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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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “president barack obama”

 

• Obama says China hears his ‘blunt’ message on hacking

  
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  US President Barack Obama said on Monday that China has understood his “blunt” warnings against cyber-hacking as he credited new leader Xi Jinping with accepting more global responsibility for Beijing. “We’ve had very blunt conversations about this. They understand, I think, that this can adversely affect the ...
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• EU, US leaders launch trade talks, France digs in on culture

  
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  The United States and the European Union launched talks on Monday to create one of the world’s most ambitious free-trade zones, as France again underscored its determination to protect its movies and culture. A trans-Atlantic free trade agreement was first considered three decades ago but was knocked down by France ...
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• President Obama says NSA secret data gathering is ‘transparent’

  
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  President Barack Obama defended top secret National Security Agency spying programs as legal in a lengthy interview and called them transparent — even though they are authorised in secret. Read more from the original source: President Obama says NSA secret data gathering is ‘transparent’ The post President ...
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• Don’t Panic! iPhone Gets Emergency Alert System

  
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  Apple ( NASDAQ:AAPL ) users can breathe a little easier this week knowing that they will now be able to receive government-issued emergency alerts via their iPhones. On Friday, AT&T ( NYSE:T ) announced that customers using the iPhone 5 and iPhone 4S will soon be receiving a software update that provides ...
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• Conservatives, Depressed, Angry, And Otherwise

  
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  By Alan Caruba ~ File this under random musings. From what I can determine as I visit various blogs, forums, and websites intended to be read by conservatives, as a group we are very depressed, very angry, or moderately gleeful over the travails of a certain Mr. B.H. Obama. Or all three. Obama has been the ...
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• U.S. will intervene in Syria

  
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  President Obama said that since Syria’s ruler, Bashar al-Assad, used chemical weapons against those rebelling against his regime, the United States will send weapons to help the rebels.  Though sending ground-troops is not being considered, officials are reportedly considering implementing a no-fly zone, using ...
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• North Korea wants to hold high-level talks with U.S.

  
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  North Korea on Sunday offered high-level talks with the United States to ease tensions on the Korean peninsula, only days after it canceled planned official talks with South Korea for the first time in over two years. Planned high-level talks between North and South Korea were scrapped last week after the North ...
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• Barack Obama’s ‘Social Innovation’ Slush Fund

  
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  By Michelle Malkin ~ We all know now what the vengeful Obama IRS has been doing to conservative nonprofits the past four years: strangling them in the crib. But do you know how much pampering and largesse far-left welfare-state charities have received while limited-government groups suffered? You don’t know ...
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• “Adding more weapons to this volatile situation could destabilise the entire region…”

  
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  The Northern Ireland First and deputy First Ministers were in a sunny Downing Street garden yesterday , welcoming that suspect package , and extolling the virtues of demonstrating “peacefully, positively, constructively ” [Is that with, or without, a Thompson sub-machine gun ? - Ed]   Without, probably…  ...
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• The President Has No Spine: Syria Here We Come!

  
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  It is time to let the rest of the world get involved if they must…but it is time for the United States to stop thinking that we need to be involved in every local conflict in the world. But now, bowing to pressure from critics, advisers and purportedly former President Clinton, the president is moving the US more ...
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• WashPost Reports On ‘Kingly Sums’ Of Obamas’ Upcoming Trip To Africa

  
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  By Tim Graham ~ The Washington Post raised eyebrows Friday by investigating something the president’s backers would consider lowly “Drudge fodder” – the high costs of Obama’s travel, especially in less developed nations. The headline was “Presidential travel, kingly sums: Document details ...
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• Obama on Fatherhood: ‘It’s The Best Job I’ve Got’

  
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  WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama says being a father is the best job he’s got. Obama says a Father’s Day luncheon at the White House on Friday was a great way for all the dads to celebrate the coming occasion and remember how lucky they are. Obama has two daughters, 14-year-old Malia and 12-year-old Sasha. ...
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• 9-year-old Girls Introduce President Obama at Lesbian and Gay Event

  
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  Nine year-old twins Zea and Luna introduced President Barack Obama at the White House’s LGBT Gay Pride Month celebration on Thursday, June 13. What do 9-year-olds know about gay sex? This is more proof that the gay agenda is targeting your children. They know that the easiest time to indoctrinate children into a ...
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• Obama using children as political pawns yet again

  
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  . ____ GREEN link below . Third-Graders Introduce  Obama at LGBT Pride  Event .____ GREEN   link below . -___ ‘No Guns, No Guns!’ ____ :  WH   Posts   Vids   of   ______ Kids   Begging  For   ___ Gun ...
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• France says UN backing for Syria no-fly zone “unlikely”

  
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  France said on Friday that it was unlikely for now that a no-fly zone would be established over Syria because of opposition from some members of the UN Security Council. Western diplomats say the United States is considering imposing a no-fly zone close to Syria’s southern border with Jordan. “The problem ...
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• NSA vs. ACLU: Split Decision

  
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  The revelation that the federal government has been secretly gathering records on the phone calls and online activities of millions of Americans and foreigners seems not to have alarmed most Americans. A poll conducted by the Pew Research Center over the four days immediately after the news first broke found that ...
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• Obama to take advantage of advances in wireless

  
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  The White House says President Barack Obama is taking advantage of new advances in the wireless industry to help create jobs.
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• Pregnant Boys: Chicago Teen Parent Ads Spark Controversy [VIDEO]

  
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  DatzHott.com - "Where Everything Cool is Hott!" Instead of taking a page from New York mayor Michael Bloomberg and slut-shaming teen girls into abstinence, the Chicago Department of Public Health has reframed the conversation to focus on potential teen fathers who — in keeping with the gender double standard ...
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• Why is President Obama so black in the NRA attack ad?

  
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  While watching Morning Joe today they played this ad and the Joe Scarborough asked why did the president appear darker in this ad. Look at the ad the President has been darkened for effect. The rhetorical question is why, but we all know the answer.
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• Myanmar leader to visit Britian and France

  
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  Myanmar’s President Thein Sein will visit Britain and France next month, an official said on Friday, as the international community continues to embrace his nation’s democratic reforms. Thein Sein will travel to up to four countries on his second trip to Europe in months, a government official said requesting ...
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