President Barack Obama

President Barack Obama was elected the 44th President of the United States on November 4, 2008, succeeding President George Bush.

Born in Hawaii on August 4, 1961, he attended Harvard Law School where he became the first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review. He later became a state senator in Illinois, and went on to serve as a US Senator for the same state in 2004.

His presidency is considered historically significant for several reasons.

He is the first African American president, with an African father from Kenya and Caucasian American mother. He raised record amounts of money from small donations, mainly through the internet, on his own social media site, also leveraging Twitter, and Facebook. Because of this success, the use of social media in Obama's campaign has become a topic of study for those wishing to leverage the technology for promotional purposes, much in the way business blogging became a topic of discussion eight years ago as a result of political blogging.

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• President Obama Will Send 30,000 More Troops to Afghanistan

  
  politics from the eyes of an ebony mom — Authority: 136
  “I make this decision because I am convinced that our security is at stake in Afghanistan and Pakistan. This is the epicenter of the violent extremism practiced by al Qaeda.”-President Barack Obama President Obama made it official tonight he will send 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan. Obama has set realistic ...
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• Presidential Address from President Obama on sending 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan

  
  Message from Montie — Authority: 491
  President Barack Obama speaks about his Afghanistan policy before cadets at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y. on Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2009. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson) On December 1, 2009, President Barack H. Obama spoke in West Point, New York at the U.S. Military Academy to discuss why he is sending 30,000 ...
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• Obama Announces Retreat from Afghanistan!

  
  Bob McCarty Writes — Authority: 439
  “RETREAT!”Just-obtained excerpts of tonight’s Afghanistan strategy speech by President Barack Obama seem to indicate the strategy is no strategy at all.  As evidenced in the sentence below, it’s both a withdrawal and an announcement of a timetable for beating feet out of the stone-age nation:“Taken ...
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• Live Blogging Obamas Afghan Speech

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 904
  Well be offering live updates as we follow President Obamas speech tonight.
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• Obama To Lay Out Afghan Strategy

  
  The Liberal OC — Authority: 503
  President Obama will lay out his strategy for Afghanistan at 5 pm PST. Here is the link for the live White House video stream of President Obama’s speech from West Point. JOIN THE LIVE CHAT VISIT WHITEHOUSE.GOV If you are unable to view through the link visit www.whitehouse.gov or www.cnn.com The ...
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• U.S. to begin Afghan pullout in 2011: officials

  
  CKA Canadian News — Authority: 168
  U.S. President Barack Obama plans to announce Tuesday evening that the U.S. will begin pulling troops out of Afghanistan starting in July 2011, administration officials say.
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• NATO announces change to Canadian area of responsibility in Kandahar

  
  CKA Canadian News — Authority: 168
  KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - Before the backdrop of U.S. President Barack Obamas long-awaited new Afghanistan strategy, NATO commanders are putting Canadas military command in charge of the tactically vital Arghandab district north of Kandahar city.
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• In National Address, President to Call for More Troops

  
  The Locust Fork News-Journal — Authority: 428
  Surge in Afghanistan as Prelude to Withdrawal?In a prime-time speech to the nation Tuesday night from West Point, President Barack Obama will outline a surge in troops in Afghanistan as a prelude to an exit strategy from armed conflict in the region.His speech will propose sending 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan ...
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• Live Blogging Obamas Afghan Speech

  
  The Caucus — Authority: 786
  Well be offering live updates as we follow President Obamas speech tonight.
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• DONKEY OF THE WEEK ProtectOurLiberty.Org Jumps On Racism Bandwagon With New Monkey-Obama Ad

  
  H. BLU'S WORD — Authority: 143
  ProtectOurLiberty.org, the anti-Obama organization, makes use of racially tinged imagery by using three monkeys to question President Obamas legitimacy to the office of our Presidency.Supposedly meant to speak on the failures by Congress, the media, and the American judicial system to uncover President Obamas “real ...
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• GM: chief executive Fritz Henderson driven out of car maker over profitability fears

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 970
  Fritz Henderson, the man who steered General Motors through the largest bankruptcy in US manufacturing history, was last night driven out of his post following a disagreement over strategy.
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• Before The Big Speech On Afghanistan

  
  NO QUARTER — Authority: 569
  The contents of which we pretty much already know at this point (thus raising the question why we still have to listen to Obama), a whole bunch of people are protesting the expected surge. One group is Code Pink: Watch the latest business video at FOXBusiness.com Another person who thinks we care what he has to ...
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• Part 2| President Obama Takes Question At Town Hall Meeting In China

  
  USA | Barack Obama News — Authority: 142
  Part 2 Of 3| President Obama Takes Question At Town Hall Meeting In China - 11/16/09…Post from: USA | Barack Obama News Post from: USA | Barack Obama News
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• The View From West Point

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 904
  Each administration tries to choose settings that reflect the speech at hand.
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• The Moment of Crystallized Disenchantment – an Appeal to Progressives Who Have Supported Barack Obama

  
  OB Rag Blog — Authority: 134
  In just a few hours, President Obama will lay out his plan to send an additional 30,000+ US troops to Afghanistan. Which makes this a very trying moment for progressives who supported Obama during the campaign, his Presidency, and up to now. It is a very painful moment, a very anguishing one, as many of us are ...
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• McCain Opposes Exit Deadline for Troops

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 904
  The ranking Republican on the Armed Services Committee says a date for withdrawing Afghanistan troops should only be a "goal."
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• Escalating in Afghanistan

  
  Orange Punch — Authority: 144
  Unless Obama surprises us completely tonight — I’ll be staying to listen and to do an edit for tomorrow and maybe a blog post or two — it looks as if we’re going to have almost as much escalation as Afghan ground commander Gen. Stanley McChrystal asked for — 34,000 troops , not 40,000, but seeking another ...
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• Obama: 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan by summer

  
  CKA Canadian News — Authority: 168
  President Barack Obama is dispatching 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan, accelerating a risky and expensive war buildup, even as he assures the nation that U.S. forces will begin coming home in July 2011. The first new Marines will join the fight by Chris
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• The Afghan Plan

  
  The Sly Oyster | culture, entertainment, liberal arts, shenanigans — Authority: 444
  Tonight the President lays out his intentions for Afghanistan, otherwise known as the “Graveyard of Empires.”  And in bringing about “change” like so much of his first year in office he’s really just bringing about more of the same .  “President Barack Obama is sending 30,000 extra U.S. troops to ...
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• McCain Opposes Exit Deadline for Troops

  
  The Caucus — Authority: 786
  The ranking Republican on the Armed Services Committee says a date for withdrawing Afghanistan troops should only be a "goal."
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