Tagged: President Barack Obama

Pages

2:41pm

Thu April 19, 2012
Presidential Race

Romney, Obama Give Dueling Speeches In Ohio

Originally published on Thu April 19, 2012 5:36 pm

Mitt Romney spoke at a shuttered factory in Lorain County, Ohio, Thursday. He was giving a response to President Obama, who spoke in the same county a day before. Romney blamed the president for failing to turn around the economy and re-open the factory. Ari Shapiro tells Melissa Block Ohio is once again expected to be a battleground state.

11:34am

Thu April 19, 2012
The Two-Way

PHOTO: President Obama Sits In Rosa Parks Bus

Credit Pete Souza / The White House

During his trip to Detroit, yesterday, President Obama visited the Henry Ford Museum and had the opportunity to sit in the bus where in 1955 Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to make way for a white customer. That moment sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott and fueled the civil rights movement that made it possible for Barack Obama to become president.

Today, the White House's photographer Pete Souza tweeted a picture of the moment:

Read more

6:37am

Thu April 19, 2012

Pages