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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• The Gate Crashers, Bob Creamers Swag-Bag and Our Lil Bow-Wow -in-Chiefs White House Amatuer Hour!

  
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  Hey, At least President Barack "Lil Bow-Wow" Obama did not jackknife into a low obeisance to the Gate Crashers. John Bachelor has a wonderful essay on our National Cutest ( Next to Barack and Michelle of course) Couple! Extra, EXTRA!!! The Vineyard-Bankrupts of Virginia are well on their way to becoming the Colin ...
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• Copenhagen Climate Revolution

  
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  The Copenhagen Climate Revolution  is on. CCR for those of you in the know… Is a global rebellion to fight for change.  Change in the environment, change in the atmosphere, change in our economies and change in how we deal with climate and energy today. We ought to change the minds too of the  global leaders ...
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• Truth in Comics

  
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  By Creature If its Sunday, its Truth in Comics .
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• Dear President Obama #314: The burden is the lights

  
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  Reporters Note: President Obama, I’m pretty sure, does not have to help decorate the White House for Christmas. Yet another advantage he has over most of the rest of us. Tom Foreman | BIO AC360° Correspondent Dear Mr. President, Well, I told you last week that I was going to get all the Christmas ...
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• A God By Any Other Name?

  
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  True story. I was called at my office at the church several years ago, by the City Secretary of Dallas. She has been a good friend of mine for more years than I can remember, long before she was City Secretary so, of course I was concerned. It seems that in an effort to be religiously inclusive, the invocation for ...
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• DOJ Gives ACORN An Early Holiday Present

  
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  * bumped up because the Reverend is our in-house expert who tracks the ACORN story like few others * And circumvents the Congress, even the President, in the process. Yes, it turns out that, according to DOJ lawyer, David Barron, it is A-Okay for ACORN to receive funds from American taxpayers, according to this NY ...
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• Obama Will ‘Regret’ Failure to ‘Back Up’ Colombia: El Tiempo, Colombia

  
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  On behalf of all of the people of WORLDMEETS.US , I want to wish everyone who works on or visits the Moderate Voice a very Happy Thanksgiving. It’s a venue that would have to be invented if it didn’t already exist. But Thanksgiving or no, world news rolls relentlessly on. Somewhat overshadowed by other major ...
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• “Hope Is Fading Fast”

  
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  Editor: Bumped up because this t-shirt says it all — well, almost all — because Reverend Amy’s accompanying commentary is a must-read. Stay tuned for more to come on how rapidly Obama’s supporters are turning on him. If only they’d listened to us … I’ll say. And what a fantastic depiction on ...
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• Guantanamo Bay: depressed US towns battle to house detainees in Gitmo North

  
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  Several blighted US towns are battling for the right to host Guantanamo Bay terror detainees in their own backyards in an unusual case of reverse "nimbyism".
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• President Obamas Weekly Address

  
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• Will the true President Barack Obama stand up on Afghanistan?

  
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  Barack Obama must use his long-awaited announcement of more troops for Afghanistan to show the world who he really is, writes Toby Harnden in Washington
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• Obama: Family, Turkey … and a Weekly Address

  
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  WASHINGTON – In the midst of these challenging times for our nation, President Barack Obama used his weekly address to express gratitude to America’s military men and women and their families, and give thanks for our nation’s many blessings.  He also discussed the steps his administration is taking to repair ...
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• Katie Couric pictured with White House crasher

  
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  Tareq and Michaele Salahi crashed the White House state dinner, making it all the way to Rahm Emanuel, the vice president, and even the president himself. But this is my favorite here.  Katie Couric and Tareq – or is this Michaele?  Who knows which is which. But some people are so easily fooled. Seems fitting ...
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• DOJ Gives ACORN An Early Holiday Present

  
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  And circumvents the Congress, even the President, in the process. Yes, it turns out that, according to DOJ lawyer, David Barron, it is A-Okay for ACORN to receive funds from American taxpayers, according to this NY Times article . Yes, it is a little more complicated than that, but not a lot. I believe the term is ...
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• President Obama Gets Punked

  
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  Saturday, November 28, 2009 President Obama came face-to-face with the Virginia couple who crashed this week’s state dinner at the White House and all the Secret Service can muster is “We’re deeply concerned and embarrassed” by the breach of security. The couple, Michaele and Tareq Salahi, lacking ...
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• President Obama’s Weekly Address

  
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• Dear President Obama #313: Interlopers on the guest list

  
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  Reporters Note: The investigation continues into the unexpected and uninvited guests who turned up at the President’s State Dinner. So far they have not started investigating uninvited letters…and I hope it stays that way. President Obama meets the Salahis at Tuesday’s state dinner. Tom Foreman | ...
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• Bollywood rebuffed at White House state dinner

  
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  Indo-Americans have applauded US President Barack Obama for honoring India in his first state dinner held at White House in Washington DC (USA) on November 24.Acclaimed Indo-American statesman Rajan Zed, in a statement in Nevada (USA) today, said that it was a presidential acknowledgement of appreciation of world’s ...
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• US imperialism, 9/11 and the Iraq war

  
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  Patrick Martin, wsws.org , Nov 28, 2009 While the American corporate media has given little attention to it, an official British inquiry into the war with Iraq has brought to light damning testimony about the Bush administration’s deliberate launching of an invasion to overthrow the regime of Saddam Hussein and ...
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• Hes Our President, But Hes Also a Father and a Husband

  
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  Antoine Sanfuentes / NBC News A father and a husband Even though President Obama is consumed with the work of the White House, he tells NBCs Brian Williams that his role as a father and a husband makes him a better leader: "And Ive got two young ladies who are laughing and screaming and wrestling with the ...
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