Barack Obama

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​44th president of USA: 2009-2017

Oct 2022

Nov 17, 2022: Los Angeles Sentinel: Michelle Obama Opens Tour for New Book, ‘The Light We Carry’
​ Michelle Obama says it helps to focus on what you can control when you feel out of control. 
Among the things she could control during the death and isolation of the pandemic, the racial unrest and threats to democracy were her spools of yarn and her knitting needles. 
She labels such thinking the “power of small,” and she writes in her new book, “The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times,” that by focusing on a small task like knitting she was able to get through the worry, anxiety and stress of the past few unsettling years. 

Nov 16, 2022: Los Angeles Times: ​Review: Barack Obama’s memoir is a masterful lament over the fragility of hope
Inventing hope has long been the Obama project, from his early days as an organizer through the 2008 campaign, a two-term presidency and now, in retrospect, his intermittent career as a memoirist. Finally free of electoral politics, the former president concedes that the project has gotten harder, that he has struggled at times to find hope — the very thing he personified for so many.

Sept 3, 2022: Variety: ​Barack Obama Wins Emmy for Narration, Inches Closer to EGOT
​Barack Obama is officially halfway to an EGOT, as the former president of the United States nabbed his first Emmy for outstanding narrator.
Obama lent his voice to the Netflix docuseries “Our Great National Parks,” narrating its five episodes that span from Patagonia, Chile, to Tsavo, Kenya. Netflix submitted the first episode, “A World of Wonder,” for Emmy consideration.

​Barack Hussein Obama II (born August 4, 1961) is an American politician who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, Obama was the first African-American president of the United States. He previously served as a U.S. senator from Illinois from 2005 to 2008 and as an Illinois state senator from 1997 to 2004, and previously worked as a civil rights lawyer before entering politics. Obama’s mother, S. Ann Dunham, grew up in Kansas, Texas, and Washington state before her family settled in Honolulu. In 1960 she and Barack Sr. met in a Russian language class at the University of Hawaii and married less than a year later. In his memoir Dreams from My Father (1995), Obama describes the complexities of discovering his identity in adolescence. After two years at Occidental College in Los Angeles, he transferred to Columbia University, where he studied political science and international relations. Following graduation in 1983, Obama worked in New York City, then became a community organizer on the South Side of Chicago, coordinating with churches to improve housing conditions and set up job-training programs in a community hit hard by steel mill closures. In 1988, he went to Harvard Law School, where he attracted national attention as the first African American president of the Harvard Law Review. Returning to Chicago, he joined a small law firm specializing in civil rights.

March 14, 2022: Economist Times: India: ​Barack Obama contracts Covid, says wife Michelle has tested negative
​Former President of the US Barack Obama announced during the wee hours (IST) of Monday that he had tested positive for the coronavirus.
Taking to Twitter, he announced that he had a scratchy throat for a couple of days, and decided to get tested. While his results came back positive, his author-wife Michelle tested negative.

Feb 9, 2022: NBC News: Obama to speak to House Democrats on Thursday
​Former President Barack Obama will speak to the House Democratic caucus on Thursday, two sources familiar with his plans told NBC News.

Dec 5, 2021: Newsweek: Bob Dole Tributes Pour in After Former GOP Senator Dies at 98
"Senator Bob Dole was a war hero, a political leader, and a statesman—with a career and demeanor harkening back to a day when members of the Greatest Generation abided by a certain code, putting country over party. Our thoughts are with Elizabeth and the Dole family," former President Barack Obama tweeted.

Aug 22, 2021: ​DACA: Nine years later, many remain unfree in the land of the free
​President Barack Obama stated that undocumented individuals “are American in their heart, in their minds, in every single way but one – on paper” as he announced the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) Program in June 2012.

Aug 20, 2020:
​👉Former President Barack Obama offered harsh criticism of Trump in his remarks at the DNC Convention on Wednesday. Trump tweeted out --in capital letters so we would know he meant it-- that Obama "SPIED ON MY CAMPAIGN, AND GOT CAUGHT!" Spygate is a conspiracy theory initiated by Trump that the Obama administration had placed a spy in his 2016 presidential campaign for political purposes. No evidence has ever been found but if anyone was spying on Trumps campaign it was probably for just they needed a good laugh now and then or looking for his tax returns, which may be just as funny.  

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If you think God moves in strange ways, you should see me after I walk through a spider web. Jus sayin..😎

Oct 3, 2016: Huffington Post: Obama Offers Final Rosh Hashanah Greeting As President
​It’s the beginning of the new year for Jews around the world, and the closing of a chapter for President Obama.

Mar 6, 2013:  Newsmax: Roger Ailes: Obama Is ‘Lazy,’ Biden ‘Dumb As an Ashtray’
Fox News chief Roger Ailes says President Barack Obama is “lazy’’ and claims the commander-in-chief “never worked a day in his life,’’ a controversial new book claims. 

Dec 19, 2012: Time: ​2012 Person of the Year: Barack Obama, the President
The campaign wasn’t pretty, and the economy worse. but he reasserted himself as a potent architect for a changing America

Oct 12, 2012:
​​"Next Time the President should just throw birth control pills out to the audience. " --Greg Gutfeld

Al Gore blames Obama's poor debate performance on the altitude in Denver. I guess thats his way of saying Obama was really really high...

​Juan Williams blames twitter for saying Obama lost the debate and Obama actually won. He then blamed twitter for Trumans win over Dewey....

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Sept 6, 2012:
​Obama: "The path we offer may be harder, but it leads to a better place." If that better place is Obama unemployed..then I agree 100%.
The BBC reported that Obama fighting for 'everyone to have American dream' ......Cool...cuz My American dream is Obama in prison.
More than 60 % say they disapprove of the way the president is handling the economy. The other 40% chose Crest
When, exactly, did the message evolve from "Hope" and "Change" to "Support Me Or My Friends Will Beat You To Death"?
"They talk about me like a dog!" --Obama. I don't...I love dogs:-)
​"You didn't elect me to tell you what you wanted to hear. You elected me to tell you the truth." ~ Obama. I guess this must be Opposites Day at the DNC.
​Hey, Obama, don't feel too bad. OJ's supporters gave up trying to defend him after awhile, too

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The President is SO busy...he has to SQUEEZE in his Top Secret Security Briefings.

At a meeting of his top staff, Obama read a news clip that said 78% of Americans do not know who the Vice President is. Biden raises his hand and says, "could you give us a hint?"

"In a new interview with Rolling Stone magazine, President Obama said he has Stevie Wonder, Bob Dylan, and the Rolling Stones on his iPod. Unfortunately, the question was “Do you have a plan to fix the economy?”" -Jimmy Fallon

"President Obama's approval rating dropped again. Things are so bad, Muslims are accusing him of being Christian." -Jay Leno

Each president has his own path to personal redemption. Bill Clinton came to Jesus, George W. Bush talked with Jesus, and Barack Obama fills in for Jesus on major holidays.

Soon everyone that works at CNN, ABC, NBC and CBS will be fired for using words from the dictionary

I can see November 2nd from my keyboard!

Walter Mondale said Obama needs to get rid of his "idiot boards." I thought he meant that Obama should get rid of his cabinet.

If you stand close enough to a liberal, you can hear the ocean.