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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• Hard Questions, All-Too-Easy Answers

  
  Anderson Cooper 360 — Authority: 531
  Bill Burck and Dana Perino National Review Janet Napolitano, President Obama’s secretary of homeland security, has been rightly criticized for her declaration that “the system worked” in the thwarted plot to bring down Northwest Airlines Flight 253. Secretary Napolitano and the Obama administration quickly ...
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• Obama and Our Post-Modern Race Problem

  
  Anderson Cooper 360 — Authority: 531
  Shelby Steele Wall Street Journal America still has a race problem, though not the one that conventional wisdom would suggest: the racism of whites toward blacks. Old fashioned white racism has lost its legitimacy in the world and become an almost universal disgrace. The essence of our new "post-modern" race ...
  7 hours ago

• Systemic and Human Failures led to al-Qaeda Bomb Attempt

  
  Moo News Moo News - Entertainment, Sports, Showbiz, Celebrities & TV — Authority: 454
  On Tuesday, US President Barack Obama addressed Americans about the Christmas Day bomb attempt by an al-Qaeda follower. The now infamous incident occurred on Northwest Airlines Flight 253 from Amsterdam to Detroit. Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab nearly blew the plane up with a bomb sewn into his pants until passengers ...
  15 hours ago

• Did Obama Place INTERPOL Above U.S. Law?

  
  Bob McCarty Writes — Authority: 140
  After learning recently that President Barack Obama had, on Dec. 17, quietly amended Executive Order 12425, I decided to find out what impact, if any, it might have on Americans.  At first blind to the potential ramifications of the amendment, I was startled at what I found once the pieces of this disturbing ...
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• Obama Ambulance Drama Revealed

  
  Famecrawler — Authority: 159
  So what caused President Barack Obama to abruptly end his golf outing in Hawaii on Monday while an ambulance sped to his vacation compound? It’s incredibly tempting to make a joke here involving golf, a nurse and Tiger Woods but I’ll stick to the facts. After the President sped in his motorcade away from the ...
  1 day ago

• RIP ANN NIXON COOPER

  
  Character Corner — Authority: 509
  Ann Nixon Cooper, the 107-year-old Atlanta woman whose name President Barack Obama invoked when he gave his historic election speech last year, died Monday afternoon around 3:30 p.m. Then President-elect Obama called Cooper an example of "the heartbreak and the hope," noting that shed lived long enough to remember ...
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• Finally, The First Duffer Is Dragged to the Mike to Inform America He’ll Deal With “Alleged” Terrorism. Or Something.

  
  The Sundries Shack — Authority: 554
  I didn’t get to hear President Obama’s reluctant statement on the SpeedoBomber, but I read it here (via memeorandum) and I entirely agree with Dan Riehl. You’d be hard-pressed to find a more uninspired, bored, “Oh God how fast can I read this so I can go back outside and play” statement from this President ...
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• Obama Vows To Hunt Down All Involved in Botched Airline Attack

  
  The Inquisitr Entertainment — Authority: 701
  Washington, D.C., United States (AHN) – U.S. President Barack Obama vowed Monday that those involved in the plot to bomb a U.S. airplane, bound for Detroit, will be hunted down and prosecuted. Speaking for the first time, about the botched attempt, by a Nigerian man, to blow up Northwest Airlines Flight 253 on ...
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• White House Press Corps Emits Sucking Sound

  
  Bob McCarty Writes — Authority: 140
  In the middle of reading a CBS article about President Barack Obama’s day in Hawaii, I think I heard a sucking sound — you know, the kind of sound that comes members of the White House press corps generate as they suck up to the current head of household at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.Here’s why:First, the [...]
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• Obama says US will pursue plane bomb plotters

  
  CKA Canadian News — Authority: 165
  President Barack Obama has pledged his administration "will not rest" until all those behind an alleged plot to bomb a US plane are brought to justice.
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• Security team to keep pressure on enemies

  
  ConnPolitics — Authority: 141
  *Updated* By PHILIP ELLIOTT Associated Press Writer HONOLULU (AP) – President Barack Obama says he has ordered a review of the nation’s watchlist system and of its air safety regulations, and has asked his national security team to keep up the pressure on terrorists aiming to attack the U.S. Read more » ...
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• Video: Previewing Obamas second year

  
  Anderson Cooper 360 — Authority: 531
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• Monday Morning News Kick Off: The Fall Out After Failed Christmas Terrorist Attack and More

  
  got geoint? — Authority: 473
  We hope everyone is enjoying the holiday season. While many folks are taking time off between Christmas and New Year’s Eve, it is still Monday and the news cycle keeps cranking on. The big news is the failed terrorist attack that occurred on Christmas day when a 23-year-old Nigerian man to blow up a Detroit-bound ...
  2 days ago

• Dear President Obama #343: The King of the Christmas trees...

  
  Anderson Cooper 360 — Authority: 531
  Reporters Note: President Obama remains on vacation and I remain committed to writing a letter every single day to the White House. However, in deference to the season, this week I am just writing little stories about Christmases past. Which, btw, is a lot more fun than nattering on about politics. What a ...
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• Has Obama been a success despite suspicions of crony capitalism?

  
  Ensaios Imperfeitos — Authority: 150
  By Edward Harrison of Credit Writedowns . I hope this is a good subject to discuss in light of the recent Obama Administration machinations regarding Fannie and Freddie, Big Pharma, and Healthcare. Before the Christmas break, I wrote a post to tie together my thoughts on why I have found the Obama economic program ...
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• Don’t Worry, Folks. We’ve Outsourced Homeland Security to the Dutch.

  
  The Sundries Shack — Authority: 554
  By now I’m sure you’ve heard that an Islamist, acting on orders from al-Qaeda in Yemen, tried to blow an airplane over Detroit. He was unsuccessful because 1) al-Qaeda shops for its bomb-detonation instructions out of Wile. E. Coyote’s ACME catalog, and 2) a Dutch filmmaker pounced on him and gave him a good ...
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• Should Obama be partying in Hawaii while we are at war and our economy is sinking?

  
  Orange Juice — Authority: 495
  President Obama celebrates sending 30,000 more troops to AfghanistanIs it appropriate for President Barack Obama to be in Hawaii while we are at war, and while our national economy is continuing to sink?I just received yet another alert about a suspicious Nigerian on another plan flight to Detroit.  This case ...
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• Surber: Obama Must Reconsider Closing GITMO

  
  Bob McCarty Writes — Authority: 140
  In a worth-reading post yesterday on his blog at the Charleston (W.Va.) Daily Mail, Don Surber wrote that President Barack Obama cannot ignore recent events involving terrorism aboard Northwest Airlines Flight 253 and that the former Illinois senator must reconsider his decision to move detainees (a.k.a., ...
  3 days ago

• Now That Is Some Kind Of Generous Gift

  
  NO QUARTER — Authority: 521
  Just in time for the holidays, Emperor Obama gave a gift the length and breadth of which would warm the cockles of your heart – if you happened to be one of the recipients. Because what he gave is something most people cannot afford in this economy for themselves, but guess what? You were kind enough to do this ...
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• Not your normal Asian adventure vacation

  
  Gadling — Authority: 699
  Filed under: Activism , Asia , China , North Korea , South Korea We travel for many reasons. Maybe its to relax, learn something new or see friends and family. And then there are the so-called "adventure travelers" - sorry guys, you just dont know the meaning of the expression. Keep your kayaks and your ...
  3 days ago

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