ok and they would read together and discuss writers into the night. Like Alexandra McNear, Genevieve Cook was attracted by the “mental exhilaration” of his intellect, marveling at how mature he was at 22, but dismayed by his remoteness and wariness about commitment. Needless to say, Barack Obama was as self-obsessed as ever. When Genevieve Cook told him that she loved him, Barack Obama’s response…
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Edward Klein’s book, The Amateur, claims that Michelle Obama prepared divorce papers to separate from Barack Obama in 2000 following his disastrous attempt to win a House seat in Chicago. When Barack Obama lost miserably, the future First Lady was supposedly disgusted that her husband had ignored her warnings not to take on the four term incumbent Bobby Rush. Their marriage – in its eighth…
2012 Election: voting results so far Alabama (9 electoral votes) Mitt Romney 61% (1,245,221 votes) Barack Obama 38% (787,027 votes) Alaska (3 electoral votes) Mitt Romney 55% (120,329 votes) Barack Obama 41% (90,743 votes) Arizona (11 electoral votes) Mitt Romney 55% (896,302 votes) Barack Obama 43% (707,744 votes) Arkansas (6 electoral votes) Mitt Romney 60% (631,244 votes) Barack Obama 37% (38…
2012 President Obama State of the Union Barack Obama's State of the Union address 2012 Here is the Speech…. according to the New York Times…but not on….. are many other issues that effect the American People…yesterday, today & tomorrow ……that were not addressed in the speech at all…….as there are so many problems around us it is hard…
…the US debt, as well as immigration. Barack Obama received a boost from former Secretary of State Colin Powell, who endorsed President Obama on Thursday. Colin Powell, who also backed Barack Obama in 2008, cited recent improvements in the economy and the president’s guidance of the US military as reasons for his renewed support. “I also saw the president get us out of one war, start t…
A tape has emerged on the eve of the presidential debate of President Barack Obama making controversial “race” remarks about the government’s response in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Speaking to an audience of predominantly black ministers at Hampton University in 2007, Barack Obama said that the response to Katrina was lacklustre because “the people down in New Orleans, they don’t care ab…
the United States Argentina: 83 % Obama, 17 % Romney Austria: 93 % Obama, 7 % Romney Belgium: 93 % Obama, 7 % Romney Brazil: 90 % Obama, 10 % Romney Canada: 83 % Obama, 17 % Romney Chile: 80 % Obama, 20 % Romney China: 48 % Obama, 52 % Romney Colombia: 77 % Obama, 23 % Romney Costa Rica: 83 % Obama, 17 % Romney Finland: 93 % Obama, 7 % Romney France: 88 % Obama, 12 % Romney Germany: 92 % Obama, 8…
It was an embarrassing start for President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign yesterday as he held his first political rally of the 2012 race in a half-empty arena. With First Lady dressed head to toe in campaign colors at his side, Barack Obama targeted swing states Ohio and Virginia that are critical for his bid to remain in the White House. Barack Obama formally launched his Chicago-bas…
During a televised interview last week First Lady Michelle Obama accidentally called herself a single mother. Michelle Obama was talking about healthy foods as part of her ongoing Let’s Move! initiative and made the slip when she was discussing how the demands of raising a family can leave little time for nutritious cooking in a CBS interview. First Lady Michelle Obama accidentally called…
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President Barack Obama celebrated his 51st birthday today with a round of golf and plans for a weekend away at Camp David, taking a break from campaigning three months before Election Day. Barack Obama played golf with a group of friends and aides at Andrews Air Force Base before heading to the presidential getaway in Maryland’s Catoctin Mountains. But, before Barack Obama escaped to begin…
George Obama, US President Barack Obama’s half-brother, is making his film debut in a documentary where he talks about his non-existent relationship with his relative who is the most powerful man in the world. George Obama, 30, lives in Nairobi, Kenya and first came into the public eye in 2008 when his half-brother was a rising presidential candidate. At the time, he was living in a hut in…
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…better president, vowing: “I will return to the White House more determined and inspired than ever.” In a speech that saw a return to the soaring rhetoric he has become known for since his election in 2008, Barack Obama said he had “listened and learned’ from the American people during his campaign. With his voice going hoarse at times, he said that “progress comes in fits and starts” and the road…
