Tag: Barack Obama
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THE OBAMAS TO UNVEIL THEIR OFFICIAL WHITE HOUSE PORTRAITS THIS FALL
Barack and Michelle Obama will soon return to the White House for a time-honored tradition that cements their place in history — and according to an official, their portraits are “extraordinary” Former President Barack Obama and former First Lady Michelle Obama arrive to President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration on Jan. 20 at the U.S. Capitol More…
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BEYONCÉ, BURNA BOY, KENDRICK LAMAR MAKE BARACK OBAMA’S SUMMER PLAYLIST
Former U.S. President Barack Obama (44) released his 2022 summer playlist featuring an eclectic group of artists that includes Beyoncé, Burna Boy and Kendrick Lamar. “Every year, I get excited to share my summer playlist because I learn about so many new artists from your replies—it’s an example of how music really can bring us all together,”…
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TRUMP ENDS OBAMA’S 12-YEAR RUN AS MOST ADMIRED MAN
President Trump has ended former President Obama’s 12-year run as the most admired man in America, edging out his predecessor in the annual Gallup survey released Tuesday. Eighteen percent of the survey’s respondents named Trump as their most admired man, compared to 15 percent who named Obama and 6 percent who named President-elect Joe Biden.…
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OBAMA URGES VOTERS TO SHOW UP FOR BIDEN
Former President Barack Obama blasted President Donald Trump’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic, his response to racial unrest and his fundamental unfitness for the job in his first in-person campaign pitch Wednesday for Joe Biden, his former vice president. With less than two weeks until Election Day, Obama delivered a sweeping condemnation of Trump while…
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OBAMA PRAISES YOUNG PROTESTERS, URGES MAYORS TO PURSUE POLICE REFORMS
Former President Barack Obama called on all mayors to review their use-of-force policies and commit to policing reform in a virtual town hall Wednesday hosted by the Obama Foundation’s My Brothers Keepers Alliance. Obama has addressed the killing of George Floyd and the nationwide protests that followed on social media and in a Medium post, but this…
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OBAMA PUTS OUT GUIDELINES TO ‘GET TO WORK’
As millions of people across the country take to the streets and raise their voices in response to the killing of George Floyd and the ongoing problem of unequal justice, many people have reached out asking how we can sustain momentum to bring about real change. Ultimately, it’s going to be up to a new…
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OBAMA RELEASES STATEMENT ON GEORGE FLOYD
Former President Barack Obama offered a consoling message and a collective call to action in a statement released Friday afternoon. Obama posted the statement on Facebook and Twitter shortly after noon, addressing the death of George Floyd at the hands of police and the subsequent protests and civil unrest in Minneapolis. “It’s natural to wish…
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OBAMA RETURNS TO CAMPAIGN TRAIL
Marking an impassioned return to the campaign trail, former President Barack Obama made a plea Thursday night to Virginia voters to vote for Democratic candidates in the state’s first elections to be held since last year’s presidential contest. “Folks don’t feel good right now about what they see.” – Barack Obama Obama was stumping for…
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SCHOOL NAMED AFTER JEFFERSON DAVIS RENAMED FOR BARACK OBAMA
An elementary school in Mississippi is changing its name from Davis Magnet International Baccalaureate Elementary — after Jefferson Davis — to the Barack Obama Magnet International Baccalaureate Elementary. PTA president Janelle Jefferson said Obama was the “number one choice among students. Jake McGraw, public policy coordinator of the University of Mississippi’s Institute for Racial Reconciliation,…
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TRUMP FALSELY CLAIMS OBAMA DIDN’T CALL FAMILIES OF FALLEN SOLDIERS
Earlier today, President Trump falsely suggested that he is one of few commanders-in-chief to pick up the phone and call the families of soldiers who made the ultimate sacrifice and wrongly singled out former President Barack Obama as one who never did so. “The traditional way if you look at President Obama and other presidents,…
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OBAMA PICKS HIP-HOP PORTRAITIST TO PAINT OFFICIAL PORTRAIT
Former President Barack Obama has made another inspired choice, He has selected hip-hop portraitist Kehinde Wiley to paint his official presidential portrait. Wiley is known for his larger-than-life portraits that infuse black street culture with European aesthetics. Wiley has painted LL Cool J, LL Cool J in the style of John Singer Sargent, Ice T…
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DONALD TRUMP TAKING HEALTH CARE FROM POOR TO SPITE BARACK OBAMA
This past week Donald Trump continued on a path to get rid of Obamacare despite numerous failed attempts. On Thursday he announced that he would end the federal subsidies to health insurance companies that make healthcare affordable to millions of low-income Americans. A White House press release referred to these subsidies as “bailouts”. These aren’t…
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BARACK AND MICHELLE OBAMA “DISGUSTED” BY HARVEY WEINSTEIN REPORTS
On Tuesday after a slew of actresses including Gwyneth Paltrow and Angelina Jolie came out and shared their encounters with Harvey Weinstein, former President Barack Obama issued a statement about the mogul and Democratic party donor. “Michelle and I have been disgusted by the recent reports about Harvey Weinstein,” Obama said in the statement, which was released two…
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DONALD TRUMP’S OBAMACARE SABOTAGE IS STARTING TO PISS OFF REPUBLICANS
Republican lawmakers and state officials have grown increasingly frustrated with the Trump administration as it holds some states’ health insurance exchanges hostage over the future of the Affordable Care Act. In Iowa, some lawmakers have accused the president of playing politics, while others are frantically trying to convince him to drop his opposition to a…
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HIS COUNTRY NEEDS HIM AGAIN
Not much ties together the incoherent ideology of Donald Trump, but one signal is all too clear through the noise: If Barack Obama did it, Trump is obsessively determined to expunge it―never mind whether the policy is good or bad, and never mind how the policy comports with Trump’s other goals. Expunging Obama and his…
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