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[Jan. 22nd, 2009|02:55 am] |
27 Barack Obama Icons
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| Who is the real Obama? |
[Jan. 20th, 2009|10:18 am] |
That was a repeated theme during the election. This is who I think he is.
Click on them to make them bigger. Which is best? I like the first couple.
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| Annoyed by the news... |
[Jan. 16th, 2009|01:37 pm] |
All the news seems to be covering is Bush and his pals. I have been waiting for that man to just go away since November of 2000! I even thought I would watch his speech, but was overcome with nausea after about one minute. I want the news to refocus on Obama, come on! This is one of the most important weekends in American history, forget Bush, he is history! So I will continue my little theme of posting some Obama photos because they cheer me up.
Ya, he knows how to use the computer.
Ops, I should have included this one in the group with Michelle.
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| The African American Studies Center |
[Jan. 16th, 2009|01:18 pm] |
From your fellow Obama supporter~
In celebration of next week’s Inauguration and in commemoration of Black History Month in February, we have made the Oxford African American Studies Center (AASC) freely available to the public until March 1. Visitors to the site’s home page – www.oxfordaasc.com – will see instructions on how to login with a special username & password combination (user: barackobama / pass: president) that will give them free, unlimited access to the site for the next 6 weeks.
Please take a look at the beautiful photo essay on Barack Obama that is on the site this month, and also feel free to share this free access with everyone you know! |
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| I hear increasing complaints out there about Obama... |
[Jan. 8th, 2009|12:49 am] |
I am glad that people are very interested in politics and paying attention.
But, I do think that we all need to keep a little perspective.
W. and the damage done
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2009/01/08/damage/
President Bush inherited a peaceful, prosperous America. As he exits, Salon consults experts in seven fields to try to assess the devastation.
By Vincent Rossmeier and Gabriel Winant
Jan. 8, 2009 | After a couple of presidential terms, mismanagement in every area of policy -- foreign, domestic, even extraterrestrial -- starts to add up. When George W. Bush entered the White House in January 2001, he inherited peace and prosperity. The military, the Constitution and New Orleans were intact and the country had a budget surplus of $128 billion. Now he's about to dash out the door, leaving a large, unpaid bill for his successors to pay.
To get a sense of what kind of balance is due, Salon spoke to experts in seven different fields. Wherever possible, we have tried to express the damage done in concrete terms -- sometimes in lives lost, but most often just in money spent and dollars owed. What follows is an incomplete inventory of eight years of mis- and malfeasance, but then a fuller accounting would run, um, somewhat longer than three pages.
THE ECONOMY
Until not too long ago, President Bush's supporters could be heard to argue that the economy was the unheralded success story of his administration. In 2006, Larry Kudlow called it "The Greatest Story Never Told." While praising Bush, Ramesh Ponnuru decried the unfairness of it all. "It seems to happen every week: Some new piece of good economic news comes out, and Republicans sink a little deeper in the polls." To share their admiration, it helped if you ignored the way the wealth was being distributed. Or if you were a repo man.
But the whole debate became moot on Sept. 15, with the collapse of Lehman Brothers. Now the economy may be the most burdensome of all the Bush legacies that Barack Obama will have to shoulder.
The current financial and economic crisis has grown so massive, consuming everything in sight, that one might be able to forget that it started with bad mortgages. Well, one could try to forget, as long as one still has a home, or is not among the nearly one in four mortgage-holders whose homes are worth less than the debt on their homes.
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| I am a little unsure what I think about this new plan for NASA |
[Jan. 2nd, 2009|01:15 pm] |
I like our space program and I am in general in favor of anything that can turbocharge it. Now if other nations such as China are already doing missile tests in space, is this merely escalation or a necessary evil? Would the smart thing be more cooperation to cut costs in space exploration rather than conflict?
Obama Moves to Counter China in Space With Pentagon-NASA Link
http://news.yahoo.com/s/bloomberg/20090102/pl_bloomberg/aovrno0oj41g;_ylt=AiWYIZQP6bdFhpjD_zA5sbgDW7oF
Jan. 2 (Bloomberg) -- President-elect Barack Obama will probably tear down long-standing barriers between the U.S.’s civilian and military space programs to speed up a mission to the moon amid the prospect of a new space race with China.
Obama’s transition team is considering a collaboration between the Defense Department and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration because military rockets may be cheaper and ready sooner than the space agency’s planned launch vehicle, which isn’t slated to fly until 2015, according to people who’ve discussed the idea with the Obama team.
The potential change comes as Pentagon concerns are rising over China’s space ambitions because of what is perceived as an eventual threat to U.S. defense satellites, the lofty battlefield eyes of the military.
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| The Real Visual Message of "Hope" Behind Barack Obama |
[Dec. 28th, 2008|08:52 pm] |
The Real Visual Message of “Hope” Behind Barack Obama
 “Hope” by Victorian-era artist G.F. Watts helped inspire Barack Obama to the presidency:
"To take the one string you have left and to have the audacity to hope ... that's the real word God will have us hear ... from Watts' painting," -- Reverend Jeremiah Wright from his famous sermon which deeply impacted Obama.
Now that the hype of the 2008 election is over the press has started to piece together topics that were missed during the gold rush-- or should I say media blitz?-- for information and headlines. One of those stories involves an artwork titled “Hope”. However, this image is most likely not the “Hope” you are thinking of-- as in the portrait of Obama titled “Hope” by controversial street artist Shepard Fairey. That “Hope” was caught on waves of media lightning. No, this influential image of “Hope” is from a different era-- Victorian to be exact. It seems that “Hope”, painted by G.F. Watts, is deeply embedded within the psyche of Barack Obama. So what exactly is the connection between Watts’ “Hope” and Obama? Apparently the Victorian painting inspired Obama’s controversial former pastor, Reverend Jeremiah Wright, to give a sermon to his congregation. That sermon was titled “The Audacity to Hope”. The sermon had a great impact on Obama who later mentioned it in his first book “Dreams of My Father”. As we all know, Obama changed his pastor’s phrase to “the audacity of hope” when he used it as the title for his speech during the Democratic National Convention in 2004. The phrase was later used as the title of Obama’s second book. "Hope", that is the “Hope“ by Watts not Fairey-- is currently on display at Guildhall Art Gallery in London. The painting will be on display until the spring of 2009.
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