Obamamania

AT THE DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION, DENVER, Colo., Aug. 26, 2008 [Updated 11:30PM MT] -- As Denver police sprayed tear gas and shot pepper balls at radical protestors in a park more than a mile from the Democratic National Convention here, a prospective first ...  

While running for president, Barack Obama promised the American voters that he would change the way things were done in Washington. Well, he's kept his promise—though not perhaps in the way many people who voted for him had in mind. Under his ...  

The media ... "real" jobs would also oppose Saul Alinsky (1909-1972), who tirelessly established the nation's most effective organizational structure to help the poor and disenfranchised to gain a voice against political, economic, and social oppression.  

SAN FRANCISCO – President Barack Obama may get another chance to display his vocal affinity for Al Green. The singer is scheduled to perform at a campaign fund-raiser for Mr. Obama Thursday night in San Francisco. Mr. Obama surprised ...  

This story comes from the Yahoo! Contributor Network, where individuals publish their unique perspectives on some of the world’s most popular websites. "Line of the day from WAPO's Dana Milbank: 'The chimichanga?" The Hill reported Messina Tweeting on ...  

When it comes to bets, Octavia Spencer is in it to win it, even if it means shedding her clothes! "I went streaking after Obama was elected! I had to pay off a bet!," the 39-year-old breakout star told Us Weekly at the USA & the Moth event in West ...  

When Barack Obama changed his polemic policy that employers cover contraception -- so that insurance companies, not businesses, have to provide free birth control coverage -- it didn't do much to appease conservative White House opponents. Instead of ...  

Clinton, who said previously she doesn’t plan to remain in her post if President Barack Obama wins a second term, repeatedly has denied having an interest in the World Bank job. State Department spokesman Victoria Nuland repeated those denials today.  

President Barack Obama is concerned about Whitney Houston's daughter Bobbi Kristina after her recent hospital scares ... this according to a rep for the White House. Press Secretary Jay Carney just released a statement -- claiming Obama's ...  

Even President George W. Bush made a token effort to involve Congress into the process of going to war in Afghanistan and Iraq. Not Mr. Obama. It's hard to say what is worse: that Mr. Obama is continuing the Bush Doctrine of attacking any country we see ...  

Barack Obama has opened up polling leads against all of his potential Republican challengers, as Americans grow more optimistic that their economy is recovering and Mitt Romney's popularity declines.  

For a man with a well-earned reputation for picking and framing his political battles well, the president blew it last week when his administration went after a key pillar of the Catholic Church: its support for life. Worse, the White House went ...  

President Barack Obama, introducing his plan to cut defence expenditures ... The Bush team, opting for both guns and butter, governed in wartime as if it were at peace. There would be no mobilisation, no taxes, no vacations cut short.  

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President Barack Obama is concerned about Whitney Houston's daughter Bobbi Kristina after her recent hospital scares ... this according to a rep for the White House. Press Secretary Jay Carney just released a statement -- claiming Obama's thoughts and prayers are with Whitney Houston's family, especially her daughter. TMZ broke the story ... Bobbi was taken to the hospital Saturday night and again on Sunday. We're told Bobbi was "hysterical...  

President Barack Obama has set out his stall for re-election, unveiling a proposed budget for the start of his second term that called for $1.5 trillion (£950 billion) in tax hikes on the richest Americans.  

Wow! Doesn't that almost sound like a made up number? LOLz! Yesterday, President Barack Obama unveiled a $3.8 trillion budget request! Here's what he had to say about it: "We built this budget around the idea that our country has always done best when everyone gets a fair shot, everyone does their fair share and everyone plays [...]  

President Barack Obama today sent Congress his fiscal 2013 budget proposal, which would reduce the deficit to $901 billion from $1.3 trillion in fiscal 2012, while investing in other areas, such as infrastructure, manufacturing and education initiatives.  

Buzz French musician at work on the US president’s campaign Just how did an unknown French musician named Tony Jazz become a potential songwriter for Barack Obama’s presidential campaign? It’s the kind of success story that could only happen in America, but it all...  

Thanks to Democrats… Gas Prices Could Top $5 a Gallon This Year | The Gateway Pundit Despite record gas prices Democrats killed another Arctic drilling project last week. This comes after Obama rejected the Keystone pipeline project. US gas prices … Continue reading →  

In nine of the past ten US presidential elections the majority of the Catholic vote has gone to the person who won the election. Little wonder then that the furor over the Bishop’s attacks on President Obama’s contraception plan created such ...  

Instantly rendering Mitt Romney’s weekly “Ray Conniff Record Party” residency sort of old-fashioned, Barack Obama has become the President of Spotify, expanding his already-considerable online presence to an account with the popular music streaming service. The announcement was made via Obama’s Tumblr—which, like his Instagram, is not a joke—and came complete with the President’s first-ever official playlist, featuring selections from his 2012...  

Posted by Jim Hoft on Wednesday, February 15, 2012, 8:28 AM. The definition of failed leadership… After blowing a trillion dollars on a failed stimulus Barack Obama finally admits he didn't understand how bad things were when he took over ...  

LOS ANGELES, February 15, 2012 – Barack Obama took advantage of a devastating financial crisis to gain power. With shallow slogans such as "hope," "change," and "Yes, we can," he promised to unite Americans and turn the economy around.  

...........Mr.Obama's insincerity on tax reform has been a giant missed opportunity. Mr. Romney is the get-it-done candidate. He could not only point to Mr. Obama's failure to act, but explain why—because it would conflict with the campaign of class resentment that he and his surrogates are so busy denying they intend to run on in the fall. Mr.Romney needs to do something. Mr.Santorum's rise is a telling rebuke—a "conservative" who hails from...  

In all, the budgetary proposals of President Barack Obama provides USD 8.2 billion for Overseas Contingency Operations to support the extraordinary and temporary costs of civilian- led programs and missions in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan.  

The Nevada caucuses were held on Feb. 4, and Mitt Romney won the contest in an overwhelming fashion. Here are three of the biggest improvements Romney made, which proves he can compete with President Barack Obama in a general election.Contributor: Jeanne RosePublished: Feb 05, 2012  

For the fourth time since he took office, President Barack Obama on Monday proposed putting a limit on the percentage of income wealthy donors can write off for gifts to charity. Under his 2013 budget proposal, which was released Monday ...  

President Barack Obama called on Congress Monday to create an $8 billion fund to train community college students for high-growth industries, part of his broader pitch to make higher education more affordable for all Americans. The fund was part ...  

