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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• Islamophobia and the American Presidency (Hurlicious!!)

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  The 2008 American presidential election brought into lucid focus longstanding discourses of racial belonging in the United States that have amplified Islamophobia and continue both subtly and explicitly nearly a year into Barack Obama’s presidency. The Islamophobic discourses underlying the 2008 election weren’t ...
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• Obama Demands Freedom for Iran Protesters

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  KANEOHE, Hawaii (AFP) – US President Barack Obama on Monday strongly condemned Irans crackdown on protesters and called on the Islamic regime to immediately free those "unjustly detained." "The United States joins with the international community in strongly condemning the violent and unjust suppression of innocent ...
  7 hours ago

• Obama Ends Year Tired, Sober

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  President Barack Obama is ending the year tired - and who could blame him? AP correspondent Julie Pace reports on the multitude of issues that have left the president looking forward to his vacation. (Dec. 29) Original Article: Forum: News/Activism
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• Outrageous Outrage of the Day: Obamas Isolated Extremist Remark

  
  Little Green Footballs — Authority: 591
  All of the wingnut blogs are screaming that in his statement about the Northwest 253 terror attack, President Obama called the alleged terrorist an “isolated extremist.” This one comes straight from Karl Rove and Fox News , and it’s already everywhere on the right wing: ‘isolated extremist’ - Google ...
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• Obama should be jailed, says Ted Nugent

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 740
  London, Dec 29 (ANI): Rocker Ted Nugent has confessed his hatred for U.S. president Barack Obama, insisting the leader should be put in jail.According to Nugent, a fervent Republican, America should be ashamed about voting in the Democrat.“I think that Barack Hussein Obama should be put in jail. It is clear that ...
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• Robert Johnson: Crony capitalism unchanged

  
  Dandelion Salad — Authority: 523
  http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/http://therealnews.comRobert Johnson: Only public money pushed the economy back from the cliff; it can all happen againDr. Robert A. Johnson currently serves on the United Nations Commission of Experts on International Monetary Reform under the Chairmanship of Joseph Stiglitz. He is ...
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• HEADLINES FROM THE WORLD PRESS

  
  The Impudent Observer - Global Liberal Issues — Authority: 147
  Each day we offer a sample of headlines that appeared in the world press along with our comments. Copenhagen Post: “Busy Xmas Criminals” The Scrooge gang was very busy. Indonesia, Jakarta Post: “Canada Bans Carry On Luggage” Does that include the baby? Turkey, Hurriyet: ‘How Green Is Your ...
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• Karzai Blames Coalition Forces For Killing Students

  
  The Impudent Observer - Global Liberal Issues — Authority: 147
  President Hamid Karzai made a brief statement to the effect that Coalition forces in eastern Afghanistan had killed several students during a fight with Taliban forces. The provincial police chief of Kunar province General Khalilulla Zaiyi told the Associated Press that about ten militants had been killed and he was ...
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• Security Promises Of Xmas

  
  The Impudent Observer - Global Liberal Issues — Authority: 147
  Eight long years ago, then President George Bush and the dynamic duo of Dick Cheney and Don Rumsfeld promised the American people they would capture Osama bin Laden, “Dead or Alive.” Of course, within a few weeks after making the bold claim, they abandoned the search for the elusive Osama and turned their ...
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• White House, Twitter: اوباما

  
  FREEDOM EDEN — Authority: 144
  Check this out from the White House Twitter page: Thats a little weird looking. Heres the link from the tweet: President Obama Speaks Out on Iran Violence . اوباما بله ما می توانیم According to Google Translate, thats "Obama" and "Yes we can."
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• Obama Ambulance

  
  Wide Trends — Authority: 138
  Obama Ambulance! Obama ambulance is very popular today and according to reports, during a golf game the president said a time out after hearing an emergency call.An administration official later said the child of one of Obama’s golfing partners had been hurt in a “run of the mill beach injury” but did not ...
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• Is Orly Taitz Issuing Call to Arms Against President Obama?

  
  Turning Left — Authority: 140
  Is birther Orly Taitz calling for a call to arms against President Obama? Taitz has long ago pulled the fabricated Barack Obama birth certificate she once posted on her website. Her anger knows no bounds, however. From her blog : What is the real intention of this Kenyan, Indonesian communist usurper? Is it ...
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• White House gatecrashers named biggest political losers of 2009

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 740
  Washington, Dec 29 (IANS) The White House gatecrashers who strolled uninvited into President Barack Obama’s state dinner for Prime Minister Manmohan Singh have been named the biggest political losers of 2009 in a Gallup poll.The poll named “Tareq and Michaele Salahi, whose last name became a verb after the two ...
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• Obama vows to go aggressively after US plane attackers

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 740
  By Arun KumarWashington, Dec 29 (IANS) President Barack Obama vowed to respond aggressively to terrorism as an Al Qaeda faction claimed responsibility for last week’s foiled attempt by a Nigerian to blow up a US airliner.Taking a break from his Christmas holiday in Hawaii, Obama in his first public comment since the ...
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• Two Plotters of NW Flight 253 Attack Were Released From Gitmo

  
  Chicago News Bench — Authority: 514
  According to a Dec. 28 report from ABC News, "Two of the four leaders allegedly behind the al Qaeda plot to blow up a Northwest Airlines passenger jet over Detroit were released by the U.S. from the Guantanamo prison in November, 2007, according to American officials and Department of Defense documents." Im ...
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• Preventative Security: What are We Trying to Prevent?

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 152
  Whether or not we have learned anything from the alleged terrorist attack on the Delta/Northwest airplane preparing to land in Detroit this past Friday at the end of its flight from Amsterdam, it is clear that “homeland security” has once again recovered pride of place in our daily discourse. These are the ...
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• Senate Confirms First Openly Gay Person US Marshal, She Will Oversee Minn. In New Post

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  Senate Confirms First Openly Gay Person US Marshal, She Will Oversee Minn. In New Post Associated Press December 28, 2009 MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Minneapolis assistant police Chief Sharon Lubinski has become the first openly gay U.S. marshal. The U.S. Senate confirmed the Green Bay, Wis. native to be the U.S. marshal for ...
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• 2009 – The Year of Awful Reporting

  
  The Lonely Conservative — Authority: 579
  Brent  Bozell is giving awards for the year’s worst reporting . He must have had a heck of a time narrowing it down. Via Breitbart , Bozell appeared on Fox and Friends and they all had a laugh at the expense of the biggest losers in American media. Watch the latest business video at FOXBusiness.com
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• Obama and the Costs of Centrism

  
  Underbelly — Authority: 484
  "Come, let us reason together," said Lyndon Johnson (quoting, I believe, the prophet Isaiah). And so he did, although when Lyndon Johnson reasoned, you could usually here the crushing of a few bones. Barack Obama didnt use the Johnson phrase, but he did make it clear that he wanted to be the conciliatory President, ...
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• The Audacity of Rogue

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  It took our friends at the UK Telegraph to publicize something that our press would never do! Just a little comparison here! Barack Obamas critically acclaimed memoir, "Dreams of My Father", spent 150 weeks on the New York Times Best Seller List. When combined with his political essay, "The Audacity of Hope", he sold ...
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