Sentences with phrase «barack obama»

Jonathan Westin, NYCC's executive director, said that in 2008, he was working for Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN,) a now - defunct left - wing national organization and that the group endorsed former President Barack Obama for president.

For anyone (particularly African Americans) that might have hoped; perhaps even prayed, that the election of Barack Obama as President of the United States of America signaled an end to the racist principles this country was founded on and that are extant to this day are sadly mistaken.

During an address to the Ripon Society on Tuesday, Boehner said that Holtz needed a pep talk and apparently was distraught over the reelection of President Barack Obama in November.

To mobilize support for Barack Obama for president and work tirelessly on his behalf with phone banks and trips to battleground states by in - service and retired members.

The Huffington Post: Westboro Baptist Church To Obama On New Funeral Protest Law: There's «Prime Real Estate At 301 Feet» Members of the Westboro Baptist Church once again took to Twitter to react to the new law signed by President Barack Obama on Monday that will restrict one of the group's notorious activities: Picketing funerals of soldiers.

The only problem for the new president is that, just like with Barack Obama in the US, people expect too much from him.

Create new alliances and role models: One of the most interesting and visionary proposals during COP21 was Bill Gates» project, «Mission Innovation» supported by President Barack Obama as well as 20 countries and 38 prominent business leaders and investors.

Sure, the Internet may have helped elect Barack Obama President of the United States two years ago, but what has it done for us lately?

U.S. President Barack Obama said on Friday that he...

On January 20, 2009, with Senator Barack Obama elected as President, plug - in hybrids will have an advocate in the White House — and a staff that understands their benefits for economics, energy security and the environment.

Watch him as he sits but a few feet away from Barack Obama at the swearing in ceremony.

On June 2 of that year, former President Barack Obama signed the USA Freedom Act into law.

The joint federal and state initiative, which President Barack Obama announced in his State of the Union address Tuesday, will target wrongdoing by financial firms and seek criminal charges against individuals who violated the law, senior Justice Department officials said.

On the Democratic side, delegates are circulating petitions that put them on the ballot as official backers of Barack Obama at the Democratic National Convention later this year.

Listen to US president Barack Obama win over two members of the foreign press at the G20 summit in London:

With all the reporting on the Facebook / Cambridge Analytica data breach having been used to manipulate voters for Donald Trump in the 2016 election, the liberal media are silent about Barack Obama doing the same and more in 2012.

Throughout the presidential campaign, the leading Democrats have been speaking from a similar script on education — until this month, when U.S. Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois suggested that he could be persuaded to support private school vouchers.

Make eye contact — this is paramount, think about all the negative feedback Senator John McCain received from the public for his inability to make eye contact with Senator Barack Obama during the recent US Presidential debate.

Trump could be on track to spend as much as triple the time former President Barack Obama did on the golf course in his first year in office — and to play more than former President George W. Bush did in eight years in office.

But while the district had supported Barack Obama by 10 points in his presidential campaign, conservatives in the district were riled up, said Hultgren supporter Lee Lueking, a physicist at Fermilab whose self - described «conservative» views put him at odds with his congressman.

Just look at the fact that 18 - 24 yr olds gave us a dolt like Barack Obama in the White House.

In a 2007 speech, then - rising presidential candidate Barack Obama called the Harlem Children's Zone a model for combating urban poverty.

Former U.S. President Barack Obama speaks after receiving the 2017 Profile in Courage Award during a ceremony at the John F. Kennedy Library in Boston, Massachusetts, May 7, 2017.

President - elect Barack Obama called for doubling the nation's renewable energy production in three years in a Thursday speech asking Congress to support his economic stimulus plan.

«So far, they've failed at every state of this, and at every level of the organization,» said Ari Ratner, a former Barack Obama administration official who now runs Inside Revolution, a strategic communications firm.

Rep. Bill Owens won by 1.9 percent in a district in which President Barack Obama carried by 6.1 percent.

Also in 2012, voters in this congressional district voted for Barack Obama over Mitt Romney for president by a margin of 51 - 47 percent.

Fifty - four percent approve of the way Paterson is handling his job as governor, down ten points from last November, before Barack Obama announced that he was nominating Clinton to serve as secretary of state.

[17] Laura Hoptman, the curator of the New Museum show, decided that the portrait would only be put on view if Barack Obama won the 2008 election, as the New Museum is a non-partisan institution.

While the democrats led by Barack Obama campaigned on higher taxes overall, republicans said rates needed to remain low.

Trump's unexpected announcement that he is mulling the pardon of legendary boxer Jack Johnson for violating the Mann Act raises the obvious question: Why didn't Barack Obama do it first?

Meanwhile, back in DC, US President Barack Obama met with Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff to discuss strategies for fighting climate change, with a statement following announcing a new joint commitment from the two nations.

In his second inaugural address, Pres. Barack Obama said the U.S. must respond to the threat of climate change and lead the development of sustainable energy

Touting her foreign policy credentials and defense of Israel, Jewish leaders flocked to Clinton as she ran against Barack Obama in the Democratic primaries.

Or, as Clyde Williams, a former National Political Director for the Democratic National Committee under President Barack Obama who has twice run unsuccessfully for Rangel's seat put it: «Black people voted for Robert, white people vote for Micah and Dominicans voted for Marisol.»

It's possible that the election of Barack Obama last year, and in particular the way he harnessed social media to create a grassroots movement, has been over interpreted.

«Democrat Jack Davis also endorsed Barack Obama for President and took $ 6,000 from him during one of Davis» runs as a Democrat.

Responding to questions he said Barack Obama wanted Britain as a strong partner, which meant a United Kingdom remaining united and continuing as part of the European Union, and Labour would soon announce policies on student fees and higher education funding.

It'll be interesting to me that once you get to the general election, and everybody in the nations focused on this first major Election Day after Barack Obama became President.

As Senator Barack Obama told Christianity Today in January, some Democrats hadn't wanted to be seen with evangelicals.

When Barack Obama came into office, George W. Bush left him with two wars and an economy teetering on the brink of colossal disaster.

Democrat Barack Obama won District 3 by 11.2 points.

That consultant, Sherman Jewett, helped Miner craft messages on national issues, including preparing a «Supreme Court statement» after President Barack Obama nominated Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court last year.

There are signs that President - elect Barack Obama gets it.

On a warm summer day in 1989, a young lawyer named Michelle Robinson agreed to accompany a law firm associate named Barack Obama on an extended date.