"This is a moment of challenge for our country. But we've experienced great trials before. And with every test, each generation has found the capacity to not only endure, but to prosper -- to discover great opportunity in the midst of great crisis. That is what we can and must do today. And I am abs...

This morning's weekly presidential address is not your typical meek or rhetorical exercise in platitudes. President Obama is taking dead-eye aim at getting his budget passed, and he damn well means business. By the end of it, you can imagine him blowing the smoke away--whoosh!--from his revolver, tw...

Remarks of President Barack Obama Weekly Address Saturday, January 31th, 2009 This morning I'd like to talk about some good news and some bad news as we confront our economic crisis. The bad news is well known to Americans across our country as we continue to struggle through unprecedented economic ...

Saying that the economic picture will "get worse before it gets better," President Obama used his weekly address to urge the swift passage of his American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan, which will be taken up in the Senate this week. Americans know that our economic recovery will take years -- not ...

Reading the text of President Obama’s first weekly address is a lot faster than watching the video, but here’s the video anyway: And here is the paragraph in the text that caught my eye: To ensure our children can compete and succeed in this new economy, we’ll renovate and modernize 10...

In this morning's weekly address, President-Elect Obama proclaimed the importance of science, named his science advisors and reiterated his commitment to government funding of research and technology. How sweet is it to hear the words, "It’s time we once again put science at the top of our age...

In a preview of his weekly address, President-elect Barack Obama addressed the nation on the occasion of Thanksgiving, nearly one hundred and fifty years after President Lincoln called for the last Thursday in November to be set aside to acknowledge our blessings. For more information, visit http://...

Good morning. Nearly 150 years ago, in one of the darkest years of our nation’s history, President Abraham Lincoln set aside the last Thursday in November as a day of Thanksgiving. America was split by Civil War. But Lincoln said in his first Thanksgiving decree that difficult times made it ev...