NEW YORK (Reuters) – Talk about a venue change.

Fresh from giving an economic speech in the heart of the industrial Rust Belt, President Barack Obama headed to Manhattan’s Greenwich Village on Thursday to hold a big-dollar campaign fundraiser with rich donors at the home of “Sex in the City” actress Sarah Jessica Parker.

Obama has shaped his campaign message around appealing to middle-class voters, many of whom have suffered from the U.S. recession and slow economic recovery.

WASHINGTON, June 14 (Reuters) – President Barack Obama,
seeking to counter deep doubts about his economic leadership,
will ask voters on Thursday for more time to boost growth while
arguing that his Republican rival Mitt Romney would resurrect
policies that plunged the United States into crisis.

Obama will use a campaign speech in the battleground state
of Ohio to try to bounce back from setbacks over the last two
weeks.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama, seeking to counter deep doubts about his economic leadership, will ask voters on Thursday for more time to boost growth while arguing that his Republican rival Mitt Romney would resurrect policies that plunged the United States into crisis.

Obama will use a campaign speech in the battleground state of Ohio to try to bounce back from a series of recent setbacks.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama called on Friday for clear rules to resolve maritime disputes in the South China Sea and throughout the Pacific, a region where the United States is trying to increase its strategic heft.

Speaking to reporters after hosting Filipino President Benigno Aquino in the Oval Office, Obama said it was critical to avoid escalation of conflicts over strategic waterways and shipping routes.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama called the treatment decades ago of returning Vietnam War veterans a “national shame” on Monday and promised as commander-in-chief not to send U.S. troops back into harm’s way without a clear mission and strategy.

Obama did not mention rising tensions with Iran and Syria or other potential threats in his remarks to veterans and military families on a hot, sunny Memorial Day, focusing instead on the legacy of Vietnam and his own efforts to wind down the Iraq and Afghanistan wars started by his predecessor, George W. Bush.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama honored Vietnam War veterans on Monday, saying the United States had learned “hard lessons” from the conflict and promising not to send U.S. troops back into harm’s way without a clear mission and strategy.

Obama did not mention rising tensions with Iran and Syria or other potential threats in his remarks to veterans and military families on a hot, sunny Memorial Day, focusing instead on his efforts to wind down the Iraq and Afghanistan wars started by his predecessor George W. Bush.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama honored Vietnam War veterans on Monday, saying the United States had learned “hard lessons” from the conflict and promising not to send U.S. troops back into harm’s way without a clear mission and strategy.

Obama did not mention rising tensions with Iran and Syria or other potential threats in his remarks to veterans and military families on a hot, sunny Memorial Day, focusing instead on his efforts to wind down the Iraq and Afghanistan wars started by his predecessor George W. Bush.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Most of the cadets who graduated on Saturday from West Point were in elementary school when hijacked planes hit the World Trade Center and Pentagon on September 11, 2001, and enrolled in the U.S. military academy with wars raging in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Vice President Joe Biden lauded the brave choices of the Class of 2012 – and their so-called “9/11 generation” – with a commencement address focused on the United States’ new foreign policy challenges including cyber threats and a rising China.

CHICAGO/DES MOINES, Iowa (Reuters) – After weeks of painting Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney as a job-slashing corporate raider, President Barack Obama and his re-election campaign are broadening their attack to include Romney’s record as Massachusetts governor, arguing his policies hurt the state.

Obama, in an impassioned campaign speech in the battleground state of Iowa on Thursday night, foreshadowed that shift in strategy when he said Romney had made his business experience the centerpiece of his candidacy but “doesn’t really talk about what he did in Massachusetts.”

, May 23 (Reuters) -
R epublican presidential candidate Mitt Romney opened a new front
on Wednesday in his fight against President Barack Obama,
accusing him of presiding over a failing U.S. education system
in the grip of union bosses who refuse to accept reforms.

In a rare diversion from his campaign focus on the weak U.S.
economy, Romney laid out an education plan in a speech that
represented his most overt appeal to date to Hispanic voters who
have largely sided with the Democratic incumbent.