Writer challenges critics of Obama's style
Washington, Nov. 4 (UPI) -- One of the architects of President Obama's historic 2008 campaign win said saying Obama governs as an incrementalist instead of a visionary is preposterous. Former campaign manager David Plouffe told USA Today if Congress passes healthcare and energy reforms, "that story line will go away," "There's nothing incremental" about either initiative, he said in an interview with the newspaper published Wednesday. Plouffe's new book, "The Audacity to Win," was released...

Barack Obama Names Alan Moore Official White House Biographer: PHOTO
WASHINGTON—At a press conference Monday, President Obama announced that he had appointed legendary comic book writer Alan Moore as the...

Barack Obama Has Lost the Midas Touch … NJ & VA Gov Races go Republican … Democrats in Trouble in 2010
  Barack Obama gets same result in New Jersey and Virginia Governor races

"Obama, Obama, you're either with them, or with us!": PHOTO
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'Obama, Obama, either with us or with them': PHOTO
That is not the chant I expected to hear today from Tehran. The Iranian opposition is continuing its very clever tactic of co-opting state-sanctioned protest events and turning them into anti-government Protests. Today is the 30th anniversary of the takeover of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, and so opponents of the government joined in, and mixed in some “death to the dictator” chants along with the usual “death to the USA.” But, as several outlets have noted, and as the...

WaPo: Elections not a referendum on Obama, but …: PHOTO
The newspaper that tried mightily to sink Republican Bob McDonnell over a college thesis says today that his stomping of Creigh Deeds has nothing to do with the man living in the big White House over the northern border of Virginia.

'Change has come' ... or has it?
In the year since he was elected president , Barack Obama has revealed himself as one of the boldest leaders to occupy the Oval Office in the modern era. In that same year, Obama also has revealed himself to be an innately self-protective, constantly calibrating and, in some surprising ways, supremely conventional politician. So who is Barack Obama ? The drama of this presidency — in sharp relief with Wednesday’s one-year anniversary of his 2008 triumph — revolves around how...

Washington in 60 Seconds: Obama Skips Election Drama; Joe Wilson Looks Up 'Dithering'
Good morning, Capitolists! It's morning in America for Republicans again after winning the governors races in Virginia and New Jersey and getting buckets of free ink in an otherwise sleepy congressional district in up, up, upstate New York. If you fell asleep or were otherwise engaged, here's what's making News in Washington today: * Obama Pre-action to Dem Losses: No Drama. As Democratic defeats loomed in New Jersey and Virginia Tuesday afternoon, The White House staff said the president would...

New Book 'Generation Change' Advises on Making a Difference, Hits Stores on Anniversary of Obama's Election
As of today, 'Generation Change,' a new book from Skyhorse Publishing, is available in bookstores.

Mark Ndesandjo, Obama's Half Brother, Recalls Their Abusive Father (VIDEO)
***SCROLL DOWN FOR VIDEO*** By William Foreman, Associated Press GUANGZHOU, China — President Barack Obama's half brother has broken his media silence to discuss his new novel – the semi-autobiographical story of an abusive parent patterned on their late father, the mostly absent figure Obama wrote about in his own Memoir. In his first interview, Mark Ndesandjo told The Associated Press that he wrote "Nairobi to Shenzhen" in part to raise awareness of Domestic Violence. "My father...

Plouffe: Obama Campaign Energy Not -Transferable'
--> ABC News' Aaron Katersky reports: It was a rough night for Democrats who, one year ago, were triumphant in their quest for The White House.  The political operative largely responsible for President Obama's historic victory in 2008 told ABC News the energy of that campaign does not necessarily transfer to other Democrats. “It was hard to build the coalition we built,” said David Plouffe, Mr. Obama's campaign manager and author of the new book The Audacity to Win. ...