US President Barack Obama addressed the annual national prayer breakfast recently. Ever since he began running for president in 2007, Barack Hussein Obama has faced a persistent question: Is he a Christian? In late 2010, the Pew Forum on Religion & Public ...  

The day after meeting China's leader-in-waiting, Vice President Xi Jinping, at the White House, Obama was set to make the case for exploiting U.S. advantages over fast-growing economies where labor and business costs are rising. In Milwaukee, best known as ...  

WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama on Monday was selling a a $3.8 trillion election-year budget, a spending outline designed to cut $4 trillion from the deficit in 10 years through spending restraints and higher taxes on the wealthy. Republicans ...  

Since she opted not to run for the Republican nomination for president, Sarah Palin's contributions to the 2012 campaign have been limited to her commentaries on Fox News. Though she has yet to endorse a candidate, she has steadfastly maintained that the GOP should avoid coalescing around a single candidate this early in the primary season.… [ Read more ] [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]  

President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address Tuesday night was the latest reminder that the state of political discourse in America is shockingly low, writes Steven Greenhut. It was a vivid reminder of the shoddy thinking so common at the highest level of the federal and state governments and why we are—in the more precise, but less lofty words of a former president—in deep doo doo. View this article.  

WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama on Monday said that there is need to end tax breaks to companies that ship jobs overseas ... The recovery is speeding up," he said. "The last thing we can afford to do right now is to go back to the ...  

If you were running the Illinois Humanities Council and a famous terrorist offered to help in your fundraising drive, what would you do? If you said “slam down the phone,” or something to that effect, it just shows how remote you are from the sensibilities of the Obama age. Because, in fact, when Bernardine Dohrn and Bill Ayers offered to auction “dinner for six” at their house, the IHC cheerfully accepted. Ayers and Dohrn were members of the...  

BARACK Obama has sharpened the political divide with Republican opponents in an election year, unveiling a $US3.8 trillion budget plan laden with big spending on infrastructure projects and jobs to be financed largely by higher taxes on the wealthy.  

The images have been disarming, intriguing and nonpolitical, just the type of thing her husband's re-election campaign can't get enough of. Five years to the day after Sen. Barack Obama announced he was running for president, Mrs. Obama's ...  

Barak Obama has claimed that Bill Ayers "is a guy from the neighborhood and an educator". We can say the same thing about noted actor Ron Jeremy. Jeremy lived not to far from me and actually earned his credentials in education, unlike Lord Fauntleroy Ayers whose fathers donations and nepotism likely had some impact on his hiring.The fact is Ayers is a well known and loathsome terrorist. His claims that his actions were somehow related to the...  

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: Obama put out his budget this morning, a week late and a trillion dollars short. You'll be shocked to hear, ladies and gentlemen, that Obama's budget actually increases spending. I know I was shocked when I saw that. Well, based on what he's said in the past. You take him at his word, what he said in the past, this is outrageous. (to staff) You guys are just now getting your lunch delivery? Boy, am I glad I don't depend...  

WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama will revive proposals for $1.5 trillion in tax increases as well as spending to boost jobs as part of a 2013 budget request that projects the deficit shrinking next year to $901 billion. The tax increases would ...  

Washington, Feb 12 : Barack Obama, who has been assigned with many duties ... But on Thursday Michelle Obama said the First Dad has taken a stronger role than previously known by actively instructing Sasha's team. "He hasn't missed a game," ABC News ...  

Judging solely by President Obama's previous record on the right to keep and bear arms (former Joyce Foundation board member, among other things), he seems like an absolutely terrible choice when taking only that one issue into account ...  

For those of us who emigrated from those nations whose societies suffered not only overwhelming destruction, but a devastating loss of freedom and liberty, we can only warn our fellow citizens that the country is going down a road that is becoming eerily familiar. It is not hyperbole to say that we see someone in the White House whose character reflects the worst and most dangerous traits to be found in a national leader, and we are stunned...  

Telegraph.co.ukBarack Obama warns China it must live up to its international responsibilitiesTelegraph.co.ukBarack Obama warned China it had live up to its international responsibilities yesterday as the country's next president made a crucial visit to Washington ahead of his expected rise to power. By Peter Foster, and Raf Sanchez in Washington Against a ...China's Vice President Xi is in town: what 6 international newspapers sayChristian...  

A man from Uzbekistan who has been living in the United States has pleaded guilty to plotting to kill President Barack Obama. Ulugbek Kordirov, 22, was arrested in an undercover operation while ...  

(Scott Johnson) In “What price Ayers?” we reported on the Illinois Humanities Council’s remarkable online fundraising auction item: dinner for six with Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, the unrepentant terrorists and at least onetime friends of Barack Obama. In search of funds, the IHC made the item available for immediate purchase for $2,500; at the time we noted it the item had attracted one bid of $350. The IHC offered supporters the  

In any event, if Romney had worries that Palin would formally endorse one of his more conservative rivals ... Palin’s ability to deliver a scathing critique of President Obama, which drew a raucous response from the CPAC crowd, makes her ...  

When I first wrote about how Barack Obama intended to back down yesterday from the contraceptive issue that would have forced Catholic schools and hospitals to pay for birth control provided to their employees, Obama had yet to speak on the matter. Initial reports were that he was going to cave in and compromise, [...]  

Some highlights from a very worthwhile and measured read: Obama, Explained by James Fallows. It's the cover story in the March issue of the Atlantic. (A U.S. president) needs to be confident but not arrogant; open-minded but not a weather...  

DEMOCRATS BARACK OBAMA Chicago Party affiliation: Democrat Campaign website: barackobama.com President Barack Obama began his political career in 1996 upon his election to the Illinois state Senate, where he represented the 13th District. He rose to national prominence with his keynote address at the 2004 Democratic National Convention and was elected to the U.S. Senate that year. He served as a senator for more than three years until...  

Last week, Obama’s campaign manager, Jim Messina, announced the committee wouldn’t just tolerate Burton’s group, Priorities USA Action, but also let top officials and administration Cabinet members appear at events were it is seeking contributions.  

A tag is a way to search for this diary. If someone is searching for "Barack Obama," is this a diary they'd be trying to find? Use a person's full name, without any title. Senator Obama may become President Obama, and Michelle Obama might run ...  

