Barack Obama News
Read news, analysis, and commentary on Barack Obama, his administration’s legacy, and his continuing impact on national debates.
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Why Won’t Barack Obama Go Away?
In 1921, Woodrow Wilson, the first of America’s four transformative progressive presidents, became the first president to remain in Washington and make the nation’s capital his permanent home after leaving office. In very mild defense of the man who did more than any other to establish the administrative state and thus pervert America’s carefully constructed… -
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Obama’s Telling Phrase After the Correspondents’ Dinner Shooting
Former President Barack Obama posted on X in response to the attempted shooting of President Donald Trump at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. The post began with a familiar formula: “Although we don’t yet have all the details about the motives behind last night’s shooting…” And yet—almost instantly—the moral framing is already in place. It’s… -
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Kash Patel and the Russia Hoax Reckoning
FBI Director Kash Patel delivered a promise about the Trump–Russia collusion hoax on Fox News’ Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo that Americans have waited nearly a decade to hear. “We’ve got all the evidence,” Patel declared. “We’re working with our prosecutors at the DOJ under Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, and we are going to be making… -
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GROTESQUE: Barack Obama’s Orwellian Push for Virginia Redistricting Is Something to Behold
What do you call it when a politician tells you to put elections “back on a level playing field” by voting for a redistricting map gerrymandered to give Democrats 10 seats to Republicans’ one? “Lying” doesn’t quite foot the bill. “Rank deception” is closer, but I think this kind of rhetoric calls for the big… -
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The Politicking of Barack Obama
Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s video from Daily Signal Senior Contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to see more of his videos Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for The Daily Signal. I’d like to comment recently on the politicking of Barack Obama. He’s been in the news recently,… -
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Obama Complains About Republican Budget Bill
Former President Barack Obama stepped into the political spotlight again on Monday, wading into the fray regarding the budget reconciliation bill passed by House Republicans that is now being considered in the Senate. “Here’s something everybody should be paying attention to: Congressional Republicans are trying to weaken the Affordable Care Act and put millions of… -
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Golden Age? Heritage’s Roberts, Kellyanne Conway Spar With Obama Adviser, NYT Columnist
Is America heading into a “golden age” in President Donald Trump’s second term? That was the question put up for discussion Thursday in a Munk Debate hosted by the Aurea Foundation in Toronto. The Munk Debates have been hosted semi-annually since 2008 and feature civil discourse by the “brightest thinkers of our time.” On one… -
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Obama-Appointed Judge Blocks Trump’s Bid to Revamp Institute of Peace
A federal district court judge has blocked President Donald Trump’s efforts to reform the U.S. Institute of Peace by firing personnel and changing the agency’s management. In a ruling in a case brought by former Institute of Peace board members fired by the Trump administration, Beryl Howell, a senior judge of the U.S. District Court… -
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Michelle Obama’s New Podcast With Her Bro Is Off to Less Than Stellar Start
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Former first lady Michelle Obama’s newly launched podcast “IMO” has faced declining viewership, with the latest episode failing to garner 100,000 views. The podcast has failed to keep viewers interested across digital platforms four weeks after Obama launched the venture with her brother, Craig Robinson. Since the first episode, which received 335,000… -
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‘Should Have Recused Himself’: Legal Experts Sound Alarm on Obama-Appointed Judge Blocking Trump’s Deportations
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—As U.S. District Court Judge James Boasberg continues to be a thorn in the side of the Trump administration’s effort to deport gangbangers, legal experts have begun to raise questions about his handling of the case. The Barack Obama-appointed judge in March blocked President Donald Trump from using wartime authorities to send suspected Tren de… -
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Failing to Learn From Clinton and Obama Precedents, Democrats Lurch Ever Further Left
The Democratic Party is in free fall. Once a party of pragmatic leadership, strong borders, fiscal responsibility, and law and order, it has devolved into a chaotic, leaderless mess. While President Donald Trump and Republicans rally around an “America First” vision prioritizing economic growth, national security, and government efficiency, Democrats seem more focused on tearing… -
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GOP Lawmakers Push to Impeach Obama-Appointed Judge for Trying to Block Deportations
Prominent Republicans in Congress are calling for the impeachment of Democrat-appointed judges, amid a slew of injunctions against President Donald Trump’s executive actions. The conservative outcry began when Judge James Boasberg, a 2011 appointee of then-President Barack Obama to the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, issued a restraining order against Trump’s use… -
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Obama’s ‘Never Want a Serious Crisis to Go to Waste’ Guy Reportedly Wants a Shot at the White House
DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Rahm Emanuel, an Obama-era White House chief of staff and former Chicago mayor, is seriously considering a bid for president in 2028. Emanuel returned from serving as U.S. ambassador to Japan in January, spending the past two months aggressively increasing his public profile with high-profile media appearances, speeches for liberal organizations like… -
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Obamacare’s Flawed Priorities and the Need for Reform
Obamacare, formally called the Affordable Care Act, was sold to the American public as a transformative step toward equitable health care access. Yet, its fundamental flaws remain glaring. Nowhere is this more evident than in Obamacare’s Medicaid funding priorities and its approach to religious and moral freedoms—issues that President Donald Trump’s Health and Human Services nominee Robert F. Kennedy Jr. forcefully… -
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Here’s Why Obama Created DEI
Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s video from Daily Signal Senior Contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to see more of his videos. Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for The Daily Signal. I want to talk today about the controversy over diversity, equity, and inclusion, but in a… -
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FAA’s Obama-Era ‘Biographical Questionnaire’ for DEI Faces New Scrutiny After DC Crash
President Donald Trump on Thursday directed the Federal Aviation Administration to assess safety standards, including evaluating hiring practices, in the wake of the midair collision over Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport on Wednesday night. The presidential memorandum comes after Trump suggested the military helicopter that crashed into an American Airlines regional jet may have been… -
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Obama’s ‘Censorship’ Office Goes Bankrupt
The Global Engagement Center, an office housed within the State Department and aiming to thwart disinformation and misinformation, has been forced by Congress to close up shop. It’s no mystery why; the taxpayer-backed GEC violated its mandate to work only overseas and devolved into a partisan enabler of speech suppression in the United States. Here’s how. Founded… -
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The Obama Doctrine Is Dead
The Obama Doctrine is as dead as Yahya Sinwar. And the world is better off in both cases. While the massacre of Oct. 7, 2023, was one of the most traumatic events in modern Jewish history, it’s obvious now that it was a massive, perhaps existential, blunder by the Islamic State as well as a… -
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The Stench of BO: Barack Obama’s Mystique a Casualty of the Election
Former President Barack Obama had long been rumored as the catalyst for the 2020 Joe Biden nomination—and thereafter played the whispering puppeteer behind the subsequent lost Biden administration years. As such, he and his coterie proved to be the virtual architects of the Biden administration, one of the most unpopular and failed presidencies in American… -
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The Death of Obamaism and the Historic MAGA Opportunity
In a just world, Donald Trump would have won the Nobel Peace Prize for securing the historic Abraham Accords peace agreements of 2020. So too, in a just world, would A-list Hollywood studios now be bidding for the rights to produce the film adaptation of the single greatest comeback story in American history: Donald Trump,…