• Obama presents NSA reforms with plan to end government storage of call data https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/17/obama-nsa-reforms-end-storage-americans-call-data 16 comments 15/1/2017 politics
• Read the TPP - The Obama administration and giant corporations are spreading misinformation about the Trans-Pacific Partnership and how it will affect Americans. But if you read it, you'll see that the TPP threatens to corrupt our democracy by giving corporations control over the government https://www.readthetpp.com/ 6 comments 16/1/2016 politics
• Hey Candidates: Atheists Vote, Too—So Stop Pandering to God! -- Politicians from Obama to Bush just can't resist the "God strategy." Can we ever evolve toward secular government? http://www.alternet.org/belief/hey-candidates-atheists-vote-too-so-stop-pandering-god 6 comments 26/8/2013 politics
• Puzzle Awaits the Capital: How to Solve 3 Fiscal Rifts - President Obama thinks Republicans cannot risk another debt crisis or government shutdown, and Republican leaders agree http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/16/us/politics/a-washington-puzzle-solving-3-fiscal-disputes.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20130816&_r=0 7 comments 16/8/2013 politics
• Some of President Obama's political appointees are using secret government email accounts not accessible to FOI requests http://apnews.myway.com/article/20130604/da6mpfhg2.html 11 comments 4/6/2013 politics
• resident Barack Obama will put 5% of his paycheck back into the federal government's coffers in a show of unity with furloughed federal workers http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2013/04/03/obama-will-give-up-portion-of-his-salary/?hpt=po_c2 2 comments 4/4/2013 politics
• Who Is The Smallest Government Spender Since Eisenhower? Would You Believe It's Barack Obama? - Forbes http://onforb.es/ltvcnk 174 comments 27/1/2013 politics
• Who Is The Smallest Government Spender Since Eisenhower? Would You Believe It's Barack Obama? http://www.forbes.com/sites/rickungar/2012/05/24/who-is-the-smallest-government-spender-since-eisenhower-would-you-believe-its-barack-obama/?go=1 6 comments 29/8/2012 politics
• Professionals Pick Obama; Execs and Business Owners, Romney - Government workers back Obama over Romney http://www.gallup.com/poll/154883/professionals-pick-obama-execs-business-owners-romney.aspx?utm_source=alert&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=syndication&utm_content=morelink&utm_term=all+gallup+headlines+-+politics 8 comments 24/5/2012 politics
• Obama to Merge 6 Government Agencies, Cut 2,000 Employees http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2012/01/13/obama-to-merge-6-government-agencies-cut-2000-employees 19 comments 17/1/2012 politics
• This should be required reading for the "OMG OBAMA SOLD US OUT ON ____". Learn about how your government works before you start blaming people. http://www.reddit.com/r/wtf/comments/gjwj5/really_obama_youre_backing_the_riaas_ridiculous/c1o5oyc 27 comments 7/4/2011 politics
• President Barack Obama has accepted an award for making the government more open and transparent - presented to him behind closed doors. http://www.seattlepi.com/national/1110ap_us_obama_transparency.html 4 comments 31/3/2011 politics
• Obama wants the Federal Government to be able to eavesdrop on all of your online communications. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/27/us/27wiretap.html?_r=1&hp 8 comments 27/9/2010 politics
• The Obama administration has claimed that once you've opened an email, you have no expectation of privacy and the government can read it without a warrant. http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-20002423-38.html 8 comments 26/4/2010 politics
• New film 'The Obama Deception' warns of totalitarian world government http://www.examiner.com/x-3108-baltimore-republican-examiner~y2009m4d8-new-film-the-obama-deception-warns-of-totalitarian-world-government 3 comments 9/4/2009 politics
• Resistance grows to Obama's bigger government http://www.reuters.com/article/newsone/idustre52l0j820090322 4 comments 23/3/2009 reddit.com
• Obama urged the next House speaker to understand "that our system of government requires compromise to pass bills." http://www.cnbc.com/2015/10/02/obama-politics-hurting-job-growth-education-secretary.html 18 comments 2/10/2015 politics
• President Obama has signed the new debt bill into law, reopening the government. http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2013/10/president-obama-thanks-senate-for-passing-debt-deal-says-i-will-sign-it-immediately/ 5 comments 17/10/2013 politics
• Obama has governed as a moderate conservative, somewhat to the right of Richard Nixon http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/07/22/obama-nixon/ 3 comments 23/7/2011 politics
• Obama above the law - says government abuses are 'state secrets' beyond judicial scrutiny http://www.examiner.com/x-536-civil-liberties-examiner~y2009m4d6-obama-sticks-with-controversial-bushera-state-secrets-position 35 comments 7/4/2009 politics
• Republicans oppose Obama's $500,00 cap on executive pay because "its troubling to have government telling shareholders how much they can pay the executives"--of our tax money of course http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/02/06/gop-opposes-pay-limits-on_n_164544.html 6 comments 6/2/2009 reddit.com
• NYT: So where did the 5M come from? Obama releases tax returns, favors transparent government. Hillary takes the closed door Bush approach. Trust her! Really! http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/02/07/obama-to-clinton-about-that-loan/ 55 comments 7/2/2008 politics
• Obama: Rethink your biases if you take issue with government helping minorities http://www.thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/310304-obama-if-you-stopped-liking-big-government-once-it-served 63 comments 14/12/2016 politics
