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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• President Obama & President Lee Joint Press Conference

  
  USA | Barack Obama News — Authority: 142
  President Obama and President Lee Myung-bak of South Korea hold a press conference from the Blue House (Chongwadae), the presidential compound in Northern Seoul. November 19, 2009 (public domain)…Post from: USA | Barack Obama News Post from: USA | Barack Obama News
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• SNL RIPS ON OBAMA

  
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• Barack Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize.

  
  USA | Barack Obama News — Authority: 142
  For…well, I’ll get back to you on that one. Twitter: twitter.com Vlog Channel: youtube.com Stories- Barack Wins: tinyurl.com Why Obama?: tinyurl.com How?: tinyurl.com… Post from: USA | Barack Obama News
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• President Obama Didnt Impress Asia

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 172
  Barack Obamas first visit to Asia since his inauguration was one of the most disappointing trips by any U.S. president to the region in decades, especially given media-generated expectations that "Obamamania" would make it yet another triumphal progression. It was a journey of startlingly few concrete accomplishments, ...
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• Charlotte Essman of East Texas: Dark Prophetess of JFK’s Assassination—and President Barack Obama’s?

  
  Prometheus Unbound — Authority: 143
  The following letter by Charlotte Essman, written to President Lyndon Johnson two days after John Kennedy was assassinated, is part of the LBJ Presidential Library archive in Texas. Charlotte Essman was a common citizen processing her grief over Kennedy’s murder by Lee Harvey Oswald. But what might otherwise be ...
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• Attorney For 9/11 Conspirator Warns Against A Civilian Trial

  
  Politics 24/7 — Authority: 501
      Scott Fenstermaker is the attorney for one of the 9/11 Five…….the five enemy combatants who admitted to playing a roll in the attacks of September 11 th in 2001. Under the direction of attorney General Eric Holder, the Obama Administration decided that these mass murders, who are responsible for the ...
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• No Room in Obama’s Jerusalem for the Jew

  
  Muslims Against Sharia — Authority: 613
  By Daniel Greenfield The same media which can’t be bothered to notice that there is a proxy war going on between Iran and Saudi Arabia in Yemen, with Saudi jets bombing civilian targets. Who have paid no attention whatsoever to a week of violence between Algerians and Egyptians that included stonings and death ...
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• Eric Holder’s Motivation [Reader Post]

  
  Flopping Aces — Authority: 649
  Attorney General Eric Holder is going to take 5 of the most dangerous terrorists from Guantanamo Bay Prison and try them in a criminal court in New York City. If memory serves, he claims that he talked over this decision with his wife and brother. Governor Paterson indicated, in his own protest, that he was aware of ...
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• SNL pokes fun at Obama

  
  United Liberty - Free Market - Individual Liberty - Limited Government — Authority: 575
  Saturday Night Live has some fun with Barack Obama: Hilarious.
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• Obama’s Weekly Address: Traveling Abroad for Our Economy at Home

  
  The Liberal OC — Authority: 526
  WASHINGTON – In this week’s address, President Barack Obama described the progress made during his trip to Asia, and detailed steps the administration is taking to spur job creation.  The President explained how increasing exports to Asia Pacific nations can create hundreds of thousands of jobs in America and ...
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• SNL Plays China Card

  
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  Jeff Immelt has just been disinvited from Tuesdays state dinner:
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• I don’t often fisk…

  
  Moe Lane — Authority: 663
  …and I almost never bother with Maureen Dowd, but this paragraph is impossible to resist. Dowd on the President , and why he should act more like THAT WOMAN ( no, really ): He’s a highly intelligent man Actually, he’s a reasonably intelligent man. 130 IQ, tops. with a highly functioning West Wing, ...
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• Outrage: Beck to spit on ‘I have a dream’ anniversary

  
  The Reid Report — Authority: 482
  The race-baiting Fox News/talk radio host/conspiracy theorist who has accused the president of the United States of hating white people and “the white culture ,” and who has lost dozens of sponsors because of it, plans to hold one of his “9/12 movement” teabagger marches (wonder if he’ll actually attend ...
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• Did barry admit he has no documentation to prove who his father was?

  
  Citizens Against Pro-Obama Media Bias — Authority: 516
  November 18, 2009Updated birth certificate posts/videos/lawsuitsI ran across a few interesting lines in barry’s book “Dreams” when I was looking for his account of meeting his half-brother Mark, who he met up with in Beijing.barry admits to going home to Hawaii the summer before he left for good, he mentions ...
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• Obama Officially Loses “SNL”

  
  Lakeshore Laments — Authority: 143
  The official embedding is now up at Hulu.com. In a word: Damn.
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• SNL Slams Obama Again

  
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  Similar Posts: Obama Campaign Slams “Muslim Garb” Photo Saturday Night Live Slams Barack Obama McCain Slams Rumsfeld White House Slams The Birthers National Review Slams Down The Birthers
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• This is just a touch too rude for RS…

  
  Moe Lane — Authority: 663
  …but it is worth your perusal: As a criticism… I know that the Rule of Three applies, but SNL may have wanted to just stop at two. You’ll understand what I mean when you see it. Via AoSHQ .
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• US Media Ignores Obama’s Muffed Japan Visit

  
  Big Government — Authority: 815
  The Japanese media has reported that Obama’s recent state visit to their island nation was a big failure, but the U.S. media is mum on the mess that Team Obama made in Japan. He made multiple diplomatic gaffs and this is quite aside from the absurdly low bow that the incompetent president perpetrated upon greeting ...
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• Hume Defends American Exceptionalism: Obama Foreign Posture Exactly Backward

  
  NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias — Authority: 833
  On Foxs Nov. 22 "Fox News Sunday," former "Special Report" anchor and Fox News senior political correspondent was dead spot on target in many regards when it came to criticizing the tack President Barack Obama has taken with his foreign policy gestures. First, Hume reflected on how Obama reacted on his trip to Asia ...
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• 2009 Christmas, Message of hope, Americans helping Americans, No government required, Help those around us

  
  Citizen Wells — Authority: 584
  I am writing this message to you as my significant other assembles Christmas packages for five elderly ladies in an assisted living facility not far from us. These ladies have no family members to care for them. This is an annual tradition at the coffee shop we frequent, the same coffee shop where I bring you so many ...
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