…da, Ohio and Colorado on Sunday, the penultimate day of canvassing. Mitt Romney, meanwhile, is heading to New Hampshire, Iowa and Colorado on Saturday – three states that his opponent carried in 2008. The wealthy former businessman finishes his weekend tour with stops in Iowa, Ohio and Pennsylvania on Sunday. Correspondents say the fate of the election boils down to what happens in a small h…
…Barack Obama has also made some factual errors during his time in the job – although he is still a very long way behind his gaff-prone predecessor. But now it has emerged that Barack Obama was among a 1981 intake of transfers to New York’s Columbia University that was at the time branded one of the worst ever. The president, who moved from Occidental Community College in Los Angeles, was among 67…
ng in a Las Vegas park, Barack Obama spoke to a raucous gathering of some 13,000 – more than twice the number his opponent Mitt Romney had attracted a few days earlier but a far cry from the crowds of 2008 when he was swept into office with a seven-point victory over Senator John McCain. With his own star power fading somewhat, Barack Obama had enlisted the help of teen heartthrob Katy Perry to si…
y of Colorado who used economic data and unemployment figures from each state to predict a Republican win come November. Political science professors Kenneth Bickers and Michael Berry’s study predicts 218 electoral votes for Barack Obama and 320 for Mitt Romney with the Republican candidate winning every seat currently considered to be on the fence. The prediction model uses economic data from all…
…;set a goal for Afghan forces to be in the lead for combat operations across the country next year”. NATO has already committed to withdrawing from combat operations in Afghanistan by the end of 2014. “I will not keep Americans in harm’s way a single day longer than is absolutely required for our national security,” Barack Obama said. “But we must finish the job we st…
Barack Obama made a new attempt on Friday to shore up the youth vote with a live interview on MTV. President Barack Obama sat down at the White House with anchor Sway Calloway and delivered a careful pitch based around youth-friendly topics such as climate change, college tuition and gay marriage. He also opened up about his personal life, revealing that he has banned his daughter from using Face…
arly 1990s. A later biography, which can still be found on Acton & Dystel’s archives, reads: “Barack Obama is the junior Democratic senator from Illinois and was the dynamic keynote speaker at the 2004 Democratic National Convention. “He was also the first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review. He was born in Kenya to an American anthropologist and a Kenyan finance minister and…
…cause we love this country deeply and we care so strongly about its future,” said Barack Obama. During his widely praised concession speech the former Massachusetts governor lost the race after nearly 17 months of fighting, including a prolonged primary race against rivals like Newt Gingrich, Michelle Bachmann, Herman Cain and the eventual runner-up Rick Santorum. The Republican said that he and h…
…bama has made an impassioned speech backing her husband, President Barack Obama, for another four-year White House term In a speech roundly welcomed by a hyped-up crowd, she shared memories from their 23-year relationship, and noted that she had found a “kindred spirit” in a man whose values were similar to hers. “Barack and I were both raised by families who didn’t have mu…
…one pundit with links to the billionaire even suggested that he was set to unearth divorce papers between Barack Obama and his wife Michelle. However, the man himself tweeted: “All predictions re: my 12 o’clock release are totally incorrect. Stay tuned!” – and some may be disappointed by the relatively tame nature of the announcement. Donald Trump set the hare running on Monday by cla…
President Barack Obama today signaled he would push for tight gun control in the wake of the massacre of 26 at an elementary school in Connecticut, saying there had been “too many” mass shootings in America. During a moving appearance, the president said the time had come to “take meaningful action to prevent more tragedies like this, regardless of the politics”. Barack Obama struggled for words,…
The odds appear to be stacking up against Mitt Romney winning the 2012 presidential election on Tuesday. Among political journalists, campaign reporters and most pollsters, there’s a congealing conventional wisdom that President Barack Obama is about to be re-elected. On Sunday, new national polls from Pew put Barack Obama up three, and NBC/Wall Street Journal, which gave him a one-point ad…
As 2012 comes to a close, Barack Obama has pulled together a collection of his favorite pictures for the year and posted them to the White House Facebook page for America to enjoy. Many of the images of the world’s most photographed man were taken at campaign rallies. Others were shot during down time, when the President and First Lady, Michelle Obama, could take a breather from their exhau…
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