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...aisle say that while the bill is likely to pass, such overwhelming support would be difficult if not impossible to garner. Even overcoming the Senate's 60-vote filibuster threshold would require convincing at least two Republicans to support the plan (unless the much contested Minnesota Senate race is suddenly resolved in the Democrats' favor, in which case Obama would need only one Republican...
...mixed-race President, Obama literally embodies a changing culture. Every stand-up routine about the differences between black folks and white folks is visibly lamer than it already was. But that's not just because Obama is half-black and half-white; it's because he is neither typically black (he comes out of the immigrant, not the slave, experience) nor typically white. Like Slumdog Millionaire or a mash-up CD, Obama represents a crossing of cultures. His story makes a larger argument: that nothing is as simple as it's made out to be. Black and white...
Emanuel is a relatively recent addition to Obama's formal brain trust. Torn between his loyalty to the Clintons and the fact that his home-state Senator was running, he stayed on the sidelines during the long and contentious Democratic primary race between Obama and Hillary Clinton, though many observers suspected his sympathies lay with the Chicagoan. Once that battle was over, Emanuel quickly established himself as one of Obama's closest advisers. "He was very helpful," Axelrod recalls. "They have a really candid but respectful relationship. [Obama] knows he can count on Rahm for unvarnished advice." By midsummer, Axelrod...
...Toward the end of the campaign, Michelle Obama asked me if I was going to write a novel about them like Primary Colors, my satiric account of the 1992 presidential race. I was at a loss for words, in part because the thought hadn't even vaguely crossed my mind. "He can't write a novel about us," Barack Obama reassured his wife. "We're too boring." (See pictures of Michelle Obama's Jason Wu dress...
This is the meaning of our liberty and our creed - why men and women and children of every race and every faith can join in celebration across this magnificent mall, and why a man whose father less than sixty years ago might not have been served at a local restaurant can now stand before you to take a most sacred oath...