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...for the rest of the race. Romney, caught up in a tight contest with a resurgent Newt Gingrich, commented in advance to Obama’s speech. “Tonight will mark another chapter in the misguided policies of the last three years — and the failed leadership of one man,”...
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North Texas Daily
http://www.ntdaily.com/?p=61374
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...That is a lesser rate than many Americans pay because of how investment income is taxed in the United States. In his speech, Obama proposed making millionaires pay more in taxes. He also proposed more relief for homeowners and a crackdown on sending U.S. jobs...
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The Jakarta Post
http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2012/01/25/obama-draws-battle-line-key-speech.html-0
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...-- posing as a populist warrior for the middle class dedicated to a new economy where all Americans get a "fair shake." The speech gives Obama a high profile chance to rebut attacks on his leadership flung by hopefuls in the Republican nominating race: including...
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Channel News Asia
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_world/view/1178853/1/.html
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...which is popular but stupid. He knows full well the priority is to limit carbon emissions. Indeed, many of the themes of Obama’s speech stooped to the prejudices of the electorate. He contrasted the bickering of politics with the unity of the military, which...
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New York Magazine
http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2012/01/obama-delivers-a-campaign-speech.html
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...Mathern said he enjoyed his visit with the president and looks forward to hearing what Obama will say during the speech. Obama will deliver the State of the Union address at 8 p.m. CST Tuesday. He’s expected to lay out his vision for an America where hard...
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Jamestown Sun
http://www.jamestownsun.com/event/article/id/153048/
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...Eric Cantor’s (R-Va) speech at the Michigan League in October, Dirnberger said the group does not plan to protest against Obama’s speech, adding that he was particularly upset with the protests staged during Cantor’s speech. “As a Wolverine, I think we should...
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Michigan Daily
http://www.michigandaily.com/news/students-react-obama-speech-annoucement
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...President's environmental supporters but which could blunt industry and Republican criticism of his energy policies. Mr. Obama's speech is expected to call for increased oil ... President Barack Obama will use his State of the Union speech on Tuesday to call...
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Wall Street Journal
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204624204577179352032306864.html?mod=asia_home
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...president seeking a second term, an election year State of the Union Address is just as much a campaign speech. In fact, President Obama is overdue, since he never gave a speech announcing his decision to seek re-election last April 4th. Mr. Obama plans, in...
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CBS News
http://feeds.cbsnews.com/~r/CBSNewsPCAnswer/~3/XQ81m-JuBTI/
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...the foundation for his re-election campaign. The White House has offered very few policy details about what to expect in Mr. Obama’s speech, but the president’s spokesman Monday said it would focus on four main pillars — energy, manufacturing, skills for American...
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Washington Times
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/jan/23/obama-union-speech-sound-populist-themes/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS
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...ratings among blue-collar workers threatens to cost him the race. In a Jan. 21 video at his campaign site, Obama said the speech would “lay out a blueprint for an American economy that’s built to last … And most importantly, a return to American values of...
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Kaus Files
http://dailycaller.com/2012/01/22/obamas-state-of-the-union-speech-to-tout-manufacturing/
Part 1 www.youtube.com part 2 www.youtube.com part 3 www.youtube.com 14th December 2011 US President Barack Obama has marked the end of the Iraq war with a speech at Fort Bragg in North Carolina. His address paid tribute to the soldiers who served in the conflict - both those who died and veterans who returned home after long tours of duty. "Today we pause to say a prayer to all those families that have lost loved ones - they are part of our broader American family - we grieve with them. "You have shown why the US military is the fighting force in the history of the world," Obama added. Obama speech at Fort Bragg marks end of Iraq war President Barack Obama: "You have shown why the US military is the fighting force in the history of the world" Continue reading the main story Related Stories Drawbacks of US withdrawal 'Iraq will be tested after US goes' Obama announces Iraq withdrawal US President Barack Obama has marked the end of the Iraq war with a speech at Fort Bragg in North Carolina, telling troops, "welcome home!" His address paid tribute to the soldiers who served in the conflict - both those who died and veterans who returned home after long tours of duty. More than 200 soldiers based at Fort Bragg died over the course of the nearly nine-year war. The final US soldiers are expected to leave Iraq within days. The last combat troops departed in August 2010. 'Heads held high' "As your commander in chief and on behalf of a grateful nation, I'm proud to finally say ...
