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Rep. Stearns questions whether Obama’s birth certificate is legitimate
During a meeting with constituents, Rep. Cliff Stearns (R-FL) openly wondered whether the birth certificate produced by President Barack Obama was real or a forgery. “All I can tell you is that the general consensus is that he has produced a birth certificate,” he said, according to Think Progress. “The…
GOP Rep. introduces bill to trigger Obama’s impeachment
In a House Resolution introduced last week, Rep. Walter B. Jones (R-NC) put forward use of the military by the executive branch without explicit authorization from Congress as an impeachable offense: one which some conservatives believe President Barack Obama has already committed. The bill’s author, Rep. Jones, was once a…
Obama poll rating drops in Republican boost
President Barack Obama’s approval rating has plunged below 50 percent and he would be beaten by Republican frontrunner Mitt Romney if November’s US election were held today, a poll showed Monday. The survey, by ABC News and The Washington Post, indicated that only 46 percent of Americans now approved of the way…
Obama’s transgender nanny remembers ‘little Barry’
JAKARTA — A transgender Indonesian man who shot to fame after it emerged he had worked as Barack Obama’s nanny in the late 1960s wants nothing from “little Barry” but to meet him again some day. TV crews and reporters have descended on the tiny concrete shack in an east…
Youth vote puts some spring in Obama’s step
Republicans believe high unemployment will be Barack Obama’s weak point this November. So why has Matt Caffrey, a 22-year-old from Ohio, just quit his job? To help the president get reelected. Leaving a secure job in a country with an official unemployment rate of 8.3 percent, and broader estimates in the double figures,…
Obama calls for investment in clean energy
US President Barack Obama called on Congress Saturday to invest more money in clean energy technologies and end multi-billion-dollar subsidies given each year to oil companies. “I want this Congress to stop the giveaways to an oil industry that’s never been more profitable, and invest in a clean energy industry…
Palin: Obama to wants ‘go back’ to slavery era
Half-term Republican Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin on Thursday asserted that footage of Barack Obama hugging a controversial Harvard professor in 1990 was proof that the nation’s first black president wanted to return to the era of slavery. On Wednesday, Breitbart.com editors Ben Shapiro and Joel Pollak appeared on Sean Hannity’s…
Study: Hate of Obama fuels 755% growth in extremist groups
Fears that the nation’s first black president will be re-elected has fueled the dramatic growth extremists groups in the U.S. over the past year, according to a report from a civil rights organization that tracks these groups. The number of groups in the anti-government “Patriot” movement have sky rocketed 755…
Jon Stewart mocks Breitbart’s Obama footage
Daily Show host Jon Stewart made fun of Sean Hannity on Thursday night for hyping a video that showed President Barack Obama introducing Harvard law professor Derrick Bell. In the video from 1990, Obama is seen encouraging students to “open up your hearts and minds to the words of Professor…
Senate rejects oil pipeline plans
WASHINGTON — The US Senate voted down Thursday a measure to start building the controversial Keystone XL oil pipeline between Canada and the Gulf Coast of Texas despite President Barack Obama’s opposition. The Senate measure was introduced by minority Republican lawmakers upset at Obama’s decision to delay a decision on…
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