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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• US Attack Kills 120 In Yemen

  
  Dr Nasir Khan — Authority: 439
  Obama Ordered U.S. Military Strike on Suspected “Terrorists” By BRIAN ROSS, RICHARD ESPOSITO, MATTHEW COLE, LUIS MARTINEZ and KIRIT RADIA December 18, 2009 “ ABC News “ On orders from President Barack Obama, the U.S. military launched cruise missiles early Thursday against two suspected ...
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• Isaiah The World Today Just Nuts "Super Model President"

  
  The Common Ills — Authority: 540
  Isaiah s latest The World Today Just Nuts "Super Model President." Barack explains, " My climate deal unravels . I failed with the arms treaty . Good thing America hired me for my looks." the world today just nuts comic barack obama super model president the common ills
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• If you dont vote, why do you complain about politics?

  
  Message from Montie — Authority: 540
  Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain looks at Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama as he answers a question during the Town Hall Presidential Debate at Belmont Universitys Curb Event Center, in Nashville, Tenn. (AP photo by Gerald Herbert / October 7, 2008, photo from ChicagoTribune.com ) ...
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• Not sold: the netroots still fuming over healthcare

  
  The Reid Report — Authority: 509
  President Barack Obama delivers a speech on health care to a joint session of Congress, Wednesday, Sept., 9, 2009, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) The Florida netroots is still at odds over the Senate healthcare compromise, as are liberals across the country, with some saying pass ...
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• Mixed Bag for Obama on Climate Change Deal Amid the Recession

  
  The Caucus — Authority: 799
  A victory for President Obama in Copenhagen will not necessarily help his popularity at home.
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• Copenhagen summit concludes: what was and was not achieved?

  
  Green cars: latest news — Authority: 481
  The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change 15 Conference of Parties (COP 15) came to its conclusion after an all-night session that sent two weeks of climate talks into overtime.The result was the tentative approval of a non-biding, three-page political statement hashed out between the leaders of ...
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• Do You Smell Something In The Air? Hugo Chavez Does In Copenhagen

  
  NO QUARTER — Authority: 516
  Oh, what a turn of events, and so quickly, too. Remember when Hugo Chavez called Bush “the devil” at another UN meeting? Many of us thought that was hilarious. Here’s the clip as a reminder: Yes, yes, that was mighty funny. Finally, someone was saying what so many of us lefties thought. Then, at the end ...
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• Dear President Obama #335: Snow day!

  
  Anderson Cooper 360 — Authority: 543
  Reporters Note: Do presidents get snow days? I don’t know. But I do know this one gets a letter from me every day. Tom Foreman | BIO AC360° Correspondent Dear Mr. President, I have no interest in writing a serious letter today. Zero. Just as it was when I was a kid, I like to believe that a heavy ...
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• Nobel Peace Prize (2009): President Barack Obama’s Speech Exemplified the Theory of “Might is Right”

  
  A DC Observer — Authority: 109
  I have read the President Barack Obama’s Nobel Lecture that he gave upon receiving the Nobel Peace Prize. In the Lecture, the President attempted to argue that warcraft can lead to peace. As I have argued before , war and peace are mutually exclusive. Further examination of the speech indicates that the President ...
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• Deal, or no deal?

  
  Cheshire Cat Photo Blog (... said the Cat: 'we're all mad here....') — Authority: 128
  “Finally we sealed the deal and it is a real deal. Bringing world leaders to the table paid off,” U.N. chief Ban Ki-Moon said , according to CNN affiliate TV2 Denmark. “ The Copenhagen Accord may not be everything that everyone hoped for but this decision of the conference of parties is a beginning, an ...
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• Obama’s Weekly Address: The Patient’s Bill of Rights and Health Reform

  
  The Liberal OC — Authority: 525
  WASHINGTON –  In his weekly address, President Obama praised the strong patient protections in the health insurance reform bills in Congress, and called on Senators to stop blocking this critical reform effort.  The legislation contains many of the protections originally proposed in the bipartisan Patient’s Bill ...
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• Santa, Please Give My Mommy a Job

  
  politics from the eyes of an ebony mom — Authority: 135
  When I was a child we asked Santa for toys. We were children and we really did not have a care in the world, but sadly children have been robbed of this child-like innocence. Mall Santas across the country report more and more children are asking Santa for essentials.  “A couple of years ago, children were shooting ...
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• Health Care Reform: The Congressional Legislation is FAR from the Ideal; Senate Bill is Deplorable

  
  A DC Observer — Authority: 109
  The current health-care legislation should be defeated . The United States should reconsider its approach to true health-care reform. The movement from single payer (publicly administered health insurance) to “robust public option”, to “public option”, and finally to no “public option” has been extremely ...
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• Obama feels at home in eye of winter storm

  
  Front Row Washington — Authority: 584
  While the rest of Washington dug itself out of  the area’s most severe winter storm in years, the residents of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue  found the deeply drifting snow much to their liking as it blanketed the White House. “I am from Chicago, so let me first say that with the place where I live covered with ...
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• Smart money is on Hillary Clinton for 2016

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 966
  Hillary Clinton was written off as a failed presidential candidate who would never have another run at the White House. Not any more, writes Toby Harnden in Washington.
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• Obama hits left (and right) on healthcare

  
  The Reid Report — Authority: 509
  UPDATE: Obama will speak at 1:30. Ted Kennedy’s widow supports the Senate bill . (Did she get a request from the White House?) The president makes it plain in his weekly address: like it or hate it, you’re getting healthcare reform. Watch: Here’s the transcript . The key lines were at the end, and they ...
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• Obama: Time to Make Health Care Reform a Reality

  
  Watch your favorite videos on the internet. — Authority: 177
  President Barack Obama says, "for the first time, there is a clear majority in the Senate thats willing to stand up to the insurance lobby and embrace lasting health insurance reforms." (Dec. 19)
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• Dear President Obama #334: Global snoring

  
  Anderson Cooper 360 — Authority: 543
  Reporters Note: The president went to Denmark and says he got a good deal on global climate change. I once went to Mexico and got a hammock for five dollars! And considering all the snow on the east coast, a hammock in Mexico sounds pretty good right now. Anyway, here’s my daily letter to the White House. ...
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• President Obama’s Weekly Address

  
  Jack & Jill Politics — Authority: 614
  President Obama calls for “Up or Down” vote on health care insurance reform Facing opposition from the political right and the left, President Obama pushed back, decrying parliamentary stall tactics and reminding the American people that the current bill promises to enact principles Democrats fought for a decade ...
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• The President on Health Care

  
  Bill Manzi.Com — Authority: 124
  The President spends his weekly address on health care, talking about the past failure of a patient bill of rights, and decrying the parliamentary obstruction of the Republican Party on health care. Meanwhile the Senate Democrats continue to struggle to get to sixty, with Ben Nelson proving a difficult vote to corral. ...
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