After a difficult decade of war, the President says we stand at a crossroads of history with the chance to move decisively in the direction of peace. September 21, 2011.
8th September, 2011
Wes Benedict, Executive Director of the National Libertarian Party responds to Obama's job speech.
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...office, "Now is the time to jump-start job creation." 'He's run out of options' Beyond the specific policy prescriptions, Obama's speech will also serve as an opening statement of his re-election bid, the success of which may depend on his ability to persuade...
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Minneapolis Star Tribune
http://www.startribune.com/politics/129422158.html
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...Obama's upcoming speech is a total waste of time and money, money we as a s Nation do not have to spare. Story online now states that "debt by the public has now increased 59%" since Obama took Office. Pres Obama's upcoming speech has already been marred...
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Town Hall
http://birdseyeview.blogtownhall.com/2011/09/02/obamas_upcoming_speech_-_a_total_waste_-_seriously.thtml
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...the timing of a speech by Obama">Obama to Congress about those issues to the list. Obama">Obama has asked Congress to convene an extraordinary joint session next Wednesday to hear his much-anticipated proposals to put jobless Americans back to work but Boehner...
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Taiwan News
http://www.taiwannews.com.tw/etn/news_content.php?id=1694721
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...Washington Post is already declaring it, “bad-[tush].“ (Notice that it has gone from “a very specific plan” (Obama’s words) to a speech. While Obama is pledging to “lay out a series of bipartisan proposals,” we’ll see if it ever gets written down, as Obama’s...
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National Review Online
http://www.nationalreview.com/campaign-spot/275999/obamas-big-speech-scheduling-stunt-achieves-what-exactly
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...were underwhelmed. Brendan Buck, a spokesman for House Speaker John Boehner, said via Twitter that Obama">Obama could scrap the speech and just hand over a detailed plan to Congress. "Seriously, just drop it in the mail. Podium not required," Buck's tweet...
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Taiwan News
http://www.taiwannews.com.tw/etn/news_content.php?id=1682246
The President assures Americans that, "we will always be a triple-A country." August 8, 2011.
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...Member of Congress know. If you believe we can solve this problem through compromise, send that message.” Mr. Obama’s 15-minute speech — in which he used the word “compromise” six times — came three days after Mr. Boehner said he was walking away from talks...
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Washington Times
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/jul/25/obama-takes-aim-dysfunctional-government/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS
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...see a similarity to Obama, but not the one Romney wants to invoke. Instead, it’s a call to common purpose that Obama’s best speeches often invoke. Coincidentally, historians are just as likely to attribute Carter’s failure to win re-election in 1980 to the...
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The Nation
http://www.thenation.com/blog/162091/malaise-speech
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...Carter’s talk about a “crisis of confidence” spoke louder about his own beliefs than that of the country. But reading the speech again today, what also strikes me is how similar Carter’s rhetoric sounds to some statements President Obama has made recently. Obama...
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Commentary
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http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2011/07/15/carter%e2%80%99s-malaise-speech-in-the-age-of-obama/
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...on a path to defeat, and we will not relent until the job is done." That, again, echoed Bush. But by the end of the speech, Obama was aiming rather higher. "With confidence in our cause, with faith in our fellow citizens and with hope in our hearts, let us...
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Recordnet.com
http://recordnet.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20110626/A_OPINION0624/106260302/-1/rss01
President Obama, Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, and Assistant to the President for Counterterrorism and Homeland Security John Brennan give a briefing about the security alert issued after suspicious packages were found on cargo planes bound for the United States. October 29, 2010.
