Barack Obama was elected president on Nov. 4, 2008, becoming the first African-American to claim the highest office in the land, an improbable candidate fulfilling a once-impossible dream. Obama's Inauguration took place in Washington, D.C. on Jan. 20, 2009.
A nation that in living memory struggled violently over racial equality will have as its next president a 47-year-old, one-term U.S. senator born of a Kenyan father and Kansan mother. He is the first president elected from Chicago and the first to rise from a career in Illinois politics since Abraham Lincoln emerged from frontier obscurity to lead the nation through the Civil War and the abolition of slavery.
Obama's re...
A nation that in living memory struggled violently over racial equality will have as its next president a 47-year-old, one-term U.S. senator born of a Kenyan father and Kansan mother. He is the first president elected from Chicago and the first to rise from a career in Illinois politics since Abraham Lincoln emerged from frontier obscurity to lead the nation through the Civil War and the abolition of slavery.
Obama's re...
Barack Obama was elected president on Nov. 4, 2008, becoming the first African-American to claim the highest office in the land, an improbable candidate fulfilling a once-impossible dream. Obama's Inauguration took place in Washington, D.C. on Jan. 20, 2009.
A nation that in living memory struggled violently over racial equality will have as its next president a 47-year-old, one-term U.S. senator born of a Kenyan father and Kansan mother. He is the first president elected from Chicago and the first to rise from a career in Illinois politics since Abraham Lincoln emerged from frontier obscurity to lead the nation through the Civil War and the abolition of slavery.
Obama's resounding victory over Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) repudiates an unpopular incumbent and an ongoing war, shifts national leadership to a new generation and provides dramatic proof to the world of the American ideal of opportunity for all.
Obama was born Aug. 4, 1961, in Hawaii. He graduated from Columbia University in 1983 with a political science degree, and he entered Harvard Law School in 1988. Obama published an autobiography in 1995--"Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance". He was elected to the Illinois State Senate in 1996. In 2000, Obama ran for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives, but lost to incumbent Bobby Rush.
In 2004, Obama won the Democratic primary for the U.S. Senate. That summer, he delivered the keynote speech at the 2004 Democratic National Convention. His opponent in the senate race was supposed to Jack Ryan. However, Ryan withdrew from the race amid sexual allegations by his ex-wife. Alan Keyes replaced Ryan on the ballot, and in the general election, Obama won easily, grabbing 70 percent of the vote.
A nation that in living memory struggled violently over racial equality will have as its next president a 47-year-old, one-term U.S. senator born of a Kenyan father and Kansan mother. He is the first president elected from Chicago and the first to rise from a career in Illinois politics since Abraham Lincoln emerged from frontier obscurity to lead the nation through the Civil War and the abolition of slavery.
Obama's resounding victory over Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) repudiates an unpopular incumbent and an ongoing war, shifts national leadership to a new generation and provides dramatic proof to the world of the American ideal of opportunity for all.
Obama was born Aug. 4, 1961, in Hawaii. He graduated from Columbia University in 1983 with a political science degree, and he entered Harvard Law School in 1988. Obama published an autobiography in 1995--"Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance". He was elected to the Illinois State Senate in 1996. In 2000, Obama ran for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives, but lost to incumbent Bobby Rush.
In 2004, Obama won the Democratic primary for the U.S. Senate. That summer, he delivered the keynote speech at the 2004 Democratic National Convention. His opponent in the senate race was supposed to Jack Ryan. However, Ryan withdrew from the race amid sexual allegations by his ex-wife. Alan Keyes replaced Ryan on the ballot, and in the general election, Obama won easily, grabbing 70 percent of the vote.
