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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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “Barack Obama”

• A Disappointing Year With Obama

  
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  By William Pfaff Who would have thought a year ago that most of the issues of conflict in America’s foreign relations would be made worse during the first year following Barack Obama’s election as U.S. president? READ THE WHOLE ITEM Related Entries November 10, 2009 Bill Clinton Urges Senate Dems ...
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• Figuring out the home-buyer tax credit

  
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• Was it good for you too?

  
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    Marc Ambinder gets his groove on:   The Best Speech Obama’s Given Since…Maybe Ever Today, at Ft. Hood. I guarantee: they’ll be teaching this one in rhetoric classes. It was that good. My gloss won’t do it justice. Yes, I’m having a Chris Matthews-chill-running-up-my-leg moment, but sometimes, the ...
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• Josh on the Larger Significance of the Healthcare Vote

  
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  (Right now there’s a bit of a sour aftertaste over the Stupak amendment (which will be modified or dropped) but the usually restrained Josh Marshall’s uncharacteristic triumphalism last Sunday is still appropriate and inspiring.  Read, ye teabaggers and reactionaries, and tremble.)One Vote on Health Care Reform, ...
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• WJC to the Rescue

  
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  When you’re in trouble, who are you going to call? When it’s economics , it’s William Jefferson Clinton . No one around does it better, and with health care in the balance, he made the case on the most practical of terms: Clinton argued that even “the most cold-hearted person” ought to support ...
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• Gerald Walpin Cleared: IG Walpin Cleared Wants Job Back: AmeriCorps Investigator Cleared

  
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  Inspector General (IG) Gerald Walpin has been cleared of any reason for termination by the Obama White House. He wants his job back. This report confirms that Walpin has been cleared of acting U.S. Attorney Larry Browns claims that he overstepped his authority in an investigation of  Sacramento, California mayor, ...
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• Video: Obamas Eulogy at Fort Hood

  
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• Major Nidal Hasan, Homeland Security, Presidential transition task force, George Washington University, Non partisan think tank, For the Administration taking office in January 2009

  
  Citizen Wells — Authority: 590
  Major Nidal Hasan, the Muslim shooter at Fort Hood, apparently was in attendance at the Homeland Security Policy Institute, Presidential Transition Task Force. From the Task Force report. “Initiated by HSPI’s Steering Committee in Spring 2008, the Task Force sought to further policy discussions of the top ...
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• Orly Taitz Gets Her Court Date

  
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  For driving like a bat out of hell: Mustang Orly Similar Posts: Orly Taitz Appeals $ 20,000 Sanction By Federal Judge Apparently, I’m Meant To Drive Something Very Cool It’s A Double Dose Of Crazy: Orly Taitz On Michael Savage Orly Taitz Will Be On The Colbert Report Tonight Most ...
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• To Our Coy President By Robert S. Becker

  
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  By Robert S. BeckerFeatured WriterDandelion Saladrbecker@cal.netNov. 10, 2009Had we but world enough, and time,Your coyness, Barack, were no crime.In leisure we’d sit down and think,Or chuckle over Palin’s wink.You could author a fine third book,‘Til foes depart, by hook or crook.While you and Michelle ...
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• 20 Years After the Berlin Wall Fell

  
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• Obama Wrong To Mention Religion In Fort Hood Speech

  
  CAFFEINATED POLITICS — Authority: 530
  There is a very fine line to walk regarding Islam and religion when the whole world is watching.  I made that point in various ways when President Bush was in office, and remain convinced the same is true with President Obama in charge.  That I expect more from our current leader makes the use of religion [...]
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• Obama/Berlin redux

  
  The Other Club — Authority: 120
  I thought President Obamas "too busy to attend" stance on the 20th Anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall had quite plumbed his ahistorical depths and fully explored the psyches of his advisers. I considered it the final word, the last polished insult. I thought his refusal to grace the proceedings, contrasted ...
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• Video: Obamas eulogy at Ft. Hood

  
  Reformed Chicks Blabbing — Authority: 548
  Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy (via) And here is the transcript of the prepared eulogy. I thought this was excellent: It may be hard to comprehend the twisted logic that led to this...
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• Barack Obama’s Statement At The Fort Hood Memorial

  
  Liberal Values — Authority: 141
  Above is the video of Barack Obama’s remarks at the Fort Hood memorial ceremony. The transcript is below: We come together filled with sorrow for the thirteen Americans that we have lost; with gratitude for the lives that they led; and with a determination to honor them through the work we carry on. This is a ...
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• David Plouffe Is a Two-Faced Machiavelli Who Broke Our Hearts [How Things Work]

  
  Gawker — Authority: 864
  David Plouffe ran Barack Obamas campaign as a steady and extended fuck-you to the hyperventilating Drudge junkies at Politico, and we loved him for it. Now hes admitted he was leaking to them the...
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• Senators Back Panel on Deficit Reduction

  
  The Caucus — Authority: 782
  Senators plan to propose a bipartisan commission aimed at reducing federal deficits.
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• Orly Taitz Supporter Calling For “Citizen’s Arrest” Of President Obama

  
  Below The Beltway — Authority: 694
  With her legal cases coming to an end, it seems Orly Taitz is now in the business of encouraging her supporters to take the law into their own hands: I am no longer content in waiting for something to be done, because the way it looks to me, after all those efforts, the Government still continues to ignore us, and ...
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• Obama honors St. Paul’s Xiong at Ft. Hood memorial

  
  Minnesota Independent: News. Politics. Media. — Authority: 680
  Pfc. Kham Xiong At Ft. Hood Army Base today, President Obama honored the thirteen people killed Thursday in a shooting spree there, including St. Paul’s Pfc. Kham Xiong. Obama told of Xiong, a 23-year-old married father of three, who “came to America from Thailand as a small child” and later “followed his ...
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• The President At Fort Hood, And Inescapable Conclusions

  
  Joust The Facts — Authority: 129
  In times of epic sadness it is often the gift of somber eloquence that helps to buoy the spirits of the throng. To reassure, to comfort, to join in dispair, and to raise up from the same. As Marc Ambinder points out, the President surely did that today. You can...
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