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 Auntie Zeituni is deeply disappointed in her nephew. Just like most legal Americans.

  
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  Auntie Zeituni lives in Boston. Maybe John Kerry can find a spare room in his mansion for her. This is a sad story. A very sad story, indeed. It looks like President Obama has abandoned his beloved Auntie Zeituni in her hour of greatest need. The Associated Press tells the tragic tale: President Barack Obama’s ...
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• Afghanistan To Become Obama’s Vietnam

  
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  After listening to Obama from his Zion Throne the other day – the first thing came to my mind was: “You can fool some people sometime, but not all the times”. Obama’s speech seems to be written by some Bush’s Zionist writer and was full of contradictions, such as  ”the West must fight a war [...]
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• Afghanistan: Nato insists it can deliver Barack Obamas troop request

  
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  Nato insists it will it will be able to send the extra troops to Afghanistan requested by Barack Obama despite the failure of European allies including France and Germany to commit more personnel to the surge.
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• Analysis: Barack Obamas strategy not as easy in Afghanistan as Iraq

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 969
  Like the US surge in Iraq in 2007, President Barack Obamas announcement is not just about numbers, but also tactics.
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• Barack Obama and George W. Bush Present: America’s New Civil War!

  
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       Enemy territory.  That’s how the press described President Obama’s location for his historical speech yesterday.  But he wasn’t in Afghanistan.  Or Iraq.  No, he was speaking at West Point.  This has gone entirely too far.  We have sunk so low in our internal bipartisan war that we are starting to ...
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• Afghanistan, Pakistan rattled by US 2011 troop exit plan

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 728
  Islamabad, Dec.3 (ANI): President Barack Obama’s timetable for deploying additional American forces in Afghanistan next summer and his decision to start withdrawing them from July 2011, has rattled both Afghanistan and Pakistan.According to a report in the New York Times, Afghan Foreign Minister Rangin Dadfar Spanta ...
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• “Crunch time” for Pak to act following Obama raising concern about terror safe havens

  
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  Washington, Dec.3 (ANI): President Barack Obama’s revamped Afghan strategy and his clear cut talks highlighting the presence of terror safe havens on Pakistani soil has probably for the first time delivered a message to Islamabad that it is time it starts acting against those terror sanctuaries.According to ...
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• Message from Afghanistan

  
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  Dandelion SaladLove is how we’ll need to runourjourneytosmileDecember 02, 2009 more about “Love is how we’ll need to run“, posted with vodpodI was very young during the Taliban war. I fled to the Baba Mountains with my family.There ‎was lots of snow then. When I returnedI never saw my father again.‎We ...
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• 2009 Cyber Word of the Year is Twitter

  
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  In a year dominated by world-shaking political events, a deadly disease (Swine Flu), the aftereff...
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• US denies receiving evidence from Pak regarding India’s hand in Baloch insurgency

  
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  Islamabad, Dec.3 (ANI): The United States has denied receiving any evidence regarding India’s alleged involvement in the Baloch insurgency from Pakistan.Interacting with a select group of news editors here, just after President Barack Obama announced his revamped Afghan strategy, US Ambassador to Pakistan Anne ...
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• US to continue to ask Pak to do more against extremist outfits: Clinton

  
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  Washington, Dec.3 (ANI): US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has said that Washington would continue to press Pakistan to do more against extremist organisations that posses a threat to the entire region.“It will be our continuing effort… to make the case that the Pakistanis have to do more against all of the ...
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• Obama’s Speech: ‘Servility’ Toward U.S. Has its Limits – The Nation, Pakistan

  
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  From what can be gleaned from editorials coming out of Pakistan today, President Obama’s long-awaited speech on his Afghanistan strategy has been anything but well received. Chief among Islamabad’s concerns is that more U.S. troops in Afghanistan mean more militants will flee into Pakistan – particularly from ...
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• John Pilger - Obama and Empire

  
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  From Socialism 2009 in San Francisco: Well worth the listen in respect toward Obamas escalation of the Afghan War.
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• ClimateGate: Robbing the poor to enrich the rich! (Part ONE of THREE)

  
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  . . . Politics and Greenhouse Gases By John McLaughin ___ November 27th, 2009 American Thinker AMERICANTHINKER.COM Politics and Greenhouse Gases ...
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• Diamond’s 2009 Christmas Graphic Novel Gift Suggestions

  
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  Diamond Distribution have sent around their top recommended gift suggestions for Christmas 2009. The suggested gifts include The Complete Dracula , Bloom County Complete Library Volume 1 ,  Little Mouse Gets Ready , The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes , Pride and Prejudice , The Wonderful Wizard of ...
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• Family Research Council has Made Up a new Scare Tactic

  
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  These folks are stupid, but we already knew that. Family Research Council has created a silly way to scare folks into giving them money. They sent out a fund-raising alert saying that President Barack Obama wants to “impose homosexuality and silence Christianity in workplaces.” Also how ENDA will ruin the lives ...
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• ClimateGate: Robbing the poor to enrich the rich! (Part TWO of THREE)

  
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  . . . Politics and Greenhouse Gases By John McLaughin ___ November 27th, 2009 American Thinker AMERICANTHINKER.COM Politics and Greenhouse Gases ...
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• Texas cops uncover Obama ecstasy pills

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 728
  Washington, Dec 3 (ANI): Texas police have busted a line of ecstasy pills modeled on the face of US President Barack Obama.Cops found the drug earlier this week after a driver was searched in Palmview.Apart from Ecstasy pills, the accused was also carrying black tar heroin, cocaine and marijuana.According to spokesman ...
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• ADL Report Smears Tea Party Conservatives

  
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  The Anti-Defamation Leagues paper on right-wing "rage" succumbs to the paranoia and fear-mongering it purports to decry.
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• The Republican Temple Picture Of The Day

  
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