Sarah Palin: Mainstream media and Barack Obama want Mitt Romney as nomineeby Tony Lee01/08/2012Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin said the mainstream media and President Barack Obama “want to face Mitt Romney in the general election.” She made those comments on  “Justice With Judge  Jeanine” on FOX News on Saturday during the same time the Republican presidential candidates were debating in New Hampshire on ABC.Palin said the mainstream media...  

OVER at CQ Roll Call, our sister publication, the estimable David Hawkings tells ... that would unshackle themselves from those strictures — and even if they did, Obama says he’d veto it. But there’s only a slightly better chance that before Nov ...  

(Steven Hayward) In light of yesterday’s setback for Romney, I’ve decided to rechristen this “deconstructing” series as Romney Agonistes.  Anyway. . . Up in our “Picks” section is a link to those madcaps at The Onion, who offer a spoof of Obamamania called “Romneymania Sweeps America!”  This may be their best spoof since their bit about Grover Norquist’s tryst with the corporate income tax a while ago (“I Engaged in a Week-Long  

As the Wall Street Journal explains, in an editorial delightfully entitled “Immaculate Contraception,” Barack Obama proposes, quite characteristically, to conceptually manipulate his way out of the consequences of his policy ...  

Since February of 2009 when President Barack Obama began his aggressive push for stimulus into the American economy, he focused on one core area — infrastructure. In fact, in his stimulus speech before Congress in 2009, his States of the Union in 2010, 2011, and 2012, and his Jobs Act speech of late 2011, the President repeated referred to spending government money to create jobs to fix America’s infrastructure. Congressman Jim Jordan (R-OH...  

As I wrote yesterday, Presidential election years have a history of partisan conflict around the issue of abortions. There’s a reason for this, of course. Both parties have an incentive to get their base out to the polls. So, it should hardly come as a surprise that Barack Obama this week made an executive decision [...]  

Since February of 2009 when President Barack Obama began his aggressive push for stimulus into the American economy, he focused on one core area — infrastructure. In fact, in his stimulus speech before Congress in 2009, his States of the Union in 2010, 2011, and 2012, and his Jobs Act speech of late 2011, the President repeated referred to spending government money to create jobs to fix America’s infrastructure. Congressman Jim Jordan (R-OH...  

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin said the mainstream media and President Barack Obama “want to face Mitt Romney​ in the general election.” She made those comments on “Justice With Judge Jeanine” on FOX News on Saturday during the same time the Republican presidential candidates were debating in New Hampshire on ABC. Palin said the mainstream media would take a hands-off approach to Romney “in order to bolster Romney’s chances” to “finally face...  

President Obama wrote a message to us today:Five years ago today, a few thousand of us gathered in Springfield, Illinois, to launch an improbable campaign for president.The task was to build a grassroots movement capable of making the kind of change we believe in.You've got to see this video about that journey -- it will make you smile.From the very start this has been an experiment in our political process, testing whether ordinary people...  

President Obama’s campaign launched a new effort today to refute Republican attacks on the Democratic president, using both technology and grassroots supporters. The Obama campaign created the “Truth Team,” with a presence in 13 key states ...  

NewsBusters has spent the past couple of weeks ranting about Saul Alinksy. One thing is clear, though: NewsBusters has no idea who Saul Alinsky actually is.In a Jan. 22 post, Noel Sheppard asserted that "if the media had fully reported Obama's ties to Alinsky and other left-wing radicals in 2008, he never would have beaten Hillary Clinton for the Democratic presidential nomination." In fact, Alinsky died when Obama was 10 years old and...  

WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO OBAMA’S SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE? Dear Barack Obama, there is only one Messiah, please do not believe your press clippings that you are the Obamamessiah. Trust me, you are hardly the “One” we have been waiting for. Yesterday at the National Prayer Breakfast, President Barack Obama decided to make the [...]  

Odd question? Well yesterday Daniel Burke’s article in the Washington Post titled, “Will Mormons’ racial history be a problem for Mitt Romney?” tried to tarnish Romney with the brush of past discrimination in the Mormon priesthood. Burke states that “Until 1978, the LDS church banned men of African descent from its priesthood.” But if the actions of others in a group you belong to reflect on you then should Obama be tainted with the racial...  

Ron Paul was asked by Piers Morgan if it is alright by him and his message of ... Senator Obama may become President Obama, and Michelle Obama might run for office. If your diary covers an election or elected official, use election tags, which ...  

I know that this may violate the Kos rule against conspiracy theories, but t this reeks of some sort of massive conspiracy to ensure that the Republican primary resembles a clown car. One final note: President Obama, if you, or your people ...  

In his much-discussed New Yorker article on the strategy memos that have shaped the Obama administration, Ryan Lizza writes: Most of Obama’s conservative dinner companions from his evening at George Will’s home now describe him and his Administration in the most caricatured terms. Will declared Obama a “floundering naïf” and someone advancing “Lenin-Socialism.” Really? Mild-mannered [...]Barack Obama, Leninist? is a post from Cato @ Liberty...  

Bruce Springsteen, who headlined rallies for 2004 Democratic candidate John Kerry and also featured in Obama's inauguration concert in 2009, will also boom out of Mr Obama campaign speakers. The Boss's new song 'We Take Care of Our Own' debunks ...  

Yesterday, President Barack Obama's team released a Spotify playlist for his 2012 re-election campaign, announcing it via every form of social media imaginable. According to an announcement that accompanied the more traditional means of releasing ...  

WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama will seek $80 million in new funding for a program to boost science and math education in US schools, the White House said on Tuesday. Obama, who is running for re-election in November at a time when the ...  

WASHINGTON--Chicago's Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn--vilified during Barack Obama's 2008 election and beyond as former Weather underground leader--served dinner to Daily Caller founder Tucker Carlson ... Standard senior writer Matt Labash, online media ...  

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama may help Jennifer Wedel's husband find a job. Whether he gets her vote is another question. Two days after Obama talked with Wedel during an online town hall and offered to take a look at her unemployed husban ...  

Barack Obama: Solving the housing crisis By barack obama Published Feb 7, 2012 01:01AM MDT In my State of the Union address, I laid out a blueprint for an economy that’s built to last — an economy built on American manufacturing, American energy, skills for American workers, and a renewal of American values of fairness and responsibility. Over the past decade we strayed from those values and we saw what happened. Millions of families...  

From Sen. Obama’s Floor Speech, March 20, 2006: The fact that we are here today to debate raising America’s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the U.S. Government can’t pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our Government’s reckless fiscal policies. … Increasing America’s debt weakens us domestically and internationally. Leadership means...  

