President Barack Obama is greeted by children as he arrives via Air Force One at Antalya International Airport in Antalya, Turkey
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President Barack Obama departs with National Security Advisor Susan Rice after meeting with Turkey’s President Tayyip Erdogan at the Regnum Carya Resort in Antalya, Turkey
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President Barack Obama greets Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel as they gather for a family photo with fellow world leaders
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President Barack Obama and President Vladimir Putin hold a meeting on Syria during a break of the G20 summit working session
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President Barack Obama chats with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon
President Obama checks to see if he still needs the umbrella held by a U.S. Marine during a joint news conference with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan in the Rose Garden of the White House, May 16
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First Lady Michelle Obama with Emine Erdoğan, wife of Turkish PM, May 16. Photo by Lawrence Jackson
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@PeteSouza: POTUS has dinner with PM Erdogan of Turkey in Red Room at WH
Washington Post: Since Republicans took control of the House of Representatives in 2011, the House has voted 36 times to repeal either all, or part, of President Obama’s health-care law.
On Thursday, the House is scheduled to do it again, taking up another bill that would repeal the health care law in full.
With number 37 on the way, here are the details of the first 36 votes….
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GOP to replace Obamacare with Benghazicare - a health plan based on belief that a fake scandal is the cure for everything.
— Frank Conniff (@FrankConniff) May 16, 2025
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Steve Benen: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) was asked yesterday about House Republicans, once again, voting to repeal the Affordable Care Act, even though House Republicans realize this is pointless. Noting the insanity of doing the same thing over and over again, expecting different results, Reid said they have “truly lost their minds.”
That’s not an unfair assessment….
More here
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Fuck yeah Obamacare! #ObamaCareInThreeWords
— Imani ABL (@AngryBlackLady) May 16, 2025
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Did pigs just fly? Did a reporter just speak the truth…..
TPM: Wow, This is Pretty Epic
Generally, once partisan, tendentious sources leak information that turns out to be wrong, nothing’s ever done about it. That’s for many reasons, some good or somewhat understandable, mostly bad. But on CBS Evening News tonight, Major Garrett did something I don’t feel like I’ve seen in a really long time or maybe ever on a network news cast. He basically said straight out: Republicans told us these were the quotes, that wasn’t true….
More here
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Was this written as a ransom note? RT @jrubinblogger: WHite Ouse BAD, AWGUL, HORRIBLE week not over yet
— Jon Favreau (@jonfavs) May 16, 2025
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Heritage letter to Republicans on Capitol Hill: don’t legislate, just scandalize Obama on.thegrio.com/16mXJEQ
AP: Some of the money from President Barack Obama’s health care law is flowing to places you might not expect.
Two Texas public employee programs are among the top 25 beneficiaries of a $5-billion fund to shore up employer coverage for early retirees, despite Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s vow to repeal what Republicans derisively call “Obamacare.”
And records show the Huntsman family business, where GOP presidential candidate Jon Huntsman was once a top executive, received about $1 million.
Some see a gap between dire Republican rhetoric about the health care overhaul and the pragmatic impulse to cash in on a new government benefit.
“Lots of Texans are already benefiting from health care reform,” said Anne Dunkelberg, a health care expert at the Austin-based Center for Public Policy Priorities. “Other than for political theater, there would not be the kind of opposition there is.” The nonpartisan center advocates for the poor.
Full article here
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The Week
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Uggh, he’s at it again:
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and Argentina’s President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner
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…. with Spain’s PM Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero
… with Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff
…. with Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan
… with International Labor Organization Director-General Juan Somavia
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CNN: President Barack Obama leads all of his potential Republican challengers in hypothetical 2012 matchups among Pennsylvania adults, according to a new poll.
The Franklin and Marshall College poll released Thursday in the battleground state, shows Obama ahead of potential rivals Mitt Romney, Herman Cain, Rick Perry and Rick Santorum, but the results are closest when the president is paired with Romney.
Obama leads the former Massachusetts governor 35% to 26% and Cain, the former pizza executive, 38% to 24%. He enjoys a 20% lead over Texas Gov. Perry, 40% to 20% and a 13% advantage over former two-term Pennsylvania Sen. Santorum, 38% to 25%.
President Barack Obama talks with Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan after the third morning plenary session during the G-20 Summit at the COEX Center in Seoul, South Korea, Nov. 12, 2010. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
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