'By the People' Watch Party: On '09 Election Night, Dems Liked '08 Ending Better: PHOTO
At a Tuesday night watch party for HBO's "By the People," the Amy Rice and Alicia Sams Documentary about the Obama presidential campaign, my BlackBerry starting receiving breaking News alerts about the GOP victory in New Jersey's Governor race at about the time the movie peaked with Barack Obama winning The White House a year ago today. Ironic? Of course.
"Obama, Obama, you're either with them, or with us!": PHOTO
(Hat tip: Tehran Bureau )
Obama Doc Rehashes Election, Explodes Ovaries [The First Marriage]: PHOTO
Last night's HBO Documentary By the People: The Election of Barack Obama, apparently didn't contain much new information about the campaign*, but it did offer more insight into the Obamas' marriage and the unbearable cuteness of the first daughters.
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...
Obama's half brother: Our father was abusive: PHOTO
President Barack Obama's half brother has broken his media silence to discuss his new novel
Yes They Can [Snap Judgment]: PHOTO
[Nairobi, November 4. Image via Getty]
Is V Anti-Obama Propaganda? [V Recap]
V exceeded many people's expectations last night, getting 13.9 million viewers and coming first among adults aged 18-49 . But is the show just one big anti-Obama screed, as some have claimed? We'll answer that question... with Spoilers. So last night was the long-awaited debut of V , the show about beautiful aliens who show up and claim to come in peace and offer us lots of goodies... but turn out to be rapacious lizards in disguise. The pilot moves along at a brisk pace, introducing the aliens...
Italian judge convicts 23 in CIA kidnap case - Yahoo! News
MILAN – An Italian judge found 23 Americans and two Italians guilty Wednesday in the Kidnapping of an Egyptian terror suspect, delivering the first legal convictions anywhere in the world against people involved in the CIA's extraordinary renditions program. Human Rights groups hailed the decision and pressed President Barack Obama to repudiate the Bush Administration 's practice of abducting terror suspects and transferring them to third countries where Torture was permitted. The Obama...
White House: Election Results No Reason to Change: PHOTO
(CBS/Mark Knoller) President Obama was in no mood to talk about the election results as he walked from the Oval Office this morning to Marine One idling on the South Lawn. He ignored pleas from reporters to offer some comment on yesterday's vote that included Republican victories in the only two states with gubernatorial Elections: New Jersey and Virginia . He had campaigned and raised money in both of those states. On three visits to New Jersey, he did five rallies and/or fund-raisers for...
GALLERY: Most Memorable Election Reactions Worldwide: PHOTO
Exactly one year ago today, on the night of November 4th, 2008, Barack Obama was elected the next President of the United States. And though he was chosen to be the leader of America, a single country, his election was enough to instill emotion in people around the entire world . Here’s a look back at the faces and reactions from around the globe. (Pictures courtesy of Jezebel, and The Huffington Post) GALLERY: The Obama’s Presidential PDA Michelle Obama’s Most Memorable First...
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.
VIDEO: Obama Half Brother 'Abusive Father' Exposed In New Book
U.S. President Barack Obama half brother Mark Ndesandjo has emerged in China with a novel, "Nairobi to Shenzhen," and in it he describes their 'abusive father' and his own difficult childhood in the form of a novel, reports Reuters. Barack Obama's half-brother made a rare appearance on Wednesday in southern China, his home for seven years, to launch a novel he says draws on his painful childhood under an abusive father. Mark Okoth Obama Ndesandjo -- who had the same, late, father as the U.S....
Obama urges Iranian gov't to "open door" for its people
WASHINGTON, Nov. 4 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President Barack Obama on Wednesday urged the Iranian government to "open the door," saying the United States wanted a relationship based on mutual interests and respect. "It is time for the Iranian government to decide whether it wants to focus on the past, or whether it will make the choices that will open the door to greater opportunity, prosperity, and justice for its people," said Obama in a statement...
Not Right-But Still Angry (Guest Voice)
EAST BRUNSWICK, N.J. — Tuesday’s Elections were a rebuke to the right wing and a warning to Democrats. They were also a timely reminder that President Obama needs to tune up his celebrated political organization and find a way to make Americans feel hopeful again. The night’s biggest Loser was the national conservative political machine — the wealthy tax-cutters at the Club for Growth and the Palin-Limbaugh-Beck complex. The Beltway Right shoved aside local Republicans...
Exit polls: Mixed bag for GOP, Dems
Republicans scored big victories in both Virginia and New Jersey Tuesday, but the majority of voters in both states told poll takers that President Obama was not a factor when they cast their vote. In New Jersey exit polls, 60 percent of voters said Obama did not figure into their decision, while 57 percent of the Virginia electorate echoed that sentiment, numbers that could potentially calm some Democrats' fears of a backlash against the administration heading into next year's mid-term...
Obama's Honeymoon is Over
A year ago, on Nov. 4, 2008, a quarter of a million jubilant supporters jammed into Chicago's Grant Park to hear the wunderkind of American politics give his victory speech as the next president of the United States. Barack Obama did not disappoint. "If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible, who still wonders if The Dream of our founders is alive in our time, who still questions the power of our Democracy, tonight is your...
Obama's first-year report card
As a candidate who promised hope and convinced many supporters that he could remake the face American politics, Obama has faced unusually high expectations since winning the
Obama Budget Bans Federal Funding For Needle Exchange, Breaking Campaign Pledge
New York Mayor Race: White House Didn't Want To Upset Bloomberg
NY Daily News : Obama campaign veterans are finally admitting that President Obama's lackluster endorsement for New York Democratic mayoral candidate Bill Thompson was intended to be less than stellar. Mayor Bloomberg "is an ally," said one Obama campaign operative who held a top position in the presidential campaign. Read the whole story: NY Daily News
Michelle Obama “Iron Chef America” Guest Appearance: PHOTO
Mrs. O is mixing it up on Iron Chef ! The First Lady has scored a cameo appearance on Iron Chef America , along with White House executive chef Cristeta Comerford, The New York Times reported on Wednesday. It’s all part of her plan to get combat childhood Obesity getting America’s kids off the sofa and adopting a lifestyle of healthy eating and daily exercise. In the episode, which will open the show's new season, Comerford and celebrity chef Bobby Flay join forces against Mario...
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.
POTUS tells Wisconsin: "It's Time to Make Education America's National Mission”
Speaking to about 500 students, teachers, and officials in a small gymnasium at James C. Wright Middle School, President Obama promoted the administration's efforts to “make education America's national mission.”
Michelle Obama: "I've Learned A Lot In My Life As A Mom" [Hey Lady]: PHOTO
In her Glamour Women of the Year interview with Katie Couric (video after jump), Michelle Obama was strong and on-message, giving some of the best advice we've heard (and Katie Couric does a Fran Drescher impression at 15 minutes).
Michelle Obama Tells Moms To Put Themselves “A Close Second”
Katie Couric talks to First Lady and mother Michelle Obama about how she balances it all.
Iran's supreme leader warns against negotiating with U.S.: PHOTO
Tehran -- Iran's supreme leader, spurning what he described as several personal overtures from President Obama, warned Tuesday that negotiating with the United States would be "naive and perverted" and that Iranian politicians should not be "deceived" into starting such talks.
