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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• Afghanistan: Poland Should Remain ‘Until the End’ – Rceczpospolita, Poland

  
  The Moderate Voice — Authority: 712
  Continuing with our coverage of NATO reaction to President Obama’s Afghanistan troop surge, this article from Poland’s Rceczpospolita demonstrates more determination to continue to assist the United States than we’ve seen from newspapers in any other U.S. ally – barring, perhaps, Great Britain. But along ...
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• The Most Disquieting Aspect of Climategate

  
  Politicker NJ - New Jersey Politics News, Reaction, and Analysis — Authority: 636
  "Climategate” refers to the scandal of the information recently provided by hacked e-mails from the Climate Research Unit (CRU) at East Anglia University in Great Britain.  The emails reveal:  1) attempts by global warming advocate scientists at CRU to conceal information running counter to their arguments; and 2) ...
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• Will ObamaCare Cover Pre-existing Presidential Dementia?

  
  American Conservative Daily — Authority: 504
  By John W. Lillpop Once again, America’s 44th president and worst-ever electoral miscue has ruptured the incredulity index with another egregious example of “acting stupidly” whilst in power. Less than a month ago, the president visited the Great Wall of China and made it clear that spending too much money ...
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• White House: Open Government Directive

  
  Legal Research Plus — Authority: 466
  The White House today issued an Open Government Directive under the signature of Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Peter Orszag to the heads of U.S. executive departments and agencies.The directive follows previous action by President Barack Obama, who issued a Memorandum on Transparency and Open ...
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• Common - Start The Show (Extended Version)

  
  Nah Right — Authority: 728
  Here’s an unreleased version of track two on Lonnie’s Finding Forever . Common - Start The Show (Extended Version/No Hook) common-start-the-show-extended-versionno-hook There’s a third verse and an empty space where the hook should be. Props to RealHipHopSince1979 FYI - I drafted this post on my ...
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• Charlie Brown, Linus, Innocence And The Meaning Of Christmas

  
  FamilyFoundationBlog.com — Authority: 134
  We’re not in the habit of promoting certain television programs, but it is worth noting one airing tonight on ABC at 8:00 Eastern. It’s the A Charlie Brown Christmas special (see it online, here ).  Last week, you may recall, President Barack Obama unceremoniously bumped the show from its original air ...
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• Remarkable Iranian protests

  
  Orange Punch — Authority: 144
  Middle Eastern expert Juan Cole — not always right but with a better track record than most and a from-the-first opponent of the Iraq war — has an extensive post including several videos on the Students Day protests in Iran yesterday. He was impressed with the extensive nature of the protests — in over a ...
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• “Tiger Woods makes depressed black people hate Obama more” says a clearly drug-addicted Limbaugh

  
  Jack & Jill Politics — Authority: 624
  Media Matters is on it . Time to dissect. Here are Limbaugh’s claims Black unemployment is terrible True. Black unemployment has always been higher than that of whites and in a deep recession, we suffer even more. With rates currently at above 15 percent “officially” it’s a sad state. I also want to ...
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• Can the Federal Government really create jobs?

  
  Anderson Cooper 360 — Authority: 619
  Barbara Kiviat Time The Obama Administration is out to create jobs. Lets not get our hopes up. The day before the Labor Department announced a second month of 10%-plus unemployment last week, the White House hosted a get-together to hear from executives, labor leaders and academics about how the Federal Government ...
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• Obama lays out job plan

  
  ConnPolitics — Authority: 481
  Washington (AP) – President Barack Obama outlined major new government stimulus and jobs proposals on Tuesday, saying the nation must continue to “spend our way out of this recession.” Read more » Original post blogged on b2evolution .
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• President Obama speaks on jobs initiative live. Now

  
  Jack & Jill Politics — Authority: 624
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• Colleges See Surge in Early Acceptance Applications

  
  Mother Talkers — Authority: 142
  At least in the Washington D.C. area, colleges are seeing a surge in early acceptance applications. From the Washington Post : Selective colleges in the D.C. region are reporting double-digit increases in early decision applications, signaling that the schools and their prospective freshmen are eager to commit ...
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• Understanding “Broad Partisan Support” for Health-care Reform

  
  OUPblog — Authority: 746
  Elvin Lim is Assistant Professor of Government at Wesleyan University and author of The Anti-intellectual Presidency , which draws on interviews with more than 40 presidential speechwriters to investigate this relentless qualitative decline, over the course of 200 years, in our presidents’ ability to communicate ...
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• Dear President Obama #323: The growing heat over climategate

  
  Anderson Cooper 360 — Authority: 619
  Reporters Note: President Obama will attend the global climate summit in Denmark. I hope he can get my daily letter to the White House while on the road. Tom Foreman | BIO AC360° Correspondent Dear Mr. President, Let me be candid. I am not particularly convinced that this Climategate issue is all ...
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• Whats behind collapse of Obamas approval ratings?

  
  Cafferty File — Authority: 518
  Here’s my question to you: Whats behind the collapse of President Obamas approval ratings? Tune in to the Situation Room at 6pm to see if Jack reads your answer on air. And, we love to know where you’re writing from, so please include your city and state with your comment.
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• Obama to extend US attacks in Pakistan

  
  Dr Nasir Khan — Authority: 439
  by James Cogan, wsws.org , Dec 8, 2009 President Obama’s deployment of 30,000 additional American troops to Afghanistan will be accompanied by increased US attacks inside Pakistan. According to the New York Times , the White House is pressuring the Pakistani government to allow US forces to assassinate alleged ...
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• Slow Down, Senator Reid Stop Comparing Healthcare to Slavery

  
  politics from the eyes of an ebony mom — Authority: 137
  President Obama and his fellow Democrats want to pass a healthcare bill before the year ends. All summer all of their energy has been devoted to this effort almost to the exclusion of other important issues like unemployment. The stakes are high and now the speeches and the comparisons are getting ridiculous. ...
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• The Church Of Obama Is Losing Members

  
  NO QUARTER — Authority: 547
  ^ ^ ^ Bumped up ^ ^ ^ This is perfect Sunday fare, and rich coming from someone who routinely appeared with Keith Olbermann on Countdown ( until they broke up back in August last year ). That would be Dana Milbank. Oh, yes, this is priceless: Obama The Mortal Some parishioners in the Church of Obama discovered ...
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• President Obama lauds The Boss

  
  NY Bloger — Authority: 139
  President Barack Obama joined high-profile celebrities at the White House for the Kennedy Center Honors that recognise those who have defined culture through the arts. Bruce Springsteen, Robert De Niro, Mel Brooks, Grace Bumbry and Dave Brubeck all received the prestigious laurel. Obama said of Springsteen: “I’m ...
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• Obama and Palin, Like Two Ships Whose Poll Numbers Pass in the Night

  
  The Sundries Shack — Authority: 606
  Were I running the Obama ‘12 War Room (and you’d better believe there is one), I’d be hitting the panic button right about now. The latest Gallup poll (the one the MSM likes because it’s not Rasmussen) has the President’s approval rating one percentage point from being upside-down. He’s sitting at 47-46 ...
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