Barack’s YouTube address
Aggregated from: England for Obama
This week: job losses, lightbulbs and crumbling schools: Click here to view the embedded video. ...
go to article »December 9, 2008
David Plouffe rallies the troops
Aggregated from: England for Obama
*Insert sound of bugle here* Yes, Obama’s election campaign may be over - but we, the people his supporters, haven’t been forgotten. An email from Obama’s campaign manager, David Plouffe, arrived in my inbox yesterday. Saying: “Andrea — (I love it when they use my first...
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The Mall will be open to crowds on inauguration day!
Aggregated from: England for Obama
That’s right - they’re expecting such huge crowds for the inauguration of Barack Obama that they’re extending the viewing area to the Mall in London, England! Wait. What? You mean there’s another Mall? “In keeping with its pledge to make the inauguration of President-el...
go to article »December 4, 2008
Barack Obama’s verdict on David Cameron: ‘He’s a lightweight’
Aggregated from: England for Obama
Just when you thought BHO couldn’t go up in your estimation… From The Grauniad: “According to tomorrow’s New Statesman, Barack Obama was unimpressed by his encounter with David Cameron earlier this year and commented: “What a lightweight!” According to James Macin...
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Obamania in the “arc of instability”
Aggregated from: The World Wants Obama Coalition
Refering to the "arc of instability from the Mediterranean to Islamabad", veteran British columnist Simon Jenkins, on a visit to Lebanon, writes: "At last this exhausted region is energised - by its old foe. From the Mediterranean to Islamabad, people battered for a decade by dreadful US policies ar...
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Michelle Obama’s fashion dilemma
Aggregated from: England for Obama
A dozen inauguration balls to go to, and Michelle Obama hasn’t got a thing to wear! Or at least: a dozen designers are assuming she hasn’t got a thing to wear - because they’ve essentially pitched for the job of dressing America’s new First Lady by sketching inauguration fas...
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The man can do no wrong
Aggregated from: Pickled Politics » United States
Heh: A new national poll suggests that Americans think President-elect Barack Obama’s getting it right when it comes to his Cabinet picks, especially Hillary Clinton and Robert Gates. A poll shows 71 percent of Americans approve of Barack Obama picking Hillary Clinton for secretary of state. S...
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Another Republican blames the ‘gotcha’ media
Aggregated from: England for Obama
…also known to the rest of us as: ‘the media’. Honestly, is blaming the ‘gotcha’ media like pleading the Fifth, or something? Following in the foot-in-mouth-steps of Sarah Palin, Virginian GOP chairman Jeff Frederick is saying he shouldn’t have been reported in an...
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Now everyone can monitor the Mexican border, Big Think
Aggregated from: open Democracy News Analysis - USA
Texans are taking their cues from Londoners these days with the establishment of a CCTV-based surveillance program for monitoring the US-Mexico border. A public-private initiative between the Texas Border Sheriff’s Coalition and the digital surveillance program Blue Servo, the program has erected...
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Have yourself a Barry little Christmas
Aggregated from: England for Obama
Yes, Cafepress.com and others are starting to sell Barack Obama Christmas cards and gifts. Here are just a few of the 420 (count ‘em!) designs available: Oops. Not sure how that last one got in there… *Looks upwards and whistles*. (Hat-tip: AK Muckraker.) ...
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