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Note: Photos included. Note: The following text is a quote: http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/09/02/23/Help-is-on-the-way/ THE BRIEFING ROOM • THE BLOG Monday, February 23rd, 2009 at 11:57 am Help is on the way $15 billion of funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act will be available in just two days, the President announced this morning, just a week after the act was signed into law. "By the time most of you get home; money will be waiting to help 20 million vulnerable Americans in your states keep their health care coverage," he told a gathering of the nation's governors in the State Dining...

Note: The following text is a quote: http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/09/02/18/Setting-the-bar-high/ THE BRIEFING ROOM • THE BLOG Wednesday, February 18th, 2009 at 3:28 pm Setting the bar high Just looking at Recovery.gov, it might not be immediately clear what an enormous undertaking it will be to ensure that the transparency and accountability that the President expects will be upheld. It's going to require an unprecedented level of vigilance, a fundamental shift in the way the federal government spends your tax dollars, from the Oval Office down to every department and agency awarding funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. That's why Peter...

ELMENDORF AIR FORCE BASE, Alaska SNIPPET: "Meanwhile, North Korea suggested Monday that it is preparing a rocket launch, saying it has the right to "space development," a term Pyongyang has used in the past to disguise a long-range missile test as a satellite launch, the Associated Press reported."

Dear Mr. President: Kids Share Hopes for Obama in New Book Thousands of kids detailed their hopes and expectations for President Obama in letters and drawings as part of a worldwide project. AP Sunday, February 15, 2009 NEW YORK -- End war, forever. Make the planet greener. Please help my dad find work. Make it rain candy! Thousands of kids detailed their hopes and expectations for President Barack Obama in letters and drawings as part of a worldwide project, with 150 chosen for a free e-book being released on Presidents Day. Most had tall orders for the new guy in...

Note: The following text is a quote: http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/Remarks-by-the-President-to-the-Business-Council/ Friday, February 13th, 2009 at 11:33 am Remarks by the President to the Business Council THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary _________________________________________________________________ For Immediate Release February 13, 2009 East Room 10:35 A.M. EST THE PRESIDENT: Thank you. Please, have a seat. Thank you. Well, thank you all for being here. Before I begin, I want to say a brief word about the terrible tragedy that took place outside of Buffalo last night. Our thoughts and prayers are with the families and friends who lost loved ones, and as always, our...

The decision to shut down the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay was a dream come true for many Europeans, including anti-terrorism officials who largely have condemned the facility. But European officials admit that dismantling Gitmo could be something of a nightmare. The foreign ministers of the European Union recently vowed to help President Barack Obama keep his promise to shutter the prison on the coast of Cuba in a year. They offered to provide refuge for as many as 60 inmates who could face persecution in their native lands.

Kenyan tune equates Obama to a god Posted: November 14, 2008 Has Barack Obama raised expectations higher than any mortal could possibly achieve? You bet he has. But maybe it doesn't matter. In Kenya, home of the president-elect's father, he is clearly viewed as more than just mortal. Check out this video of Kenyan singer Makadem performing his tune "Obama Be They Name." T hese lyrics give you the flavour of the song: "All the voters in America/ Barack Obama be thy name / Thy change shall come / Thy will be done / As it is America..." Here's the...

Politically active Barack Obama supporters in Michigan have tried to silence criticism of the president-elect on a talk program at a community radio station by cutting its air time, the program host says. Officials with radio station WRHC told WND the dispute involved talk show host Martin Dzuris' coverage of local issues as well as national issues. But Dzuris explained in a lengthy interview with WND he attended at least one meeting where radio station officials discussed specifically how to reduce Dzuris' criticism of Obama, which has linked Obama's statements taken directly from his speeches to Marxism. Dzuris said one...

U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates has warned U.S. adversaries against trying to take advantage of president-elect Barack Obama when he takes office next month...

Reports continue to come in that Barack Obama’s Presidential Campaign is threatening legal action against his critics. On Tuesday (September 23), CBS affiliate KMOV reported that Obama had enlisted a number of Missouri law enforcement officials, including local sheriffs and prosecutors, “to target anyone who lies or runs a misleading television ad [against Obama] during the presidential campaign." The CBS report is the latest of several incidents where the Obama campaign has threatened critics with civil or criminal prosecution. According to World Net Daily, his campaign “also sent ‘threatening’ letters to several news agencies in Pennsylvania and Ohio demanding they...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama said on Sunday he used "poor phrasing" in a speech supporting Jerusalem as the undivided capital of Israel. "You know, the truth is that this was an example where we had some poor phrasing in the speech. And we immediately tried to correct the interpretation that was given," he said in an interview aired on Sunday on CNN's "Fareed Zakaria -- GPS." "The point we were simply making was, is that we don't want barbed wire running through Jerusalem, similar to the way it was prior to the '67 war, that it...