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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• Step Right Up Watch the Democrats Implode

  
  Today With President Barack Obama — Authority: 446
  Ed Shultz is right about one thing-- the democrats are behaving like ornery children and need someone to whip them into shape because they dont have the wherewithal within their ranks. But thats all Shultz is right about. Shultz sets about scapegoating Rahm Emanuel. Rahm and Timothy Geithner both get scapegoated as ...
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• Americans Souring on Democrats(and Rinos)

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 176
  Publics Malaise and Insecurity Translate Into Significant Shift in Political Landscape Since Start of the Obama Era Support for the Democratic Party is slumping amid a wave of public discontent, according to a new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll. The findings underscore how dramatically the political landscape has ...
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• Its Democrat vs. Democrat and We Lose

  
  Today With President Barack Obama — Authority: 446
  Its Howard Dean vs. Mary Landrieu. Landrieu is right. Obama campaigned on fixing the system we have. He didnt campaign on a public option. He campaigned on competition, in whatever form that took. He has expressed that the public option could work but he never advocated full on for the public option. That was the ...
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• Obama & Bruni Compared

  
  USA | Barack Obama News — Authority: 140
  Though French first lady Carla Bruni avoided the London scene, style watchers made the inevitable comparisons between her and Michelle Obama, reports Mark Phillips. Also, Tina Brown talks to Harry Smith… Post from: USA | Barack Obama News Post from: USA | Barack Obama News
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• Michael Goldfarb on Glenn Beck confirms White House call and threat to Senator Ben Nelson, Obama thugs, December 16, 2009, Ben Nelson threatened to vote for Senate Health Care Bill

  
  Citizen Wells — Authority: 546
  Yesterday, December 15, 2009, the Citizen Wells blog quoted a report from the Weekly Standard that indicated that the White House, Obama, threatened to close an Air Force base in Nebraska if Senator Ben Nelson did not vote for the Senate Health Care Bill.  “Source: Dems Threaten Nelson In Pursuit of 60 While the ...
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• Asif Ali Zardari refuses to engage top Taliban commander

  
  Muslims Against Sharia — Authority: 570
  Zahid Hussain and Giles Whittell A KEY plank of the US strategy for Afghanistan and Pakistan was in danger of giving way last night after a refusal by Pakistan to take on a Taliban commander who is considered one of the gravest threats to Western forces. Pakistan has ignored US demands that it expand ...
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• Allegations White House Is Exhorting Sen. Ben Nelson’s Healthcare Vote

  
  Logistics Monster — Authority: 437
  Glenn Beck interviews Michael Goldfarb of the Weekly Standard about the allegations that the White House is blackmailing Sen. Ben Nelson with Offutt Air Force Base.The Weekly Standard:Source: Dems Threaten Nelson In Pursuit of 60While the Democrats appease Senator Lieberman, they still have to worry about other ...
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• Barack Obamas Plea to the Citizens of Facebookopia

  
  Indecision Forever — Authority: 584
  Are you friends with Barack Obama on Facebook? I am. (Oh, you know, we play Scrabble and write about memories of each other. He threw a cow at me once.) About an hour ago, he posted the following status update … "We simply cannot allow differences over individual elements of this plan to prevent us from meeting ...
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• Ropeadope: some wonder if Obama played the left

  
  The Reid Report — Authority: 507
  As the healthcare bill finally emerges as Democrats’ worst nightmare: a law forcing every American to purchase private health insurance whether they want to or not (wouldn’t it be great for Pizza Hut and Dominos if Congress would pass a law ordering every American household to eat a pepperoni pie once a week? Or ...
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• Poll Watch: GWU Battleground 2009 Final Political Survey

  
  race42008.com — Authority: 621
  GWU Battleground 2009 Final Political Survey How would you rate the job Barack Obama has been doing as President? Do you approve or disapprove of the job he is doing? Strongly Approve 37% (40%) Approve 13% (13%) Disapprove 4% (5%) Strongly Disapprove 41% (37%) Whether you approve or disapprove of the ...
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• The sh&t is really hitting the fan at the progblogs!

