Barack Obama - Parker Whitaker And Norton For New Obama Committee
U.S. President Barack Obama is sexing up his administration - he has named Sex and the City star Sarah Jessica Parker as a member of his new Arts...

Barack Obama - Parker Whitaker And Norton For New Obama Committee: PHOTO
U.S. President Barack Obama is sexing up his administration - he has named Sex and the City star Sarah Jessica Parker as a member of his new Arts Committee. Parker, Oscar-winning actor Forest Whitaker and Edward Norton are among the industry big names handpicked by the American leader to head the Committee on Arts and the Humanities, to help boost communities through entertainment and culture. First Lady Michelle Obama will act as the Committee's chairwoman, with co-chair George Stevens Jr. - a...

Obama congratulates Karzai on victory
US president Barack Obama has congratulated Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai for his reelection, despite a UN-backed report which announced his election victory on August 20 as fraudulent. Obama's congratulatory message, in a telephone conversation on Monday, came after Afghanistan's Independent Election Commission called off the country's presidential run-off and declared Karzai the winner. The commission made the decision a day after former foreign minster Abdullah Abdullah decided to quit...

Concerns over Obama's delayed cybersecurity chief
The White House has yet to appoint a head of cybersecurity, more than five months after President Obama announced that protecting America's computer systems was a "National Security priority". The slow progress has left some senior figures concerned that government officials are not taking the threat seriously - despite a string of high-profile attacks on America's Internet infrastructure. The role, which is meant to draw together different areas of the nation's cyberdefence for the first time,...

Obama Calls for New Afghan Chapter
President Obama congratulated Hamid Karzai on his "messy" election victory yesterday while warning him that it was time to clean up corruption in his government. "I emphasized that this has to be a point in time in which we begin to write a new chapter," said Obama, describing a phone call with the Afghan president. The White House stressed that Karzai now has legal legitimacy but still needs to earn credibility, reports AP.

Obama Called Karzai, Congratulated Him on Victory
Nov. 2 (Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama said hecalled Afghan President Hamid Karzai and congratulated him onhis re-election victory. “Although the process was messy, I'm pleased to say thatthe final outcome was determined in accordance with Afghanlaw,” Obama told reporters today after a White House meetingwith the president of the European Union, Swedish PrimeMinister Fredrik Reinfeldt, who is in Washington for a U.S.-EUsummit tomorrow.

A One Year Obama Scorecard
Who is pleased with our nearly-one-quarter-of-a-term president? Who isn’t? I was just watching CNN (a rarity these days) and they were talking about what Obama has so far achieved. Here’s my own take: I think you have to credit the Stimulus for pulling us out of some serious doldrums, even if the recovery is still only lackluster at best. I also think the president has made stellar appointments, particularly in the science infrastructure; and I have been thrilled at the emphasis on...

Obama/Curious George T-Shirt Draws Protests: PHOTO
MARIETTA, Ga. -- The publisher of the popular children book's series "Curious George" is considering legal action against a Georgia bar owner for selling T-shirts that seem to portray Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama as the inquisitive monkey.

Obama: The Year Since His Election: PHOTO
(AP) In the 12 months since his election a year ago tomorrow , President Obama has learned first hand it's easier to run for president than to be president. It was easier to talk about the expansive Health Care , education and energy programs he would pursue, than to get them enacted. "But he was under no illusion that being president would be easy," says press secretary Robert Gibbs. As one who gets to observe the president as a member of his inner circle, Gibbs says the job has proven to be...

Races an early test of Obama's political influence
In a very early test of President Barack Obama 's political influence, two states are choosing whether to continue Democratic rule while voters elsewhere elect a handful of congressmen and big-city mayors. Elected just a year ago, the president has spent a considerable amount of time and energy trying to ensure that Democrats win Governor's races in Virginia and New Jersey and pick up a GOP-held congressional seat in upstate New York . In doing so, Obama raised the stakes of a low-enthusiasm...

Movie: 'By the People: The Election of Barack Obama'
Restaurant and movie reviews, plus music, nightlife, style, television, celebrity gossip, arts, dance and theater coverage and more from Philly.com.

Rigorous workouts, high-stress basketball games making Obama skinny
London, November 3 - ANI: US President Barack Obama has sparked health concerns after being snapped looking slimmer than usual. The Drudge Report website published the picture, entitled "Barack 'N Bones", showing the president looking thinner as he stepped out of a gym wearing a large jacket in Washington. The website said "rigorous workouts and high-stress basketball games" were to blame for Obamas apparent Weight Loss, reports The Telegraph. The story comes after Obama...

