"If you can meet with triumph and disaster, and treat those two impostors just the same." | In Kiplian fashion, members of the U.S. House touted an energy bill as 'historic' and economically destructive. After classic drama and stalling maneuvers, the bill eventually passed by a slim 7 votes; with 44 Democrats voting against. Read more...
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06/26/2009 06:00PM
LA Times
Showing clarity of conviction, as well as the courage to act, POTUS Obama, flanked by Nobel laureates and others, signed an Executive Order and Presidential Memorandum reverse U.S. policy on stem cell research.
As could predicted, his actions stirred a firestorm from
Republican quarters, and opponents of embryo stem cells research. One Republican icon acting contrary to this sentiment was Nancy Reagan, who applauded Obama's actions.
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03/09/2009 11:45AM
LA Times
Within this Briefing from the White House can be found actual links to the Executive Order and Presidential Memorandum, that changed the course of U.S. policy on Stem Cell Research.
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03/09/2009 11:20AM
White House
By most accounts, he continued his winning streak of stirring oratorical delivery. Here's the transcript of the speech, so that you might decide for yourself. The video is also featured in the ON archive.
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02/24/2009 12:00PM
White House
(Suggested by Donna Kinsler)
Politicians kept right on politicking down to the last minute, as the Stimulus Bill passed along party lines. In the end, only 3 moderate Republican senators deemed it wise enough to support the measure. (Read More...)
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02/14/2009 04:30AM
Associated Press
Nearly three weeks into his administration, President Obama took to the East Wing to face the press. His focus was of course The Stimulus Plan, and the revitalizing of the economy. Read the entire transcript...
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02/09/2009 03:00PM
Obamanotes.Com
The phone was ringing early in the West Wing today, and it wasn't the former Illinois governor calling either. It was Obama cabinet nominees calling to throw in their towels: Nancy Killefer first, and then stunningly Tom Daschle. Does this fit into the "Change has come to Washington" file?
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02/03/2009 12:00AM
ObamaNotes.Com | Rafiki Cai
A grandmother from Alabama saw her day come, even after being initially rebuffed by the U.S. Supreme Court. Lilly Ledbetter brought suit against her former employer Goodyear Rubber, claiming that she had been discriminated against with the company's unequal pay between male and female employees.
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01/29/2009 10:00AM
Associated Press
On the heels of calling for diplomatic relations with Iran, Obama moved to build his influence in the Middle East; by granting his first interview to an Arab media outlet- Al Arabiya.
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01/27/2009 03:00PM
Al Arabiya
Nobody knows where most of the first $350 billion went, that was earmarked to help banks. Now reports say Pelosi is suggesting that there may be a need for more than the $700 billion already on the table. Say what???
Here's a brief overview of what one finance industry professional thinks is actually happening.
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01/25/2009 12:00PM
Huffingtonpost.Com
President Barack Obama on Friday struck down the Bush administration's ban on giving federal money to international groups that perform abortions or provide abortion information — an inflammatory policy that has bounced in and out of law for the past quarter-century.
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01/23/2009 08:30PM
Associated Press
POTUS signed three Executive Orders and one Presidential Memorandum, delivering on his promise to address the nation's embarassing Guantanamo ordeal.
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01/22/2009 11:30AM
ObamaNotes.Com
Party is over. Let's get to work.
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01/21/2009 01:15PM
ObamaNotes.Com
The text to POTUS 44's Inauguration Address
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01/20/2009 01:00PM
ObamaNotes.Com
Peace in the Middle East looms large amongst challenges facing every U.S. presidency in the last several decades. It has eluded every administration, and shows no signs of significant breakthrough or progress. At the very same time, it is probably an issue of which the public is very aware and yet grossly uninformed. What is the way forward from such an abyss? One heralded peace advocate offers a word on the matter...
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12/29/2008 02:00PM
Uri Avnery
At president Clinton's first inauguration, noted poet Maya Angelou was called on to frame the day with prose. Now Elizabeth Anderson has been tapped to do the same for Barack Obama. In the history of the presidential inauguration ceremony, only four poets have held such a honor. Anderson is a professor at Yale University, and gives heaping credit to the influence of Gwendolyn Brooks on her work.
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12/21/2008 08:00AM
New York Times
Saturday Address for December 20, 2008
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12/20/2008 08:00AM
ObamaNotes.Com
He hit the American scene like a thunderclap, upended our politics, shattered decades of conventional wisdom and overcame centuries of the social pecking order. Understandably, you may be thinking Obama is on the cover for these big and flashy reasons: for ushering the country across a momentous symbolic line, for infusing our democracy with a new intensity of participation, for showing the world and ourselves that our most cherished myth — the one about boundless opportunity — has plenty of juice left in it
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12/17/2008 08:00AM
Time Magazine
President Elect speaks to the economic crisis, and what can be done to address it.
