Topic: Barack Obama

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The Poker Presidents

Aside from their times as American presidents, there are few things connecting Ulysses Grant, Dwight Eisenhower, Richard Nixon, FDR, and Barack Obama. The game lured Grant into bankruptcy, enabled Eisenhower to date, gave FDR a little calm before plunging into the Second ...

Subject Warren Harding

Bo, the Obama's First Pooch, has a legacy to live up to in Laddie Boy, the family pet of President Harding January 22, 2009 | By Diane Tedeschi .
A good friend of mine, a Democratic mayor here in California, describes the Obama administration as " The key rule of Chicago politics is delivering the spoils to supporters, and Obama's stimulus program essentially fills this prescription. People forget that Obama, even ...
Last year, when Barack Obama appointed his chief Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton, as secretary of state, the media widely reported that his decision had been influenced by reading Team of Rivals, a Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Abraham Lincoln that emphasized the way ...

Clinton wishes he had left White House "in a coffin"

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Former U.S. President Bill Clinton said on Monday he would have preferred to leave the White House in a coffin because he loved being commander in chief, but signaled his political life was over. Or defeated in an election," ...

Can Obama Measure Up to Lincoln

The article reports on the claims by Caroline E. Janney, an assistant professor of history at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, that the connections between U.S. Presidents Barack Obama and Abraham Lincoln define Obama's image today. She adds that Obama has ...

Obama: racism not 'overriding issue' in criticism

US President Barack Obama doesn't think racism is an " That's not the overriding issue here," Obama insisted in an excerpt of an interview to be broadcast on the CNN show "State of the Union. "The US leader, in a bid to ...
Overlooked East Room long has served as the most important all-purpose roomSure, the West Wing gets the glory. And has been for more than two centuries.Consider that in President Barack Obama's first two months in office, this was just a slice of ...

Obamas New Deal

The article reports on the U.S. progressive political movement and its support for U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama. The article suggests that progressive activists see an opportunity for increasing the role of government in solving social problems such as health care and ...