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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Obama raising taxes, cutting deficit
The Swampby Mark Silva President Barack Obama plans to roll out a blueprint of his 2010 federal budget proposal next week, and the early word on it is that the president will lay out a roadmap for cutting the budget deficit......Tags: The White House, Bill Clinton, David Axelrod, George Bush, National Government
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U.S. diplomacy: Elbows in, but ready
The Swampby Mark Silva Susan Rice, ambassador to the United Nations, says the newest evidence confirms that Iran "remains in pursuit of its nuclear program. :"There's no ambiguity about that, and our aim is to combine enhanced pressures, and indeed the......Tags: High Schools, Heavy Engineering, Basketball, National Government, Government
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Obama's hope: 'Because of what we did'
The Swampby Mark Silva "Because of what we did,'' President Barack Obama says today, things will get better. He says so, repeatedly. So this is as good a time as any to ask if the president's good speechwriting is getting in......Tags: Financial Markets, National Government, Government, Telecommunication Service, U.S. Department of Treasury
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Bank takeovers looming despite WH spin
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Nancy Pelosi, Afghanistan and the U.S.
The Swamp(House Speaker Nancy Pelosi with Afghan President Hamid Karzai at the presidential palace in Kabul. Photo by Zabiullah Tamanna / AP) by Mark Silva and updated House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, arriving in Afghanistan on the heels of the Obama administration's.....Tags: Nancy Pelosi, Wars and Interventions, George Bush, National Security, Defense
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Guantanamo humane, Pentagon finds
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Analysis: Clinton wins points, raises eyebrows with candor during first trip as chief US envoy
Associated Press WriterBEIJING (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton charged through Asia determined to remake America's image abroad, raising eyebrows and a few hackles with charm and candor as she spread the Obama administration's message that change has...Tags: Kim Jong Il, Conservation, Financial Markets, George Bush, Justice and Rights
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Democratic, Republican governors trade barbs over whether to accept stimulus money
WASHINGTON (AP) — To take federal stimulus money for your state or not to take it. That is the big question for Democratic and Republican governors in town for the National Governor's Association meeting this weekend. Democrats claim those...Tags: Montana, Republican Party, Maryland, Mississippi, Executive Branch
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Foreclosures spur neighborhood ghost towns
Tribune reportersThe children who live on West Wilcox Street won't go out at night for fear of 12 vacant graystones that draw criminals to their block. In Rogers Park, a half-empty 39-unit condo building on Farwell Avenue has become a hide-out for squatters and feral...Tags: Interior Policy, National Government, Chicago Lawn, Homes, Government
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Obama aims to cut federal budget deficit in half
Washington BureauWASHINGTON — President Barack Obama will offer a plan this week to cut the federal deficit by half by the end of his first term in office, largely by winding down the war in Iraq and raising taxes on people making more than $250,000 a year, an...Tags: Wars and Interventions, The White House, Bill Clinton, George Bush, Interior Policy
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Scarlett's daughters, Rhett's sons
Letting a single sentence mar an otherwise delightful book is a bit harsh, like dumping your best friend because she botches your Starbucks order (I said soy latte—how could you?), but still: Sometimes, it's the little things, isn't it? There I...Tags: Starbucks Corp., Movies, John McCain, Yale University, Vivien Leigh
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On Iran, begin with the end in mind
and Stanley A. Weiss Only 15 minutes into his term as president, Barack Obama did what his predecessor had refused to do for eight years. He reached out to Iran. By calling for a new approach to the Muslim world based on "mutual respect," Obama signaled...Tags: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, National Security, Defense, National Government, Government
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