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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• Live Streaming Video of Senate Health Care Reform Debate And Vote

  
  The Moderate Voice — Authority: 740
  Here is a live streaming video feed of the Senate health care reform debate. The vote over to whether to let come to the Senate floor for debate and amendments is expected between 8 and 9 pm EST. This live video will remain at the TOP of TMV until after the coverage completely ends. Underneath the video you’ll ...
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• US shares info with India on Headley’s ISI links

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 710
  By Manish ChandGeneva, Nov 21 (IANS) The US Saturday disclosed to India new information linking the anti-terror plot hatched by expatriates David Coleman Headley and Tahawuur Rana with some elements in the ISI and said it will reveal the name of a key Pakistani national linked to the Mumbai carnage in a week’s ...
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• China assures India about US joint statement

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 710
  By Manish ChandGeneva, Nov 21 (IANS) China has allayed concerns of India over the US-China joint statement, saying that it advocated direct negotiations between India and Pakistan to resolve their bilateral issues.A senior official of Chinese Foreign Office conveyed to Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao that Beijing ...
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• Sad Klansmen, Accusatory Racists.

  
  Jewlicious — Authority: 552
  Hello America! Spotted in Wheat Ridge, Colorado : The billboard above, insinuating that President Obama is in some way tied to Jihadists and the Fort Hood shootings. The manager of Wolf Interstate Leasing defended the billboard displayed on their premises by claiming that the words “We are a christian ...
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• Manufacturers Voting With Their Feet As Obama Kills The Economy

  
  Start Thinking Right — Authority: 501
  Emerson Electric, an American company founded in 1890, ranking number 111 on the Fortune 500 , and the nation’s largest manufacturer of electronics and electronic equipment, is saying bye-bye to the country that hired Barack Obama. You have to wonder how many businesses are saying goodbye to Obamination with their ...
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• Live stream of Senate debate to open debate on the health care bill

  
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  Watch it here, courtesy of Hot Air . Live video by Ustream ShareThis
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• India, US to clinch reprocessing pact Tuesday

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 710
  By Manish ChandOn Board PM’s Special Aircraft, Nov 21 (IANS) India and the US are set to announce the conclusion of a crucial pact on reprocessing spent fuel, that marks the final stage of their landmark nuclear deal, after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh holds talks with US President Barack Obama. “We hope that ...
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• Manmohan arrives in Geneva on way to US

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 710
  Geneva, Nov 21 (IANS) Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Saturday arrived here on his way to Washington as the first state guest of US President Barack Obama.Manmohan Singh will land in Washington Sunday to begin a five-day visit to the US that is expected to unveil a new framework for deepening the strategic India-US ...
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• What Do The American People Want From Barack Obama? They Want Their Money Back!

  
  Pronk Palisades — Authority: 433
  Run Ronnie Run – cult leader Yes we can get are our money back! Barack is a con man shake-down extortionist using government intervention to redistribute the wealth to his political supporters. Rare video of the young Barack Obama in Hawaii practicing his con: Go home Barack. Stop spending the ...
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• John King: Holder Didnt Want To Admit KSM Trial Precedent Setting

  
  NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias — Authority: 832
  CNNs John King on Thursday claimed Attorney General Eric Holder intentionally avoided Sen. Lindsey Grahams "stumping" question during the previous days Senate Judiciary Committtee hearing because he didnt want to admit that trying Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and other 9/11 suspects in a criminal courtroom is indeed ...
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• A Show About Nothing: The Placeholder Presidency of Barack Obama

  
  The Smirking Chimp - News And Commentary from the Vast Left-Wing Conspiracy — Authority: 631
  Hey, remember Seinfeld? Remember how it billed itself as a "show about nothing", and how, in fact, thats what it was? I think were at the point now where its become inescapable that the Obama presidency is also a show about nothing. Its the same as Seinfeld. Except for two things. First, unlike Seinfeld, it bills ...
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• Has Barack Obama Joined An Exclusive Presidential Club?

  
  The Moderate Voice — Authority: 740
  Is he now a member of the “immediately failed Presidents club” (which includes Harry Truman and Ronald Reagan)?” Details here.
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• 26% Of Americans Are Out Of Their Freakin Minds.

  
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• Key Senate Health Care Reform Vote Today: Did Reid Do His Homework?

  
  The Moderate Voice — Authority: 740
  Today the Senate is expected to hold a key health care reform vote. And if President Barack Obama has a bundle of political clout riding on this vote, so does Majority Leader Harry Reid. Reid, in an increasingly tough (some pundits suggest seemingly fruitless) battle for re-election who was never a darling of the ...
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• "Were trying to be prudent"

  
  Library Chronicles — Authority: 537
  As often happens on Saturday, Im asking anyone who has not seen it yet to watch this weeks Bill Moyers Journal online . As President Obama decides ( after the holiday now ) whether to send as many as another 40,000 Americans into an open-ended faraway military action, Moyers shares tapes of LBJ deliberating a similar ...
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• Obama Hatred on Billboard in Colorado

  
  Prometheus Unbound — Authority: 143
  Below, more far right President Obama hatred. By the way, death threats directed toward the president have gone up 400% since his election, and the number of death threats dwarfs those received by previous presidents. The teabaggers are keeping the Secret Service busy. And now Wolf Automotive in Denver has just put ...
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• Another Minn. Muslim indicted in missing Somalis case

  
  Creeping Sharia — Authority: 590
  That’s missing as in ‘gone to Somalia to wage jihad against unbelievers’ type missing. Home of the first Muslim congressman is fertile recruiting ground for Islamic jihad in Somalia, yet it’s a non-issue for that congressman. Duluth News : A 24-year-old St. Anthony man faces terrorism-related charges in the ...
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• Pundita: Pakistan-U.S. relations: Why General Stanley McChrystal is going straight to hell

  
  RBO — Authority: 544
  Pundita writes on her blog:On or about August 30, 2009, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates received a detailed assessment of the military situation in Afghanistan that included a request for additional U.S. troops. The report was from General Stanley A. McChrystal, Commander, NATO’s International Security Assistance ...
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• Trusting Big Brother

  
  Regaining the Center — Authority: 128
  More and more political polls are revealing a growing section of the American electorate that are neither Democrat or Republican, no matter how they are registared. Instead this group is simply “anti-government. They distrust Government to do anything, and tie most of their personal ills to actions by Federal, ...
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• The Anti-Communism of Barack Obama

  
  Kasama — Authority: 431
  The following presentation was given at the Rethinking Marxism conference. It is detailed and nuanced — but on hearing it delivered by Barbara Foley there was also a very sharp and even emotional impact. It lays bare the fact that Obama’s politics and purpose are the opposite of the hidden socialism he is accused ...
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