Barack Obama

October 22, 2024

Deion Sanders talks to Barack Obama after Colorado’s victory in Arizona

Colorado football coach Deion Sanders took some time out of his postgame news conference in Arizona Saturday to address a former president of the United States. “President Obama is everything to me,” Sanders said after his team beat Arizona in Tucson Saturday, 34-7. “I mean, I love him, I admire him. I respect him tremendously. But I heard…
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October 21, 2024

Harris campaign: Obama finding it difficult with young black voters

If there’s a prototypical Kamala Harris voter it might seem to be Charles Johnson, a 23-year-old Black college student. Johnson is informed and politically engaged; he went to hear former President Barack Obama speak Friday at a Democratic campaign rally on the University of Arizona campus. Yet he isn’t all that impressed with Obama, the…
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August 21, 2024

Why Obama is starting a political movement

“Fair to say, this is not your typical election,” Barack Obama told a packed political convention about to make history by nominating a woman for president. That was July 2016, as Obama was leaving the presidency, extolling the talents of Hillary Clinton, and warning of the dangers of Donald Trump, who was widely assumed by…
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July 26, 2024

Barack and Michelle Obama endorse Harris for 2024 presidential race

Former President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama threw their support behind Vice President Kamala Harris’ bid for the White House on Friday. The Harris campaign announced the endorsement with a video showing the vice president on a phone call with the Obamas. In the video, Michelle Obama said she is proud of Harris and that this election will…
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June 28, 2024

Biden should step aside or risk ‘political suicide’, ex-diplomat says

Joe Biden should “give way to the next generation” and stop “stubbornly sticking on”, a former US diplomat has said. Brett Bruen, former White House director of global engagement under Barack Obama, said the president of America “cannot just be strong on the teleprompter”. “You have to be strong in those debates. You have to…
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June 23, 2023

Ukraine rebuffs Obama’s comments on Russia’s annexation of Crimea

Ukraine’s presidential adviser, Mykhailo Podolyak, on Friday rebuffed comments by former US President Barack Obama on Russia’s annexation of Crimea during an interview with CNN. “If Mr. @BarackObama publicly states that #Russia’s annexation of #Crimea in 2014… was ‘legal and justified,’ then we should not be surprised that today there is a full-scale Russian aggression…
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November 8, 2021

COP26: Obama slams China and Russia for ‘unethical practices’

Former United States President Barack Obama has criticised Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin for not joining other global leaders at the COP26 climate crisis summit in Glasgow. “I have to confess. It was particularly discouraging to see the leaders of two of the world’s largest emitters, China and Russia, decline to…
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December 5, 2020

Which jerseys are setting records at sports auction?

Historic jerseys from the careers of Michael Jordan, Colin Kaepernick and former U.S. President Barack Obama set sales records at an auction of sports memorabilia this week, Julien’s Auctions said on Friday. The official National Basketball Association jersey given to Jordan on the day he signed with the Chicago Bulls in 1984 sold for $320,000,…
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September 10, 2019

What the heck is going on between Obama and Trump?

U.S. President Donald Trump is facing a crowded field of 2020 Democratic presidential candidates, but when the president speaks, it is Barack Obama – his predecessor – who takes the brunt of Trump’s barbs and insults. Trump has criticized the former president on issues ranging from U.S. policy in Syria to trade negotiations with China…
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February 27, 2019

Britain after Brexit: A Nation Divided

For a long time, Britons who wanted their country to leave the European Union were regarded almost as mentally ill by those who wanted it to stay. The leavers didn’t have an opinion; they had a pathology. Since one doesn’t argue with pathology, it wasn’t necessary for the remainers to answer the leavers with more…
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December 31, 2018

Barack and Michelle Obama named America’s most admired persons

In an annual poll conducted since 1946, the former first couple–Barack and Michelle Obama–were ranked as America’s most admired man and woman. Image: Barack and Michelle Obama For the 9th consecutive year, former U.S. President Barack Obama won the top spot as among America’s most admired men in Gallup’s annual poll. His wife…
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November 26, 2018

Trump angry with CBS News for trashing America’s family separation policy

The U.S. president, Donald Trump, is unhappy with negative media publications on America’s border control and family separation laws. In his Sunday tweets, Trump ranted about “60 Minutes”, a CBS show which criticized his administration’s executive order that resulted in separating over 5,000 U.S.-resident children from their families. “@60Minutes did a phony story about…
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October 24, 2018

How the U.S. Secret Service foiled terrorist attacks on Hillary Clinton, Obama and CNN

The U.S. Secret Service said Wednesday suspicious packages with what appeared to be live explosive devices were sent to addresses of former President Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and CNN. The agency said said it recovered a package addressed to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at her home with former President Bill Clinton in Westchester County, N.Y. “We are fine, thanks…
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November 7, 2017

Barack Obama’s statement on Texas Church Shooting

A heartless gunman opened fire at the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, killing 26 people and wounding 20. With the unfortunate normalcy of mass shootings in the U.S., the aftermath usually involves a polarized debate between foregoing politics while the nation heals, and, quite literally, jumping the gun on gun control reform. With each mass shooting…
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September 4, 2017

Read Obama’s beautiful Letter to Donald Trump

Shortly before his exit from the Oval Office, former US President Barack Obama left a brotherly advice for his successor Donald J. Trump. Obama, who served in the US Senate for Illinois (2005 – 2008), left his beautiful letter at the Resolute Desk with hopes that it would inspire the billionaire president to greatness. And…
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January 24, 2017

Donald Trump’s plan to move U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem will spark war

Donald Trump made a promise to Israel during his campaign period, saying he will relocate the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem once he becomes President of the United States of America. Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu We cannot continue to let Israel be treated with such total disdain and disrespect. They used to…
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