...Barack Obama tonight will take his health reform plan before a joint session of Congress and before a live televised audience. Do you plan to watch? And would you be willing to share your opini...
...from Afghanistan is an early voice in what soon may be many as U.S. public opinion turns against the war. For President Obama, it's getting to be quagmire time. Like President Johnson in Vietna...
...I'll tell you why Barack Obama said what he did. When he was asked last week about the racially-charged arrest of Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates, the president could have -- and as a poli...
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...States was just $36 billion in 2008, the same amount as with Poland, and investment has lagged that of European competitors. Obama, who praised Medvedev as straightforward and professional, sai...
...roles in the September 11, 2001 terrorist strikes, including the plot's self-proclaimed mastermind, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. Obama's decision would come as Republicans have fiercely assailed hi...
...homes and be able to feed their families." Watch diners in Las Vegas discuss Obama's performance in White House » Asked to give Obama a grade at the 100-day mark, Goodman was for the most par...
...of the Long & Foster Companies which includes Long & Foster Real Estate and its Affiliated Businesses including Mortgage, Title, Insurance, and Home Service Connections. Stevens joined the Long...
"We have a potential crisis of even greater dimensions than we already saw," Obama said as he held the first talks of his presidency with the UN secretary general in the Oval Office. "I impressed ...
...and ordering the closing of the Guantanamo detention camp within a year, government official said." The closure EO is titled: "Executive Order -- Review and Disposition of Individuals Detained ...
...the historically fanciful (inherited bitterness toward the British over the Mau Mau uprising) to the dismissively patronising (Obama is simply amateurish and inexperienced at dealing with forei...
... Bulgaria news Novinite.com (Sofia News Agency - www.sofianewsagency.com) is unique with being a real time news provider in English that informs its readers about the latest Bulgarian news. The...
...Refer to a friend DURANGO, Colorado (AP) - A Colorado man accused of threatening to kill President Barack Obama and blow up a suburban Minneapolis mall has pleaded not guilty. Twenty-year-old ...
...-- their Obama worship is based on his charisma and/or his race, not vicious partisanship. And some Bush haters do not worship Obama, finding him insufficiently left-wing. These folks may not b...
...No, he doesn't. Armisen is Japanese, Venezuelan & German. He is diversity. I think he does OK as Obama. It's just that Obama hasn't shown any traits that can be reduced to a comedy caricature....
...would risk the safety of U.S. troops remaining behind to train Iraqis and fight al-Qaida or cause backsliding in Iraqi stability. Obama wants to shift the Pentagon's focus so that troubled Afgh...
...and hope that any ambiguity is due to the fact that this order was done on day one in record time. We are confident that President Obama understands that indefinite detention without trial must...
...The song also appeared on a special music compilation CD, Yes We Can: Voices of a Grassroots Movement, a benefit project for the Obama campaign. While on the campaign trail, President-to-be O...
...Blue Book value is around $13,500, said Donald Moore, the general manager of Rosenthal Chrysler and Jeep in Arlington, Va. Moore estimated that Obama bought the car for about $32,000. He sold i...
...BERLIN: Barack Obama's wax doppelganger has already taken office in Berlin â five days before the real-life Obama takes over in Washington. Standing between German Chancellor Angela Merkel an...
...President-elect Barack Obama faces a conundrum: He likely has to relinquish his coveted BlackBerry as part of his taking office on January 20. But as recently as last week he made it clear, onc...
...President-elect Barack Obama [Images] has named Leon Panetta, a former White House Chief of Staff, to head the Central Intelligence Agency and retired admiral Dennis Blair as the director of th...
DOBBS FERRY, N.Y., Dec. 31 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following is a statement by John McAuliff, executive director of the Fund for Reconciliation and Development, a non-governmental organizat...
...integrity and asked that the corruption allegations not "taint this good and honest man." "The people of Illinois are entitled to have two United States senators represent them in Washington D....
...the nation's first Christmas in 1776. In a message also recorded on video and posted online at the transition team's website, Obama, who officially succeeds Bush when he is sworn in on Jan. 20,...
