Posted on November 7th, 2008 by Meg
Barack Obama held his first press conference as President-elect on November 7, 2008. He started the morning with a meeting of the leading economic advisers from across the nation. They filed in first and stood in front of a bank of American flags and were joined a few minutes later by Obama.
The transition economic […]
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Posted on November 5th, 2008 by Andrea
Barack Obama addressed the nation for the first time as President-elect in front of a crowd of 125,000 people at Grant Park in Chicago at midnight on Tuesday shortly after McCain’s concession speech.
“If there is anyone out there who doubts that America is a place where anything is possible, who still wonders if the dream […]
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Posted on November 4th, 2008 by Andrea
President Barack Obama
Barack Obama was declared the 44th President of the United States at 11:00 p.m ET.
McCain’s camp conceded victory to Fox News just after 10:00 p.m. saying there was “no clear path to victory” after a loss in Pennsylvania and Ohio.
McCain addressed his supporters and the nation at 11:18 p.m. ET and said […]
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Posted on November 1st, 2008 by Andrea
Barack Obama’s Aunt Zeituni Onyango
Barack Obama’s aunt, Zeituni Onyango (referred to as Auntie Zeituni in Obama’s memoir), could be a political embarrassment for the Obama campaign with just three days to go to the presidential election.
56-year-old Zeituni, the half-sister of Obama’s father, has been living in public housing in South Boston illegally after an immigration […]
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Posted on October 30th, 2008 by Meg
Barack Obama hit the airwaves last night, buying time on seven networks. The 30 minute video in prime time ran on October 29, 2008. A link to the complete text of Obama’s message is available below.
Obama didn’t stop there. He was also a guest of Jon Stewart on The Daily Show. We’ve added that […]
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Posted on October 27th, 2008 by Andrea
Barack Obama explicitly calls for the “redistribution of wealth” in a 2001 interview on Chicago public radio station WBEZ FM.
In the audio, which can be heard below, Obama is straightforward in his view that redistribution of wealth is a civil right which the civil rights movement failed to obtain.
Obama laments in the interview that the […]
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Posted on October 20th, 2008 by Andrea
Barack Obama’s grandmother, Madelyn Dunham, is seriously ill and Obama plans to suspend his campaign to be by her side in Hawaii.
Dunham, Obama’s maternal grandmother, was born Madelyn Payne in Peru, Kansas, in 1922. She married Stanley Armour Dunham in 1940. Madelyn attended college at the University of Washington before becoming an aircraft inspector for […]
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