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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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,… -
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Obama Warns Americans May Not Know Election Results for Days
THE CENTER SQUARE—Former President Barack Obama warned Americans Tuesday that they may not know who won the election for days. Obama posted on X, formerly known as Twitter, late Tuesday afternoon as millions of Americans cast their ballots around the country. Obama told Americans to “let the process run its course,” saying “it takes time… -
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RELENTLESS: Growth of Obama-Era Foster Care Policy Unmasks Transgender Orthodoxy’s Inherent Threat to Parental Rights
A groundbreaking new report from The Daily Caller exposes the backstory behind the Biden-Harris administration’s regulation on foster care rules for children who identify as LGBTQ, and underscores the inherent threat that transgender orthodoxy poses to the parental rights of moms and dads who reject the idea that children can be “born in the wrong… -
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Biden’s Opening Obamacare to Illegal Immigrants Will Add Billions to National Deficit
The Biden administration’s plan to open Obamacare enrollment to Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals recipients will add billions to the national deficit, a Congressional Budget Office report found. Roughly 110,000 illegal immigrants in the DACA program will sign up for Obamacare, adding about $7 billion to the federal deficit over the 2025-2034 period, according to… -
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Todd Starnes Explains ‘Residual After-Effects of the Barack Obama Presidency’
In 2007, Todd Starnes was working at Fox News and covering then-Sen. Barack Obama’s presidential campaign. “I just felt like that was going to be the historic campaign, and it turned out to be,” says Starnes, a bestselling author and nationally syndicated radio host. The political climate facing America right now is in part due to… -
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Hunter Biden’s Receipt of Obama Officials’ Personal Cell Numbers Undercuts White House Impeachment Defense
Emails reviewed by The Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project bring new scrutiny to President Joe Biden’s claims of complete separation between himself and his son’s business dealings. (The Daily Signal is The Heritage Foundation’s news outlet.) According to the email reviewed by the Oversight Project, in 2015, then-White House official Alexander Mackler forwarded the personal cell… -
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Time to Revive the Debate Over Obamacare
Big media outlets, including The New York Times and The Washington Post, last week called out former President Donald Trump for slamming Obamacare, opining that such a move was a big mistake. Not so fast. The truth is that Obamacare, formally known as the Affordable Care Act, failed to deliver on its high-profile… -
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Docs Reveal FBI Questioned Obama DOJ in Hillary Email Probe
A presidential candidate faces an FBI probe surrounding alleged mishandling of classified information, amid questions about the independence of the Justice Department. Meanwhile, the candidate's supporters allege political interference and demand that the chief investigator be investigated. Such was the case in the closing days of the 2016 presidential election. Democrats and other supporters of… -
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Obama Still Scolds Americans for Offering ‘Thoughts and Prayers’ During Maui Tragedy
After the horrific wildfires on the Hawaiian island of Maui last week that took the lives of at least 99 and left more than 1,000 unaccounted for, many Americans are donating money to help the victims. Many more are offering their thoughts and prayers, including former President Barack Obama, who grew up in Hawaii but… -
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The Barack Obama Cover-Up
This week, Tablet released a fascinating conversation with historian David Garrow, author of a massive unauthorized biography of former President Barack Obama in his early years titled “Rising Star.” By all rights, the book should have been a massive hit upon its release in 2017. Instead, it underperformed. The revelations contained therein never hit the… -
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Barack Obama: The Man, the Myth, the Legend (to Be Continued)
The media deification of Barack Obama has really never ended. His election to the presidency in 2008 was treated as a milestone, like man landing on the moon. Allegedly objective journalists lined up in every studio and on every front page to do him homage. It wasn’t journalism. It was more like idolatry. It was… -
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‘INSANE’: Republicans Act Against Obama Policy That Risks Airline ‘Passengers’ Lives’ to Advance a ‘Woke Agenda’
House Republicans took action this week to reverse an Obama administration policy that critics claim prioritizes diversity over skills for hiring air traffic controllers and could be “risking passengers’ lives to advance their woke agenda.” In passing the $4 billion Federal Aviation Administration reauthorization bill Thursday, the House included a provision to eliminate the “biographical…