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... Authorities recover the body of a Texas A&M University student from Conroe missing since a boating accident on Richland Chambers Lake. Electricity customers across the Houston area will soon...
...two weeks ago by applicants who delayed filing their claims during the Thanksgiving holiday week. Blank expressed confidence in Obama's recovery plan, but added, "There are no guarantees with...
...advertising guidelines. The group announced Tuesday it updated its code of conduct, but multiple groups at the meeting with the Obama transition team said that behavioral tracking and targeting...
...because of an inability to raise money. He endorsed Clinton and campaigned actively for her in the long primary campaign against Obama. After Obama defeated Clinton, Vilsack endorsed him. First...
WASHINGTON Criticizing the White House directly for the first time since November's election, President-elect Barack Obama yesterday accused President Bush of not doing enough to stem the nation's...
...Day by day, name by name, President-elect Barack Obama's Cabinet is taking shape, and other top jobs are being filled. A look at who has made the list and who is being talked about for jobs tha...
WASHINGTON President-elect Barack Obama has named a team of high-profile executives and fundraisers to oversee his inauguration and imposed limits on who can contribute to it and how much they can...
... President-elect Barack Obama says bold action is needed to "jolt" the economy and save millions of jobs. He's urging Congress to pass a major job creating stimulus bill. He also named key lead...
...said one Obama aide, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the details of the Obama package have not been fleshed out. Obama could delay any tax increase to 2011, when current Bush admini...
...assembled an economic team with the vision and expertise to stabilise our economy, create jobs, and get America back on track," Obama said. "Even as we face great economic challenges, we know t...
...OBAMA'S PHONE RECORDS HAVE BEEN BREACHED ON A PHONE HE NO LONGER USES!!! Call in the National Guard! The FBI! The CIA!!! The media in America is a BIG FAT JOKE. first breached....then impeech...
...supporting basic research and science education that will benefit the public good long after he leaves office. It's clear Mr. Obama is comfortable with technology. He made good use of the Inte...
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) - An American conservative Washington D.C.-based think tank Heritage Foundation's Asian Studies Center Director Walter Lohman and the US-Taiwan Business Council President Rupe...
The 209-page paperback, officially titled "The United States Government Policy and Supporting Positions," is exciting reading for people coveting jobs in the incoming Obama administration. It deta...
...days after the election, two Iraqi insurgent groups posted separate Internet messages reported by SITE calling on Obama to withdraw troops from Iraq. Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, self-styled head of t...
TAMPA -- Inside a converted cigar factory in the heart of Ybor City, a group of Barack Obama staffers hunch over their laptops in intense, nearly silent concentration. This is the nerve center of ...
CHICAGO -- Barack Obama is signaling a shift in tactics and temperament as he moves from candidate to president-elect, picking sharp-elbowed Washington insiders for top posts. His choice Thursday...
...offered the post of chief-of-staff. This will also be America's first wartime presidential transition in four decades Mr Obama is next expected to appoint a treasury secretary to tackle ...
...Although Hawaii Sen. Daniel Inouye says he doubts President-elect Barack Obama would cut the military, a new briefing paper indicates that Obamas transition team is considering doing just that ...
During the election Barack Obama promised to bring stability to the region through creative diplomacy. That means America talking to its enemies, an end to the Bush policy of ostracising certain s...
...prices fell after Obama's win. The two-year note's price traded down 3/32 for a yield of 1,44%. The dollar advanced following Obama's election, recovering some of the prior days losses that saw...
...founders is alive in our time, who still questions the power of our democracy, tonight is your answer. US President-elect Barack Obama speaking to thousands of supporters in Chicago once it bec...
...Mr. Obama's opponent, Republican John McCain, called his newly anointed successor at 11:12 p.m., less than 15 minutes after Mr. Obama was announced the election winner by the Associated Press. ...
...a registered independent, said he voted for President George W. Bush four years ago. But this time he said he cast his vote for Obama. Why? The last four years of Bush, he replied. Even though ...
...John McCain laid out most of their agenda before the government committed up to $700 billion to address the financial crisis. Obama acknowledges what is true for both: "The next president will ...
