Showing posts with label Obama. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Obama. Show all posts
Wednesday, August 21, 2013
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Wednesday, February 22, 2012
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Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Tuesday, January 10, 2012
Obama Honors Dallas Mavericks At White House
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Written by Associated Press
on January 9, 2012 8:36 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack
Obama is beginning the week by hosting the NBA world champion Dallas Mavericks
at the White House.
Obama, who roots regularly for the
Chicago Bulls in his adopted home town, will congratulate the Mavericks for
winning the 2011 championship title. He also will recognize the team’s support
for the men and women of the U.S. military forces.
Obama’s East Room tribute for the
Mavericks follows a private meeting he’ll have earlier in the day with his
senior advisers at the White House.
In the evening, the president will
attend a campaign event in the nation’s capital.
Saturday, January 7, 2012
Feature: Black Fraternities Form Obama Super PAC
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Written by Terrell
Jermaine Starr on January 6, 2012 6:37 pm
Kappa Alpha Psi and Omega Psi Phi
are forming an Obama Super PAC called “1911 United” in support of the 44th
President’s 2012 re-election bid, TheRoot reports.
Super PACs (Political Action
Committee) are allowed to raise unlimited amounts money for any
candidate they choose and can create attack or support ads at will. The
emergence of Super PACs are a result of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling in 2010 that
allows corporations and unions to use their treasuries for political purposes.
Backed by members of Kappa Alpha
Psi and Omega Psi Phi, historically black fraternities that both celebrated
their centennials last year, 1911 United aims to raise $1.5 million toward
training and organizing African-American voters in key battleground states to
re-elect President Obama. Members of the two fraternities joined forces last
year, officially forming the committee in December, after seeing that both
organizations were running their own campaign volunteer-recruitment efforts at
college homecoming events.
“We were thinking about how we
could really honor the legacy of those brothers who got together 100 years ago,
and we thought perhaps the best thing we could do is help re-elect our
president,” Sinclair Skinner, committee treasurer, told The Root.
Many saw the U.S. Supreme Court’s
ruling on Super PACs as another blow against campaign finance reform. But can
1911 United be a game-changer in how black organizations participate in
national politics? Check out the rest this story at TheRoot.
Sunday, January 1, 2012
Tuesday, November 22, 2011
Thursday, August 25, 2011
Thursday, August 4, 2011
50 Things About President Obama; Happy B-Day Mr. Prez
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1. He and Bill Cosby are the only people to ever get free food from Ben’s Chili Bowl.
2. He ate dog meat, snake meat, and roasted grasshopper when he lived in Indonesia.
3. He says his favorite children’s book is “Where the Wild Things Are.”
4. He owns a pair of boxing gloves signed by Muhammad Ali.
5. He collects Spider-Man and Conan the Barbarian comics.
6. He worked in a Baskin-Robbins ice cream shop as a teenager.
7. His favorite show is “The Wire.”
8. He majored in Political Science at Columbia University.
9. His father grew up herding goats.
10. He used to drive a Chrysler 300m.
11. He used the n-word in his audio book “Dreams From My Father.”
12. He watches HBO’s “Entourage.”
13. He was an avid reader of the “Autobiography Of Malcolm X.”
14. He owns several Bob Marley albums.
15. His first date with wife, Michelle Obama, was the movie “Do The Right Thing.”
16. He kept a pet ape called Tata while in Indonesia.
17. He applied to appear in a Black pin-up calendar while at Harvard, but was rejected by the all-female committee.
18. His favorite book is “Moby-Dick” by Herman Melville
19. His favorite movie is the “Godfather.”
20. His high school yearbook picture inscription thanks “Tut,” “Gramps,” and the “Choom Gang.” Choom is Hawaiian slang for “pot smoking.”
21. He has seven half-brothers and sisters in Kenya from his father’s other marriages.
22. He did a good imitation of Jesse Jackson while he was at Harvard.
23. His high school nick name was “O-bomber.”
24. He won a Grammy for his audio book “Dreams From My Father.”
25. He has read every Harry Potter book.
26. He was called Barry until he became known as Barack in college.
27. He was in the Columbia Black Student Union.
28. Jesse Jackson’s daughter is his daughter Malia’s godmother.
29. His favorite artist is Pablo Picasso.
30. He can bench press 200 pounds.
31. His name means blessed by God in Swahili.
32. He was the 5th African-American to serve in the U.S. Senate.
33. He enjoys rap artists The Fugees and Jay-Z.
34. He gets his hair cut once a week.
35. He says he would’ve been an architect if he wasn’t a politician.
36. He was on the Hawaii high school state basketball champion team.
37. He was mentored by Harvard Professor Charles Ogletree who was also the lawyer for rappers Tupac and Shyne.
38. He loves playing Scrabble.
39. His favorite president is Abraham Lincoln.
40. He traveled to Kenya in 1988 and met many of his paternal relatives.
41. His favorite meal is wife Michelle’s shrimp linguini.
42. His paternal grandfather was affiliated with the Kenyan revolutionary Mau Mau movement.
43. His maternal grandfather fought in World War II.
44. Some of his maternal ancestors were slave owners.
45. He moved to Chicago and worked as a director of the Developing Communities Project after college.
46. He has a beer named after him in Kenya.
47. He wrote a children’s book “Of Thee I Sing.”
48. His father attended Harvard University.
49. His first public speech was at Occidental College, calling for the school to disinvest from apartheid South Africa.
50. He graduated Magna Cum Laude from Harvard Law School.
From: http://newsone.com/newsone-original/casey-gane-mccalla/obama-birthday-50-things-you-didnt-know/?omcamp=NEWSBAR
Tuesday, August 2, 2011
Politics Matter
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I have to be perfectly honest. Until the election of President Barack Obama, I could care very little about Politics. I am sure I have voted in every election, but I know for a fact that I wasn't as involved in the entire process until that specific election. I was more engaged in the holistic process from the beginning of the campaign season up until that wonderful night when President Obama was installed as the 44th President of the United States. If there is one thing I have learned throughout the process and during President Obama's first term, just like Race, Politics Matter.
Unfortunately, most people don't pay attention to what is going on in D.C. or on Capitol Hill. People broke their backs getting to the polls to put President Obama in office, but lacked to support him once he got there. The only reason people are paying attention to Politics now is because this whole situation with the debt talks will impact the least among us most. When you say that social security checks, unemployment, and/or veteran benefits would be affected, people began to get interested. Whether you like Politics or not, they do Matter. Each of you should pay attention to what's going on in the Political arena. Even if you don't understand it, you should still try to make time to pay close attention to the national Politics/Politicians as well as your local Politics/Politicians. Nothing is more important at this point then the economy and jobs. If we can't work, we can't provide for our families. So Politics Matter.
We are on the cusp of a new election year. It is going to take all of us plus some, if we plan to keep President Obama in office. So, when you are heading to the bank to cash your check this month, think about what you can do to make sure President Obama gets another four years to fix what G.W. destroyed. It is the least you can do, because Politics Matter.
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