Sentences with phrase «barack obama gets»

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

Barack Obama gets makeup applied at a presidential candidate forum in Lake Forest, Calif., on Aug. 16, 2008.

Today, of course, the commander in chief of the U.S. military is black, and President Barack Obama gets the best seats in the house.

Ah, Drudge: your one - stop source for racial fearmongering since, apparently, Barack Obama got elected.

One Voice helped to link V15 to 270 Strategies, a U.S. strategic consultancy run by Barack Obama get - out - the - vote alum Jeremy Bird, which was able to successfully use data analysis to boost turnout through field organizing.

Advocates are trying to convince Paterson that he can tax without fear: «Barack Obama got elected president, winning red states all over the country, on a platform of raising taxes on people who make $ 250,000 or more,» says State Senator Eric Schneiderman, whose latest proposal kicks in at $ 500,000 a year.

Barack Obama got them out twice, but he didn't do a lot for them, and he's not on the ticket this time.»

That's partially because Black Panther has made this slice of black nerd culture undeniably cool — but Barack Obama got there first.

After Barack Obama got elected, every major policy issue became subject to trench warfare.

I don't know how Barack Obama got dragged into this discussion, but I suppose when one has trouble addressing direct points a little diversion is in order, and what better way than to try and be seen as waving the Canadian flag around by disparaging an American President.

Not exact matches

Considering that President Barack Obama commuted just one person's sentence in his first term, the clemency initiative has significantly increased Tyler's previously slim chances of getting out.

• Speaking of Time's Up... Attorney Tina Tchen, who Bloomberg describes as «arguably the most well - connected person working in women's rights today, thanks to her six years as an assistant to President Barack Obama and as first lady Michelle Obama's chief of staff,» talks about why it was so important that Time's Up include a legal defense fund: «The fastest way to make sure that someone isn't getting bullied by a lawyer for someone rich and powerful is to make sure that person has a lawyer, too.»

In his most recent speech on the economy, President Barack Obama promised to «cut red tape for responsible families who want to get a mortgage, but the bank says no.»

«An event like Barack Obama approving the Keystone XL pipeline or the go - ahead for Northern Gateway would maybe help get the psychology changed,» says Hoskins.

The Trans - Pacific Partnership is on life support, and as President Barack Obama readies a long - shot push to get the free - trade deal through Congress this fall, he may be virtually the last elected official in Washington who hasn't given it up for dead.

Abe had put a lot of personal political capital at stake in beating on the agricultural lobby, and not just the farmers... but the [agricultural] banks, pension schemes, all the rest, to get support for a US - led TPP deal, and then Trump pulls out,» Bremmer said, referring to the Trans - Pacific Partnership, a sweeping trade deal, spearheaded by Barack Obama, that Trump exited days after taking office in January 2017.

Mark Ledwidge, a senior lecturer at Canterbury Christ Church University, agreed that many individuals got swept up in the Obama craze and that this hope for change created «expectations around Barack Obama» that «were highly problematic.»

Meeting Macron in the Oval Office, Trump heaped scorn on the 2015 nuclear accord negotiated by his predecessor, former president Barack Obama, and aimed at stopping Iran from getting a nuclear weapon.

The announcements from Sens. Mike Lee of Utah and Jerry Moran of Kansas left the Republican Party's long - promised efforts to get rid of President Barack Obama's health care legislation reeling.

It took President Barack Obama more than a year from his inauguration to get the Affordable Care Act passed by the skin of its teeth — despite enjoying massive Congressional majorities.

President Barack Obama will now have an easier time getting swift confirmation for Janet Yellen as chair of the Federal Reserve and for two other open spots on the central bank board.

Walden didn't get too specific when asked what he would demand from President Barack Obama and other Democrats in order to lift the debt ceiling.

Cleantech entrepreneurs got a jolt of energy today from President Barack Obama's rollout of climate - change initiatives.

Faced with the challenges of motivating people to take action on things like pension contributions, getting health insurance or going to college, Barack Obama didn't roll the dice on a Super Bowl spot.

In a persuasive speech before a joint session of Congress last night, President Barack Obama revealed his American Jobs Act, which he hopes will improve unemployment and get Americans working again.

Funny or Die, which has spoofed everything from Mary Poppins to Kim Kardashian's sex tape, got a boost in March when U.S. President Barack Obama appeared with Galifianakis on «Between Two Ferns» to discuss health care.