...right hand to his forehead, his sober expression seemed at odds with the confident gleam in the eyes of his advisers. While Mr. Obama smiles less than he once did, gauging his mood simply by lo...
...just locked up tight in the dark bathroom stalls of the wingnut psyche, until Sarah Serendipity came along with the key. I hope Obama uses his awesome invincible hypnosis powers to convince Con...
..."infomercial." McCain should be so lucky as to have such a infomercial behind his candidacy. With coffers overflowing, Obama spent about $100,000 a minute in prime time over CBS, Fox, NBC an...
...killing spree that included decapitations and the ultimate goal of assassinating Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, according to a federal complaint unsealed Monday. Two men - Dani...
...campaigns to use supporters' PC computers to make calls reaching thousands or even millions of voters. Anderson noted "Obama's $1-billion election campaign has bought nearly every last second o...
...of money and enthusiastic young people," he said. In Virginia, which has been trending Democratic in recent statewide elections, Obama has also made a heavy push. "No one who knows this state t...
BARACK Obama and John McCain will fight a weekend duel over states won in 2004 by President George W Bush, a sure sign of the Democrat's edge heading into the last week of the White House race. A ...
Terrorist strikes on four American cities. Russia rolling into Eastern Europe. Israel hit by a nuclear bomb. Gay marriage in every state. The end of the Boy Scouts. All are plausible scenarios if ...
...the ballot, said Brent Littlefield of the American Conservative Union. He cited Obamas tax Its a philosophical concept (Obama) has, and he made it clear when, unprompted, he talked about spre...
...sampling error is plus or minus five percentage points for all adults and voters. Among the voters who said their opinion of Mr. Obama had improved, many cited his debate performance, saying th...
...gratitude. He will use, but not misuse, the anointment from on high. Finally, if all todays currents running in his favor continue, Obama will become the national leader that Colin Powell could...
...talk of all you list, and that they should focus on winning the election. But let me tell you, as someone working for/with the Obama campaign: we are. "at" the margins, not "tat." Which comment...
...the world, Sikh communities are celebrating the tercentenary of the Guruship of Sri Guru Granth Sahib," Senator Obama said. The message has been posted in media websites here. "Sri Guru Granth ...
...lower quality care. I don't think that's right. In fact, it ain't right." McCain senior policy adviser Doug Holtz-Eakin said Mr. Obama's criticism was false and "an attempt to simply scare Amer...
...given the opportunity to hold this nation's most powerful office, he will prove it wasn't so audacious after all. We are proud to add Barack Obama's name to Lincoln's in the list of people the ...
...Vote Early, Rock Late concert on Fountain Square today to support Barack Obama has become a royal event. Actress Natalie Portman, best known for playing Queen Amidala in the most recent "Star W...
...I think the change is whatever the individual might believe it is," he said. The most recent Quinnipiac University poll showed Obama with a double-digit lead after surveys a few weeks ago indic...
...say. People who read this also read ... While some observers automatically shave a point or two off of the poll numbers of Obama, a black U.S. senator from Illinois, to account for hidden raci...
...his white opponent in the polls by seven points on election eve. 1223749846324-smh.com.auhttp://www.smh.com.au/news/us-election/obamas-race-lurks-just-below-radar/2008/10/12/1223749846324.htmls...
...new opinion in the United States gives the Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama a 6 per cent lead over his Republican rival John McCain. The poll shows 49 per cent support Senator Oba...
...emotions are likely to be repeated in their millions on election day. If black turnout is high enough, the final piece in the Obama camp's jigsaw will fit into place. It is not over yet. Not ev...
...out in support of Barack Obama in the race for the presidency of the USA. The respected clergyman said:"I am so excited about Obama. All the world should be. He is a voice for people who haven'...
...as it's 44th president and the future of western civilization, as we now know it. Governor Palin went after Barack Obama with both barrels taking on the erstwhile community organi...
...Brokaw. McCain's plane landed in Nashville on Monday night, and he prepared for the debate before checking into a local hotel. Obama is expected to arrive in town sometime Tuesday afternoon. Ne...