Poor President Barack Obama, ops, Uncle Shlomo, it seems the litmus tests of his loyalty to Israel and Israel First is a war on Iran. No matter what he does for Israel and Israel’s supporters within the American Jewish and Evangelical Christian communities, it is never enough.  For Israel Firsters, it will not be enough until [...]  

Byron YorkPerhaps the most striking thing about the current fight over Mitt Romney's career in private equity is how little we know about it. Romney has based his campaign on his experience in private business -- he talks about it...  

From Earth Wind And Fire to Florence And The Machine, Barack Obama is rolling in with some diverse music this year. The president revealed his 2012 playlist for crowd events on Thursday, and with any luck he won't end up in Mitt Romney or Newt ...  

Barack Obama and Mitt Romney are already butting heads by proxy. In this case it is Obama’s chief reelection dogwasher David Axelrod doing the dirty work. First David tries to defend the indefensible, and the indefensible in this case would be Barack Obama’s economic record. Axelrod says that it is “preposterous” for Mitt Romney to claim that Obama’s policies have worsened the recession. The problem may not be that made the recession worse...  

OUCH!!! Gallup is reporting that President Barack Obama had an approval rating above 50% in only 10 states in 2011 and the District of Columbia. However, one might want to look at the ten states that “The One” has a greater than 50% approval rating. Liberal dark blue states like Hawaii, Massachusetts,  Maryland, New York, [...]  

Everyone's a theologian, as one of my pastors occasionally says. We all believe something about God. The real question is whether you're a good or bad one. Barack Obama spoke last Thursday at the annual National Prayer Breakfast, as is traditional for American presidents since Eisenhower. In his speech, he described how his Christian faith drove his policies, particularly his economic ones. For example: [W]hen I talk about shared...  

He promised radical change, a new kind of politics. Many one-time believers now say he has no stomach for a fightThree years ago to the day, Barack Hussein Obama stood before a crowd shivering in the frigid January air and took the oath of office that made him the 44th president of the United States. By some estimates, there were two million people thronging the National Mall in Washington that day, a human carpet stretching to the steps of...  

UPDATED with many new links: Saul Alinsky, really? What small percentage of Americans knows enough about Saul Alinsky to understand Newt Gingrich's continual use of his name to slur President Barack Obama? A list of recent commentaries and relevant sources:...  

Take a good look America at what President Barack Obama is endorsing. In yesterdays confrontation with police, nearly 300 Occupy Oakland protesters. These protesting thugs stated their intention was to provoke officers and engage in illegal activity. That is exactly what took place.  Most of the arrests were made when protesters ignored orders to leave [...]  

If you thought that things were "bad" under Barack Obama, wait until the voters of the United States put a Vulture Capitalist in the White House.Mitt Romney would be a bigger disaster (Category 5) than the guy from Chicago.On the Cuba issue, Barack Obama has been a huge FRAUD. He has continued the genocidal Cuba embargo, and his out-of-touch Secretary of State, has as a hobby the constant denigration of our neighbor to the south.Poor United...  

Do you think that someone could steal 150 million dollars and get away with it?  Well, the truth is that such a theft is taking place every single hour of every single day.  The federal government is stealing 150 million dollars an hour from our children ...  

President Barack Obama (Getty) President Barack Obama's campaign manager, Jim Messina, emailed supporters shortly before three this morning asking for volunteers and responding to Mitt Romney's extremely narrow victory in the Iowa Caucus. Mr. Messina m...  

President Barack Obama is to speak to Iowa Caucus Voters this evening … “What I did on my Christmas Vacation”. Oh sorry Obama would say “Happy Holiday” vacation. This is rather comical, Obama is not competing against anyone, yet he feels the need to make a presence on the Iowa Caucus voting eve. I guess [...]  

( Jeannieology) - Originally posted at American Thinker blog In America today there is a new fad called Designer Christianity. Cherry-picked Christian ideology has zero to do with God's Word and everything to do with the moral relativism that now pervades modern philosophy...  

OlogyPoll: Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama even in FloridaMiamiHerald.comBy Brent Kallestad AP TALLAHASSEE -- President Barack Obama's popularity among Florida voters appears on the upswing as Republican candidates fight it out for in hopes of a victory Tuesday that would propel them closer to their party's nomination.John McCain slams Gingrich on earmarksWashington Post (blog)Florida CNN Republican Presidential Primary Debate...  

Last night Barack Obama gave his State of the Union address for 2012, though it was not very different from his SOTU speeches from 2010 and 2011. Most of the speech to the joint session of Congress we have heard before during the past five months, ever since Obama began campaigning against Mitt Romney. [...]  

ART, A POWERFUL REMINDER … Certain works of art just have a way of resurfacing over and over again … as does “The Forgotten Man” depicting Barack Obama trampling the US Constitution. What a powerful piece of art showing a man sitting on a park bench, representing “We the People,” as he tries to find [...]  

The last time a crop of presidential candidates debated in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, was exactly four years ago on Martin Luther King Day 2008. Back then, it was the Democrats who held the stage in front of a rowdy crowd that was rooting for fireworks — and got so many that it seemed the building was in danger of being burned down. This was the debate in which Hillary Clinton attacked Barack Obama over his association with the "slum...  

First Lady Michelle Obama joined Twitter Thursday as user MichelleObama and had 200,000 followers in less than 24 hours. Her staff will manage the messages but she'll write some of her own directly and sign them "-mo," she said. One of her first tweets encouraged Americans to join her helping communities on Monday's Martin Luther King, Jr., Day of Service.  

via YouTube​Yesterday, President Barack Obama's team released a Spotify playlist for his 2012 re-election campaign, announcing it via every form of social media imaginable. According to an annou  

Last week, President Barack Obama sang 10 seconds of Al Green's 1971 smash "Let's Stay Together" at a Harlem fundraiser. And now he has raised Green's single sales of the song to 16,000 — a leap of 490 percent, according to Billboard. Obama sang six words, so he improved Green's sales by 82 percent with every word he crooned. That likely makes the president's version of the song even more successful than Tina Turner's, and her cover hit No. 26...  

How bad is the damage Republicans are doing to one another in the Republican primaries? This editorial from Germany’s Der Tagesspiegel outlines why, at least from outside the United States, it looks like reelecting Obama may turn out to be a cake walk. The Der Tagesspiegel editorial starts out this way: Mitt Romney, the favorite, [...]  

