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   Presidential transition of Barack Obama

   Barack Obama said he hoped to sign the stimulus package into law soon after taking office on Jan. 20. ... Appointees recruited by Obama with experience with energy policy include Peter Orszag, expert on cap and trade programs who was named as director of the Office of Management and Budget.
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   Barack Obama presidential primary campaign, 2008

   In the book, Obama said "Pot had helped, and booze. ... Members of the opposition asserted that an internal inquiry is unlikely to look seriously at Harper's own high-level political aides and appointees, such as Brodie or Wilson, Canada's ambassador to Washington.
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   Political positions of Barack Obama

   At the same event, Obama pledged to appoint a Chief Technology Officer to oversee the U.S. government's management of IT resources and promote wider access to government information and decision making. ... On the same trip, Obama said, "The state of Israel faces determined enemies who seek its destruction, but it also has a friend and ally in the United States that will always stand by the people of Israel."
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   Barack Obama

   Detailing his strategy for fighting global terrorism in August 2007, Obama said "it was a terrible mistake to fail to act" against a 2005 meeting of al-Qaeda leaders that U.S. intelligence had confirmed to be taking place in Pakistan's Federally Administered Tribal Areas. ... In December 2008, Time magazine named Barack Obama as its Person of the Year for his historic candidacy and election, which it referred to as "the steady march of seemingly impossible accomplishments."
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   International reaction to the United States presidential election, 2008

   He said "the whole world is watching but we are all convinced that this is indeed your appointed time to be a transformational leader". ... Kosovo - Prime Minister Hashim Thaci sent a letter to Obama congratulating him on his win, calling the elections "historic" and saying, "The election of the 44th American president showed a noble electoral campaign and displayed the best democratic values of the United States."
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   Family of Barack Obama

   Youngest half-brother of Barack Obama, born c.1982, son of Barack Obama Sr. and a woman named Jael (now a resident of Atlanta, Georgia). ... Obama said that he expects no favors, that he was supported by relatives, and that reports he lived on a dollar a month were "all lies by people who don’t want my brother to win.”
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   Hillary Clinton caucuses and primaries, 2008

   Obama said that he was working to help unemployed workers in Chicago while Clinton was "a corporate lawyer sitting on the board at Wal-Mart." ... A number of news organizations, most notably cable television network Fox News named the March 4th primaries and caucuses "Super Tuesday II."
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   Early life and career of Barack Obama

   Obama has said that it was a seriously misguided mistake. ... He headed up a staff of 10 and 700 volunteers that achieved its goal of 400,000 registered African Americans in the state, leading Crain's Chicago Business to name Obama to its 1993 list of "40 under Forty" powers to be.
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   Jeremiah Wright controversy

   After the last of these, Obama spoke more forcefully against his former pastor, saying that he was "outraged" and "saddened" by his behavior, and in May he resigned his membership in the church. ... She charged that, in light of the sensationalized coverage about Wright, mainstream media outlets no longer had grounds to make these criticisms of Us Weekly, and turned the charge back upon the mainstream media.
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    Barack Obama presidential campaign, 2008

    Obama explained his decision to opt out of the public financing system, saying, "public financing of presidential elections as it exists today is broken, and we face opponents who've become masters at gaming this broken system." ... Nominee: Barack Obama (campaign · positions)

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• Barack Obama,
• International reaction to the United States presidential election, 2008,
• Family of Barack Obama,
• Hillary Clinton caucuses and primaries, 2008,
• Early life and career of Barack Obama,
• Jeremiah Wright controversy,
• Barack Obama presidential campaign, 2008