Barack Obama

RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) -- Israel apologized Wednesday for disrupting the visit of Vice President Joe Biden with its announcement of 1,600 new homes in disputed east Jerusalem, but made clear it had no intention of reversing the order that has cast a shadow over the latest U.S. push for Mideast peace.

As Biden held talks with top Palestinian leaders in the West Bank, Israeli Interior Minister Eli Yishai, whose office announced the new construction on lands Palestinians claim for a future state, said the problem was about timing, not substance.

WASHINGTON - In the year after the election of Barack Obama as president, more than 14 million weapons were sold in the United States compared with 12.7 million the year before. Gun-shop owners have argued that the rise in sales is linked in part to concerns that the Democratic administration will try to restrict the rights of Americans to hold weapons under license.
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U.S. President Barack Obama is targeted because of standing up to the Jews who control American politics as well as its economy, the Chicago Sun Times quoted the leader of Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan as saying on Monday.
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Long before Barack Obama was in the White House, Bill Cosby wore tennis whites. A black man outside the usual context, and undercover yet. Cosby and Robert Culp portrayed a pair of CIA operatives disguised as globe-trotting tennis players in the popular television series "I Spy." The series was big at a time when popular culture was enamored with espionage. It may even have provided inspiration to another institution and to the next generation of tennis lovers, some of which were filmed leaving an elevator in a certain Dubai hotel.
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Most Israelis, including the heads of the defense establishment and politicians led by the prime minister and the foreign minister, categorically state that U.S. President Barack Obama will never solve the Israeli-Arab conflict. This lack of confidence in and sympathy for Obama have accompanied him, unjustifiably, since the day he began campaigning for the presidency - and has only intensified following his election. The disrespect toward him and his administration is unwarranted; there is no doubt that it is connected to Obama's ethnic background.
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It's quite possible that confounding the conventional wisdom, the Obama Administration has been conducting secret negotiations with Iran that could open the road to a diplomatic détente between the two governments while working behind the scenes with Israelis and Palestinians to create the conditions for bringing about a peace accord between these two peoples. It's possible, but not so probable.

President Barack Obama took a major step toward improving strained ties with Syria on Tuesday, announcing his intention to reappoint a U.S. ambassador to Damascus after a five-year absence.
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U.S. President Barack Obama said on Saturday he was naming a special envoy to a top Islamic body to further Washington's cooperation with the Muslim world.
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Sarah Palin says the damndest things.

Last Sunday, in an interview with Chris Wallace on Fox, she predicted that President Barack Obama would not be re-elected. But she quickly added a caveat.

The obvious caveat would be the state of the economy. If President Obama succeeds in fixing the dismal economy he inherited from President Bush, he will almost surely be re-elected. After all, it is the sputtering economy that is the source of his political problems -- with frustration about the economy producing anger and unrest on both the right and left.

Probably Republican presidential candidate Sarah Palin has two tips for President Barack Obama to win a second term: Back Israel and bomb Iran.