Reuters says: U.S. President Barack Obama's re-election campaign, together with the Democratic National Committee, raised more than $68 million in the fourth quarter of 2011, Obama's campaign manager Jim Messina said on Thursday...The fourth quarter fundraising haul puts the Obama campaign and DNC fundraising at over $200 million for the year. The two groups had raised roughly $155 million through the end of September. They bested their goals...  

WASHINGTON -- Hoping to hold the line on President Barack Obama's controversial contraception ruling, which requires most religiously affiliated employers to cover the costs of their employees' birth control, Democrats are passing around private ...  

(By Josh Feldman, Mediaite) - In the midst of all the hoopla over NBC’s big Republican debate, George Stephanopoulos quietly returned to his old position as anchor of ABC’s 'This Week', and already he’s made some news with today’s appearance by former White House advisor David Axelrod. A new book out about President Obama details tensions between First Lady Michelle Obama and White House staffers, which led to one advisor cursing her out...  

Every month there are more signs pointing to a landslide loss for Barack Obama and his Democrat Party. Contrary to the fearful tormented “feelings” of those who despise Obama but are “sure” he will be reelected, he won’t be reelected. The numbers against Obama are piling up. The charges that he is not in fact eligible to be our president are beginning to get traction and could conceivably lead to continued legal problems. Even impeachment for...  

FILE - This undated photo released by Obama for America shows Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Barack Obama's father, also named Barack Obama, and mother, Stanley Ann Dunham (her father always wanted a son). Obama's father left the family ...  

Hmm … An Atlanta judge has ordered President Barack Obama to appear in court for a hearing on a complaint that says Obama isn’t a natural-born citizen and can’t be president. Obama’s minions say there is no merit. However, the hearing is set for Thursday before an administrative judge as Deputy Chief Judge Michael Malihi [...]  

1. Obama is a socialist. This myth began with a 2008 campaign stop in Ohio, when then-Sen. Obama was caught on tape telling Joe Wurzelbacher (“Joe the Plumber”) that we needed to “spread the wealth around.” Sen. John McCain said that “sounded a lot like socialism” and cited the quote often during the campaign. Read full article >>  

Since my New Year’s prediction that Obama would select Hillary Clinton for his running mate in 2012 (and Joe Biden would become Secretary of State), I’ve been swamped by requests for my GOP prediction. Here goes. You can forget the caucuses and early primaries. Mitt Romney will be the nominee. Republicans may be stupid but the GOP isn’t about to commit suicide. The other candidates are all weighed down by enough baggage to keep a 747 on the...  

US President Barack Obama has said Europe must not flinch as its political leaders confront a debt crisis that he acknowledged could do real harm to America's economic recovery. In an interview with the newspaper La Stampa on the eve of a White House ...  

As a Christian, I am highly offended by the pharisaical attitude with which the Bible’s various stories and examples are manipulated to push an idea that is transparently against what my Lord is teaching. It is frustrating enough when it is a ...  

Barack Obama sets another record … the most polarizing President ever during a third year in office. How does a polarizing President warrant 4 more years?  According to a recent Gallup poll, Barack Obama is one of the most polarizing Presidents ever. Obama’s 68% polarization gap is the 4th highest rating dating back to the [...]  

There is little doubt that the 2008 Obama campaign was the most sophisticated digital operation in the history of politics.  It is not really close. Given how high the bar has been set, there was a lot of hype surrounding the November release of the 2012 version  www.barackobama.com, which features a responsive design.    Responsive designs [...]  

There have been any number of deep dives into President Barack Obama’s iPod, and we’ve even heard what the First Lady grooves to when she’s doing Pilates. But because he’s progressive, the President has shifted his focus to the streaming ...  

Appearing on Fox News’ Hannity, Sarah Palin reacted in disgust to a clip from Gayle King‘s interview with First Lady Michelle Obama, where she said Americans were “confused” about how much had been accomplished by the President. “Oh, Lord. Oh, Lord — what are we just a bunch of numbskulls out here in the heartland of America?” Palin exclaimed incredulously. “Just a bunch of numbskulls who can’t read the unemployment numbers and see that 5...  

Michigan’s Secretary of State has put President Barack Obama on the Democratic presidential primary ballot, against the wishes of the state Democratic Party. See this story. Also see this story. Thanks to Thomas Jones for one of the links. The second story is more accurate than the first story. The first story erroneously says Obama [...]  

*snip* The reason he'll win? He knows who he is. And the Republican politicians don't know who they are. They've forgotten what they're about, or perhaps like some isolated tribe, they've lost the language necessary to explain it to themselves. Their voters know this and don't really believe them anymore. And that's why Obama will win. And the Republican establishment that seeks to unseat him? Their guy Mitt Romney calls himself a conservative...  

Youths heart Ron Paul. Rich Mormons in Utah are divided over who is the better Mormon running for the GOP nomination. Rich Democrats want Hillary Clinton to primary her boss.   Gov. Gary Johnson scores higher than Ron Paul and Barack Obama on the ACLU's report card.  Iran has sentenced a former U.S. Marine to death for spying.  A pregnant teenager who was deported "accidentally" returns to the U.S. Do you want hot links and other...  

"The supine and gutless Democratic Party, which would have feigned outrage if George W. Bush had put this into law, appears willing, once again, to grant Obama a pass. But I won't. What he has done is unforgivable, unconstitutional and exceedingly dangerous." Of course, those posers who only attack Republicans and "zionists" don't have to worry.  

President Barack Obama's decision to give his "reluctant blessing" to a super PAC supporting him, Priorities USA Action, has created something of a low-grade mess for his campaign team, which has had to spend the past few days fending off ...  

It's the New Year, and even President Barack Obama has resolutions: "President Obama shares his New Year's resolution: doing whatever it takes to move the economy forward and ensure that middle-class families regain the security they've lost in the last decade.".  

President Barack Obama has raised more money for his re-election bid from small-dollar donors than Republican Mitt Romney ... successfully rallying a massive base of online donors through frequent email pitches and solicitations to purchase ...  

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama vowed Thursday the United States will remain the world's pre-eminent military power even as the Pentagon scales back spending, shrinks the Army and Marine Corps and pulls back from Europe. In a rare appearance ...  

Whenever President Obama is in the same room as his teleprompter, expect to hear the class warrior emerge. Mr. Obama's words Tuesday were no exception. In its sneak peak at the president's State of the Union remarks, the White House highlighted Mr. Obama's intention to say we can "either settle ...  

