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NEW YORK (AP) — Hollywood loves the Next Big Thing, and four years ago, that was Barack Obama, the equivalent of a breakout movie star.
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“He is `The One,’” said Oprah Winfrey, his biggest and most influential celebrity champion.
“The best candidate I’ve ever seen,” said George Clooney.
Halle Berry said she’d “collect paper cups off the ground to make his pathway clear.” Black
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HONOLULU (AP) — Leaving behind a year of bruising legislative battles, President Barack Obama enters his fourth year in office having calculated that he no longer needs Congress to promote his agenda and may even benefit in his re-election campaign if lawmakers take little action in 2012.
Devoid of any major policy pushes, much of the year will instead focus on the biggest goal of all: winning a second term. The president
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Video of President Obama calling America a “bit lazy” is the new engine behind GOP attacks.
Republican presidential candidates Mitt Romney and Rick Perry both ripped Obama this week for his remarks, which he made during a speech during last week’s Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation conference in Hawaii.
Although Obama was referring to America’s pursuit of foreign investment, his detractors immediately pounced.
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Former smoker President Obama ripped tobacco companies today on “Great American Smokeout Day.”
Obama, who kicked his smoking habit to the curb this year, slammed tobacco companies in a video on the White House website for attempting to ban new graphic warning labels required on cigarette packages.
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“Today some big tobacco companies are trying to block
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Three years ago to the day on November 4th, 2008, Barack Obama was elected the first African American President of the United States.
The day was historic for many not just in the United States, but across the globe as people of African descent rejoiced America turning the page and electing one of its own.
The Democratic candidate was the first African-American to be nominated by a major party tallying 365 electoral votes
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Open your eyes: this is the revolution. Yesterday, the Republican-controlled House of Representatives spent an entire legislative session debating a hollow abortion bill.
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President Obama’s approval rating is at an all-time low as concerns for his re-election grow. With a bad economy and an even worse job market, morale in the “Yes We Can” believers has taken a big hit in the past three years.
Even though there are now more women serving on the Supreme Court than at any point in its history, August’s unemployment rate is at 9.1 percent. Osama Bin
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I’m criticized incessantly at my Factotum-type day gig—well, actually not at the gig, because I’m the HNIC there, but every month we have this thing, a Manager’s call, where bosses from sites around the country phone in and discuss topics.
I dread these things like the Black Death.
Without fail, there’s some nit to pick with my site; this despite the fact that I’m one of the painfully few managers computer literate
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President Obama received some bad news this week: A recent Gallup Poll found that the approval rating for the president has dropped below 40 percent for the first time ever. A full 54 percent of Americans disapprove of the job the president is doing. This revelation puts President Obama into George Bush territory. Bush’s approval rating dropped below 40 percent in early 2006 and never recovered after that.
I would
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Rev. Jesse Jackson called into question President Obama’s toughness this weekend in regards to his handling of the debt ceiling talks.
Obama, who has been criticized by many for compromising with the stalwart Republicans, struck a deal that helped the country avert a financial crisis.
Jackson, who spoke to Politico.com, said that the president is to trusting of Republicans when he shouldn’t be.
“He has a propensity to be trusting, on the side of
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WASHINGTON DC — Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee suggested to members of Congress on Friday that President Obama is being treated unfairly in debt negotiations because of his race.
As Jackson and many members of the Black community see it, Republican’s reluctance to raise the debt ceiling when it has been raised numerous times for other presidents shows the unwarranted flack Obama is receiving.
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Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich took a shot at President Obama calling America’s economic woes, the “Obama Depression,” on Fox and Friends Sunday morning.
Gingrich’s comments come as the president is negotiating a new federal budget with Republicans, and just days after the latest job reports show few signs of economic recovery.
“Housing prices have dropped deeper than in the great depression and it’s very clear that under Obama’s job
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