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The US President greeted the Prime Minister with a handshake and a pat on the back as he circled the horseshoe-shaped council table to meet the assembled world leaders.

10 Vote(s) ]]> http://www.theobamanews.com/ObamaNews/obama-promotes-new-ways-to-save-for-retirement/ http://www.theobamanews.com/ObamaNews/obama-promotes-new-ways-to-save-for-retirement/ Sat, 05 Sep 2009 07:01:35 CDT http://www.theobamanews.com/ObamaNews/obama-promotes-new-ways-to-save-for-retirement/
One initiative that President Barack Obama outlined in his weekly radio and Internet address Saturday will allow people to have their federal tax refunds sent as savings bonds. Others are meant to require workers to take action to stay out of an employer-run savings program rather than having to take action to join it.

10 Vote(s) ]]> http://www.theobamanews.com/ObamaNews/liberals-push-obama-for-health-care-public-option/ http://www.theobamanews.com/ObamaNews/liberals-push-obama-for-health-care-public-option/ Sat, 05 Sep 2009 06:57:09 CDT http://www.theobamanews.com/ObamaNews/liberals-push-obama-for-health-care-public-option/
Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont., held a nearly two-hour teleconference with his small group of negotiators, who call themselves the "Bipartisan Six." Afterward, Baucus was careful to leave the door open to a long-sought

10 Vote(s) ]]> http://www.theobamanews.com/ObamaNews/obama-school-speech-under-assault-from-conservatives/ http://www.theobamanews.com/ObamaNews/obama-school-speech-under-assault-from-conservatives/ Sat, 05 Sep 2009 05:59:30 CDT http://www.theobamanews.com/ObamaNews/obama-school-speech-under-assault-from-conservatives/
Republicans and other conservatives, such as the Fox News presenter Glenn Beck, buoyed by their success in opposing his health reform plan, opened up a new front over the schools broadcast. One Republican accused Obama of seeking to spread socialist ideology.

11 Vote(s) ]]> http://www.theobamanews.com/ObamaNews/obama-holds-town-hall-meeting-today-the-debate-over-the-health-care-reform-bill-hr3200-continues/ http://www.theobamanews.com/ObamaNews/obama-holds-town-hall-meeting-today-the-debate-over-the-health-care-reform-bill-hr3200-continues/ Tue, 11 Aug 2009 04:51:59 CDT http://www.theobamanews.com/ObamaNews/obama-holds-town-hall-meeting-today-the-debate-over-the-health-care-reform-bill-hr3200-continues/
9 Vote(s) ]]> http://www.theobamanews.com/ObamaNews/conspiracy-watch-does-obamas-health-care-logo-resemble-a-nazi-symbol/ http://www.theobamanews.com/ObamaNews/conspiracy-watch-does-obamas-health-care-logo-resemble-a-nazi-symbol/ Thu, 06 Aug 2009 05:08:57 CDT http://www.theobamanews.com/ObamaNews/conspiracy-watch-does-obamas-health-care-logo-resemble-a-nazi-symbol/
9 Vote(s) ]]> http://www.theobamanews.com/ObamaNews/obama-visits-white-house-press-room-on-birthday/ http://www.theobamanews.com/ObamaNews/obama-visits-white-house-press-room-on-birthday/ Tue, 04 Aug 2009 04:58:17 CDT http://www.theobamanews.com/ObamaNews/obama-visits-white-house-press-room-on-birthday/
Obama emerged unannounced in the White House briefing room where Thomas sat in the front-row seat reserved in her name. He led the room full of reporters in singing "Happy Birthday to You," gave a plate full of cupcakes to Thomas, watched her blow

10 Vote(s) ]]> http://www.theobamanews.com/ObamaNews/white-house-launches-counteroffensive-over-drudge-report-link/ http://www.theobamanews.com/ObamaNews/white-house-launches-counteroffensive-over-drudge-report-link/ Tue, 04 Aug 2009 03:55:50 CDT http://www.theobamanews.com/ObamaNews/white-house-launches-counteroffensive-over-drudge-report-link/
11 Vote(s) ]]> http://www.theobamanews.com/ObamaNews/barack-obama-joker-socialism-poster-denounced-as-racist-/ http://www.theobamanews.com/ObamaNews/barack-obama-joker-socialism-poster-denounced-as-racist-/ Tue, 04 Aug 2009 03:18:32 CDT http://www.theobamanews.com/ObamaNews/barack-obama-joker-socialism-poster-denounced-as-racist-/
It is unknown who created and distributed the image, which some believe has racial overtones because it shows Mr Obama as a black-and-white minstrel in reverse.

11 Vote(s) ]]> http://www.theobamanews.com/ObamaBlogs/kenyan-birth-certificate-obama-birthers-latch-on-to-forgery/ http://www.theobamanews.com/ObamaBlogs/kenyan-birth-certificate-obama-birthers-latch-on-to-forgery/ Mon, 03 Aug 2009 03:01:15 CDT http://www.theobamanews.com/ObamaBlogs/kenyan-birth-certificate-obama-birthers-latch-on-to-forgery/
Oddly, the same people who are so skeptical of Obama's Hawaii birth certificate are willing to accept this new document despite many flaws, documented by the Washington Independent's Dave Weigel and Markos Moulitsas.