Candidate Barack Obama promised to close the Guantanamo Bay prison. It is still open. Candidate Barack Obama criticized the troop surge in Iraq. President Obama implemented his own troop surge in Afghanistan. Candidate Barack Obama vowed to end what he criticized as Bush Administration offenses against human rights and civil liberties, including extraordinary rendition and targeted assassinations. President Obama has continued both, and even...  

In 2008 I wrote here that the determining factor for choosing to cast my vote for Barack Obama in the Tennessee Democratic primary over Hillary Clinton was the extent to which he could shift away from repeating the conservative talking point that people were angry exclusively at politicians. All I needed was for him to acknowledge the populist point that corporations also deserved blame for the national anguish. I eventually voted for Obama in...  

In my new video I used Obama's racial quote from the recent DNC fundraiser in the first clip in my video. I then used the Jodi Kantor quote on Michelle Obama’s love of the Irish and cut to Obama in Ireland. Then the rest follows, the Rev Wright quote from his book,and the rest of the Obama racial politics. The music is from Adagio for Strings (Platoon) It’s a sad day for America  

Betfair Politics The reaction of punters on the Betfair markets to the overnight victory by just 8 votes in the Republican Iowa caucuses has been twofold: to make Mitt Romney an even tighter favourite for GOP nomination and for more money to be piled on the Democratic party retaining control of the White House in [...]  

Romney was convinced to go for the individual mandate by Democratic economist Jonathan Gruber’s computer modeling. Obama, after savaging Hillary Clinton during the campaign for including a mandate in her plan, briskly switched course ...  

By Barry Rubin A reader asks: Why is Egypt keeping Americans who have been working with pro-democracy NGOs from leaving the country and threatening to put them on trial as criminals? Here’s the answer: 1. The military rulers want to show they cannot be pushed around by the United States. This is, of course, also a big way to muster popularity within Egypt. The resentment of foreign intervention is very high and as I pointed out in a...  

A Chrysler 300C once owned by then Sen. Barack Obama has been listed for sale on eBay. The starting bid is $1 million — 66 times the vehicle's blue book value. President Barack Obama's car is for sale. No, we're not talking about the armored ...  

I'm an 81-year-old Roosevelt Democrat, and if I'm still living and breathing come Election Day, Barack Obama will get my vote. I believe he has done the best possible job considering what he inherited from George W. Bush. I grew up in the town ...  

WASHINGTON -- Hoping to hold the line on President Barack Obama's controversial contraception ruling, which requires most religiously affiliated employers to cover the costs of their employees' birth control, Democrats are ...  

President Barack Obama has proposed cutting six economic government agencies down to just one one, an election-year idea intended to halt bureaucratic nightmares and force Republicans to support him on one of their own favourite issues.  

All of these facts are kept away from you, so that you can continue voting for MURDERERS such as Barack Obama. We all complained about Bush's murderous ways. Obama has outstripped Bush on the "Index of Murdering Leaders." He now ranks NUMBER 1 ...  

Boston.comObama proposes money for math, science educationReutersBy Samson Reiny | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Tuesday proposed $80 million in new government funding for a program to boost science and math education in US schools. Obama, who is running for re-election in November at a time when ...Barack Obama proposes money for math, science educationEconomic Timesall 747 news articles »  

Sean Hannity is worried that Mitt Romney or Newt Gingrich won’t smear President Obama enough. Hannity suggested to each of the Republican candidates last night that they should make sure to bring up President Obama’s “past” and named Bill Ayers and ...  

George Neumayr, at The American Spectator: God has no rights in a culture dominated by fashionable bigots: The secularists of the French Revolution regarded the Roman Catholic Church as the last obstacle to atheism’s final triumph. Blurting this out, the ...  

First, there was the latest campaign speech from President Barack Obama. Is it really necessary to have one's Super Bowl party, a time of good cheer and frivolity, interrupted by the president talking about why we need to re-elect him to another term?  

And a calendar of primaries and caucuses favorable to Romney ... focusing on President Barack Obama. by abandoned homes, where people wonder why Barack Obama failed them. Mr. President, Nevada has had enough of your kind of help," Romney said ...  

Republican presidential candidates Mitt Romney and Ron Paul have better a chance of defeating incumbent President Obama nationally, according to the latest USA Today/Gallup poll results. Ron Paul, who has improved his national acceptability ...  

Last Thursday, President Obama departed from that tradition to claim the endorsement of Jesus for raising taxes. It beat the endorsement of Mitt Romney by Donald Trump. In his remarks, the president quoted Luke 12:48: "From everyone who has been ...  

This endorsement, then, seems to come despite the specifics ... If someone is searching for "Barack Obama," is this a diary they'd be trying to find? Use a person's full name, without any title. Senator Obama may become President Obama, and ...  

And with a calendar of primaries and caucuses favorable to Romney ... focusing on President Barack Obama. "I've walked in Nevada neighborhoods, blighted by abandoned homes, where people wonder why Barack Obama failed them. Mr. President, Nevada ...  

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama continues to "evolve" on the topic of same-sex marriage, his top spokesman said Tuesday, just hours after a federal appellate court ruled that a state's ban on such unions is unconstitutional. White House ...  

Kansas City StarBarack Obama | Homeowners have earned a fair shake from banksKansas City StarBy PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA In my State of the Union Address, I laid out a blueprint for an economy that's built to last — an economy built on American manufacturing, American energy, skills for American workers, and a renewal of American values of ...Missouri paper held Obama piece hitting Romney until after GOP primaryPolitico (blog)all 17 news...  

US President Barack Obama has said he believes he deserves a second term in the White House. His declaration, in an interview with NBC, came as a new poll showed his approval ratings moving past 50% for the first time since May 2011. The ABC News ...  

DENVER – AUGUST 28: A Democratic U.S. Presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) placard is held up on day four of the Democratic National Convention (DNC) at Invesco Field at Mile High August 28, 2008 in Denver, Colorado. U.S. Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL ...  

Is Ron Paul the candidate with the most machismo? There's certainly something about him that appeals to others of the male persuasion. According to a new analysis by the Center for Responsive Politics, approximately 83 percent of the money Paul ...  

Despite John McCain's acceptance of global warming ... It is no wonder, then, that 76 American Nobel laureates publicly supported Barack Obama – nor that there has been a dramatic lightening in mood among my colleagues in New York over the past week.  

