Word: barack
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There were good reasons for this. After eight years of fear-mongering and war-hawking, many of us were ready for something—anything—different. But it was more than simply anger and exasperation that drove us to the polls. Barack Obama gave us a reason to vote for him, rather than just another lame excuse to vote against them. We were taken by his formidable intellect and his youthful energy. We were interested in his story, inspired by his eloquence, and impressed with his honesty. Older generations who had endured the stinging insults of racism found...
President Barack Obama's announcement on Sept. 17 that he was scrapping plans for a long-range-missile shield in Europe prompted a fervor normally reserved for theological discussion. Critics assailed his alternative--smaller, sea-based interceptors to counter the immediate threat from Iran--as a concession to Russia, which had seen the U.S. stronghold near its borders as directed at its own arsenal...
...measure of distance and convey an articulation of reserve, as if its participants are thinking, Thus far and no further. A handshake is not a hug. There was little obvious warmth when Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu and the Palestinian Authority's Mahmoud Abbas met, under the stern gaze of Barack Obama, at the Waldorf-Astoria hotel in New York City. The history of their nations is littered with too many incompatible dreams, too much heartache, for that. But if Obama has his way, Netanyahu and Abbas will have to get over it. The U.S. President intends to revive the stalled...
...BARACK OBAMA, when asked during an appearance on the Late Show with David Letterman whether virulent criticism of his health-care-reform proposals is driven partly by racism...
...conference committee, and a struggle within the Democratic Party over the Senate bill and what is certain to be a more liberal version passed by the House. That's the point, all sides agree, where they will be looking to the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue for guidance. Barack Obama will no longer be able to stand on the sidelines and will have to declare his own position on many of the issues that have divided his party. As one top congressional aide put it, "The President is going to have to play a key role in all of this...