Sentences with phrase «obama achieve the change»

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It is my hope that President - elect Obama will take the petition seriously and, with the help of Tom Daschle, make the positive changes needed to create an environment where not only can we achieve our national breastfeeding targets, but women and their families can be successful in reaching their personal breastfeeding goals too.

Though immensely popular, social networking sites still didn't reach everyone online in 2008, and I suspect that they achieved some of their prominence in media coverage of the election because they were visible — you could SEE how many «friends» Barack Obama had at any given moment, and you could SEE it when thousands of people changed their middle names on Facebook to «Hussein» in solidarity against Republican attempts to brand Obama as «other.»

Given the strong union support for the Obama presidency, there was great speculation within education circles throughout the fall as to whether the new president would turn out to be a reformer — willing to challenge existing practices and the teachers unions in order to achieve dramatic changes in schools — or play it politically safe by backing programs that brought only marginal changes.

In this next election, we need to decide whether we are going to build on the successes of the Obama administration — which has used a combination of bold executive actions and international diplomacy to achieve action on climate change even in the presence of intransigence, denial and outright hostility from congressional republicans — or whether we are going to retreat back into the energy - equivalent of the stone age, continuing to degrade our planet through the profligate burning of increasingly dangerous fossil carbon even as the rest of the world moves forward, embracing the renewable energy revolution destined to be the hallmark of the 21st century.

National green leaders, who had spent the previous year insisting that progress toward capping U.S. carbon emissions would ensure the successful conclusion of a global emissions - reduction agreement in Copenhagen, pretended like they'd never suggested that the United Nation's climate change conference could ever achieve such an outcome and praised Obama for ditching the United Nations and striking out to reach an agreement — any agreement — among major emitters.

AP debunks Obama on climate claims: THE FACTS: «Obama failed to get a global warming bill through Congress when both Houses were controlled by Democrats in 2010» — AP: «With Republicans in control of the House, the chances of a bill to limit the gases blamed for global warming and to create a market for businesses to trade pollution credits are close to zero... And while there are still other ways to address climate change without Congress, it's questionable regulation alone can achieve the reductions needed to start curbing global warming»