GRAND RAPIDS – To celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day, President Barack Obama's Organizing for America campaign is sending out volunteers around Michigan to register people to vote. In Grand Rapids, volunteers will be at the Rapids Central ...  

Lake Jackson - Who says Texas Republican Congressman Ron Paul is unelectable? In a hypothetical matchup, a new survey suggests that the libertarian-leaning representative is in a statistical tie with President Barack Obama. The latest polls show that three ...  

NAIROBI, Kenya -- President Barack Obama's 91-year-old step-grandmother suffered bruises and shock after a car she was traveling in rolled over, a relative and a hospital official said Monday. The relative said Sarah Obama was traveling to her ...  

ScotsmanHillary Clinton to step down as Barack Obama's secretary of stateScotsmanHers was one of the first appointments made by president Barack Obama after he was inaugurated in 2009. She went on to defy critics who said she would use the position to undermine Mr Obama, who beat her to the fiercely-fought 2008 Democratic ...Obama needs Clinton on ticketChicago Sun-TimesHow Hillary Clinton surprised meThe GuardianHillary Clinton dodging...  

Candidate Barack Obama, February 27 2008, Columbus Ohio: We will lead by having the highest standards, by setting an example of human rights and civil rights, due process and rule of law, which is why I will close Guantanamo. I …read more  

I’d guess that this cluster of voters generally has not been supportive of pro-choice generally, and Barack Obama in particular, in recent elections. So he believes that this action will not cost him many votes. Well, the President claims that he has a ...  

New page: FAIRNESS played a central role in Barack Obama's state-of-the-union address, and I suspect it will play a central role in the president's re-election campaign. But what does Mr Obama have ... New pageFAIRNESS played a central role in Barack Obama's state-of-the-union address, and I suspect it will play a central role in the president's re-election campaign. But what does Mr Obama have in mind when he deploys the f-word? It may not be...  

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin said the mainstream media and President Barack Obama “want to face Mitt Romney in the general election.” She made those comments on “Justice With Judge Jeanine” on FOX News on Saturday during the same time the ...  

New page: FAIRNESS played a central role in Barack Obama's state-of-the-union address, and I suspect it will play a central role in the president's re-election campaign. But what does Mr Obama have ... New pageFAIRNESS played a central role in Barack Obama's state-of-the-union address, and I suspect it will play a central role in the president's re-election campaign. But what does Mr Obama have in mind when he deploys the f-word? It may not be...  

In the great tradition of wooing, Barack Obama, our country’s emotionally distant and inscrutable love interest, has made America a mixtape. Does he like like us, or does he just want to be friends? Below, a full investigation. “Got to Get You Into My ...  

At the National Prayer Breakfast last week, seeking theological underpinning for his drive to raise taxes on the rich, President Obama invoked the highest possible authority. His policy, he testified "as a Christian," "coincides with Jesus ...  

There's been a heap of criticism placed upon President Barack Obama's domestic policies that have promoted government intrusion and prolonged our fiscal crisis and his foreign policies that have emboldened our enemies. Any criticism of Obama pales in ... Obama has served on a foundation board, appeared on panels, and even held campaign events in Ayers' home, joined by Ayers' former-fugitive wife, Bernardine Dohrn. Bill Ayers' close association...  

2.) Bill Ayers likes Obama … and Nixon? – During a surreal dinner TheDC had with former Weather Underground terrorists Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn Sunday evening, Ayers suggested that Richard Nixon, whose foreign policy so enraged him ...  

WASHINGTON — The president is a socialist. This myth began with a 2008 campaign stop in Ohio, when then-Sen. Barack Obama was caught on tape telling Joe Wurzelbacher ("Joe the Plumber") that we needed to "spread the wealth around." His Republican ...  

At the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington yesterday, President Barack Obama suggested that his desire to raise taxes on higher-income Americans was rooted in the Bible. 'For me as a Christian, it also coincides with Jesus’s teaching that 'for unto ...  

Michelle Obama might have been one of the few people in the United States who knew President Barack Obama could actually carry a tune before he surprised an Apollo Theater audience this month. In her debut appearance on NBC “The Tonight Show” as first ...  

There are two indisputable facts about politics. The first is that every modern president in the fourth year of his presidency resorts to the cheap political stunts, broken promises and truth-fudging it takes to win reelection in what has been ...  

President Barack Obama will stand before Americans on Tuesday night and draw a contrast between himself and his Republican opponents by offering a vision of a country that that "works for everyone not just a wealthy few".  

In a rare moment of senior-presidential-adviser-to-senior-presidential-adviser telepathy, I overheard the private thoughts of David Axelrod as he prepared to appear on television Tuesday night, following President Barack Obama's State of the ...  

After winning the Iowa caucuses and riding high in New Hampshire polls, Mitt Romney is positioned to become the only non-incumbent would-be presidential in modern history to win the first two nominating contests. He would then move on to South ...  

USA TODAYBarack Obama is losing the American VoteCNN (blog)"preventive services"?....It's called ABSTINENCE, ladies. For those who are married, Natural Family Planning is the healthy option without putting your life in danger from carcinogenic hormonal birth control and from complications of sterilization.Mitt Romney caught in inconsistency in blast at Barack Obama for forcing ...Boston GlobeMore Fallout Over Obama Administration Birth-Control...  

WASHINGTON--U.S. President Barack Obama sought to emphasize his Christian faith on Thursday, telling a key election-year voting bloc that he prays every morning and has crafted elements of his economic policies in line with Jesus' teachings. Obama, who ...  

Burbank - Mitt Romney's unexpected singing on the campaign trail has won him at least one Democratic fan - Michelle Obama. Jay Leno asked the first lady about Romney's musical talent on the Tonight Show on Tuesday, after the Republican ...  

I have nits to pick with a few parts of Jim VandeHei's column "The political transformation of Barack Obama," but I'd rather talk about the way he takes on the whole super PAC issue with startling candor. “You can’t say yesterday you don’t ...  

By 1970, Michelle's family would move to the South Shore portion of ... columnist Al Duckett offered advice to help Civil Rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, who had just delivered his stirring "I Have a Dream" speech the previous August, avoid being ...  

There are two indisputable facts about politics. The first is that every modern president in the fourth year of his presidency resorts to the cheap political stunts, broken promises and truth-fudging it takes to win reelection in what has been and will be ...  

She asked me, "is Barack Obama making good choices ... would smile broadly and talk about the time we went to see him speak locally and how her sister painted a picture of him and mailed it to him and got a letter back. I guess this is a ...  

