The Obama Phenomenon

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The First African-American President of the USA,
Barack Obama.
Elected Tuesday, November 4th 2008

The First Family Elect

Clues into Obama's faux pas:
Timothy Geithner
(a Wikipedia resource)

Rick Warren
(a Wikipedia resource)
[Reaping what you sow, Ironies]

Ken Salazar
(a Wikipedia resource)

Dennis Ross
(a Wikipedia resource)
[Reassigned!]

Lawrence Summers
(a Wikipedia resource)

Pro-anti-lobby!

Is Obama really our best
hope?

Vacillitating on Public Health

A bone for the public
and meat for the banks

Buyer's remorse
(a Wikipedia resource)

The Honeymoon:
Euphoria (photos ...)

Canadians for Obama!

Moments to remember from Election 2008

a pre-inauguration lament

Inauguration swearing-in glitch

The Big Picture
("Large" photos taken on 01/20/09)

Barack Obama
(Blakk Rasta tribute from
Ghanian visit July 2009)

Administration informally

Flickr portfolio

N. Alabama WHNT 19 News at 5:00pm

Some local reactions on January 20th 2009
(Click on image to view short clip)
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The Promise of Health Care
and the wretched soldiers
of ignorance:
Money Driven Medicine
(Source: PBS)

Getting There From Here
(Source: The New Yorker)

Doctors for a single payer
health system for everyone

Why government cannot reform
healthcare
(Matt Taibbi)

No Public Option, No Bill!
(Nancy Pelosi)

What is the Public Option?

Is President Obama
"The Change we wanted?"

Max Baucus
(a Wikipedia resource)

A call to obstruct reform!
(Bishop Harry Jackson)

Cold feet?

"Let's Procrastinate"
(Joe Lieberman)

Pray for no health care reform!
(Michele Bachmann)

The GOP has no health plan to print?
except "sauve qui peut!"

A March on D.C. 2009
(YouTube Video)

Tommy Douglas
Canadian healthcare-for-all pioneer
(a Wikipedia resource)

Wendell Potter
an HMO whistleblower
(a Wikipedia resource)

Alan Grayson
(a steward of public health)
(a Wikipedia resource)

How the "Public Option"
was sold in the U.S.

Is the "Public Option"
doomed in the U.S. ?

Obama unmasked?
(An orator with little
to offer the common man)

Officials spurring hate rhetoric:
Saul Anuzis
(a Wikipedia resource)

Frank Gaffney
(a Wikipedia resource)

Fury over a Nobel Laureate

FOX Channel

The Middle East Stalemate:
Response to Netanyahu's peace
pre-conditions - June 2009

Race:
The Gates-Crowley Affair

The Joe Wilson Spectacle

A Republican Party Portrait

The Role of Fox News

Red herrings from
the 2008 campaign:
Jeremiah Wright
(a Wikipedia resource)

William Ayers
(a Wikipedia resource)
[Teaching]

Joe the plumber
(a Wikipedia resource)

Cokie Roberts
(Punditry gone awry!)

Is Obama American?
(A FactCheck.org resource)

Certification by Director of Health, HI
(Dr. Chiyome Fukino)

A Republican Frame
of Debate

The Hysteria
or conspiracy

The Future:
The New Apollo Program

Collapsed banks

Foreclosures & Squatters

The Wages of War

Will Obama conscript his
children?

The Significance:
President Obama
(a Wikipedia resource)

Mark Ndesandjo
(a half-brother's memoirs)

Political Style:
Barack Obama for President
2008
Why? ["Fear not!", the smears,
an inspiration]

Frenemy
(a Wikipedia resource)

Bipartisan outreach
(a Wikipedia resource)

John Huntsman Jr.
(a Wikipedia resource)

Charles W. Freeman
(a Wikipedia resource)

Obama bows to King
Abdullah
(a YouTube video)

June 2009 speech in Cairo

Laissez-faire coup d'état

The Nobel Peace prize
(The commitee's announcement)

A trail of hoodwinking

Justice denied:

The trial for the Bush years

Alyssa Peterson
(a Wikipedia resource)

Obama's Show Trials Policy

The Party of "No!"

No to Sotomayor
(A Senate vote breakdown)

No to Health Care Reform
(A rebuke from Olbermann)

Anti-Obama Craze and simmering racism:

James Manning
(a Wikipedia resource)

Police misconduct

Rep. John Sullivan (R. Okla)