  
  The Confluence — Authority: 569
  This has been building for a long time, and it seems like we’ve finally reached a tipping point. The prog blogs are in an uproar! Of course Glenn Greenwald has seen Obama for what he is for awhile now, but today he’s really letting it all hang out. Just watch this appearance on MSNBC (h/t Jane Hamsher at FDL) ...
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• Kill It

  
  MAL Contends . . . — Authority: 467
  MoveOn raised $650,000 in less than 24 hours to send Joe Lieberman home. Howard Dean just laid out the reasons for killing health care reform that enriches insurance companies while allowing skyrocketing rates and forcing Americans into new, sick system. One can hope against that the end result will offer real ...
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• Health Care Debacle: R.I.P Democratic Hopes for “Permanent” Majority?

  
  The Moderate Voice — Authority: 679
  Is it over before even some analysts and Republican pundits said it would be over? In his wildest dreams did Rush Limbaugh really think this could happen? The sound you’re hearing and angry words you’re reading suggest that the Democratic party is now being strained at the seams. That’s followed by a sweeping ...
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• Snubbing Dr. Dean--one more bone-headed mistake by BHO

  
  All This Is That — Authority: 135
  By Pablo Fanque All This Is That National Affairs Editor Howard, Howard, Howard. Youre doing the wrong thing for the right reason. Dont go over to the dark side with Arlen Specter and Crazy Joe Lieberman. Undoubtedly, Dean coming out against the health care plan, while intellectually and politically ...
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• US troop surge in Afghanistan begins

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  Washington, Dec 17 (DPA) The first of an additional 30,000 troops ordered into Afghanistan by US President Barack Obama have arrived, the Pentagon said Wednesday.The troops are part of the 1,500 Marines expected to be in place by Christmas, spokesman Geoff Morrell said.Obama announced December 1 that he was expanding ...
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• Hey everybody, check out this triflinity over here! Tiger and Obama are BOTH uppity Negroes

  
  Jack & Jill Politics — Authority: 615
  I’m tired. I’m cranky. I’m about ready for 2009 to be over, and then I come across this nonsense at Huffington Post: Two Black Role Models Done In By Hubris In the past few weeks, the two most famous and arguably most successful black men in America have taken a huge fall. It has become clear that both pro ...
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• The Democrats Health `Reform Bill: Kill It Before It Comes to Life!

  
  Democrats.com - The Aggressive Progressives! — Authority: 498
  By Dave Lindorff Give credit to Howard Dean. This still practicing physician, former governor of Vermont, former chair of the Democratic Party and former Democratic presidential candidate has called for progressive members of Congress in both houses to join their Republican colleagues in killing what he rightly ...
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• Financing a Real Deal in Copenhagen.

  
  WattHead - Energy News and Commentary — Authority: 126
  At the international climate talks going on right now in Copenhagen, Denmark, we have a once in a lifetime opportunity to launch a major assault on global warming. Besides deciding emission targets and the legal structure of an agreement, commitments for long-term financing for developing countries to help green their ...
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• Congressional Democrats Turn on President Obama

  
  From the Left — Authority: 470
  Wednesday, December 16, 2009 What do you get when you add: No Single Payer+No Public Option+No Medicare Buy-In+No Importation of Canadian Drugs? A first year president in trouble with his own party. The Huffington Post reports : Congressional Democrats are starting to voice their anger at President ...
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• Dear President Obama

  
  AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth — Authority: 156
  David Shuster of MSNBC says, linking to this piece, that "this sentiment on the left is a big problem for the White House." From Manhattan Butterfly blog : Dear President Obama, I just got an email from you asking me to contact my Senators to vote for your piece of crap health care “reform” bill. The link to ...
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