So Obama’s February 2009 speech to the joint session of Congress came by way of a reply. Higher Education, in effect, had enunciated what it wanted as payout for the political support it had provided ...

Update (11:38 a.m. EST): The president has just finished speaking. As part of his budget proposal, the president outlined an $8 billion community college job training program that he said could train ...

DALLAS - President Barack Obama's back-to-school address next week was supposed to be a feel-good story for an administration battered over its health care agenda. Now Republican critics are calling ...

Obama fights for female and independent votes in battleground states. LEBANON, Va., Sept. 9, 2008— -- With recent polls showing a 20-point swing among white women voters to John McCain, Barack ...