WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama’s top national security adviser delayed a planned trip to China and India last week to help Obama deal with Libya and a decision on U.S. troops in Iraq, the White House said on Friday.

White House national security adviser Tom Donilon had been scheduled to meet with Chinese leaders on Oct. 21 in Beijing, including with Vice Premier Wang Qishan and State Councilor Dai Bingguo, and then travel on to India.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama is bombarding Americans with job initiatives that may lack economic heft but show him as an activist leader compared to a ‘do-nothing’ Congress as he campaigns for re-election in 2012.

Obama will have rolled out three separate measures in three days when he wraps up a tour of electorally vital western states on Wednesday, and more moves are coming.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama is bombarding Americans with job initiatives that may lack economic heft but show him as an activist leader compared to a ‘do-nothing’ Congress as he campaigns for re-election in 2012.

Obama will have rolled out three separate measures in three days when he wraps up a tour of electorally vital western states on Wednesday, and more moves are coming.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama’s grim warnings about the state of the U.S. economy could backfire on him by undermining a key goal of his re-election campaign — restoring the confidence of Americans.

In his drive to push a $447 billion jobs package through Congress to spur hiring, the Democratic president has spoken of an economic emergency that he wants Congress to fix by approving his ideas to create jobs.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama’s grim warnings about the state of the U.S. economy could backfire on him by undermining a key goal of his re-election campaign — restoring the confidence of Americans.

In his drive to push a $447 billion jobs package through Congress to spur hiring, the president has spoken of an economic emergency that he wants Congress to fix by approving his ideas to create jobs.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama warned Iran on Thursday it would face the toughest possible sanctions for an alleged plot to kill the Saudi ambassador in Washington, as Treasury officials eyed action against the Iranian central bank.

Saudi Arabia on Thursday accused Iran of fomenting instability but pledged a “measured response” over the alleged conspiracy that has heightened tensions between OPEC’s two top oil producers.

WASHINGTON, Oct 12 (Reuters) – With one eye on the 2012
elections, President Barack Obama and his fellow Democrats said
on Wednesday that they will force votes on individual pieces of
their job-creation package in Congress to convince voters they
are a better choice than Republicans to boost the economy.

“We will keep organizing and we will keep voting until this
Congress finally meets its responsibilities,” Obama said, a day
after Republicans blocked the $447 billion plan in the Senate.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Fresh from a defeat at the hands of Republicans, President Barack Obama and his fellow Democrats said on Wednesday they will move their jobs bill in pieces to convince voters that they are a better choice to spur the sluggish economy.

One day after Republicans blocked the $447 billion job-creation package in the Senate, Obama said he was not giving up.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama maintained his attack against congressional Republicans over his jobs bill on Saturday, upping pressure before it faces a vote in the Senate next week.

Repeating a warning to make them explain to the American people why they oppose his measures, Obama said the country needed it as insurance against a double dip recession.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama heralded Tunisia’s progress toward democracy after a White House meeting with Prime Minister Beji Caid Sebsi on Friday, awarded for the country’s “inspiration” of the Arab Spring.

“The United States has enormous stake in seeing success in Tunisia and the creation of greater opportunity and more business investment in Tunisia,” Obama said after an Oval Office meeting the Tunisian leader.