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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Sarah Palin? 'Nope, nope,' Rush Limbaugh
The Swampby Mark Silva If a picture is worth 1,000 "I hope he fails,'' a commercial works too. Americans United for Change, the union-backed Democratic organization that already has been having some ad-fun with the opposition, offers a new ad for......Tags: Sarah Palin, Television Industry, Republican Party, Michael Steele, Parties and Movements
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Twitters in Congress: 'Got it. Thx.'
The Swampby James Oliphant John McCain has started Twittering. No, that's not a neurological disorder. He's fine. For a candidate famously mocked last year for not being able to use a computer, the man seems to have decided to ride the......Tags: Earl Blumenauer, Depression, Montana, Government, Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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Michelle Obama: Arlington, for women
The Swampby Mark Silva First Lady Michelle Obama has made the rounds of federal agencies since her husband's inauguration as president delivering words of thanks and encouragement. Today, she will do something similar, at Arlington National Cemetery. The fiirst...Tags: The White House, Defense, Michelle Obama, Government, Death and Dying
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Obama: Stock 'gyrations' wrong indicator
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Jeb Bush at Obama's Education Dep't
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Obama overrides Bush on species
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Obama: 150,000 road jobs: 'Shovel ready'
The Swampby Mark Silva President Barack Obama claimed today that 150,000 jobs will be created or saved by the end of next year with the road-building provisions of the $787-billion economic stimulus that he signed. "We are seeing shovels hit the......Tags: Transportation, The White House, Economy, Road Transportation, Automotive Equipment
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McCain: GOP lost 'big-time,' must rally
The Swampby Mark Silva Sen. John McCain, the 2008 Republican presidential nominee, says his party has lost two elections in a row - "big-time'' - and it's time to rally anew. On the spat that radio's Rush Limbaugh has stirred with......Tags: Corruption, The White House, Alaska, Corporate Crime, John McCain
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Limbaugh vs. Obama: So who won?
The Swampby Mark Silva Has the dust settled enough from the dust-up over Radio Rush Limbaugh's "I want Barack Obama to fail'' saga to determine who won? In what the New York Daily News dubbed "an elephant-on-elephant slapfest,'' have either the......Tags: Nancy Pelosi, Chuck (tv program), The White House, The Colbert Report (tv program), Rahm Emanuel
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Bobby Jindal: Obama 'greatest' speaker
The Swampby Mark Silva Bobby Jindal, the Louisiana governor who suffered no end of ribbing for his response to President Barack Obama's address to Congress last week, admits, flat out, that Obama is a better speaker. "Let's be clear, the president......Tags: Sarah Palin, Regional Authority, Medical Services, Alaska, Bobby Jindal
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Emanuel's earmarks: 'Why not?' - House
The Swampby Mark Silva President Barack Obama is likely to sign that $410-billion "omnibus spending bill'' laden with the "earmarks'' that the new president says he is determined to block from now on - so says Rahm Emanuel, the president's chief......Tags: Diseases, Palatine, Northwestern University, Union Pacific Corporation, Franklin Park
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Clinton: U.S. overture to Iran 'doubtful'
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