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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Is Obama's Internet security plan Big Brother?
Technology ReporterNearly 12 million Americans have become victims of identity theft in the past two years. Many people don’t trust the Internet because of that fear. Now, President Obama has revealed a plan to keep consumers safe online but will it cost us our...Tags: Government, Crimes, Crime, Law and Justice, Consumers, Theft
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Palin attacks Obama, touts experience
ST. PAUL, Minn. (KWGN)After days of mounting questions about her qualifications to be Vice_President, Governor Sarah Palin shot back at her critics in a speech Wednesday night by touting her small-town values and mocking her harshest critics. She also...Tags: Sarah Palin, Government, Colorado, Ronald Reagan, Elections
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What to Expecting When You're Expecting
Fox 5 San Diego staffI might lose my man card saying this but…Cameron Diaz rarely looks appealing on screen. She was cute and fun in There’s Something About Mary and okay in Vanilla Sky. I can’t think of anything else I’ve liked her in. So, teaming...Tags: Rodrigo Santoro, Garry Marshall, Cameron Diaz, Same-Sex Marriage, Dennis Quaid
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Sing it loud, America
I, too, sing America. So wrote Langston Hughes, the unofficial poet laureate of the Harlem Renaissance. Hughes, whose 65 years spanned the lynch mobs of the early 20th century and the race riots of the mid-1960s, intended a defiant reminder to a...Tags: Abraham Lincoln, Langston Hughes, Jeremiah Wright, Elections, The Miami Herald
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Pastor's plan to get rid of homosexual people goes viral
A video of a North Carolina pastor's sermon goes viral after he preaches his thoughts about gays and lesbians. Pastor Charles Worley explains how to "get rid" of homosexuals by fencing them and electrifying the fence so they can't escape. Worley's...Tags: Same-Sex Marriage
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Lawyers for 3 accused of NATO plot criticize jail isolation
Lawyers for three out-of-state men accused of plotting to firebomb police stations and other political targets during the NATO summit in Chicago complained Tuesday that their clients have been held in solitary confinement in Cook County Jail, calling...
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President Obama to speak at Latino leadership conference at Disney in June
President Barack Obama will be among of the speakers at a Latino leadership conference scheduled for next month at Walt Disney World. The National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials announced this week that the president will address...
Tags: Walt Disney, Government, Public Officials, Orlando, Hilda Solis
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Mail Call - May 23
“There seems to be a problem with the Waynesboro Area school board. In fact-finding, each side submits its information to an independent panel that they have selected. The panel then determines the facts in the dispute. The Waynesboro Area school...Tags: Nursing, Same-Sex Marriage, Baseball, Ronald Reagan, Sports
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America's uneasy 'browning'
White babies are no longer a majority of new births, according to theU.S. Census Bureau. America is quietly "browning," it is said, like dinner rolls in a warm oven. Yet such change does not come about without resistance from those who prefer to remain...
Tags: Government, ABC (tv network), Immigration, Same-Sex Marriage, Arts and Culture
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Post-Americans Elect, a bolder vision needed
The False Equivalency Police are dancing on the grave of Americans Elect, which announced Thursday that it was folding its tent for this year. Some critics claim that the group's failure to attract viable independent candidates proves the entire...Tags: Republican Party, Conservation, Tea Party Movement, Social Security, Politics
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Key regulators learned of JPMorgan loss from media reports
WASHINGTON — The public won't be protected from the type of risky bets that led to the huge trading loss at JPMorgan Chase & Co. until new rules are approved to allow better monitoring of complicated derivatives transactions, two key federal...Tags: Richard Shelby, Robert Menendez, Democratic Party, American International Group, Derivative Securities
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Ken Keaton: Cal Thomas wrong on Obama, gay marriage
I'd like to make a quick correction of Cal Thomas' recent column, President Obama needs to preach from the real Book. Regarding gay marriage, he rejects the very possibility with a quick comment, "Thousands of years of human history have sustained...Tags: Family, Marriage, Lauderhill, Religion and Belief, Same-Sex Marriage
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