Robert Gibbs News

White House paints GOP field with Tea Party brush

By theGrio

10:08 AM on 08/17/2011

WASHINGTON (AP) - If the strategy works, it could cause guilt-by-association problems even for non-tea-party Republicans like Mitt Romney...
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Adviser: Obama not obsessed with keeping job

By theGrio

3:31 PM on 08/16/2011

WASHINGTON (AP) - He also suggested that some Republicans "do not want to see this economy get better" because they know continuing misery will likely improve their election prospects...
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Can Bill Burton be a breath of fresh air at the White House?

By Dr. Wilmer J. Leon III

8:17 AM on 01/06/2011

OPINION - Having an African-American as the spokesman for the president is a big deal and a good thing but any focus on Burton's ethnicity will quickly pass...
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White House: Obama still trying to kick the habit

By theGrio

5:05 PM on 12/09/2010

WASHINGTON (AP) - Has the president quit smoking? Gibbs wasn't ready to make that declaration...
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Ouch! 12 stitches for Obama after errant elbow in hoops

By theGrio

3:11 PM on 11/26/2010

WASHINGTON (AP) - It was a five-on-five contest involving family and friends and including Reggie Love, Obama's personal assistant who played at Duke University...
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White House hopes GOP will accept tax cuts

By theGrio

10:20 AM on 09/13/2010

WASHINGTON (AP) - The White House and its Democratic allies hope to use the tax-cut fight to cast themselves as defenders of the middle class...
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Critics rain on Spain getaway for first lady

By theGrio

5:49 PM on 08/09/2010

WASHINGTON (AP) - Suddenly, the popular first lady is being compared to Marie Antoinette and labeled a "material girl" sponging off taxpayers...
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Vilsack offers Sherrod new job at Agriculture

By theGrio

5:01 PM on 07/21/2010

WASHINGTON (AP) - Sherrod says she's considering the offer, which she said was for a different position than her former post as GA state director of rural development...
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White House apologizes to Shirley Sherrod

By theGrio

3:26 PM on 07/21/2010

WASHINGTON (AP) - White House spokesman Robert Gibbs called the dismissal of Shirley Sherrod an injustice and a mistake...
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'Furious' Obama heading to Gulf for spill update

By theGrio

11:02 AM on 06/04/2010

WASHINGTON (AP) - Polls show the public growing more negative toward the president's handling of the spill...
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Coast Guard: BP using all technical means it can

By theGrio

4:52 PM on 05/24/2010

WASHINGTON (AP) - BP is exhausting every possibility to plug the devastating oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, Coast Guard Commandant Thad Allen said Monday...
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White House slams Limbaugh and Robertson on Haiti

By theGrio

4:28 PM on 01/14/2010

From Mother Jones You can really judge a right-wing leader by how he or she reacts to a humanitarian crisis. As Haitians were coping with the hellish earthquake, Pat Robertson claimed that the island nation was hit by this disaster because it is "cursed." And it is "cursed," according to...
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Fox News and White House on speaking terms again

By theGrio

10:10 AM on 10/29/2009

The network confirmed a Politico report that Fox news executive Michael Clemente met at the White House on Wednesday with Robert Gibbs, President Barack Obama's press secretary.
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