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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  Yet another terror attack that will more than likely go unanswered in the name of Political Correctness. A Muslim soldier calmly fired over 50 shots while reciting, "Allahu Akbar" into a crowded room of American Soldiers who were getting set to deploy and still we refuse to identify the motive for this shooting as a ...
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  ht/HotAir and NYT Mr. Obama, during his private pep talk to Democrats, recognized Mr. Owens election and then posed a question to the other lawmakers. According to Representative Earl Blumenauer of Oregon, who supports the health care bill, the president asked, “Does anybody think that the teabag, ...
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• Health Care: House Vote Brings Us One Step Closer To Success

  
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    This morning, we are one step closer to achieving health care reform in the United States of America.  Can I get a “hip, hip!” Nancy Pelosi and The House voted 220-215 on Saturday night on health care legislation that would provide way past due relief to Americans struggling to buy or hold on to health ...
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• US House of Representatives votes to approve healthcare reform

  
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  After a vote that went down to the wire, House Democrats cheered a vast overhaul of the US healthcare system early Sunday morning. In a phone call to House leaders, President Obama called it “a great victory for the American people.” The $1 trillion-plus measure could add some 36 million people to the ranks ...
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• Historic healthcare overhaul passes House

  
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  The 220-215 vote marks the first such victory in decades of efforts to expand insurance coverage. The bill wins a lone GOP vote and loses many Democrats, pointing to challenges awaiting in the Senate. The House of Representatives on Saturday approved the most sweeping healthcare legislation since the creation of ...
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