BARACK OBAMA

Barack Obama is the President-elect of the United States of America, and the first African American to be elected President of the United States. Obama was the junior United States Senator from Illinois from January 3, 2005, until his resignation on November 16, 2008, following his election to the presidency.

Obama is a graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School, where he was the first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review. He worked as a community organizer, and practiced as a civil rights attorney in Chicago before serving three terms in the Illinois Senate from 1997 to 2004. He also taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School from 1992 to 2004. Following an unsuccessful bid for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives in 2000, Obama was elected to the Senate in November 2004. Obama delivered the keynote address at the Democratic National Convention in July 2004. (via Wikipedia)

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Talking Taxes: Unions, Obama to Discuss Taxing Health Plans

via wsj.com ( 33 Days ago )
By Laura Meckler How to pay the bill is among the contentious issues yet to be resolved in the health debate. President Barack Obama has made clear that, like the Senate, he favors a tax on high-end health insurance plans. In the coming days, union leaders — who fiercely oppose that idea–will get their chance to talk him out of it. Obama plans to meet with union leaders [...]

John McCain Hits the Airwaves: Afraid of No Man

via wsj.com ( 33 Days ago )
By Susan Davis Sen. John McCain’s first ads of his 2010 re-election campaign are out today: two radio spots airing in Arizona that tout the Republican senator as the man leading the fight against President Barack Obamas agenda. Sen. John McCain at a news conference at the U.S. Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, today. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq) “President Obama is leading [...]

Colorado Dems Talking With Salazar About Governor’s Race

via wsj.com ( 34 Days ago )
By Jonathan Weisman President Barack Obama could lose a cabinet member soon as a sudden wave of Democratic retirements reverberates through the party. Associated Press U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar talks to a reporter during an interview in downtown Denver on Dec. 31,2009. Colorado Democratic Party Chairwoman Pat Waak confirmed that the state party is in talks with Interior [...]

Book Report: ‘Homeland: An Extraordinary Story of Hope and Survival’

via wsj.com ( 34 Days ago )
By Louise Radnofsky George Obama, the youngest of President Barack Obamas eight half-siblings, is out with a memoir, released Tuesday by Simon and Schuster. You might remember that during his brothers presidential campaign, George was reported to be living in a shack in Kenya on a dollar a month. Washington Wire is aware of the demands on your time, and has perused the 300 pages [...]

Barack Obama's Hawaiian Vacation in Pictures

via indecisionforever.com ( 36 Days ago )
After spending the past week in Hawaii, President Obama is back in Washington dealing with the war on terror, health care reform, the war on health care reform, and less-violent situations like Iran. Man, I can feel my stress levels skyrocketing just typing that! Let's take one last relaxing look back at the president's vacation, because lord knows when we'll he'll [...]

Obama ties Nigerian terror suspect to al Qaeda

via cnn.com ( 38 Days ago )
(CNN) – President Barack Obama linked the man behind a botched Christmas Day airline bombing to an al Qaeda affiliate based in Yemen on Saturday. The president pledged that everyone involved in the attack would be held accountable. He also highlighted his administration's attempts to crack down on extremist enclaves in Yemen, and reiterated his longstanding promise to "disrupt, [...]

New Years resolutions for Obama – from Karl Rove

via cnn.com ( 39 Days ago )
Rove has some New Year's resolutions for Obama. (CNN) - If President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, or other members of the administration are having any trouble coming up with some New Year's resolutions for 2010, former top Bush aide Karl Rove is eager to help. Writing in his weekly Wall Street Journal column Thursday, Rove offers a bevy of goals to the president [...]

New Years resolutions for Obama - from Karl Rove

via cnn.com ( 40 Days ago )
Rove has some New Year's resolutions for Obama. (CNN) - If President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, or other members of the administration are having any trouble coming up with some New Year's resolutions for 2010, former top Bush aide Karl Rove is eager to help. Writing in his weekly Wall Street Journal column Thursday, Rove offers a bevy of goals to the president [...]

White House Releases 25,000 Visitor Logs

via wsj.com ( 41 Days ago )
By Susan Davis In keeping with President Barack Obamas voluntary disclosure program on whos coming and going at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, the White House today released an exhaustive 25,000 electronic visitor log of every visit in just a two week period dating Sept. 16-30. (View the logs here.) It is the third such document release this year, but the White House said today that [...]

CNN Poll: President not most popular person in his administration

via cnn.com ( 41 Days ago )
A new CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll indicates that President Obama is not the most popular person in his administration. Washington (CNN) - President Barack Obama may be the most popular man in his administration, but according to a new national poll, he's not the most popular person. A CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey released Wednesday indicates that the president's [...]