• In the weeks since the Senate approved CISA, Speaker Paul Ryan has been busy stripping privacy protections from the bill. Now CISA is worse than the version Obama threatened to veto—but Ryan is adding it as a rider to a must-pass budget bill that Obama can't veto without shutting down the government https://www.battleforthenet.com/?cisa=1 489 comments 15/12/2015 technology
• Hackers stole personnel data and Social Security numbers for every federal employee, a government worker union said Thursday, saying that the cyber theft of U.S. employee information was more damaging than the Obama administration has acknowledged. http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/u/us_government_hacked?site=ap&section=home&template=default&ctime=2015-06-11-15-58-33 3 comments 11/6/2015 politics
• "Most Americans remember the Bush years as a period of expanding government, ruinous war, and economic collapse. They voted for Obama the first time as a repudiation of those developments. Many did so a second time because most Republicans continue to pretend that they never happened." http://www.theamericanconservative.com/an-inconvenient-truth-the-bush-administration-was-a-disaster/ 500 comments 4/3/2013 politics
• The chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee said Friday that President Obama used the bailout of U.S. auto companies to “strong-arm” them into agreeing with high gas-mileage standards. http://thehill.com/blogs/transportation-report/automobiles/243099-rep-issa-obama-administration-strong-armed-auto-companies-in-mileage-standards 9 comments 10/8/2012 politics
• "The Obama administration said Wednesday [1 June 2011] that the government will lose about $14 billion in taxpayer funds from the bailout of the U.S. auto industry." http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/06/01/2245376/govt-to-lose-just-20-percent-of.html 6 comments 1/6/2011 politics
• Obama order could lead to massive declassification of government documents and greater transparency http://m.npr.org/story/121681403 54 comments 30/12/2009 politics
• Obama Talks to Middle East Leaders, Ignores Democratically Elected Government Of Palestinians http://www.cnn.com/2009/politics/01/21/obama.business/index.html 12 comments 21/1/2009 reddit.com
• In a victory for open government, President Obama signs FOIA reform into law: It is neither as strong nor as flawed a bill as it might have been, but codifying a “presumption of openness" for disclosing government records to the public is unquestionably a step forward for the United States. http://sunlightfoundation.com/blog/2016/06/30/in-a-victory-for-open-government-president-obama-signs-foia-reform-into-law/ 4 comments 5/7/2016 politics
• How is this legal or even real? Florida government passes law to allow for insurance companies to price gouge for next 2 years, and direct "blame" at Obama-care. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/wendell-potter/florida-insurers-are-now_b_3785206.html?utm_source=alert-blogger&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=email+notifications 16 comments 21/8/2013 politics
• Obama Administration Rules Marijuana Has No Accepted Medical Purpose - The federal government ruled on Friday that marijuana has no accepted medical use and should remain in the same class of drugs as heroin. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/09/feds-rule-marijuana-has-no-accepted-medicinal-use_n_893894.html 96 comments 9/7/2011 politics
• The Crisis in U.S.-Israel Relations Is Officially Here: The Obama administration's anger is "red-hot" over Israel's settlement policies, and the Netanyahu government openly expresses contempt for Obama's understanding of the Middle East. Profound changes in the relationship may be coming. http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2014/10/the-crisis-in-us-israel-relations-is-officially-here/382031/ 4 comments 28/10/2014 worldevents
• "Look Republicans, I get that you're the party of limited government, but we are not talking about Obama-care here. It was two paragraphs about giving people aid in need...If you guys can't vote for this, then we are fucked for the next two years." -Jon Stewart http://www.hulu.com/watch/442761?playlist_id=1031 4 comments 9/1/2013 politics
• Republican talks about "Obama is a socialist" meme: "With the government nationalizing numerous core economic institutions, we were already well down that path long before Obama came around." http://donklephant.com/2008/10/24/obama-the-socialist/ 3 comments 24/10/2008 politics
• Why Obama Can’t Do Anything About Guns - American government, from the ground up, is designed around those so-called special interests, from the immense power of Congress and individual legislators, to the two-party system http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2016/06/why_obama_can_t_do_anything_about_guns.html 23 comments 14/6/2016 politics
• The federal government would have “absolute power” to shut down the Internet under the terms of a new US Senate bill being pushed by Lieberman, legislation which would hand President Obama a figurative “kill switch” to seize control of the world wide web in response to a Homeland Security directive. http://www.prisonplanet.com/new-bill-gives-obama-kill-switch-to-shut-down-the-internet.html 652 comments 16/6/2010 technology
• The Obama administration will propose that the federal government take over safety regulation of the nation's subway and light-rail systems, responding to what it says is haphazard and ineffective oversight by state agencies. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/14/ar2009111402459_pf.html 11 comments 16/11/2009 politics
• Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Seymour Hersh has published an article demonstrating that the US government and President Barack Obama knowingly lied when they claimed that the Syrian government had carried out a sarin gas attack on insurgent-held areas last August http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/12/10/pers-d10.html 3 comments 6/3/2014 worldnews