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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• Michelle Obama Rocks The East Room (Photos)

  
  Backseat Cuddler — Authority: 596
  First Lady, Michelle Obama hosted a health care event for elderly women at the White House on Friday (November 13th).  She was  accompanied by Nancy-Ann DeParle (Director of the White House Health Reform Office) and three women who shared their stories of their struggle to find good healthcare coverage in this ...
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• President Obama’s Weekly Address

  
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• President Obama addresses the Tragedy at Fort Hood this week

  
  Orange Juice — Authority: 573
  Their legacy will be an America that is safer and stronger – an America that reflects the extraordinary character of the men and women who serve [...]
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• Obama, Vietnam, and Afghanistan

  
  ePluribus Media — Authority: 511
  Ive spent a good part of the last week re-reading Neil Sheehans book, A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam. Partly, this is just happenstance; I found a nicely annotated hardback copy in a local used book store. But its also because I wanted to look again at the 1962-64 period of the Vietnam War ...
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• 9/11 Plotters to Face Death Penalty in New York Federal Court

  
  Akron Law Caf — Authority: 134
       Attorney General Eric Holder has decided to try five prisoners in the war on terror, including Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, on criminal charges in New York for the attacks of September 11.  They will face the death penalty.     Yesterday Attorney General Eric Holder released a statement in which he said: ...
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• Dear President Obama #299: Time to tape up the piggy bank

  
  Anderson Cooper 360 — Authority: 635
  Reporters Note: President Obama has spent more money in his first 300 days in office than the last Democratic president, Bill Clinton, spent in eight years. The deficit is now stretching out to somewhere around Jupiter. That has a lot of people worried. I’m writing another letter to the White House, but wondering ...
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• The President on Veterans Day and Ft. Hood

  
  Bill Manzi.Com — Authority: 125
  President Obama, on Veterans Day and on the Fort Hood tragedy.
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• Stealing Money, Selling Heroin and Raping Boys – Meet Our Afghan Ally

  
  Count Us Out — Authority: 151
  by Patrick CockburnJust when President Barack Obama looked as if he might be railroaded into sending tens of thousands more US troops to Afghanistan the American envoy to Kabul has warned him not to do so.  In a leaked cable to Washington sent last week, the US ambassador to  Afghanistan, Gen Karl W. Eikenberry, ...
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• President Obama bills himself as "America’s first Pacific president."

  
  Ensaios Imperfeitos — Authority: 146
  Trying to reassure allies and rivals, President Barack Obama billed himself Friday as Americas first Pacific president, promising the nations of Asia a new era of engagement with the world based on mutual interests and mutual respect. Americas first Pacific president By MIKE ALLEN
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• Friends with issues

  
  Raw Japan — Authority: 492
  They may be on first-name terms, but Barack’s discussions with Yukio during his 24-hour stay in Tokyo have left unresolved a feud over a U.S. military base and deeper questions about the future. They agreed to review the five decade-old U.S.-Japan alliance as both countries adapt to China’s rising ...
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• Friends with issues

  
  Global News Blog — Authority: 471
  They may be on first-name terms, but Baracks discussions with Yukio during his 24-hour stay in Tokyo have left unresolved a feud over a U.S. military base and deeper questions about the future. They agreed to review the five decade-old U.S.-Japan alliance as both countries adapt to Chinas rising regional and ...
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• U.S. wont be cowed by N. Korean threats

  
  CKA Canadian News — Authority: 507
  TOKYO - President Barack Obama declared Saturday that an era of American disengagement in the globes fastest-growing region is over and warned the U.S. and its Asian partners "will not be cowed" by North Koreas continued defiance over its nuclear weapon
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  YOUR NEW REALITY — Authority: 131
  80-90% of Americas combat troops have been withdrawn from Iraq since Barack Obama made this campaign promise in November, 2007 :
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• Is the President Committing Political Suicide with KSM?

  
  The Sundries Shack — Authority: 534
  This is such a staggeringly bad idea that it makes Icarus’ decision to head sunward look like a stroke of purest genius.WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The accused mastermind of the September 11 attacks and four co-conspirators will be sent to New York for trial in a court near the site of the World Trade Center, the [...]
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• Next year cut the deficit

  
  Orange Punch — Authority: 141
  You’ve got to love it. After adding more spending for new programs in 9 months than Bill Clinton did in 8 years, President Obama is set to make next year, beginning with the State of the Onion speech — ta dah! – the year of deficit reduction . The administration wants to restore its credibility (as if it ever ...
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• Is Solar-Powered Rickshaw in Your Future?

  
  Bob McCarty Writes — Authority: 566
  Thanks to President Barack Obama, who seems to be doing everything he possibly can to destroy the nation’s fossil fuels industries, there may be a solar-powered, made-in-Japan, robotic rickshaw in your future.The latest attack on “Big Oil” came today when Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar used this news ...
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• Join Fight to Keep Terrorists Out of ‘Big Apple’

  
  Bob McCarty Writes — Authority: 566
  New York City firefighter Tim Brown of TheBravest.com appeared on Fox News Channel today to express his disgust for the White House decision announced today by Attorney General Eric Holder. In short, President Barack Obama has decided to put five Sept. 11 terror suspects on trial in New York City, in a civilian court ...
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• Why not try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed here?

  
  Orange Punch — Authority: 141
  I saw a few people interviewed on Fox News early this morning, and a bunch of people on my Facebook page terribly upset that Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the alleged “mastermind” of the 9/11 attack (along with four codefendants) is to be brought to New York and tried in a civilian court. For the life of me I can’t ...
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• Greg Craig out as White House counsel

  
  Orange Punch — Authority: 141
  White House counsel Gregory Craig has resigned and he will be replaced by — are you ready? — Bob Bauer who is President Obama’s personal lawyer. The general impression you get from most of the news stories is that nobody was satisfied with the way Craig handled Guantanamo. Far be it from me to be sympathetic ...
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• "You can take that to the bank": BHO in 2007: I will end the war

  
  All This Is That — Authority: 431
  BHO on the campaign trail in 2007 explains how the first thing he will do in office is end the war. Two years later, he ponders just how much to expand the war in Afghanistan, and no doubt, any other Stans that need a tune-up. ---o0o---
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