White House Press Briefings are conducted most weekdays from the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room in the West Wing.

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The President cracks jokes about the press corps, his Administration, his critics, and himself. May 9, 2009. (Public Domain)

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Barack Obama Victory Speech – Nov 4 2008 Part 1 of 2 At last.. please visit my blog at: jamestakeshi.blogspot.com

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John Richard Pilger is an Australian journalist and documentary maker. He has twice won Britain’s Journalist of the Year Award, and his documentaries have received academy awards in Britain and the US. Thank You to… Wakeymedia2 www.youtube.com

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HD. With Transcript. Obama Speech on Victory November 04 (Part 4/4) Watch Full Speech here: Part 1: www.youtube.com Part 2: www.youtube.com Transcript: This election had many firsts and many stories that will be told for generations. But one that’s on my mind tonight is about a woman who cast her ballot in Atlanta. She’s a lot like the millions of others who stood in line to make their voice heard in this election except for one thing – Ann Nixon Cooper is 106 years old. She was born just a generation past slavery; a time when there were no cars on the road or planes in the sky; when someone like her couldn’t vote for two reasons – because she was a woman and because of the color of her skin. And tonight, I think about all that she’s seen throughout her century in America – the heartache and the hope; the struggle and the progress; the times we were told that we can’t, and the people who pressed on with that American creed: Yes we can. At a time when women’s voices were silenced and their hopes dismissed, she lived to see them stand up and speak out and reach for the ballot. Yes we can. When there was despair in the dust bowl and depression across the land, she saw a nation conquer fear itself with a New Deal, new jobs and a new sense of common purpose. Yes we can. When the bombs fell on our harbor and tyranny threatened the world, she was there to witness a generation rise to greatness and a democracy was saved. Yes we can. She was there for the buses in Montgomery, the …

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New Obama Beatbox! Obama follows Bush in the noble tradition of presidential beatboxing. Made in good humour, no harm intended to either President Obama or former President Bush. Beatboxing credit goes to Belgian beatboxers Roxorloops and Fatty K. Also search youtube for Bush Beatbox and Bush Eulogy Beatbox

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The following is the list of 28 government positions fitting the description of czars: Herb Allison — TARP Czar — Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Financial Stability Alan Bersin — Border Czar — Assistant Secretary for International Affairs and Special Representative for Border Affairs Dennis Blair — Intelligence Czar — Director of National Intelligence John Brennan — Terrorism Czar — Deputy National Security Advisor for Homeland Security Carol Browner — Energy Czar — Assistant to the President for Energy and Climate Change Adolfo Carrion — Jr Urban Affairs Czar — Director of the White House Office of Urban Affairs Ashton Carter — Weapons Czar — Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics Aneesh Chopra — Technology Czar — Chief Technology Officer Jeffrey Crowley — AIDS Czar — Director of the Office of National AIDS Policy Cameron Davis — Great Lakes Czar — Special advisor to the US EPA overseeing its Great Lakes restoration plan Nancy-Ann deparle — Health Czar — Director of the White House Office of Health Reform Earl Devaney — Stimulus Accountability Czar — Chair of the Recovery Act Transparency and Accountability Board Joshua dubois — Faith-based Czar — Director of the Office of Faith Based and Neighborhood Partnerships Kenneth Feinberg — Pay Czar — Special Master on executive pay Danny Fried — Guantanamo Closure Czar — Special envoy to oversee the closure of the detention center at Guantanamo Bay J. Scott …

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sorry, Ant. 10 months later, still no race war…

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Considered one if the most influential legal thinkers of modern times, Richard Epstein brings his libertarian views to bear on the current financial crisis –government incentives were perverse, so the actions of the private parties were perverse– and rates the performances of George Bush and Barack Obama in their responses to the crisis. He speaks to the importance of contracts and the constitutionality of the expo facto taxation on AIG executives and the Employee Free Choice Act embraced by President Obama. Finally he speaks of his personal and professional dealings with Barack Obama when they were law school faculty mates at the University of Chicago.

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Rep. Roskam, a longtime colleague of President Obama’s in the Illinois Senate, remembers the President as a bipartisan deal-maker who tackled tough issues with Senators on both sides of the aisle.

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