JAKARTA, Indonesia — Authorities removed a statue of <strong>Barack Obama</strong> from a park in the Indonesian capital due to a public backlash and moved it Monday to a nearby elementary school that the U.S. president attended as a child
At 26 years old, Joshua Dubois has found himself very close to the President.
President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle are on the cover of the March issue of ESSENCE. They spoke to the mag about education and how they deal with educating First Daughters Sasha and Malia:
When she moved to the nation’s most prestigious address, Michelle Obama’s husband told her that rough times were ahead. The country was in recession, people were out of work, the political parties were in open warfare — and the man who was going to be blamed for it all was President Barack Obama. But you won’t hear the first lady utter a peep of complaint. Watch her interview with Matt Lauer here.
BALTIMORE – In a remarkably sharp face-to-face confrontation, <strong>President Barack Obama</strong> chastised Republican lawmakers Friday for opposing him on taxes, health care and the economic stimulus, while they accused him in turn of brushing off their ideas and driving up the national debt.
WASHINGTON — <strong>President Barack Obama</strong> sent Congress a $3.83 trillion budget on Monday that would pour more money into the fight against high unemployment, boost taxes on the wealthy and freeze spending for a wide swath of government programs.
Five little words — "I forgot he was black" — have exposed a contradiction in the idea of a post-racial nation.
Before the State of the Union Address, I knew that <strong>President Barack Obama</strong> was going to give a great speech, as he always does. I knew he would remind us that he has become the black male <strong>Oprah Winfrey</strong>: The person of color that everyone seems to love.
<strong>Chris Matthew</strong>s made the "mistake" of saying that he forgot the President was Black after last night's State of the Union address. This is coming from an Obama-lover, a fanboy, if you will. I somehow highly doubt that Matthews meant that statement in the way that most critics seem to have taken it...
<strong>Chris Matthews</strong> is definitely going to take some heat for exclaiming that he "forgot Obama was black tonight for an hour... I said wait a minute, he's an African American guy in front of a bunch of other white people."
WASHINGTON — <strong>President Obama</strong> said Wednesday night that leaders in Washington face a “deficit of trust,” as he used his first State of the Union address to try to restore public confidence in his administration and to convince the American people that he is intensely focused on the issues that concern them most: jobs and the economy.
