on the federal bench than any incoming Supreme Court Justice in the past 100 years, touching nearly every aspect of our legal system. May 30, 2009.

5/23/09: Your Weekly Address

President Barack Obama calls on the American people to join him in paying tribute to Americas veterans, servicemen and women particularly those who have made the ultimate sacrifice - and their families.

5/16/09: Your Weekly Address

The President discusses breakthroughs on two issues where stakeholders from all sides, once opposed, are coming together for real reform. On health care and energy, solutions would provide key pillars for a new foundation for the country. May 16, 2009.

5/9/09: Your Weekly Address

This week the President recaps a busy week, from strides on fiscal discipline, to financial stability, to cracking down on tax havens and tax breaks for shifting jobs overseas. For his next big step, he calls for a credit card reform bill: "Americans know that they have a responsibility to live within their means and pay what they owe. But they also have a right to not get ripped off by the sudden rate hikes, unfair penalties, and hidden fees that have become all-too common in our credit card industry." Watch Your Weekly Address to find out what he plans to do about it.

4/29/09: Presidential Press Conference

The President gives his third prime time press conference from the East Room of the White House.

President Obama's Cool Aside, Let's Hope the Fight in Him Comes Out

By: Deborah Mathis

There has yet to be a president who does not disappoint. That includes the current one, who is, for many of us, is as good as it gets.

I wish President Obama had told Rush Limbaugh that he would debate him when his ego was small enough to fit into the East Room.

I wish he would be as decisive about reinstituting the assault weapons ban as he was about lifting the ban on embryonic stem cell research.

I wish he would direct the Justice Department to prosecute the authorizers of torture against “enemy combatants.”

I wish he had given Hugo Chavez a book about the cruelties of Latin American dictators since Chavez played the president in publicly offering a book that portrays the U.S. as a thieving, conniving, bullying cheat.

I wish he would tell the various homegrown fiends where to get off when they sling racial invectives at him or call him “facist” or question his religion or legitimacy in office.

I wish he would show some temper, or some sorrow, or some excitement or something other than the perpetually too cool for words demeanor for which he is fast becoming legend.

Were that the case, our president would be batting a thousand with me.

But his presidency would be in deep trouble.

COMMENTARY....

4/11/09: Your Weekly Address

The President discusses the multitude of problems and opportunities before the world through the prism of Passover and Easter.

4/4/2009: Your Weekly Address

The President discusses the breadth and depth of the global challenges we face, as well as our potential to address them through renewed international alliances. This week's address was filmed aboard Air Force 1 amidst vital diplomatic stops at the G-20 Summit, a NATO summit, and bilateral meetings.