The desserts are made on site every day, said Manager Diane Cervantes. A logo is scanned on to very thin sheets of icing, which are then affixed to the cupcakes and cookies. The design is made of ...
That's an interesting perspective from places I've only read and heard about, thanks. It also puts in perspective emanations from these institutions. Coupled with the grading changes in such place...
...felt this was a direct slap in the face of the union because they were trying to coerce our people into saying things against Barck Obama." "Consol doesn't let anybody on their property - never...
...isn't bad, as American popular publications go. Obama is educated and he is civilized, unlike the current President or Obama's opponents.  The endorsement, of course, ignores the question ...
...in the debate over the proposal. Obama spokesman Bill Burton criticized the McCain campaign's "angry and hyper-partisan" rhetoric. Obama addressed a rally in a Denver suburb less than an hour a...
...is losing it, watch his face during the debate, he looks lost. Of course Obama is messing up, when McCain talked about earmarks, Obama never hit him on Palin Everybody knows tactics are short t...
...debate will find Mississippi changed - and not: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/311/story/52871.html Virginia is in play for Obama, but McCain scores there too: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/election20...
...has exploited anti-American sentiments in Latin America partly because the United States is "obsessed with Iraq," Sen. Barack Obama said in an interview with the same Miami radio station that c...
...of Marriage Act, which denies federal recognition of same-sex marriages and gives states the right to refuse to recognize such marriages. Obama said he's not sure the 1996 law would be overturn...
Washington - John McCain and Barack Obama said on Saturday they will put aside partisan politics for a joint appearance at ground zero to mark the seventh anniversary of the September 11 attacks. ...
Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama, who once pledged to compete in every U.S. state, has shifted his thinking. Now, he'll pick and choose where to spend time and money in his race agains...
*Twenty-four hours after Barack Obama electrified thousands of people at Denver's Invesco Field and millions worldwide while accepting the Democratic Party's nomination for President, supporter Me...
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama begins airing an ad Saturday that responds to rival John McCain's selection of a running mate, carefully avoiding any direct criticism of Sarah Palin...
Passions fly on immigration, but I don't know anyone who benefits when a mother is separated from her infant child or an employer undercuts American wages by hiring illegal workers. So let us agre...
U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton and Michelle Obama made their first joint appearance Tuesday in Denver, commemorating the anniversary of women's suffrage. Clinton, the former first lady who lost the De...
DENVER (AP) _ Barack Obama is striking back fiercely and swiftly to stamp out an ad that's running in Ohio and elsewhere that links him to a 1960s radical, eager to demonstrate a far more aggressi...
The RNC's independent expenditure arm is going on the air with their second ad of the cycle, resurrecting one of Hillary Clinton's sharpest critiques of Barack Obama from the primary. It's part o...
Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., right, waves to the crowd as he is introduced while attending a baseball game between the Arizona Diamondbacks and the Florida Marlins ...
SPRINGFIELD, Illinois, (AFP) - Barack Obama unveiled veteran Senate colleague Joseph Biden as his White House running mate, calling him an all-American leader as Biden lost no time in furiously ba...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton is praising Barack Obama's choice of Senator Joseph Biden to be the Illinois Democrat's running mate. In a statement, Clinton calls Biden "an exce...
*The Fox News Channel announced it will air documentaries on Barack Obama and John McCain that will explore the character, lives and actions of each presidential candidate. Â Â Â Â Â Â According ...
Scarlett Johansson 'embarrassed' By Obama Emails.... Hollywood actress Scarlett Johansson has branded the furore surrounding her email communications with U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama ...
Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama has said rival John McCain was pushing the same energy as Vice President Dick Cheney. Cheney is a former oil company executive and his low approval r...
Likely presidential nominee Barack Obama has asked the Democratic Party to grant Florida and Michigan delegates a full vote at the convention, officials say. Democratic National Committee official...
LONDON: Barack Obama, who hopes to become the first Black-American President, may be ahead of Republican candidate John McCann in some opinion polls, but when it comes to figure, he is far behind....