Obama's Arts Committee includes Edward Norton, Sarah Jessica Parker
Entertainers including Edward Norton, Sarah Jessica Parker, Kerry Washington, Forest Whitaker, Alfre Woodard, and Yo-Yo Ma have been named to President Obama’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities, Variety reports . The committee has 25 members in total. Previous Post George Clooney in talks for Alexander Payne's 'The Descendants' Add your comment Page: No comments yet. Page: Add your comment Click here to cancel reply. The rules: Keep it clean, and stay on the subject - or we may...

Time for a new chapter Obama warns Karzai
Washington, Nov 3: Afghanistan President, Hamid Karzai 's second time victory brought a reminder from President Barack Obama on the need to fight corruption, cooperation in training Afghan security forces, and in bringing about changes in the lives of Afghan people. calling it to be a time to begin a new chapter, Obama told Karzai that the seriousness to pursue cooperation should be proved in action rather than words. Karzai second term victory by default, came after his controversial victory in...

Filmmakers got early start on Obama election campaign
Pivotal presidential campaigns are frequently defined in retrospect by documentaries. "The War Room" chronicled Bill Clinton's political operation in 1992. Alexandra Pelosi's "Journeys With George" captured the oddities of a national campaign on board George W. Bush's airplane in 2000. The makers of "By the People: The Election of Barack Obama," which premieres tonight on HBO, wouldn't mind the same status. "That was our hope -- that we would create something for history," said filmmaker Alicia...

Obama doc shows how the People made history
So what's up with the title?

Obama played hardball in first Chicago campaign
When the Democratic National Committee meets Saturday on the thorny issue of seating the Florida and Michigan delegations at its August convention, party officials will have to Fashion a solution that satisfies supporters of Sen. Hillary Clinton and presidential nominee front-runner Sen. Barack Obama.

Obama Calls Karzai, Urges 'New Chapter' in Afghanistan
US president urges Afghanistan's president to take action against corruption and implementing reforms  

AP sources: House health bill costs $1.2 trillion, more than Obama set as cost of reform
Washington — The Health Care bill headed for a vote in the House this week costs $1.2 trillion or more over a decade, according to numerous Democratic officials and figures contained in an analysis by Congressional budget experts, far higher than the $900 billion cited by President Barack Obama as a price tag for his reform plan. While the Congressional Budget Office has put the cost of expanding coverage in the legislation at roughly $1 trillion, Democrats added billions more on higher...

AP sources: House health bill costs $1.2 trillion, more than Obama set as cost of reform
Washington — The Health Care bill headed for a vote in the House this week costs $1.2 trillion or more over a decade, according to numerous Democratic officials and figures contained in an analysis by Congressional budget experts, far higher than the $900 billion cited by President Barack Obama as a price tag for his reform plan. While the Congressional Budget Office has put the cost of expanding coverage in the legislation at roughly $1 trillion, Democrats added billions more on higher...

Obama warns Afghan president: Time for new chapter - Yahoo! News
Washington – President Barack Obama greeted Hamid Karzai 's election victory with as much admonishment as praise on Monday, pointedly advising America's partner in war he must make more serious efforts to end corruption in Afghanistan's government and prepare his nation to ultimately defend itself. "I emphasized that this has to be a point in time in which we begin to write a new chapter," Obama said in describing his phone call to the Afghan president. When Karzai offered back...

Obama selects Arts committee
President Obama has selected 25 members of the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities, a list that includes such entertainment industry names as Bryan Lourd, Liz Manne, Edward Norton, Sarah Jessica Parker, Andy Spahn, Kerry Washington, Forest Whitaker, George C. Wolfe and Alfre Woodard. Others on the committee include Yo-Yo Ma, Vogue editor Anna Wintour, philanthropist Teresa Heinz, lawyer Jill Cooper Udall and architect Thom Mayne and ballet dancer Damian Woetzel. The committee, to...

The Associated Press: Obama to Afghan president: Time for a new chapter
Washington — President Barack Obama says he spoke to Afghan President Hamid Karzai to congratulate him on his second-term victory and to call for a "new chapter" of better governance after the tumultuous and fraud-ridden election. Obama said on Monday that he noted to Karzai that the election had been "messy" but that he was "pleased to say the final outcome was determined by Afghan law." Karzai was named winner of the August vote on Monday. Election officials had scheduled a run-off...

Republicans eye Obama revenge in off-year elections
Republicans are looking to wound President Barack Obama's Democrats on Tuesday in three closely fought Elections seen as barometers of a vital battle for Congress in 2010. In the Governor's race in Virginia -- where Obama caused a sensation last year in becoming the first Democratic presidential contender to win since 1964 -- Republican Bob McDonnell looks set to defeat Democrat Creigh Deeds. New Jersey's Democratic Governor Bob Corzine, meanwhile, faces a nail-biting finale in an ugly race...

Eugene Robinson - Obama's first year: A record you can believe in
Sometimes I wish he'd be tougher. But he's a president, not a Hollywood action hero.