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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Original Technorati articles tagged “barack obama”

• in Politics
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  Was the Newtown Speech the Most Difficult to Deliver For President Barack Obama?
  For astute students of communication, President Obama's skills in oratory will be always be a benchmark. His speeches will be heard, watched analysed and imitated for decades and centuries to come. But for true meaning and sense of his speeches, future learners will have to delve deep in to the contextual history and events as well.
  by forgevalley / on Dec 19, 2012

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• Keystone XL: Obama urged by Democrat backers to reject pipeline

  
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• Will Obama be another in a long line of presidents who have suffered big second-term difficulties?

  
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  Since the end of World War II, every U.S. president who has served more than four years has experienced significant difficulties in his second term. Harry Truman’s problems were such that he left office with a record-low approval rating. Dwight Eisenhower had a spy plane shot down in Soviet air space. Lyndon ...
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• Tweet of the Day

  
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  Things Conservatives Have Been Proven Right About Lately: ☑ Benghazi; ☑ Pigford;☑ Obamacare; ☑ IRS. Next up: The immigration reform scam. — Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) May 10, 2013 “I suspect that list will grow longer,” Joel B. Pollack adds at the Breitbart.com “Conversation” group ...
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• You Can’t Be Serious: Out Of Pocket Fox News Host Asks “Is Malia Obama Going To Go On Birth Control??”

  
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  SMH !!!! Fox News Anchor Asks If Malia Obama Will Go On Birth Control Via The Grio reports: In the wake of President Obama’s statement that he would support the selling of Plan B, a birth control product, to girls as young as 15, Fox News host Andrea Tantaros speculated about the sex life of the president’s ...
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• My Mom and the American Dream

  
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  Over 40 years ago, my mom decided to do what so many moms had done before her. She decided to leave her home country so that her children could have a better life with more opportunity, better education, and freedom -- she decided to immigrate to the United States. With four kids (including me) my mom left Haiti, ...
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• AMNESTY …. The Short Bridge To Hell

  
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  Well that was short … And look it’s only another $6.3 trillion dollars for their freedom. What makes you think a bunch of people from a socialist country even knows what freedom and liberty is all about? You have to come here for something other than the Obama’s freebies, it has to be in your heart!!! ...
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• Kucinich: Obamas Libya Policy to Blame for Death of Four Americans in Benghazi

  
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  Liberal former congressman Dennis Kucinich blamed President Obamas Libya policy for the death of four Americans in Benghazi. Kucinich also said the Obama administration politicized the response to Benghazi because they "were in the circumference of an election, and when you get on the eve of an election, everything ...
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• Will Obama Suffer the Second-Term Curse?

  
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  Well, jeez, lets hope so. At the Washington Post : Recent events suggest that the 44th president may not be immune to the phenomenon that historians call the “second-term curse.” Not four months after his ambitious inaugural address, President Obama finds himself struggling to move his legislative agenda ...
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• Ways and Means to IRS: ‘Provide All Communications Containing Words ‘Tea Party,’ ‘Patriot,’ or ‘Conservative’—By Wednesday

  
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  Hey everybody knows what was going on, what Obama had put the URS up to. Destroy the Tea Party … So now the Tea Party bites back with lawyers and Congressional Hearings,  Everybody knows that watergate was nothing more than a third rate burglary that the Democrats used to get rid of Nixon with.  And then the ...
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• The Mass Exodus of Christians from the Muslim World

  
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  Muslim conquered and occupied territory would seem more appropriate. via The Mass Exodus of Christians from the Muslim World | A mass exodus of Christians is currently underway. Millions of Christians are being displaced from one end of the Islamic world to the other. We are reliving the true history of how the ...
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• The IRS Inquisition

  
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  On July 10th, the IRS held a press conference to formally apologize for elements and/or individuals within the organization who they now admit were specifically targeting conservative organizations during the 2012 election season for additional scrutiny. Any organization using the title “tea” or “patriot” was ...
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• IRS Apologizes to Tea Party, Conservative Groups for Targeting

  
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  The IRS apologizes to the Tea Party and other Conservative groups for targeting them on their 501C non-profit status. Lois Lerner, an official with the Internal Revenue Service issued the formal apology on Friday. The initial story appears to be that at least one IRS employee in Cincinnati flagged applications for ...
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• And the Other Shoe has Dropped … Senior IRS Officials Knew Tea Party was Targeted in 2011, not 2012 … Why Has No One Been Fired?

  
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• Washington Post: Government Powers Should Never Be Used For Partisan Purposes

  
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• Marine Band Anniversary Concert Cancelled (sequestration)……………………………………

  
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• Will Pakistan finally stand up against illegal US drone attacks? | Clive Stafford Smith

  
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• Benghazi Talking Points Revisions from Big Brother, ABC News reports rectifications, Orwellian wording and Omissions, 2 + 2 = 5, George Orwell warned us

  
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• OBAMA 2012 CAMPAIGN DONATION PAGE STILL HAS OSAMA PICTURE ON IT

  
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• Lloyd Marcus — Silence of the Conservative Lambs

  
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