president barack obama

President Barack Obama was elected the 44th President of the United States on November 4, 2008, succeeding President George Bush.

Born in Hawaii on August 4, 1961, he attended Harvard Law School where he became the first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review. He later became a state senator in Illinois, and went on to serve as a US Senator for the same state in 2004.

His presidency is considered historically significant for several reasons.

He is the first African American president, with an African father from Kenya and Caucasian American mother. He raised record amounts of money from small donations, mainly through the internet, on his own social media site, also leveraging Twitter, and Facebook. Because of this success, the use of social media in Obama's campaign has become a topic of study for those wishing to leverage the technology for promotional purposes, much in the way business blogging became a topic of discussion eight years ago as a result of political blogging.

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• President Obama’s Weekly Address

  
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  On this Memorial Day weekend, President Obama takes time to honor the men and women who gave their lives in service to this country. President Obama’s Weekly Address:
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  NEWTON, Iowa — President Barack Obama urged Congress on Thursday to extend tax credits for clean energy companies the White House says are responsible for some 37,000 jobs. On his way back from a fundraising and campaigning tour in California, Obama stopped in the Midwestern state of Iowa, which he hopes to win over ...
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  David Letterman includes this hilarious and snarky video in Wednesday nights monologue.
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• Lowey, small-businessowners back Obama tax proposal

  
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  Small businesses could get a 10 percent tax credit for new hires and continue to receive authorization for expensing 100 percent of their investments, according to a plan proposed by President Barack Obama and championed at Captain Lawrence Brewing in Elmsford today by Democratic U.S. Rep. Nita Lowey and business ...
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• Lowey, small-businessowners back Obama tax proposal

  
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  Small businesses could get a 10 percent tax credit for new hires and continue to receive authorization for expensing 100 percent of their investments, according to a plan proposed by President Barack Obama and championed at Captain Lawrence Brewing in Elmsford today by Democratic U.S. Rep. Nita Lowey and business ...
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• Obama picks new U.S. nuclear chief

  
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  WASHINGTON — US President Barack Obama on Thursday nominated a new chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, after the former head Gregory Jaczko resigned after months of personnel controversy. Obama picked Allison Macfarlane, an academic expert on nuclear power who is currently a professor at George Mason ...
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• White House Website Gone Wild

  
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• Its true! Americans want conviction, not appeasement

  
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• Colin Powell Schools Hannity On ‘Obama is Divisive’ Tripe (VIDEO)

  
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  Sometimes it takes a little shock therapy to bring people around, or at least shut them up, and that’s what Colin Powell did during his appearance on Fox News Tuesday night. I think it was probably Hannity’s intention to guilt Powell into saying he’d made a mistake endorsing President Obama in 2008, but Powell ...
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• Barack Obama: The Spending King

  
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• Book Industry Event Aims to Raise Funds for Obama

  
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• President Obama Remains Distant from Wisconsin Labor Fight

  
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• Obama’s Gay Marriage Position Now Favorable with Blacks Says Poll

  
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• “Truth, Justice And The American Way” Under Attack By Romney’s Mouth

  
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