Sentences with phrase «election of president barack»

And with the election of President Barack Obama, «post-black» has been invoked in the wider debate about the state of race, race relations and racial opportunity in America.

I had philosophical disagreements with some of my New Schools colleagues, and I wasn't nearly as excited about the election of President Barack Obama back in 2008 as they were.

The election of President Barack Obama and his appointment of Arne Duncan, former CEO of Chicago Public Schools, as the U.S. Secretary of Education, marked the pinnacle of hope for our work in education reform.

Adopted in 1998 — before Sept. 11, the Iraq war and the election of President Barack Obama — they are outdated.

The election of President Barack Obama was stranger than fiction.

In 2008 Democrats took control of Congress and along with the election of President Barack Obama, controlled the executive and legislative branches in Washington.

Kirwan said he lost two years ago in a «tidal wave» of Democratic victories starting at the top with the election of President Barack Obama.

Frozen for more than half a century, relations between the two nations exhibited small signs of a warming after the 2008 election of President Barack Obama.

He added that the United States is in a new era where progressive politics and civil rights have dovetailed, evident in the elections of President Barack Obama and Mayor Bill de Blasio.

Not exact matches

The CNN anchor moderated a debate between President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney during the 2012 election and took a lot of heat for doing exactly what Fox News» Wallace has said a moderator should avoid.

Republicans hope to gain political traction before congressional elections in November by accusing the White House of muddying the facts to protect President Barack Obama after the U.S. Ambassador to Libya, Christopher Stevens, and three other Americans were killed in the attacks by Islamic militants.

Andrew Wright, a professor at Savannah Law School who was an associate in the White House counsel's office under President Barack Obama, said he was «glad to see the Trump administration acknowledging the legitimacy of the findings of our intelligence community and the Mueller grand jury: that Russians illegally interfered with our elections.»

Since Macri's election at the end of last year, both US President Barack Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry have visited Argentina.

WASHINGTON (AP)-- President Barack Obama said Saturday that the country is «a better place today» than when he graduated from college more than 30 years ago, citing his historic election as «one indicator of how attitudes have changed.»

«The thing I have to mention is that Barack Obama when he was president found out about this in terms of if it were Russia, found out about it in August, now the election was in November, that's a lot of time he did nothing about it.

In the 2012 election cycle, Mitt Romney reaped nearly three times as much of Wall Street donations as President Barack Obama.

Two weeks after his first post election meeting with CEOs, President Barack Obama is bringing another group of chief executives to the executive mansion, and this time it will include one of the highest ranking CEOs on Wall Street: Lloyd Blankfein of Goldman Sachs.

It was a rare occasion for FLOTUS, who explained that it was only the second time since President Barack Obama's 2008 election that she had ridden in the passenger seat of a car.

But this Presidents Day weekend, the commander - in - chief fired off an unprecedented 14 tweets about the Russia investigation — declaring his innocence, suggesting the FBI could have prevented last week's Florida school shooting if it hadn't been working on the investigation, blaming Democrats and former President Barack Obama for Russia's interference in the election, and accusing the former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton of colluding with Russia.

In early January, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence released a declassified report documenting the results of the investigation former President Barack Obama had requested into Russian election interference.

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.

WASHINGTON — Former president Barack Obama's top campaign aide on Tuesday rejected comparisons between Obama's extensive use of Facebook data to turn out voters in the 2012 election and the actions of Cambridge Analytica, a data and political intelligence firm ejected last week by Facebook in a growing controversy over social - media privacy.

The race for New York's 9th Congressional District has attracted national attention because polls give Republican candidate Robert Turner an edge, a potential sign of trouble for President Barack Obama and for the Democrats ahead of next year's election.

A majority of Americans say that President Barack Obama's religious beliefs are either somewhat different or very different than their own, a poll on religion and the recent elections found.

CNN: Liberal Catholics use election results to battle bishops Emboldened by the re-election of President Barack Obama, a cadre of liberal Catholic activists and groups is waging a campaign alleging that America's Catholic bishops are out of touch with Catholic laypeople.

The final Swing State USA Today / Gallup Poll survey before the election, and President Barack Obama and Governor Mitt Romney's titanic tug - of - war has resulted in the deadest possible heat.

The final Swing State USA Today / Gallup Poll survey before the election, and President Barack Obama and Governor Mitt Romney's titanic tug - of - war has resulted in the deadest...

When Republican Governor Mitt Romney lost the presidential election earlier this month to incumbent Barack Obama, Al Mohler, president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary classified the election as «an evangelical disaster.»

Some analysts have dismissed the theory of the Bradley effect, or argued that it may have existed in past elections, but not in more recent ones, such as when Barack Obama was elected and reelected President of the United States in 2008 and 2012 respectively.

President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama sought to lift Hillary Clinton to victory while Donald Trump warned she was the «face of failure» and predicted he would blow her away in Tuesday's election.