It's been a year since Obama ended racism!: PHOTO
One year ago, Barack Obama was elected President of the United States, effectively ending Racism in America. As an African-American, I can say this is has been an awesome year. Since Obama’s victory the prejudices and mistrust built up over four hundred years of racial oppression has seemed to vanish. Nobody ever questions my credentials or intellect anymore. I get along fabulously with police officers. And Obama even won a Nobel Peace Prize which allowed the entire country to feel proud...

Gallery: 10 great sci-fi Obama poster mash-ups: PHOTO
Ever since Barack Obama was elected president a year ago today, countless artists have elected to mash-up the famous poster that helped deliver him to The White House. In celebration of that anniversary, here are our favorite posters that provide changes we can believe in.

Barack Obama Might Still Think He Could Be Governor Of New Jersey: VIDEO
RedState’s Moe Lane, an apparent male (?!), recorded a very flattering and pithy video message for President Obama, who, you’ll recall, famously lost New Jersey’s gubernatorial election last night. It’s very important that Moe Lane videotaped himself smugly intoning the words “No, you can’t” in what appears to be a sunken house boat because of so many reasons. [ RedState ]

Analysis: Barack Obama cannot afford to dismiss these results: PHOTO
Affecting nonchalance, The White House briefed that President Barack Obama would not be watching the results on election night. By the morning after, however, there was little doubt that he was poring over the sobering details.

Obama Watched HBO Special About Himself Instead of Election Results: PHOTO
During the 10AM ET hour of America's Newsroom on Fox News Channel, fill-in co-host Martha Maccallum told viewers what President Obama watched on election night while Democrats suffered big losses in New Jersey and Virginia: “Robert Gibbs said, well, he was actually watching, you know, the HBO special about his year-long campaign and how it all went.” On Tuesday night The White House had worked to downplay the Democratic gubernatorial defeats by claiming the President did not watch the...

Analysis: Elections not a referendum on Obama: PHOTO
Victories in New Jersey and Virginia Tuesday provided a major shot in the arm for the Republican Party heading into the 2010 Elections, but the Democratic losses of these two governorships should not be interpreted as a significant blow to President Obama.

Obama's brother speaks out for first time: PHOTO
GUANGZHOU, China -- The mixed-race son of a brilliant but troubled Kenyan academic and a white American woman writes an emotionally moving book about his search for identity and self.

Buying Itself Out of a Recession: Countries Ask How Germany Avoided Mass Unemployment
Germany, second only to China as the world's leading exporter of goods, has been particularly hard-hit by the collapse of global markets. But the mass Unemployment some had feared has failed to materialize. Labor experts in many countries are wondering how Germany has done it. Business wasn't going well for Schneider, a mid-sized company in the western German state of Rhineland-Palatinate, at the beginning of the year. But the company, which manufactures camera lenses and filters, did not lay...

Was Tuesday's Vote About Obama?
(Nov. 4) -- Forget what voters told exit pollsters. Tuesday's election is being analyzed as a referendum on President Obama. Republicans Bob McDonnell in Virginia and Chris Christie in New Jersey captured Governor's seats that were held by Democrats. Obama won both states a year ago. He campaigned hard for Gov. Jon Corzine in New Jersey and made appearances for Creigh Deeds late in the campaign, despite some bad blood between the Virginia Democrat's campaign and The White House. Many headlines...

Obama's half-brother: Our father beat me
President Barack Obama's half brother has broken his media silence to discuss his new novel

R.I.P. GOP: PHOTO
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Obama to Discuss U.S. Education System
Education is in the limelight Wednesday as President Obama and Education Secretary Arne Duncan visit America's heartland to discuss learning opportunities.

Obama Half Brother Abusive
Obama Half Brother Abusive

San Francisco Won't Manhattanize Any Time Soon: PHOTO
Slow-growth advocates and preservationists should be pleased -- nothing will be getting built in San Francisco any time soon . Affordable housing activists and the unemployed, however, not so much. With projects currently on hold or in Foreclosure, banks not interested in financing new projects, a glut of vacant office space and mixed signals about Home Prices, it could be a while before the market picks up again. While broader Economic Indicators have improved somewhat, employment prospects...