Word: barack
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President Barack Obama warned in a speech on Wall Street Sept. 14 that "normalcy cannot lead to complacency." But normalcy is leading to complacency. Consider the financial reforms that Obama's Administration wants to push through Congress: the big ones are creating a Consumer Financial Protection Agency, giving the Federal Reserve the job of systemic-risk regulator and establishing a "resolution regime" to wind down troubled nonbank financial institutions (like Lehman) and complex bank holding companies. Steps in the right direction? Probably. Truly major reforms? Not so much--and even they may not win congressional approval...
...critic turned scholar Greil Marcus and Professor of African American Studies and English Werner Sollors, the book does not seek to create a new American literary canon, but instead it includes entries that cover a more diverse group of literary figures including John Winthrop, Diego Rivera, Chuck Berry, and Barack Obama...
Some entries explore the connections between two subjects, while others are works of art. The volume ends with a set of nine prints by artist Kara Walker, who is known for creating black cut-paper silhouettes, depicting the election of Barack Obama...
Have you ever noticed Bill's coiffeur? And Barack - what fashion sense! I could have recommended George my manicurist, "having knows" the best ones...
...back in January, Barack Obama asked his health-care advisers for a simple number. "I want to know how clearly and how unequivocally I can tell the American people their costs are going down when this is done," he said, according to someone at the meeting. During the campaign, Obama had promised to "lower health-care costs by $2,500 for the typical family," helping him make the sale on Election Day; the question, he knew, was going to be whether he could deliver on that specific number. (Watch Obama's speech to a joint session of Congress on Sept...