Since the Supreme Court has now prevented itself from acknowledging the question of whether Barack H. Obama is or is not an Article II «natural born citizen» based on the Kenyan / British citizenship of Barack Obama's father at the time of his birth (irrespective of whether Barack Obama is deemed a «citizen» born in Hawaii or otherwise) as a prerequisite to qualifying to serve as President of the United States under the Constitution — the Court having done so at least three times and counting, first before the Nov 4 general election and twice before the Dec 15 vote of the College of Electors — it would seem appropriate, if not necessary, for all Executive Branch departments and agencies to secure advance formal advice from the United States Department of Justice Office of Legal Counsel as to how to respond to expected inquiries from federal employees who are pledged to «support and defend the Constitution of the United States» as to whether they are governed by laws, regulations, orders and directives issued under Mr. Obama during such periods that said employees, by the weight of existing legal authority and prior to a decision by the Supreme Court, believe in good faith that Mr. Obama is not an Article II «natural born citizen».

In 2012, after the election, then President Barack Obama made a deal that repealed 25 % of the Bush tax cuts and allowed the emergency tax cuts from the 2010 deal to expire.

Former President Barack Obama warned Trump against hiring Michael Flynn to be part of his national security team when Obama met with his successor in the Oval Office two days after the November election, two former Obama administration officials said.

President Trump, in a series of angry and defiant tweets this morning, sought to shift the blame to Democrats for Russia's virtual war to meddle in the 2016 election, saying that President Barack Obama had not done enough to stop the interference and denying that he had ever suggested that Moscow might not have been involved.

At the beginning of her town hall on Trump's first 30 days at the Union Temple of Brooklyn in Prospect Heights, Clarke bluntly described Trump's presidency as the product of an «illegally hacked, illegitimate election» — a reference to Russian President Vladimir Putin's campaign of cyber interference in the election process confirmed by the intelligence community and former President Barack Obama.

President Barack Obama advised Donald Trump on Tuesday to stop whining about voter fraud ahead of the elections.

The election of Barack Obama as US president in 2008 brought new hope as he undertook to bring the two sides together and looked forward to welcoming Palestine as a full member of the United Nations in September 2011.

On the eve of the midterm elections, Senate Democrats are staring down a hole dug by President Barack Obama's disapproval ratings and an unforgiving map packed with red states.

Former Mayor Ed Koch bucked his own party in endorsing Republican Bob Turner Monday and not state Assemblyman David Weprin (D - Little Neck) to replace former U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner in September's special election, saying he wanted to «send a message» to President Barack Obama that voters in the district disapprove of his policy toward Israel.

This development arose when President Buhari's «Change Begins With Me» campaign was severely criticised following a discovery that some of the quotes used in his message matched those used by the United States President Barack Obama in his 2008 election victory speech.

He first won a special election in 2009 to win the seat vacated by former Rep. John McHugh, a Republican who stepped down to become Secretary of the Army in President Barack Obama's administration.

Slaughter says the 2008 elections not only put President - elect Barack Obama in the White House but also increased the ranks of senators and representatives who share her opposition to funding abstinence education.

A spending bill that funds watchdog agencies overseeing Wall Street will offer lawmakers one of their last opportunities to undercut President Barack Obama's signature financial overhaul before the November elections.

After Mr Mahama had congratulated Nana Akufo - Addo for emerging the winner in the 2016 election, some renowned world leaders and heads of some multinational organisations including the President of the world bank, Barbara Pedmore of the Black Reconstruction Group, Barack Obama among others, commended him for his humility and display of maturity and predicted that - based on his achievements within his four years in office, how he carried himself on the global stage, Ghanaians will soon crave for his return.

Yuh - Line Niou, the Working Families Party candidate for ex-Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's Lower Manhattan seat, claimed to have voted for President Barack Obama in Harlem during a NY1 debate last night — but Board of Elections documents indicate she didn't cast a ballot in the election.

In the wake of a report accusing Russia of orchestrating a campaign to interfere in the 2016 presidential election, President Barack Obama acknowledged that his administration hadn't adequately recognized the threat posed to democratic societies by hacking and misinformation.

Offering no evidence or details, Trump on Saturday accused former President Barack Obama of having Trump Tower telephones «wire tapped» during last year's election — a claim that an Obama spokesman said was false.

As the country waits to hear who its next president will be Tuesday incumbent Barack Obama or Republican hopeful Mitt Romney, a team of Post staffers will be analyzing exit polling and other data — from state and county election returns to updates from Post correspondents — to call results in key states in the presidential race, in addition to closely - watched House and Senate races.

Pataki gave a fiery speech against President Barack Obama, and says this year's election is a fight for the very «soul» of the nation.

The 2009 special election received significant national attention, and was alternately described as «a referendum on President Barack Obama» and «a fight over the identity of the Republican Party.»