The stakes are pretty high for our next President and, since there’s no option for him to reload the country if things go to crap, we thought we’d offer President Obama a list of ten games that will surely help him prepare for this next term and rehearse his responses to some of the crises he might face.
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama retook the oath of office at the White House on Wednesday after a blunder during Tuesday’s inauguration.
Promising “a new era of openness in our country,” President Barack Obama signed executive orders Wednesday relating to ethics guidelines for staff members of his administration.
BEIJING – The official Chinese translation of President Barack Obama’s inauguration speech was missing his references to communism and dissent, while a live broadcast on state television Wednesday quickly cut away to the anchor when the topic was mentioned.
If Obama’s presidency is to represent the full power of the idea that black Americans are just like everyone else — fully human and fully capable of intellect, courage and patriotism — then Barack Obama has to be subject to the same rough and tumble of political criticism experienced by his predecessors.
The Senate voted 94-2 to confirm Clinton — a day later than Obama had hoped, but a lopsided vote nonetheless. The only opposition came from Republican senators who expressed concern about Bill Clinton’s Foundation fundraising efforts from foreign sources, given Clinton’s role as the nation’s chief diplomat.
President Obama’s Inaugural speech included a clutch of promises and observations that will have scientists, medical researchers and environmentalists in the US and around the world breathing a sigh of relief.
While Americans were watching the historic inauguration of Barack Obama as successor to the deeply unpopular conservative George W. Bush, thousands of Iceland’s citizens were fighting riot police around the Icelandic parliament building Althingi to try to prevent the world’s oldest parliament from meeting.
Print out the graphic below and follow the instructions for your very own cube Barack.
On March 4, 1901, a lone cameraman in the employ of Thomas A. Edison was dispatched to capture the swearing in of William McKinley. To posterity he delivered a total of 44 seconds of grainy footage showing a white-haired man on the Capitol steps solemnly, if indistinctly, raising his right hand.
