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"Barack Hussein Obama II (... born August 4, 1961) is the forty-fourth and current President of the United States of America. He is the first African American to hold the office. Obama was the junior United States Senator from Illinois from January 3, 2005 until his resignation on November 16, 2008, following his election to the presidency. He was sworn in as President on January 20, 2009 in an inaugural ceremony at the U.S. Capitol. ..."
"Barack Hussein Obama II (... born August 4, 1961) is the forty-fourth and current President of the United States of America. He is the first African American to hold the office. Obama was the junior United States Senator from Illinois from January 3, 2005 until his resignation on November 16, 2008, following his election to the presidency. He was sworn in as President on January 20, 2009 in an inaugural ceremony at the U.S. Capitol. ..."
Articles
Open Letter to Barack Obama, by Walter Block, 16 May 2008
Related Topic: John McCain
Explains why in wartime foreign policy is more important than economics or civil liberties and offers some advice for Senator Obama
"Foreign policy in my view is more important than either economics or civil liberties. ... And, in this area, you stand head and shoulders above the other two major candidates. ... You are different. I discern ... that beneath your ultra-liberal (socialist) voting record, and mindless demagogic sloganeering ... there is a real concern for people, particularly the poor."
Related Topic: John McCain
Explains why in wartime foreign policy is more important than economics or civil liberties and offers some advice for Senator Obama
"Foreign policy in my view is more important than either economics or civil liberties. ... And, in this area, you stand head and shoulders above the other two major candidates. ... You are different. I discern ... that beneath your ultra-liberal (socialist) voting record, and mindless demagogic sloganeering ... there is a real concern for people, particularly the poor."
Substance, not style, by Daniel Koffler, 9 Feb 2008
Related Topics: Free Trade, Health Care
Contrasts several of Obama's issue positions with those of Hillary Clinton and argues his approach could be called left-libertarianism
"Perhaps it goes without saying that Obama's belief in freedom in labour markets and freedom in capital markets, sets him apart from the Republican field as well as the Democrats. ... Obama and Goolsbee propose something entirely different - not a triangulation, but a basis for crafting public policy orthogonal to the traditional liberal-conservative axis."
Related Topics: Free Trade, Health Care
Contrasts several of Obama's issue positions with those of Hillary Clinton and argues his approach could be called left-libertarianism
"Perhaps it goes without saying that Obama's belief in freedom in labour markets and freedom in capital markets, sets him apart from the Republican field as well as the Democrats. ... Obama and Goolsbee propose something entirely different - not a triangulation, but a basis for crafting public policy orthogonal to the traditional liberal-conservative axis."
Cartoons
Declaration of Thingamajig, by Mark Fiore, 22 Jun 2011
Related Topics: Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Pakistan, Yemen
On thewars ... hostilities ... thingamajigs of the U.S. empire
Related Topics: Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Pakistan, Yemen
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Videos
Military Times: Obama--contractors in security-force
Related Topic: The State
Senator Obama interviewed by editorial board of the Military Times newspapers, discussing the use of private military contractors like Blackwater
"... I think you're privatizing something that is, what essentially sets a nation-state apart, which is the monopoly on violence ..."