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Your tax dollars as wall art
The Swampby Frank James Here's something I have to put in the why-didn't-I-know-about-this-before now? category. Graphic designer Jess Bachman has had a beautiful poster depicting the 2009 federal budget available for public consumption since last year. (He...Tags: Martha Stewart, Microsoft Corp., National Government, George Bush, Government
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Clinton: 'Bridge over troubled waters'
The Swampby Mark Silva Bill Clinton says Barack Obama is "off to a good start.'' Clinton, who left his successor with a federal budget surplus, offers George W. Bush's successor high marks for winning a $787-billion economic stimulus one month in......Tags: National Government, George Bush, Government, NBC, Bill Clinton
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Denver pleased Obama is coming
The Swampby Mark Silva The Denver Post reports that Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter is happy about President Barack Obama returning to Denver, scene of the Democratic National Convention that nominated Obama for the presidency, to sign the $787-billion economic...Tags: National Government, Colorado, Denver, Government, Democratic National Conventions
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Congress 'dysfunctional,' Bernstein says
The Swampby Mark Silva What do President Barack Obama, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Sen. John McCain have in common? Fed up with the dysfunction of Congress, suggests Carl Bernstein, author of A Woman in Charge (and co-pilot of the......Tags: Richard Nixon, National Government, Hillary Clinton, Government, John McCain
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Obama: Wheels-up from Chicago
The Swampby John McCormick President Barack Obama departed O'Hare International Airport at 10 a.m. CST today, ending his first visit to Chicago as the nation's chief executive. Air Force One took off to the west on a chilly, but sunny President's......Tags: Daniel Burnham, The White House, Family, Air Transportation Industry, Air and Space Accidents
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Obama's road-rally: Denver, Phoenix
The Swampby Peter Nicholas President Barack Obama is venturing out of the White House today for a Western swing that will see him sign into law the $787 billion stimulus package and roll out a plan meant to keep struggling families......Tags: Bankruptcy, California, Foreclosures, George Bush, The White House
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Car czar without a crown: Auto-pilot
The Swampby Mark Silva So he's not a "car czar.'' Just Auto Otto. Or Truck Chuck. Whatever you want to call Ron Bloom, a key adviser to President Barack Obama's new automotive industry task force, he has a resume as big......Tags: Vehicles, Chrysler, United Air Lines, The White House, Timothy Geithner
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Obama-anxiety: Liberal allies wondering
The Swampby Peter Wallsten Slowly over the past few weeks, some of President Barack Obama's most fervent supporters have come to an unhappy realization: The candidate who they thought was squarely on their side in policy fights is now a president......Tags: Justice and Rights, Agricultural Research and Technology, Unions, Labor Legislation, Symptoms
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White House: 'Suffocating' if cloistered
The Swampby Mark Silva The college kids - okay, men and women - trying to sleep in this morning along Woodlawn Avenue on the South Side of Chicago were rudely awakened by the bullhorns of police calling on everyone to get......Tags: Texas, David Axelrod, National Basketball Association, National Government, The White House
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Obama: 'I'm an optimist, not a sap'
The Swamp(Pundits interview President Obama aboard Air Force One. From left to right, E.J. Dionne, Washington Post; Bob Herbert, NY Times; Ron Brownstein, National Journal; the president, Jennifer Psaki, a White House staffer, Kathleen Parker, Washington Post...Tags: Boeing Co., Lyndon B. Johnson, Newspapers, Super Bowl, The White House
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Obama's Denver signing; 'Good as any'
The Swampby Mark Silva President Barack Obama will fly to Denver, the place where he accepted the Democratic Party's nomination last summer, to sign the "American Recovery and Reinvestment Act'' into law on Tuesday. It's "as good'' a place "as any"......Tags: Arlen Specter, The White House, New Hampshire, Democratic Party, Olympia Snowe
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Stimulus exec pay caps roil Wall Street
The Swampby James Oliphant An effort to curb executive pay at the nation's most troubled banks, inserted at the last minute into Congress' mammoth economic stimulus bill, has sparked an outcry from financial services groups and others who warn the caps......Tags: Financial Services, Corporate Officers, Citigroup Incorporated, California, The White House
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