Problem is, in 2008 the same could have been said of Barack Obama. Indeed, more people voted for Hillary Clinton, John Edwards, Dennis Kucinich and other Democrats combined than voted for Obama alone. So what? A crowded primary field inevitably dilutes ...  

Daily PoliticalObama seeks to broaden reach of housing assistanceAtlanta Journal ConstitutionConceding his earlier housing programs have fallen short, President Barack Obama on Wednesday proposed a vast expansion of government assistance to homeowners, aiming to make lower lending rates a possibility for millions of borrowers who have not been ...Barack Obama proposes $5-10 billion for home refinancingEconomic TimesMortgage Plan Draws...  

Well yesterday Daniel Burke’s article in the Washington Post titled, “Will Mormons’ racial history be a problem for Mitt Romney?” tried to tarnish Romney with the brush of past discrimination in the Mormon priesthood. Burke states that ...  

In 2008, the over-the-top rhetoric from journalists concerning then-candidate Barack Obama was a source of frustration and even humor for former Sen. Hillary Clinton and Sen. John McCain supporters. Who can forget the famous a "thrill goes up my ...  

This is what progress looks like for a president named Barack Hussein Obama ... Thus did Mitt Romney’s victory speech after the New Hampshire primary link Obama to Europe not once or twice but three times. Obama, Romney said, “wants to ...  

Barack Obama gladly took part in the demonstration as 14-year-old Joey Hudy demonstrated just how his "Extreme Marshmallow Cannon" worked. Taking aim across the White House State Dining Room, and not too far from the assembled press, Mr Obama then watched ...  

The Internet was all-a-twitter over the possibility that notorious Obama-hater, Rush Limbaugh, had actually said something nice about Michelle Obama.  The crazy rumor began when Limbaugh made note of a comment by Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels, who said ...  

NAIROBI, Kenya -- President Barack Obama's 91-year-old step-grandmother suffered bruises and shock after a car she was traveling in rolled over, a relative and a hospital official said Monday. The relative said Sarah Obama ...  

President attends White House youth Science Fair Enthralled with 14-year-old's marshmallow gun Internet bowled over by Obama email hoax BARACK Obama has tested a new high-powered prototype for his commander-in-chief's arsenal - a high-powered marshmallow ...  

Washington, Jan 31 (ANI): Barack Obama has beaten Ron Paul in merchandise sales at the merchandise website CafePress, for the first time this election cycle. The site is known for sales of funny and serious T-shirts and other gifts, designed by ...  

Whilst watching the tweets on #MNCaucus results, this one caught my eye: That, Ladies and Gents ... and Michelle Obama might run for office. If your diary covers an election or elected official, use election tags, which are generally the ...  

Barack Obama is a bold, courageous president who has addressed the huge issues facing the American people. He came into the White House in January 2009 under the worst political and economic conditions since the Great Depression—two wars, the loss of 750,000 jobs a month, Wall Street on the verge of collapse, and an inherited trillion-dollar deficit.  In his first two years in office, President Obama secured major legislative victories, the...  

PRESIDENT Barack Obama has confirmed what may just have been the US's worst-kept secret; that it regularly uses unmanned drones to strike at militant targets in Pakistan. Mr Obama addressed the touchy subject - at the core of intense anti-US sentiment in ...  

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama evoked Martin Luther King Jr.'s own words about public service Monday as Obama and his family celebrated the life of the slain civil rights leader with a volunteer project. The president, along with wife Michelle Obama ...  

WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama evoked Martin Luther King Jr.'s own words about public service Monday as Obama and his family celebrated the life of the slain civil rights leader with a volunteer project. The president, along with wife Michelle Obama ...  

President Barack Obama's 2012 State Of The Union Address (NewsOne Live Blog). Written by Kirsten West Savali on January 24, 2012 8:53 pm Click for More · Tweet. Recommend to friends! BlackPlanet · Twitter · Facebook · email ...  

Forget Mitt Romney and Bain Capital. If you want to find the real greedy one percent, you need look no further than Barack Obama. According to tax returns released yesterday, Barack and Michelle Obama earned $1.2 million from 2000 through 2004 ...  

News OneSeriously?! Did Rush Limbaugh Actually Say Something Nice About Michelle Obama?News OneThe Internet was all a-twitter over the possibility that notorious Obama-hater Rush Limbaugh actually had something positive to say about First Lady Michelle Obama. The crazy rumor began when Limbaugh made note of a comment by Indiana Governor Mitch ...Rush: Michelle Obama Wore $2400 Dress to Jobs SpeechNewsMax.comall 3 news articles »  

As a staunch supporter of Barack Obama and an ELCA pastor, I wonder with the height of the elections about to surface would Martin Luther vote for this man who I believe is a champion for those who are struggling to recover from the recession. He has ...  

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama evoked Martin Luther King, Jr.’s own words about public service Monday as Obama and his family celebrated the life of the late civil rights leader with a volunteer project. The president, along with wife Michelle ...  

BARACK Obama says he deserves a second term as US President, despite claiming 10 days after taking office ... The Democrat President, who faces an election in November, told NBC host Matt Lauer in an interview before the 2009 Super Bowl that he had to ...  

Ice-T has predicted that Hillary Clinton will become the first female US President. The rapper-actor discussed the current US political scene in a recent interview with The AP, when he predicted that Clinton will run for the presidency in four years.  

All the factors studied trend negative to neutral for Obama's chances. That means pocketbook voters, who account for about 75 percent of the popular vote, will cast ballots against the incumbent. But unemployment numbers are improving and voters ...  

This piece by Katie Breslin originally ran on the Huffington Post. Katie, the chair of the Trinity Washington University College Democrats, formerly served as the Women’s Caucus chair for the College Democrats of America. Katie serves on the DC Democratic Committee, and blogs on GenwhyPress. 2011 was a tough year for women’s health advocates. It felt like every week was a battle with Republicans across the country to protect the rights...  

SALEM, N.H. ---Four years ago, coming off a big win in Iowa, then-Senator Barack Obama came to New Hampshire confident. He drew huge crowds, forcing supporters to wait hours in the cold to catch a glimpse. His speeches were well received ...  

This story comes from the Yahoo! Contributor Network, where individuals publish their unique perspectives on some of the world’s most popular websites. Obama has quite an extended family in Kenya, thanks to multiple marriages by the men in his family line.