Word: barack
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Detractors, he said, have voiced their preference for President Barack Obama, Michelle Obama, and Oprah Winfrey as the Class Day speaker...
...American public life since the sixties. Far reaching legislation seemed assured. Economic recovery, healthcare reform, a cap on carbon emissions, and financial regulation. What a difference a year makes. A failure to get any of these things done is blamed in part on dithering, undisciplined Democrats and their leader, Barack Obama. They’ve got 59 votes, and yet it’s as if the Republicans are in firm control of the legislative branch. Liberal pundits panicked and turned on their own. Too much hope, not enough audacity. Obama was naïve to think Republicans ever...
...TIME's 2008 Person of the Year: Barack Obama...
...this was all to be expected. Despite the President's paramount campaign promise to end the bitter recriminations and partisan animus that have defined Washington politics for almost two decades, genuine feelings of friendship across the aisle rarely animate the contours of the debate in Barack Obama's Washington...
...Equal Rights Amendment in every one of its party platforms from 1940 through '76. From 1970 to '74, Richard Nixon signed more environmental legislation than any other President in U.S. history. In '74, Nixon advanced a proposal for universal health coverage - decades before those offered by Bill Clinton and Barack Obama. (See TIME's 2008 Person of the Year: Barack Obama...