BARACK OBAMA

Barack Obama was elected president of the United States in November 2008, comprehensively defeating the Republican John McCain. He is generally described as the "first black (or African-American) president", being the son of a Kenyan father and a white mother from Kansas.

He graduated from Harvard Law School in 1991 and was elected to the US Senate in 2004, having previously been a state senator in Illinois.

His presidential victory was put down to his winning support from a "rainbow coalition" of voters. He appealed to middle class Americans, and the race was seen to swing his way when the economic crisis of 2008 started to take hold. The unpopularity of Republican President George Bush was also a factor.

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• Obama’s “winter White House”

  
  Front Row Washington — Authority: 590
  President Barack Obama’s “winter White House” has a few perks that even the one at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue can’t claim. Purple taro chips, for one. A breathtaking view of the Pacific Ocean, for another. The Obama family is renting a $4,000-a-night Hawaiian home in Kailua, on the windward side of the island ...
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• A Sale On Democrats - You Can Buy Them by the Bagful

  
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  William Warren: [IMG: http://www.getliberty.org/content_images/Cartoon%20-%20Sale%20on%20Democrats%20%28500%29.jpg]
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• Gitmo to Stay Open at Least One More Year

  
  ANIMAL — Authority: 674
  Hey remember when Obama promised to close Gitmo by January 2010? Yeah, well, so much for that! | New York Times |
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• No Surprise: NY Times Supreme Court Reporter Linda Greenhouse Donated to Obama Campaign

  
  NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias — Authority: 821
  Here’s a shock: Retired New York Times Supreme Court reporter Linda Greenhouse donated to the Obama campaign. Greenhouse revealed the donation in a nytimes.com column expressing her ambivalence about McCain-Feingold’s stringent restrictions on campaign speech. In " Hurry Up and Wait ," an Opinionator piece on ...
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• Mao, Transvestite, Obama Ornaments Found on White House Christmas Tree

  
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• TV/media in the 2000s: 10 (or so) key voices in left/right political media

  
  Premium Hollywood - Entertainment blog, Hollywood blog, movie blog, TV blog — Authority: 528
  Politically speaking, the aughts have been one long, strange trip. Just think about what we’ve seen this decade: a disputed presidential election in 2000, the largest terrorist attack in world history occurring on U.S. soil in 2001, followed by two wars, the partial erasure of New Orleans and much of the Gulf ...
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• Obama plans for health care delay, new jobs bill

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 176
  Obama plans for health care delay, new jobs bill By: Mike Allen and Alexander Trowbridge December 23, 2009 09:25 AM EST The White House privately anticipates health care talks to slip into February — past President Barack Obama’s first State of the Union address — and then plans to make a “very hard pivot” to a ...
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• More Christmas Goodies for Sen. Nelson

  
  Big Government — Authority: 818
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• I Feel Bad About My President’s Neck

  
  The Awl — Authority: 773
  You know what makes for a bad morning? It’s when you finally read one of those 9000-word HuffPo pieces that have been going around for a couple days, about how the President is whiffing, and how this healthcare bill is kind of bullshit and… you pretty much agree with it? I am not really feeling the love. I kind ...
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• Daily Presidential Tracking Poll (December 23, 2009: Dear Reader is at -18)

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 176
  The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Wednesday shows that shows that 26% of the nations voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Forty-four percent (44%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -18 Original Article: ...
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• Email Of The Day

  
  BlogWonks — Authority: 150
  Did you know it was the “right wing” that stole the emails of climate scientists? I didn’t. Special thanks to MoveOn.org for breaking the story! Dear MoveOn member, President Obama recently proposed that for the first time in history the Environmental Protection Agency will enforce global warming ...
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• Email Of The Day

  
  Black & Right — Authority: 144
  Did you know it was the “right wing” that stole the emails of climate scientists? I didn’t. Special thanks to MoveOn.org for breaking the story! Dear MoveOn member, President Obama recently proposed that for the first time in history the Environmental Protection Agency will enforce global warming ...
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  It is no secret that the Secret Service is not displeased that the First Family prefers to vacation in Hawaii, instead of Crawford, Texas.
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• Why is Obama Ditching the Public Option – and You?

  
  Firedoglake — Authority: 712
  Obama apparently doesn’t think he campaigned on a pubic option, just because he mentioned it during his campaign and included it in his health care plan. Why would that be? Well, a couple of days ago my eyebrows raised when I saw this CNN poll on health care . It indicates that Obama’s popularity has risen ...
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• NOVA Kaine

  
  Chickaboomer — Authority: 445
  "Barry from DC" calls in DCs all-news radio station WTOP, ostensibly to complain about Northern Virginia traffic , but instead invites outgoing VA Governor Tim Kaine to a viral snowball fight in the Rose Garden and a beer with gun-pulling DC cop Detective Baylor:
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• Actor Danny Glover Blasts Obama

  
  Sandra Rose — Authority: 615
  Actor Danny Glover did not mince words on what he thinks of US President Barack Obama in a recent interview. The highly regarded actor who received critical acclaim for his role in The Color Purple, said he didn’t see any difference between the agendas of the previous White House occupant, George Bush, and the ...
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• The White House Non-Christmas Tree

  
  Chicago News Bench — Authority: 544
  God forbid anybody should mention God or - gasp! - Jesus in relation to Christmas. If youre really politically correct, of course, its not "Christmas," its "holiday." The White House non-Christmas tree is a bizarre amalgam of commie icons, symbols and other creepy things. The ornaments feature images ...
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• Gitmo in Illinois protest

  
  This ain't Hell, but you can see it from here — Authority: 600
  Two great friends of this blog, Bev Perlson and Debbie Lee, were on Fox and Friends this morning to talk about their protest against moving Guantanamo detainees being brought to Thomson, IL;Watch the latest business video at FOXBusiness.com
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• “Barry From D.C.”

  
  Political Buzz — Authority: 126
  Why so much attention over a call from a “Barry in D.C.” to complain about NoVa traffic on outgoing Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine’s final call-in radio show? Must be something more to the story…
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• Oncologist Congressman Switches Parties

  
  Bloodthirsty Liberal — Authority: 150
  A new RepublicanNews from the Obama re-alignment watch: Alabama Congressman Parker Griffith announced yesterday that he plans to switch parties and become a Republican. At a press conference, the oncologist-turned-politician said he could not continue to align himself with a Democratic Party pushing a health-care bill ...
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