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*Not surprisingly the always dependable controversial quotable – especially when it come to knocking President Obama – Democratic strategist James Carville, was petulant and defiant when asked whether he’d apologize for his latest Obama wisecrack. The dig was Carville’s supposed play on an old joke when he cracked that Hillary Clinton should give Obama one [...]
*President Obama has joined the list of celebrities who have filmed a video in support of gay teenagers as part of the It Gets Better Project, an initiative launched by writer Dan Savage. In the video, which premiered Thursday (Oct. 21), Obama says that he was “shocked and saddened” by a string of gay teenagers [...]
*In a recent radio interview, former White House correspondent Helen Thomas could be heard crying after learning that President Obama condemned her remarks about Israel on the “Today” show, calling them “offensive and out of line.” “I think he was very unfair, and I return the compliment on his remarks,” Thomas said. “Reprehensible.” [Click here [...]
*The new book on President Barack Obama written by journalist Bob Woodward will focus on the war in Afghanistan and military decisions in Pakistan, publisher Simon & Schuster announced today. “Obama’s Wars,” 441 pages, draws upon classified documents and interviews with key people, including Obama, for “a sweeping portrait” of Obama’s policies “on the Afghanistan [...]
*President Barack Obama and the Dalai Lama have been voted the world’s two most popular leaders, according to a poll conducted in six countries and released today. Obama won 77 percent of the vote conducted by Harris Interactive for France24 and Radio France-Internationale. The Tibetan spiritual leader was at second place at 75 percent, followed [...]
*The Daily Beast reminds that … watching Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in action, it’s easy to forget that just two years ago she was engaged in a no-holds barred brawl with President Obama in the Democratic primary. Now the former senator has been an enthusiastic supporter of Obama’s agenda, according to the New York [...]
*During his tour stop in Washington D.C. last night, Jay-Z, his wife Beyonce and mother-in-law Tina Knowles squeezed in a visit to the President of the United States. “I just came from the White House,” Jigga told the audience during the last minutes of his Blueprint 3 concert at the Verizon Center, which is just a [...]
*Former President Bill Clinton was released from New York Presbyterian Hospital this morning. Clinton’s cardiologist said he’ll be able to return to work on Monday. His doctor says he’s in “excellent” condition. Both daughter Chelsea and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton visited Clinton, who had two stents inserted into a blocked artery—one grafted during a [...]
*Haitian-born musician-activist Wyclef Jean said he spent Thursday removing bodies from the streets of his native Port-au-Prince in the wake of a 7.0 magnitude earthquake. (Watch interview below.) “We spent the day picking up dead bodies, all day that’s what we did,” Jean told Fox News. “There’s so much bodies in the streets that the [...]
*The stellar 100th anniversary gala of the New York Amsterdam News and tribute to the late Wilbert A. Tatum, publisher emeritus of NYC’s oldest African American newspaper, honored Hon. Hillary Clinton, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., William “Bill” Lynch, R. Donahue Peebles and Hon. Charles B. Rangel at the David H. Koch Theater, formerly The New [...]
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