Barack Obama
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Judge of Characters: Trump Saves the World With Cheap Paper Towels
This week, the whole world got a chance to see just how terrible the U.S. president could be when he finally made his way to the devastation in Puerto Rico. When Donald Trump wasn’t blaming Puerto Ricans for busting the budget because, you know … aid, he was throwing paper towels and flashlights at them,…
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Today in Obama: It’s Our Anniversary
In which we look back at simpler times: OK, we’re fudging it a bit with this one, but it’s been a hell of a week, so we’re taking it all the way back to Tuesday—which, in 2017, feels like three years ago. While Melania Trump was rocking her castastro-fit (with the Timbs, no less) and…
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The Obamas May Be in a New York State of Mind
Page Six is reporting that former President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle have been shopping around New York City’s Upper East Side for some new digs. Citing multiple sources, Page Six reports that the first couple of our hearts is checking out 10 Gracie Square, a “white glove, full-service” apartment complex not too far…
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Today in Obama
In which, on Throwback Thursday, we look back to simpler times. Behold, Barack and Michelle Obama, two people who actually like touching each other. Was this really just a year ago?
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Racist Ex-Convict Pledges to Investigate Barack Obama’s Birth Certificate: ‘Biggest Cover-Up’ in American History
Thanks to a pardon from President Donald Trump, Sheriff Joe Arpaio is now a free man. And in a recent interview given to the San Jose Mercury News, Arpaio has pledged to keep up the fight for one of Trump’s old pet causes: searching for former President Barack Obama’s birth certificate. The former sheriff and…
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Michelle Obama Had a Simple Reminder for the 53 Percent: ‘Any Woman Who Voted Against Hillary Clinton Voted Against Their Own Voice’
Former first lady Michelle Obama, queen of our hearts, took some time out of her schedule to address the Beckys who voted for President Donald Trump while discussing a wide range of topics at a conference in Boston on Wednesday. “Any woman who voted against Hillary Clinton voted against their own voice,” Obama said during…
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Obama Tears Into ‘Aggravating’ Attempts by Republicans to Overhaul the Affordable Care Act
The one, true president, Barack Obama, had a lot to get off his chest on Wednesday while speaking in New York: He tore into Republicans and their continued efforts to undermine the Affordable Care Act, and also addressed climate change and white supremacy, all in the same breath. Obama must be just as fed up…
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Obama Continues Key Initiative to Provide Opportunities to Boys and Young Men of Color
Former President Barack Obama has followed through on a major part of his lifelong goal to help the country achieve greater racial and social justice: closing the opportunity gap for boys and young men of color. The Obama Foundation, a nonprofit organization set up by the former president and first lady with the expressed goal…
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Obama’s Back … and Not a Moment Too Soon
Former President Barack Obama recently made a surprise appearance at a Washington, D.C., school, much to the obvious delight of its students—and the rest of us who hope that he’ll be out here more, and more vocal about the sad state of affairs his sad! successor has gotten us into. Cool-ass B.O. reportedly strode into…
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Does Sarah Huckabee Sanders Miss President Obama as Much as We Do?
On Tuesday, during her “urgent” White House press briefing where she laid out Donald Trump’s plan to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program and presumably displace 800,000 young undocumented immigrants and remove them from the only home they have known, Sarah Huckabee Sanders accidentally referred to Trump as “President Obama” more than once.…
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