Here are just some of the flaws:

11 Vote(s) ]]> http://www.theobamanews.com/ObamaNews/obama-joker-poster-causes-stir-on-web/ http://www.theobamanews.com/ObamaNews/obama-joker-poster-causes-stir-on-web/ Mon, 03 Aug 2009 02:55:47 CDT http://www.theobamanews.com/ObamaNews/obama-joker-poster-causes-stir-on-web/
The Obama Joker poster, with the word "socialism" in bold, dark letters printed under the image of his face, has caused a stir on the Web and was linked prominently on the Drudge Report.

11 Vote(s) ]]> http://www.theobamanews.com/ObamaNews/peace-requires-justice-why-obama%E2%80%99s-middle-east-%E2%80%98peace-process%E2%80%99-is-going-nowhere/ http://www.theobamanews.com/ObamaNews/peace-requires-justice-why-obama%E2%80%99s-middle-east-%E2%80%98peace-process%E2%80%99-is-going-nowhere/ Sun, 02 Aug 2009 06:14:55 CDT http://www.theobamanews.com/ObamaNews/peace-requires-justice-why-obama%E2%80%99s-middle-east-%E2%80%98peace-process%E2%80%99-is-going-nowhere/
But even a full glass is not very useful if you need to fill an entire reservoir.

A common assumption is that earlier US administrations were insufficiently "engaged". Obama's early moves, including the appointment of former Northern Ireland mediator George Mitchell as his envoy, have therefore been widely welcomed.


1 Vote(s) ]]> http://www.theobamanews.com/ObamaNews/jamaica-backs-barack-obama-over-prince-charles-as-head-uk-news--the-observer/ http://www.theobamanews.com/ObamaNews/jamaica-backs-barack-obama-over-prince-charles-as-head-uk-news--the-observer/ Sun, 02 Aug 2009 06:10:22 CDT http://www.theobamanews.com/ObamaNews/jamaica-backs-barack-obama-over-prince-charles-as-head-uk-news--the-observer/
Instead Commonwealth citizens prefer the idea of a headship that rotates between member states. Half of those polled in India said they wanted that option compared to just 15% who backed Charles. In Jamaica, President Obama had more support than Charles as a future leader.


1 Vote(s) ]]> http://www.theobamanews.com/ObamaNews/obama-innovation-key-to-improving-the-economy/ http://www.theobamanews.com/ObamaNews/obama-innovation-key-to-improving-the-economy/ Sun, 02 Aug 2009 06:08:10 CDT http://www.theobamanews.com/ObamaNews/obama-innovation-key-to-improving-the-economy/
"Innovation has been essential to our prosperity in the past, and it will be essential to our prosperity in the future," Obama said Saturday in his weekly radio and Internet address.



1 Vote(s) ]]> http://www.theobamanews.com/ObamaNews/obama-campaign-style-unchanged-as-president/ http://www.theobamanews.com/ObamaNews/obama-campaign-style-unchanged-as-president/ Sun, 02 Aug 2009 06:05:42 CDT http://www.theobamanews.com/ObamaNews/obama-campaign-style-unchanged-as-president/
Yet, there he was last Wednesday, jetting to this Virginia town to talk to supermarket workers from a platform between the bakery and deli. Earlier, he bounded onto a flag-draped stage at a North Carol

1 Vote(s) ]]> http://www.theobamanews.com/ObamaNews/barack-obamas-beer-barrel-diplomacy-aims-to-defuse-a-race-row/ http://www.theobamanews.com/ObamaNews/barack-obamas-beer-barrel-diplomacy-aims-to-defuse-a-race-row/ Sun, 02 Aug 2009 06:03:05 CDT http://www.theobamanews.com/ObamaNews/barack-obamas-beer-barrel-diplomacy-aims-to-defuse-a-race-row/

1 Vote(s) ]]> http://www.theobamanews.com/ObamaNews/obama-sees-us-economy-improving/ http://www.theobamanews.com/ObamaNews/obama-sees-us-economy-improving/ Sun, 02 Aug 2009 06:00:18 CDT http://www.theobamanews.com/ObamaNews/obama-sees-us-economy-improving/
The economy shrank at an annual pace of 1% in the April-to-June quarter, government figures have shown.



1 Vote(s) ]]> http://www.theobamanews.com/ObamaNews/obama-warns-recession-is-far-from-over/ http://www.theobamanews.com/ObamaNews/obama-warns-recession-is-far-from-over/ Sun, 02 Aug 2009 05:57:42 CDT http://www.theobamanews.com/ObamaNews/obama-warns-recession-is-far-from-over/
Warning the US recession was "even deeper than anyone thought", he said: "Important steps that we have taken over the last six months have helped put the brakes on this recession.



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