The President makes a statement to the media after meeting with House and Senate leaders from both parties on the BP Oil Spill. The President also discusses extending unemployment benefits, passing a financial reform package, and other medium and long-term issues. June 10, 2010.
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Obama to deliver status-check speech on economy By JULIE PACE Associated Press Writer Pablo Martinez Monsivais President Barack Obama speaks in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, June 1, 20010, after meeting with the BP Oil Spill
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KansasCity.com
http://www.kansascity.com/2010/06/02/1986426/obama-to-deliver-status-check.html
President Obama's Graduation speech at University of Michigan on May 01, 2010
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is accepting the world's best-known peace award as a wartime president, an incongruity that he will directly speak to when he receives the Nobel Peace Prize on Thursday, White House officials say.
The president d
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South Florida Sun-Sentinel
http://feeds.sun-sentinel.com/~r/sun-sentinel/news/local/cuba/~3/r1DeUeAP_mw/sns-ap-us-obama-nobel,0,1998214.story
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1 hour ago The text of President Obama's Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech, delivered Thursday in Oslo, Norway, as provided by the White House: Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Distinguished Members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, citizens
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Beltway Blips
http://beltwayblips.dailyradar.com/story/the-associated-press-text-of-obamas-nobel-peace-prize/
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1. "OBAMA'S NOW-LEGENDARY SPEECH"
Keynote address to the Democratic National Convention, delivered in Chicago, IL, on June 27, 2004.
What Obama said: In the 17-minute address that prompted a Philadelphia Daily News story called "Who the Heck is This Gu
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The Week
http://www.theweek.com/article/index/102733/Top_5_Obama_034best_speech_ever034_speeches
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Following is the prepared text of President Obama's speech to Congress on the need to overhaul health care in the United States, as released by the White House. Madame Speaker, Vice President Biden, Members of Congress, and the American people: When I
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Beltway Blips
http://beltwayblips.dailyradar.com/story/text-obamas-health-care-speech-to-congress/
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Overview Obama s Speech Moves Swing Voters to Support Reform With his speech before Congress and the nation tonight, Barack Obama was effective in cutting through the misinformation and partisan bickering over health care and reaching swing voters,
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Beltway Blips
http://beltwayblips.dailyradar.com/story/obama-s-speech-moves-swing-voters-to-support-reform/
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...Research Corp. national poll. Fifty-six percent of people questioned say they had a very positive reaction to President Obama's speech. Sixty-seven percent of people questioned in the survey said they support the health care reform proposals Obama outlined...
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CNN
http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/cnn_latest/~3/fGpfSwavz28/index.html
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...Joe Wilson shouted "You lie!" after Obama had talked about illegal immigrants. It wasn't the only interruption during Obama's speech to a joint session of Congress in the House of Representatives. Earlier, Republicans laughed when Obama acknowledged that there...
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Miami Herald
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics/AP/story/1225874.html
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...Gov. Jon S. Corzine told the gathered media that there was nothing political about the president's speech. He cited Obama's speech as an example of "leadership at its best" and then praised the president for using his speech to set higher expectations in the...
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N.J. Courier-Post Online
http://www.courierpostonline.com/article/20090909/NEWS01/909090338/1006/RSS01
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...standard is for them.” Not all school principals, superintendents or parents in the Houston area were as enthusiastic about Obama's speech. Several school districts decided not to show the speech live. Galena Park, for example, recorded the speech and teachers...
