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“This was the most active administration — as far as significant legislation passed — since Lyndon B Johnson in the mid 60’s. 40 million Americans who were uninsured are now insured. We ended the war in Iraq, and we’re now ending the war in Afghanistan. We ended “don’t ask, don’t tell.” We passed the Dream Act. With new fuel efficiency standards, cars will get 56 MPG by 2025.”

9 responses to “Barack Obama at his Chicago Home”

  1. solerena Avatar
    solerena

    Great portrait, it looks like a fantastic event… so unreal…

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  2. dcbprime Avatar
    dcbprime

    Very nice picture.

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  3. scleroplex Avatar
    scleroplex

    nice photo!! 🙂

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  4. casrose1 Avatar
    casrose1

    My friend Steve Brant was with Michele yesterday 8/13/12 at private home in LA area.
    He has a photo taken with just her he will be posting…
    Very grass roots situation as Michele Obama was whisked through My town
    of Naples Fl in 3 hrs.. April 2012
    Was very high end $1,000 plate fancy dinner no photo opts
    Steve Brant
    http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151143161025851&set...

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  5. profsr_jones Avatar
    profsr_jones

    There’s the message, now why isn’t it getting out of his own backyard? For a man with such exemplary rhetorical skills, he has allowed the conversation to be dominated by the opposition for his entire presidency. Now that he is in campaign mode, he is starting to get it going but since he has not done this all along, the perception is that he can run but can’t lead. He could have used just what is quoted here as hammers to diminish the rhetoric of the Do-Nothing Congress and leverage sound policy against hyperbolic spin.

    Oh, and nice photo… Sorry for the political tirade. : )

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  6. scleroplex Avatar
    scleroplex

    perhaps it was all just empty rhetoric right along?
    and he had zero intention of putting his words into action?
    not exactly novel in politics…….

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  7. jurvetson Avatar
    jurvetson

    Hope not.

    My favorite Obama quotes came as he was leaving Chicago. He made a call from Air Force One to JPL to congratulate them on the Curiosity mission:

    “It’s really mind-boggling what you’ve been able to accomplish.”

    “If you do make contact with Martians, please let me know right away. I’ve got a lot of other things on my plate, but I suspect that that will go to the top of the list. Even if they’re just microbes, it will be pretty exciting.”

    “what makes us best as a species is this curiosity that we have and this yearning to discover and know more, and push the boundaries of knowledge. And you are perfect examples of that, and we couldn’t be more grateful to you.”

    “This is the kind of thing that inspires kids across the country.”

    “NASA has come a long way from the white shirt, black dark-rimmed glasses and the pocket protectors. You guys are a little cooler than you used to be.”

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  8. scleroplex Avatar
    scleroplex

    http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/19/magazine/obama-poverty.html?_r...

    "What Does Obama Really Believe In?"

    "In 1966, at the height of the War on Poverty, the poverty rate was just under 15 percent of the population; in 2010, the most recent year for which data is available, it was 15.1 percent. And the child-poverty rate is 22 percent — substantially higher today than it was then. And yet as a political issue, especially during this presidential campaign season, poverty has receded almost to silence."

    "In May, Bob Herbert, the former New York Times Op-Ed columnist, castigated the president in the online magazine The Grio for his failure to address publicly the “catastrophe” of children growing up in urban poverty. “Barack Obama can barely bring himself to say the word ‘poor,’ ” Herbert wrote.

    The idea that Obama hasn’t done much for poor Americans is simply not true; by some measures, he has done more than any other recent president. But Herbert is right that Obama has stopped talking publicly about the subject. Obama hasn’t made a single speech devoted to poverty as president, and if you visit barackobama.com these days, you would be hard-pressed to find any reference to the subject whatsoever. As a result, he is missing — so far, at least — an important opportunity to change and elevate the national conversation on poverty. "

    "Back in Anacostia in 2007, Obama acknowledged that “changing the odds in our cities will require humility in what we can accomplish and patience with our progress.” But real change would take more than that, he said: “Most importantly, it will require the sustained commitment of the president of the United States.”"

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  9. ComputerHotline Avatar
    ComputerHotline

    commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Barack_Obama_at_his_Chica…

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