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 'illegal alien:' Liddy and 'birthers'
The Swampby Mark Silva It's been one of those weeks. A week when the nation was asked to focus on long-sought healthcare reform, a week when a lot of people wanted to talk about President Barack Obama's birthplace. "This whole thing......Tags: Cartoons, Hawaii, Kenya, Government, CNN
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Emanuel: GOP 'honest' about Waterloo
The Swampby Mark Silva The House will press forward with healthcare legislation this month, despite the Senate putting the brakes on any bill until September, Rahm Emanuel, White House chief of staff and a former House leader, said in an interview......Tags: James Inhofe, Democratic Party, Radio, Rahm Emanuel , The White House
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Obama calls cop: Bad 'choice of words'
The Swampby Mark Silva and updated President Barack Obama today placed a personal call to the Cambridge, Mass., police sergeant who arrested Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. last week in a saga which the president had publicly termed a measure......Tags: Racism, Government, Dining and Drinking, Wine, Beer, and Spirits, Minority Groups
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Henry Gates vs. Rush Limbaugh
The Swampby Mark Silva The BlackBerry that Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. was carrying at dinner at a little Italian restaurant on the upper East Side of Manhattan the other night was about to "explode'' when the president started talking......Tags: Rush Limbaugh, Government, FOX, United States, Casino and Gambling Industry
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Obama's Martha's Vineyard lair: 28 acres
The Swampby Mark Silva This just in from Martha's Vineyard: The place where the Obama family plans to spend the last week of August will offer some room to roam on the remote island off the coast of Cape Cod. The......Tags: Newspapers, Swimming, John McCain, Government, Republican Party
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Obama: 'From Chicago... I don't break'
The Swampby Mark Silva President Barack Obama, who went home briefly last night, raised $2 million for his party with a fundraising dinner at the home of business executive and campaign fundraising chief Penny Pritzker and a reception at the Hyatt......Tags: Colorado, Health Insurance, New Jersey, Medicare, Small Businesses
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Obama's police report: Reassessment
The Swampby Peter Wallsten, Peter Nicholas and Richard Simon A day after saying that police "acted stupidly" in arresting a black Harvard University professor in his own home, President Obama appeared to soften his stance Thursday, spreading the blame more...Tags: Harvard University, FBI, Mike Rogers, Racism, Juvenile Delinquency
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Obama on Gates arrest: No regrets
The Swampby Christi Parsons and Mark Silva President Barack Obama, who has stirred some controversy with his comment that Cambridge, Mass., police acted "stupidly'' in the arrest of Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr., does not regret any of his questioned........Tags: The White House, Government, National Government
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Obama's transparency: 'Photo sprays'
The Swampby Mark Silva The toughest question posed at the president's news conference last night -- from our Washington Bureau's Christi Parsons -- drew one of the shortest answers. The question was about "transparency,'' and what has happened to some of......Tags: U.S. Department of Treasury, The White House, Government, National Government, Heads of State
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Obama: 'Comfortable' with vote-delay
The SwampBy Christi Parsons SHAKER HEIGHTS, Ohio -- As lawmakers pushed back a summer deadline for overhauling American health care, President Obama said today that he can live with a new timeline as long as it doesn't mean that work on......Tags: Democratic Party, Upper House, Government, Republican Party, Laws
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Waterloo: 'Nothing personal'
The Swampby Mark Silva Waterloo is a nice little town in Iowa. We were thinking of that the other day, when Sen. Jim DeMint, Republican of South Carolina, suggested that healthcare reform could be President Barack Obama's Waterloo, where the GOP......Tags: Democratic Party, Iowa, South Carolina, The White House, Government
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Senate healthcare: See 'ya in September
The Swampby Mark Silva Maybe there is something, after all, to this business of setting deadlines in Washington. Drop one, and the next day the momentum's gone. The "default'' position in this town, according to the president, is "inertia'' and "inaction."......Tags: Democratic Party, Nancy Pelosi, Ohio, Max Baucus, Upper House
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