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12/13/2008 08:00AM
ObamaNotes.Com
Originally their were 16,000 of these pioneering members of the United States military: African American men exhibiting valor and devotion in World War II. Now there are only 330 of them remaining, and they're invited to a place of honor during the Inauguration of the 44th president.
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12/10/2008 08:35AM
New York Times
President-Elect's Saturday Address for December 06, 2008
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12/06/2008 08:00AM
ObamaNotes.Com
Race is a live wire. A place where millions of people vest self-identity, social alignment and political empowerment. On one hand its often equated with skin color, and other physical features; but at the same time its associated with ancestral lands. Is race a mere social fact, and thus an evolving thing as a social group (nation) evolves? Or is it something far more permanent and lasting?
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11/30/2008 12:00AM
Washington Post
President-Elect's Thanksgiving/Saturday Address for November 27/29, 2008
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11/27/2008 12:00PM
ObamaNotes.Com
Timothy F. Geithner, Secretary of the Treasury
Lawrence H. Summers, Director of the National Economic Council
Christina D. Romer, Director of the Council of Economic Advisors
Melody C. Barnes, Director of the Domestic Policy Council
Heather A. Higginbottom, Deputy Director of the Domestic Policy Council
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President-Elect's Saturday Address for November 22, 2008
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11/22/2008 09:20AM
ObamaNotes.Com
Gordon Davidson and Corinne McLaughlin
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11/21/2008 07:55PM
Visionary Lead
Its been an edge of the chair issue, complete with principled debate- public versus private education-and spirited appeals by DC officials. The verdict is in. The First Daughters will be going from the University of Chicago Lab School to Sidwell Friends, a prestigious Quaker coed school founded in the late nineteenth century. Interestingly enough, two of Joe Biden's granddaughters age 4 and 10 attend Sidwell.
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11/21/2008 05:25PM
Politico
(Thanks Janice Eatmon for making us aware of this video.)
Bridges for Obama: American supporters of Sen. Barack Obama have been staging rallies abroad at world-famous bridges to show support for the Democratic presidential candidate and his pledge to span old political divisions.
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11/21/2008 04:40PM
Garrison Davis
A bloc of congressman, many of them freshman, showed they take Change serious; by ousting the long time chair of the Energy and Commerce Committee. The closed door vote sent shivers through the halls, and began the Change bell tolling. The dethroned chairman, John Dingell, had reigned for some 27 years. His replacement is Henry A. Waxman from California.
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11/20/2008 10:35PM
Politico
Rick Sanchez interviews one Pastor Mark Hollick, of Wichita Kansas. The pastor hoisted upon the church sign: "America we have a Muslim president. This is sin against the Lord. Exodus 20:3"
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There's a need for a bridge of another sort in Madison County, Idaho, where recently a bus full of 2nd and 3rd graders chanted "Assasinate and Kill Obama". 85% of the county voted for McCain, and the county is considered by some to be the reddest county in the nation. The supertindent of the district in question, believes that a hyperactive media is at the core of the problem.
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11/19/2008 08:35PM
Idahao Statesmen
If you're the leader of Change in the world, then you've got to have your own radar and compass. Those addicted to status quo can not facilitate Change. President-Elect engaged his radar and compass, while fomenting considerable anger, in the handling of turncoat senator Joseph Lieberman. (Interesting note in the first three letters of his name.) While there were many calls for the senator's head, President-Elect decommissioned the guillotine this time around; setting up a first test of his ability to detect and direct with an eye toward Change and the future.
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11/19/2008 10:10AM
Chicago Tribune
Photo montage tribute to Michelle and Barack Obama
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11/19/2008 07:25AM
Donna Loves Wayne
We all know the mania that's been stirred up, by the First Parents making good on a puppy promise to the First Daughters. What we may not be aware of, is the maneuvering being done by prominent DC area animal shelters. One began its bid even before Barack Obama had won the Democratic nomination. The other is even offering to provide puppy training classes at the White House.
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11/18/2008 10:50PM
Washington Post
So maybe Gov. Schwarzenegger's 'scrawny' comments about Barack Obama, during the presidential election, was just political theater after all. The Terminator reached out to the heavy lifting President-Elect, to address a California Climate Summit; where over 800 shaker-movers convened to strengthen a 'path to green'. Said the President-Elect "I promise you this: When I am president, any governor who's willing to promote clean energy will have a partner in the White House."
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11/18/2008 10:40PM
Associated Press
During the most recent 60 Minutes interview, President-Elect is asked about drawing upon the model of the Depression era New Deal. His response was astute. He pointed out that a 21st century reality demands its own solutions, and not a super-imposed golden model from another time. Professor William Jones, of University of Wisconsin, offers some historical insights that can help an Obama administration fashion a New Deal for our time.
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11/17/2008 01:20AM
The Nation
He is amongst the most avid of Blackberry users. It allows him to stay connected to his personal inner circle: friends from college and other stages of his life. However, that 'life line' may not be allowed once he becomes Keeper of The Oval Office. Security and legal matters are the reason why. Nevertheless, its possible he could be the first president to have a laptop on his desk in The Big Office.
