President Obama

Illinois Senator Barack Obama became the 44th President of the United States and the first African American President on January 20th, 2009 after his charismatic style, eloquent public speeches, and message of change helped him win the November 2008 election.

Barack Obama and running mate Joe Biden also benefited from a strong grass roots political organization and public backlash against some of the perceived mistakes of the previous Bush administration.

President Obama has inherited wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, an economic slump and a variety of simmering domestic issues. In February of 2009, President Obama signed into law a $787 billion dollar stimulus package targeted at kick-starting the economy. Early in his presidency he has sought to overturn some of George W Bush's more controversial decisions, more specifically related to the ban on stem cell research and the existence of the Guantanamo Bay prison facility.

You'll find both Obama's supporters and detractors blogging about our 44th president at sites like Bartcop and Radioactive Liberty.

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• Critics Question Obama’s Response To Failed Terror Attack

  
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  President Obamas critics are questioning his delayed response to the failed terror attack on flight 253 from Amsterdam to Detroit. Nia-Malika Henderson, a White House Reporter for Politico, discusses these criticisms and touches on the political ramifications of the Presidents decision.
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• 32nd annual kennedy center honors dave brubeck, mel brooks, grace bumery and … – Examiner.com

  
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  Washington Post 32nd annual kennedy center honors dave brubeck , mel brooks, grace bumery and ... Examiner.com This years honorees are Mel Brooks, Dave Brubeck , Grace Bumbry, Robert De Niro, and Bruce Springsteen. With President Obama and Vice President Biden in ... Critics corner ...
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• U.S.-Israeli Arms Cooperation Quietly Growing

  
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  U.S.-Israeli Arms Cooperation Quietly Growing By Nathan Guttman Joint Exercise: Israeli soldiers train near the coastal city of Ashdod in October, part of the largest missile defense dry run ever held. Some 1,400 American soldiers were also involved. December 19, 2009 ...
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• Obama on System Failures

  
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  President Obama delivered a statement about the Detroit airliner plot, saying a "mix of human and systemic failures" allowed the terror suspect to board the airliner in the failed bombing attempt on Christmas day.
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• MARKET!!!!!!!

  
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  I love grocery stores.
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• Krauthammer Rips Obama’s "Flaccid, Meaningless" Words On Iranian Revolution

  
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  Charles Krauthammer ripped President Obama for his "flaccid, meaningless" words on the Iranian protests on Special Report.
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• Obama Is Told of Signs That Should Have Grounded Plot – New York Times

  
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  Reuters Obama Is Told of Signs That Should Have Grounded Plot New York Times HONOLULU — President Obama was told Tuesday about more missed signals and uncorrelated intelligence that should have prevented a would-be bomber from boarding a flight to the United States, leading the president to ...
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• Rove Attacks Obama Response To Failed Terrorist Plot, Despite Bush’s Delayed Response In 2001

  
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  by Amanda Terkel Think Progress.org Yesterday on Hannity, former Bush White House adviser Karl Rove sharply criticized President Obama’s response to the failed terrorist attack on Christmas Day. In particular, Rove went after the fact that Obama issued his first public statement on the matter 72 hours after the ...
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• Ticket Replay: President Obama: I have never used Twitter

  
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  As the holiday season arrives, our thoughts on The Ticket turn toworking not quite so hard for a few days. So we are re-publishing someof our favorite or most-read items from 2009. This item originally appeared on Nov. 16. More than 2.6 million people follow President   Obama on Twitter -- or so they thought. ...
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• I Volunteered For Obama in 2008, But His Support of Landmines Is the Last Straw

  
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  By Clancy Sigal Comment Is Free When friends of mine learn that I have broken my deal with Barack Obama, and no longer support the “light of the world” (as one English friend calls him), they passionately rally around his presidency, almost pleading with me to give him more time, to keep the faith, and ...
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• Source: CIA failed to circulate report about bombing suspect – CNN

  
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  Reuters Source: CIA failed to circulate report about bombing suspect CNN (CNN) -- The father of terrorism suspect Umar Farouk AbdulMutallab talked about his sons extremist views with someone from the CIA and a report was prepared, but the report was not circulated outside the agency, a reliable ...
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• Audio- Obama: Flight 253 Incident Represents Systemic Failure

  
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• Are Digital Strip Searches Coming Soon To Every Airport Near You?

  
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  The Christmas Day airplane bombing attempt has renewed the debate over full body scanners at airports. The Transportation Security Administration in recent years has tried out a series of “whole-body imagers” to look for threats that typical metal detectors can’t find. These systems are the only way that ...
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• Do Graham, McCain and Lieberman Want Obama to Take Back Yemeni Detainees?

  
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  Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) sent a letter to President Obama today asking him to halt the transfer of six Guantanamo detainees to Yemen. The request, they say, is in light of the danger they’ve apparently just now realized Yemen poses, because Nigerian terror ...
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• Heckuvajob, Napolitano

  
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  by Reihan Salam via The Daily Beast.com The DHS secretary will likely survive her "the system worked" flub. The real damage, Reihan Salam says, is to Democrats 2010 chances now that the GOP has a new opening for white voters. Of all President Obamas cabinet members, Janet Napolitano was until recently a good ...
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• Obama Cites ‘Systemic Failure’ in US Security – New York Times

  
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  Times Online Obama Cites Systemic Failure in US Security New York Times HONOLULU – President Obama on Tuesday blamed a “systemic failure” in the nations security apparatus for the attempted bombing of a passenger jet on Christmas Day and vowed to identify the problems and “deal with them ...
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• President Obamas options for airline security

  
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  Via Politico By JOSH GERSTEIN President Barack Obama has promised to tighten up aviation security in the wake of last week’s frightening attempt to blow up a Northwest Airlines flight as it approached Detroit, but experts say nearly all the steps Obama is likely to consider come with tradeoffs that have ...
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• Obama Acknowledges Government Screw-Up

  
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  President Obama just acknowledged that the government messed up in not passing along information intelligence agents had about Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab , the 23-year-old Nigerian accused of trying to blow up a Northwest Airlines plane on Christmas Day. While we already knew that Abdulmutallab’s father, a ...
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• Obama: Systemic, human failures let terror suspect on U.S. flight

  
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  (CNN) - President Barack Obama said Tuesday that a "mix of human and systemic human failure" allowed a terror suspect to board a U.S. airliner in the botched bombing attempt on Christmas Day. In a brief statement to reporters during his vacation in Hawaii, Obama said information on the suspect should have been ...
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• The return of terror politics

  
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  From Jim Acosta , CNN Washington (CNN) - When President Obama spoke out on the terrorism scare in Detroit, Michigan, he entered a debate that had already begun over his administrations new approach to combating terrorism. "As a nation we will do everything in our power to protect our country," Obama said ...
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