The Nation has an open letter to Sen. Barack Obama and is asking his supporters to sign it. The letter, Change We Can Believe In, seeks to hold Obama accountable to the positions he's endorsed whi...
WASHINGTON: Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama on Saturday called rival John McCain's campaign cynical, but said he did not believe comments by the candidate and his aides were based o...
Moscow has vehemently opposed the U.S. missile plans as a threat to its national security and the international nuclear deterrence system. Washington says the shield is needed to counter a possibl...
Barack Obama has denied that he intends to do anything but end the war if he wins the White House, attempting to put an end to speculation that he is inching away from a promise to withdraw combat...
Source: New York Times In the wake of Senator Barack Obamas decision last month to bypass public financing for the general election, his campaign is embarking on a spree of pricey fund-raising eve...
Presumptive Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama plans to visit the Middle East and Europe this summer, taking time off from campaigning in the United States. Obama's campaign said he wi...
Barack Obama stopped by Walter Reed Army Medical Center Saturday to visit wounded war veterans, a group that he has said endures substandard care under the Bush administration. Democratic presiden...
TEL AVIV | Sen. Barack Obama's recent efforts to woo American Jewish voters by staking out pro-Israeli positions seem to have fallen on deaf ears in the Jewish state, according to a poll published...
WASHINGTON (AP) Barack Obama has won over more than half of Hillary Rodham Clinton's former supporters, according to an Associated Press-Yahoo News poll that finds party loyalty trumping hard feel...
WASHINGTON Former rivals Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton plan to campaign together Friday in the small New Hampshire town of Unity, their first joint appearance meant to ease tensions over...
With gasoline prices averaging USD 4.13 a gallon last week, US consumers are feeling the economic pinch at the pump. Public-opinion polls show US consumers favouring more development of domestic r...
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) - Barack Obama says that presidential rival John McCain's proposal to allow offshore drilling will not lower gas prices for families "this year, next year, five years from ...
From NBC's Lauren Appelbaum While talking to a group of Jewish voters in Boca Raton, New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg called on those in attendance to defend Obama against a "whisper campaign" that t...
Bill O'Reilly went from Baracknaphobia to homophobia during his weekly segment with Bernie Goldberg and Jane Hall, 6/19/08. He devoted one half of the segment to analyzing the positive media respo...
Apparently Obama has discovered that his vast network of donors is special, but not an interest. My guess is that none of Obama's supporters will care, and that the various media outlets, such a...
Marilyn Authenreith, a mother of two in North Carolina, felt strongly about supporting Hillary Rodham Clinton in the Democratic presidential primary. Once the former first lady quit the race, Auth...
Campaigning in Pennsylvania, a key battleground in the fall campaign, Obama said he would take a much more hands-on approach than would Republican John McCain. He again criticized McCain's proposa...
same CV, alternately with a male name and a female name. Usually, the male is perceived as a better fit for executive posts - even among well-meaning people who are against gender discrimination, ...
Who will Barack Obama choose for his running mate? D.C. insider Jim Johnson was going to be one of the gang that was on the presumptive presidential nominee's vice presidential search committee ...
According to AOL news, Jim Johnson resigned Wednesday over criticism about his personal loan deals. He was a manager of Barack Obamas vice presidential search team. Johnson received loans with the...
An alert reader wrote in just a little while ago to let us know about something he'd spotted on Fox News Wednesday afternoon. During a segment discussing conservative attacks against Michelle Obam...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Jim Johnson, a manager of Democrat Barack Obama's vice presidential search team, resigned Wednesday amid criticism over his personal loan deals. "Jim did not want to distract in...
This will be interesting... I think religious issues are Obama's weak point, right? Could there be outreach to the evangelical vote in the works? http://midwestmoms.blogspot.com Great, Chicago pas...
Kansas Insurance Commissioner Sandy Praeger shared some thoughts last week on the presidential candidates’ health reform proposals.“The Democratic proposals call for individual manda...
He is the author of a well-regarded and much-debate piece for the Center for American Progress arguing that some efforts to pressure Wal-Mart into changing its business practices wind up hurting l...