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11/16/2008 02:20AM
New York Times
Barack Obama was born on August 4, 1961. Count back nine months from that date, and you're pretty close to the election night of JFK. Hmmm. Could it be, that his progressive parents were swept up in a wave of euphoria and joy, that fateful night? And what of all the couples, who likewise found themselves lifted in spirit on the night of Obama's election?
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Even though its still considered a Saturday Radio address, this is 2008 and this is the first 'tech president'; so the address is made available in video format as well.
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11/15/2008 12:05AM
ObamaNotes.Com
Maybe its a better idea, that as soon as the Nov. 4 election is held the transfer of power happens, and the Inauguration can follow as scheduled. That must be a wide spread sentiment being felt within the Beltway, and even amongst world leaders. Let's turn this page already. Again: why are we waiting 10 whole weeks for the transition to take place. In some ways we're not. The G-20 are meeting in Washington, and Team Obama members will be present; helping to evidence their leader's Day One abilities to lead.
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11/14/2008 10:35PM
Politico
Two intellectuals discuss the world in the age of Obama. On one side, Democrat John McWhorter from the conservative Manhattan Institute, and author of "Losing the Race". On the other side, Dr. Merton P. Stolz professor of the social sciences at Brown University.
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11/14/2008 08:35PM
Blogging Heads TV
(Thank you Lisa Davis Johnnson for this article reference.)
In presidential and heads of state residences all around the world, that is a shadow staff that makes things run. They cook in the kitchen. They clean and serve. Often they offer the common man's wisdom, to the man sitting in the Oval Office. This five page article chronicles the presence of executive staff blacks at 1600, over eight administrations.
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11/14/2008 01:35PM
Washington Post
(Thank you Lisa Davis-John, for suggesting this story.) City of Phoenix, City of Chicago, Dallas Board of Education, DHL, General Motors, New York Times: what does this list share in common? Lay offs. Shedding of jobs. 4,000 of those displaced workers might want to spiffy up their resumes and sharpen up their interviewing skills. In addition, there's an important book they will want to read as well: the Plum Book. Its actually list some 4,000 jobs being vacated by an outgoing Bush administration.
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11/14/2008 12:40AM
Washington Post
The convergence, or conflict, of religion and politics is raising eyebrows; even after the election cycle has come to an end. The voices, and actions, of many U.S. Catholic bishops has been growing in intensity over the last several years; especially over the issue of abortion. One South Carolina bishop has pushed the marker further along....
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11/14/2008 12:30AM
Yahoo News
Though we've not even had the big party yet- the Inauguration, we're still called to 'watch duty'; to pay attention to machinations that are taking place on The Hill, and which will shape the world we live in. Here's a term for your Politulary (Poltical Vocabulary): midnight regulations. That's where one administration pushes through legislation right under the wire, just as they're turning over the keys. Clinton overturned only 9% of H.W.'s midnight regs. Dubyah overturned only 3% of Clinton's. What percentage of Dubyah's will Obama succeed in overturning? Hmmm.
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11/13/2008 06:00PM
Poltico
Obama carried the so called 'big city vote' by 9%. The co-chair of the Obama Transition team now announces, that the Obama White House will include an Office of Urban Policy. Central to its mission would be the coordinating and maximizing of already existing federal programs aimed at aiding cities.
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11/12/2008 07:40AM
ABC News
Many 'religion clouds' were stirred around the Obama presidential campaign, yet rarely did piercing light of facts and reality shine through the controversy. Far more people got hoopla over Rev. Wright, than received clear facts about what faith means to Obama. This 2004 interview is one of the most quoted, and misquoted, sources on the matter. In it Obama puts forth what it means for him to 'believe'.
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11/12/2008 07:30AM
Belief Net
The words of the late Tupac Shakur are ringing in my head: "We ain't meant to survive. Its a set-up, but keep your head up." Looking out over the political climate of America past, one might think the lyric applies to Democratic presidents, of liberal persuasion and from northern states. The last one, before Obama was JFK, elected 48 years ago. What does this say about the political soul of America,...
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11/09/2008 10:45AM
ObamaNotes.Com | Rafiki Cai
Its a tradition that harkens back to FDR's fireside chats, but in recent times was revived by Ronald Reagan. It was an idea that initially met with flat out resistance, until the Mutual Network (Amway) embraced it. Today, President-Elect Barack Obama stepped into the tradition.
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11/08/2008 11:25AM
ObamaNotes.Com
Of course, all eyes were on Chicago; as President-Elect Barack Obama held his first news conference. It convened after his meeting with his star-studded Transition Team Economic Advisory Board. His comments were a mixture of serious points about the economy, and light humor about a reporters arm injury and the now famous First Puppy decision.
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11/07/2008 02:25PM
CNN Politics