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Houston Chronicle
http://feeds.chron.com/~r/houstonchronicle/local-state/~3/0GXsX2JvItI/6608992.html
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Obama's speech to kids will begin at 9:00 a.m. Pacific time today. Over the past few days, there has been a lot of "Obama speech to kids" frenzy from concerned parents and citizens. Many people think that the premise of the "Obama speech to kids" is to
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Associated Content
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/2151749/obama_speech_to_kids_inspiration_or.html
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ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) -- In a pep talk that kept clear of
politics, President Barack Obama on Tuesday challenged the
nation's students to take pride and ownership in their
education -- and stick with it even if they don't like every
class or must over
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N.J. Courier-Post Online
http://www.courierpostonline.com/article/20090908/NEWS01/90908010/1006/RSS01
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...Mahatma Gandhi. At another point, Obama told the students that "a lot of people are counting on me." Obama proceeded later with the speech the White House had released a day early, virtually unchanged. The school he chose as the setting for his talk — Wakefield...
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Denver Post
http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_13291462?source=rss
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...teachers. Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, a possible contender for the GOP's 2012 presidential nomination, said Sunday that Obama's speech would disrupt an already-hectic first day of school for many students. Education Secretary Arne Duncan, however, noted...
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CNN
http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/cnn_topstories/~3/uLAiPiADsU0/index.html
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...he was informed of the September 11, 2001, attacks on the United States. None of those presidential encounters with school children caused as much of a stir as the Obama speech. - AFP 'It's not focused on education but on the worship of Barack Obama'...
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Independent Online
http://www.iol.co.za/widgets/rss_redirect.php?artid=nw20090906095612123C785975&setid=1§id=79&url=iol&vne=0&csect=News
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...who was hired by the Republican administration of Gov. James Douglas this year, said there isn't anything nefarious in Obama's speech, which he said will be an inspiring message about working hard and staying in school. "I've read highlights of the speech,"...
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Rutland Herald
http://www.rutlandherald.com/article/20090905/NEWS04/909050359/1004/NEWS03
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...of the presidential pep talk. Twenty-two of the 1,594 respondents said they did not know. The controversy surrounding Obama's speech grew Friday as critics voiced concerns about potential political agendas, while supporters wondered what's wrong with the president...
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Hampton Roads Daily Press
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/hrdailypress/news/~3/nKeFThukQhU/dp-local_bts-obamaspeech_0905sep05,0,45058.story
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...including George H.W. Bush in 1991, have given similar speeches directly to students. But some Dallas-area parents said Obama's speech amounts to partisan propaganda. "It's not a policy speech," Vietor said on Wednesday. "It's a speech designed to encourage...
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WFAA
http://www.wfaa.com/sharedcontent/dws/wfaa/latestnews/stories/wfaa090903_lj_revision.144f7880c.html
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...children watch. Similar flaps to the one in Anchorage are occurring across the country as some parents are calling the Obama speech an attempt at partisan propaganda by the president. Comeau said she was taken aback at some of the comments she has received...
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Anchorage Daily News
http://www.adn.com/news/education/story/921752.html
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The Obama school speech doesn't premiere for five more days, and yet the Obama school speech has angered many. The Obama school speech hasn't even been read yet, but opponents are busy calling it another march to socialism. President Obama is planning
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Associated Content
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/2137343/obama_school_speech_attacked_before.html
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...to view the speech ahead of time." Highlands Ranch parent Shanneen Barron, in an e-mail to The Denver Post, wondered why Obama's speech is OK for the classroom when the Bible is not. "I believe in the Bible and I believe it has educational value," she wrote,...
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Denver Post
http://www.denverpost.com/ci_13257516?source=rss
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...that But doRITE Worries me that Grassley and ... Sen. Charles Grassley (R-IA) twitters on Obama's White House remarks: Obama speech on healthCareReform Absolutely nothing new Waste of time saying we are going to get that done Baucus and I know that But...
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Beltway Blips
http://beltwayblips.dailyradar.com/story/twitter_chuckgrassley_obama_speech_on_healthcare/
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...everyone from Bill Cosby to John McWhorter would approve. Politically astute old head Papa Snob made the observation that if Obama's speech to the NAACP could only be given by a black man (re: If "President" John McCain had told them "we can fix our schools,"...
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The Black Snob
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheBlackSnob/~3/tBV3EHTytt0/barack-obamas-speech-to-the-naacp-video.html
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