The race for the Democratic presidential nomination may be over and Barack Obama may be its winner. But the Clinton family drama goes on. Early this week, as the final primaries took place and the...
WASHINGTON -- Barack Obama stands alone at last among Democrats seeking the White House, strongly endorsed by former rival Hillary Rodham Clinton but still facing the ponderous challenge of wooing...
With Senator Schumer's endorsement yesterday, Senator Obama is consolidating his support among Democratic officials in New York after a long, bruising presidential primary in which he defeated the...
Hillary Clinton will be a force in helping Barack Obama's campaign for the U.S. presidency, a key member of her campaign said Sunday. Howard Wolfson, who was the New York senator's campaign comm...
Sen. John McCain should exhort any supporter who votes for him merely because his opponent is black to stay home, because his racism makes him unworthy of American citizenship. And I challenge Sen...
Shortly after shelving the campaign and forcefully endorsed 46-year-old Obama, a message appeared on Clinton's campaign website on Saturday night asking her supporters to back the African-American...
"I'm sure Hillary's cussing Obama out to Bill and Chelsea as we speak," she said. If he does not offer the vice-presidential position to Mrs. Clinton, "I'm going to be really angry," said Alida Bl...
...Republican nominee-in-waiting, John McCain but the statement included no further details of the pair's talks. Robert Gibbs, an Obama spokesman, would not say where the former rivals met, except...
...from the bottom up, more clearly recognized the political paradigm shift as we entered a new American century. Moreover, Mr. Obama?s most strategic observation was that Americans at many levels...
...faces a lot of serious international challenges, but doesn't see them as primarily driven by menacing and implacable foes. Obama thinks that a combination of visionary leadership and shrewd bar...
U.S. Senators Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton face each other later Tuesday in the last two statewide primaries to determine the Democratic Party's presidential candidate for the November general...
WASHINGTON Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton bargained and bickered through intermediaries Saturday over the fate of 368 convention delegates from Florida and Michigan, a lingering dispute t...
...then out of nowhere came, 'Hey, I'm Barack Obama,' and she said, 'Oh, damn! Where did you come from? I'm white! I'm entitled! There's a black man stealing my show!'" "She wasn't the only one cr...
...High School in suburban Milwaukee. He said Obama can't fully appreciate the challenges American troops face if he doesn't visit. Obama said Wednesday he is considering a visit to Iraq this summ...
...get 67 per cent of the vote - while McCain would receive only six per cent. In Britain, a modest 49 per cent would vote for Obama, while 14 per cent would back McCain. Another 13 per cent of B...
...to a memo released to reporters from his primary care physician, Obama's health has been "excellent" and overall in "good physical and mental health needed to maintain the resiliency required i...
...NEW YORK: Democratic presidential front-runner Barack Obama is considering visiting American troops in Iraq this summer but has declined an invitation from presumptive Republican candidate John...
...fund-raisers that take place in public spaces to a pool reporter." Obama and McCain each put limits on what the public is entitled to know about their fund-raising events. In contrast to McCain...
...taking office, though sometimes he shortens it to 11 months. Obama spokesman Bill Burton declined to respond directly to McCain, saying only: "Senator Obama thinks Memorial Day is a day to hon...
WASHINGTON - Anti-war Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain, a strong backer of the Iraq conflict, were reaching out to veterans on Monday, the country's Memorial Day holiday, as the p...
...may disagree as Americans on certain issues and positions, but I believe we can be unified in service to a greater good," Obama said. "I intend to make it a cause of my presidency, and I believ...
...and sensible by comparison. Plus, just think of the Hillary vs. Michelle VP debates. Catfight for the ages! An important plus for Obama is that he can, with Michelle, stop some of the "Hillary ...
...to increase benefits in conjunction with a veteran's length of service. Senate Democrats blocked that measure. "While Barack Obama engages in the same tired partisan politics that has failed ou...
...dream. Maybe the energy of those deferred dreams has somehow powered the momentum of the unique candidacy of Barack Hussein Obama or the recent installation of Torrence Boon as CEO of DaVinci ...
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