«I think that it's very dangerous to get into a tit - for - tat war in trade, because even if your goal is to be moderate and proportional in response, one thing can lead to another and it can get out of control,» Jacob J. Lew, the Treasury secretary under President Barack Obama, told CNBC last week.

For instance, George Washington University political scientist John Sides found that the white working - class voters who had first backed Barack Obama only to vote for Trump in 2016 were already moving toward the Republican Party before the campaign got underway.

Mr. Trump says he would greenlight Keystone XL, the cross-border pipeline project that President Barack Obama rejected in November of 2015 following a multiyear push to get it approved.

There is no better way to get things done than through the meeting of top leaders, as shown by the example of Modi and President Barack Obama.

On paper, the TransCanada Corporation now has the Trump administration's blessings to add hundreds of miles of pipeline to allow hundreds of thousands of gallons of crude produced by the Alberta tar sands to flow daily into the U.S., a permission twice denied by President Barack Obama two years ago (by veto and by outright denial of its permit), but it's premature to assume the project will actually get built.

With the first presidential debate of the 2012 election set to kick off Wednesday, Americans may soon get a clearer picture of where President Barack Obama and GOP candidate Mitt Romney stand on housing and a better sense of the policies that they might implement.

National carriers had not been able to get a deal through under President Barack Obama.

Natalie Heimel and Ed Mallue Jr. are two Army captains whose planned wedding on the gorgeous golf course on Marine Corps Base Hawaii got suddenly bumped by a game of golf President Barack Obama was playing with some colleagues.

Higher education economist extraordinaire Richard Vedder asks whether the cost of higher education will be an issue this campaign season and thinks that Barack Obama is getting his ducks in a row to make it one.

The controversy began after word got out of a Republican Super PAC's proposal to try to put a spotlight on President Barack Obama's fiery former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright, Jr., just like in 2008.

CNN's Ben Wedeman gloats over what President Barack Obama likely won't get a chance to see on his visit to the Vatican on Thursday.

Huffington Post: Westboro Baptist Church Gets Permit To Protest President Barack Obama Inauguration The Westboro Baptist Church has secured a permit to protest the second inauguration of President Barack Obama.

I guess that in a world where war criminals continue to commit genocide in Sudan, where dictators suppress religion freedom in China, where people suffer from extreme poverty under the corrupt government of Zimbabwe, where sovereign nations are getting invaded by power - hungry Russian leaders, and where our own government exaggerated intelligence in order to occupy Iraq — Barack Obama is God's biggest concern, worthy of a little extra attention.

The challenge is to get ready for the next Barack Obama.

He said Wednesday that he expects that the news media will make Mormonism more of an issue in an attempt to get independent voters to support President Barack Obama.

Jon your statement is purely racist to say the world is better off without blacks, but you are a stupid person, your president is black, Barack Obama is a black man and a good one to be honest so your stupid statement that the world is better off without blacks is just stupid and you should go to a wall and run into it and then you might get some common sense..

«This, I believe, is the real evangelical disaster — not that Barack Obama is president and Mitt Romney is not, but that evangelicalism has gotten so enmeshed with politics, its success or failure can be gauged by an election.»

From Sarah Palin's charge that Barack Obama «pals around with terrorists,» to supporters hoisting «NO - BAMA» signs that call Obama a «socialist» and «liar,» to boos, raised middle - fingers and even racial slurs directed at members of the media, it's getting completely out of hand, and McCain has done little to stop it.

Land said he worried that when President Barack Obama's re-election campaign looks at the polling numbers, they will realize that Obama «has got no choice if he wants to get re-elected but to take the focus off of issues and start saying, «Well, my opponent's worse than I would be.»»

I got a letter, a signed letter, from Senator Barack Obama the other day ¯ me and several million other Americans.

Barack Obama's snark about folks clinging to their guns and Bibles because they can't handle post-modernity got a mulligan from a star - struck press corps; but among those paying attention that elitist smackdown put the final nail in the coffin of Obama - the - unifier, the trope Obama had exploited since his first appearance on the national stage at the 2004 Democratic convention.

I think honesty and earnestness were qualities people thought they were getting with Barack Obama.

Bill Clinton getting his semen on Monica's dress and so forth, or the continued bald - faced lying by Barack Obama on every other issue under the sun, and his use of premeditated and carefully orchestrated lies to get his major legislation passed?

It's great to see that many republicans are getting behind Barack Obama.