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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• Is Barack Obamas diplomacy strategic or naive? Poll

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 174
  Barack Obamas diplomacy.... Original Article: Forum: News/Activism
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• Obama orders review of crashers

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 174
  President Barack Obama has ordered a full review into how a Virginia couple managed to make their way into the White House for last weeks state dinner without an invitation, even getting so far as to meet the president in the official receiving line, according to a White House official. Three days after a pair of ...
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• Crashgate casts long shadow on US-India Polo Cup next year

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 725
  By Arun KumarWashington, Nov 28 (IANS) A celebrity-seeking couple’s caper of crashing into President Barack Obama’s State dinner for Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has cast a long shadow over India’s participation in America’s Polo Cup next year.For it’s the Virginia couple Tareq and Michaele Salahi, who had ...
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• Gatecrashers shook hands with Obama at state dinner

  
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  By Arun KumarWashington, Nov 28 (IANS) A new revelation that a celebrity-seeking couple who sneaked in uninvited into a state dinner shook hands with President Barack Obama and possibly Prime Minister Manmohan Singh too has prompted fresh questions about the seriousness of the security breach.A White House photograph ...
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• Redux: Please dont...with explanatory links!!!

  
  Memoirs of a Jewminicana: Aliza Hausman — Authority: 477
  Thank you for being my friend. Here are some guidelines so that our friendship can be a pleasurable experience for all of us. Please don’t make fun of gay people . Please don’t make fun of black people’s hair . Please don’t tell ask me why I don’t straighten my hair . Please don’t make fun of ...
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• Chinese media sees different agenda on Obama dinner for Manmohan

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 725
  Beijing, Nov 28 (IANS) The high-profile dinner hosted by US President Barack Obama for Prime Minister Manmohan Singh this week was prompted more by American “concerns for India-Pakistan relations” than India’s importance for the US in the war against terrorism, according to the official mouthpiece of the ...
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• OBAMA ADMINISTRATION APPROVES OF ACORN FUNDING

  
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  ACORN is the largest radical leftist group in America today. This radical group worked closely with the Obama camp during the election. But, the community organizing group was not open about this. The photo below was scrubbed from the ACORN website before the election: One of Barack Obama’s first big “community ...
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• Bo-Tax? Reids New Nip/Tuck Tariff

  
  ARRA News Service — Authority: 544
  President Obama campaigned on the promise that he wouldnt raise income tax on anyone earning more than $250,000 a year. Since his election, the President has even repeated his pledge. While some say he has already broken that promise by raising taxes on cigarettes by over 200 percent , anyone getting a nose job ...
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• Obama Violates Osama Oath

  
  Thoughts Of A Conservative Christian — Authority: 149
  Obama Violates Osama Oath November 27th, 2009 by  Rep. Steve King, Human Events On December 18, 2007, then presidential candidate Barack Obama leveled the first of dozens of heavy criticisms against President George W. Bush.  In a speech in Des Moines, Obama blasted President Bush for taking his “eye off the ...
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• American people smarter than Holder or Obama

  
  Thoughts Of A Conservative Christian — Authority: 149
  American people smarter than Holder or Obama November 27th, 2009 Rick Moran, American Thinker   Obama’s Attorney General Eric Holder   A strong majority of Americans believe that Obama is wrong to try KSM in a civilian court. That’s the result of  a new Gallup poll:   By 59% to 36%, more Americans ...
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• What a Funny Picture

  
  Soy Wax Candles Blog — Authority: 116
  I saw this, and it cracked me up! Obama looks so serious, and I think the soldiers are supposed to be serious too, most of them are, except for the clown in the middle?? What is that face? He looks like Curly from the Three Stooges!! LOL Just thought Id share!! Take care, Kat
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• The Insanity of Deficit Spending and the National Debt

  
  The Western Experience — Authority: 474
  by MikeDuring my daily ritual of abuse–reading “high-brow” Progressive thought– I came across an article on The Nation by William Greider, titled “In the Shadow of Hoover.” A lengthy essay in which President Obama is painted as standing in the shadow of the man who is fairly, or unfairly, blamed for ...
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• Secret Service needs to get it right

  
  This Week With Barack Obama — Authority: 143
  Well, everyone is a buzz about the D.C. area couple who busted into the State Dinner on Tuesday. This would be funny if it was a "punked joke", but for the leader of the free world, this is hardly funny. It is very dangerous and no one is laughing about this.This photo released by the White House Nov. 27, 2009, ...
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• Secret Service Embarrassed About Creepy Couple

  
  Today With President Barack Obama — Authority: 153
  Im sure wingnuts are taking note of the lax security. "Although these individuals went through magnetometers and other levels of screening, they should have been prohibited from entering the event entirely. That failing is ours. "The Secret Service safely processed more than 1.2 million visitors last year to the ...
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• Global warming and Obamas climate czar

  
  The Recliner Commentaries — Authority: 142
  I could be wrong but I would have sworn that candidate Obama promised the American people that there would be no conflicts of interest in his administration. As it turns out, his climate czar "was on the board of one of the leading carbon offset trading companies." Sounds like a pretty major conflict of interest to ...
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• Aerial-gunning foes ask President Obama to ban shooting wildlife...

  
  Sports & recreation - sports-rec.marc8.com — Authority: 163
  A wildlife advocacy group Friday asked President Barack Obama to end aerial gunning of coyotes and other predators, citing an Idaho incident where a shotgun-wielding parachutist illegally fired on a wolf.
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• On the Supposed “Silence” of the Anti-war Movement by Ed Ciaccio

  
  Dandelion Salad — Authority: 520
  by Ed CiaccioDandelion SaladFeatured WriterNovember 27, 2009photo by Dandelion SaladWe are not silent.We have never been silent.Our outrage, far from silent, continues.That the corporate/warmonger media refuse to report the full extent of our protests, phone calls, Congressional visits, letters, emails, ...
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• 27 November PM

  
  blueollie — Authority: 139
  Book shopping: I bought Gwen Ifill’s book The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama and have managed a couple of chapters. So far it is very interesting. Out of control shopping Brotherpeacemaker works next to a Best Buy; he noted that someone camped out overnight to be first in line when the ...
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• Obama in Climategate Denial (Video)

  
  Chicago News Bench — Authority: 540
  Despite the inconvenient truth of the "Climategate" scandal, which has proven that leftist scientists have conspired to fake climate date to falsely "prove" global warming, the Obama Administration is determined to perpetuate the Lies. In the video below, Author Jim Motavalli shows us how far he can shove his head ...
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• Rahm-x the Destroyer

  
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  by Doug Kahn I guess there’s something wrong with me. I mean, I know there are a lot of things wrong with me, but I’m talking about getting angry on Thanksgiving Day. I was okay for a while. My kids called me this morning. I went over to St. Vincent de Paul to serve dinner and clean up. I drove home. Texas ...
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