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Obama Asks Lawmakers for Short-Term Sequester Fix

Associated Press — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 21:35:04 +0000

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is asking Congress to come up with tens of billions of dollars in short-term spending cuts and tax revenue to delay automatic spending cuts scheduled to kick in March 1

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Inauguration 2013 — Barack Obama Sworn In For Second Term As President

Joe Student — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 20:50:46 +0000

Barack Obama took the oath of office just before noon in Washington on Monday to begin his second term as president of the United States.

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Obama Names Picks for Secretary of Defense, CIA Director

Chris Chaberski — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 20:13:14 +0000

On Monday President Obama nominated former Senator Chuck Hagel to the post of secretary of defense and current counterterrorism adviser John Brennan as director of the Central Intelligence Agency. Both nominees may run into problems getting confirmed to their positions by the Senate.

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Obama Calls Congressional Leaders on Fiscal Cliff

Associated Press — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 16:24:53 +0000

WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House says President Barack Obama has made separate phone calls to congressional leaders to discuss the impending fiscal cliff.

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President Obama's Re-Election Victory Speech – Election 2012 [TRANSCRIPT, VIDEO]

Chuck Armstrong — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 14:49:07 +0000

On Nov. 6, 2012, Barack Obama was re-elected as President of the United States of America by the American people after clinching 303 electoral votes (270 votes are needed for the presidency).

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Have Any of The Presidential Candidates Changed Your Mind?

Peter Christian — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 14:12:24 +0000

Who Won the Third Presidential Debate?

Jon King — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 03:34:03 +0000

President Obama Says '92 Dream Team Is Better Than 2012 Men's USA Basketball Team — Do You Agree? — Sports Survey of the Day

BJ Ragone — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 14:54:37 +0000

The 1992 Olympic men’s basketball team — dubbed the Dream Team — didn’t know it, but they were setting the bar pretty high for future teams. Now, even the president is involved in the debate.

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White House Correspondents Dinner: Kimmel and Obama

Jacob Hall — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 19:03:25 +0000

Traditionally, the White House Correspondents Dinner is an opportunity for the President of the United States to let his guard down and become an entertainer for evening, performing a comedy routine for the crowd before taking his seat and being playfully roasted by a comedian. This year, President Barack Obama was joined by late night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel. Since this is the internet, both of their routines are online for you to see!

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Barack Obama Is Not Very Good at Three-Point Shots

Jeremy Taylor — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 19:23:11 +0000

Barack Obama is a basketball guy. He played the sport in high school, where his teammates called him “Barry O’Bomber” because of his tendency to take a lot of shots. But from the looks of this video from a recent White House ‘Shoot for Strength’ event, Obama hasn’t been practicing his shooting lately.

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Is President Obama Conservative or Liberal? — Survey

Jeremy Taylor — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 18:35:17 +0000

When it comes to his political ideology, President Barack Obama has different Americans seeing very different things.

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President Obama Welcomes Home US Soldiers After 8 Years of War [PICTURES, VIDEO]

Kathy Landin — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 16:40:45 +0000

President Barack Obama finally made good on his 2008 campaign promise to end the war in Iraq. On Wednesday, the president was at Fort Bragg in North Carolina to welcome troops returning home from Iraq for the last time.

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President Obama's Family Avoids Facebook and DVRs 'Modern Family' Just Like Us!

Kathy Landin — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 21:41:25 +0000

He’s one of the most powerful people on the planet, but President Barack Obama is just like every other American with an average American family. According to an interview in PEOPLE, he watches TV and tries to keep his girls away from Facebook, just like any parent. Like we needed an interview to figure that out.

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Does Obama Age Faster Than the Rest of Us Because He's the President?

Shauna Wright — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 14:38:53 +0000

US presidents like Barack Obama, who seemed so youthful just a few years ago, appear to age right before our very eyes during their terms in office. This simple observance led Jay Olshansky, PhD, a professor of public health at the University of Illinois–Chicago, to question whether the stress of being Commander-in-Chief can really take years off someone’s life.

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American Soldiers Kill Bin Laden

Steve Fullerton — Mon, 02 May 2011 03:43:13 +0000

The Associated Press reports:
Osama bin Laden, the glowering mastermind behind the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks that killed thousands of Americans, was killed in an operation led by the United States, President Barack Obama said Sunday.

A small team of Americans carried out the attack and took custody of bin Laden's remains, the president said in a dramatic late-night statement at the White House.

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