Archive for May, 2009
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Obama, in Europe, must show diplomatic style works (Reuters)
Reuters – U.S. President Barack Obama makes a second foray into European diplomacy this week facing pressure to demonstrate his consensus-building foreign policy can produce results where his predecessor George W. Bush’s go-it-alone style failed. -
US committed to new approach for hemisphere (AP)
AP – A diplomatic tug-of-war over Cuba’s outcast status in the Organization of American States takes center stage at the group’s meeting this week in Honduras, testing U.S. efforts to engage the communist nation. -
U.S. wrestles with new role as owner (Politico)
Politico – Even as it gets set to announce the bankruptcy of General Motors Monday, the Obama administration is struggling to set parameters on how it will act after taking a 60 percent stake in the new company that emerges – and now that it has become the owner of a significant swath of Corporate America.
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US-Cuba talks on immigration to resume (AP)
AP – Cuba has agreed to resume talks with the Obama administration on legal immigration of Cubans to the United States and direct mail service between the two countries in a move welcomed by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.
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Obama takes it slow before upcoming busy week (AP)
AP – It was a leisurely weekend for President Barack Obama, whose schedule is about to kick into high gear for domestic and overseas business. -
Gitmo case highlights challenge facing Obama
A session of the Guantanamo war crimes court that began Sunday will likely show the difficulties President Barack Obama faces in changing the system and closing the prison by January.
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Obama says he’s shocked, saddened by Tiller death (AP)
AP – President Barack Obama says he is shocked and outraged over the killing of an abortion provider at a Kansas church.
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GM prepares for bankruptcy protection announcement (AP)
AP – With the clock ticking on a June 1 government deadline to restructure, General Motors Corp. worked feverishly Sunday to shore up its global businesses to clear the way for a speedy reorganization in bankruptcy court. -
Obama still courting Pennsylvania (Politico)
Politico – Obama topped off months of small rewards Pennsylvania, the state that helped propel him to the presidency, with a big one on Thursday—the administration’s announcement that it had selected Pittsburgh to host next year’s G-20 Summit, which will give a big economic boost and international spotlight to the once-industrial city.
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New line of attack in SCOTUS fight (Politico)
Politico – “Judicial activism” has been the catchphrase for conservative resistance to Democratic judicial nominees, but some opponents of Sonia Sotomayor’s Supreme Court nomination are injecting another term – “Legal Realism” – into the fight.
