US President Barack Obama commented on the 3.5% growth of the US economy in the third quarter. This is increase, Obama highlighted, is the largest three month growth in two years.
Obama pointed out that his benchmark is not based on GDP alone but on whether jobs are being created; families paying their bills easier and whether businesses are hiring.
He also reiterated the need for health insurance reform especially in the small business and entrepreneur sectors.
Michelle Obama will grace the front cover of the December issue Glamour magazine.
The first Lady is being honoured "for her focus on mentoring the next generation," and is one of five women appearing on her own cover on different versions of the December issue.
Yankees legend Yogi Berra was escorted onto the field at Yankee Stadium by First Lady Michelle Obama and Dr. Jill Biden.
TheNew York Yankees v Philadelphia Philliesgame heralds Game One of the World Series and is dedicated by the Major League Baseball (MLB) to military veterans and their families.
Preident barack Obama's administration has been compared to the Nixon administration.
Senotor Lamar Alexander claims simarlarities exist between the 'Obama Whithouse' and 'Nixon paranoia.' The senotor also gave referrence to an 'enemies list'.
A Gallup poll found that 61% of Americans do not believe President Obama deserved to win the Nobel Peace Prize: The highlights a huge divide between black and white America.
27% of whites say Obama deserved the prize, whilst 76% of blacks saying he was right to have won it. Of Americans glad he won the was 42% were white and 80% black.
The overall split was close at 46% glad Obama won the prize and 47% not gad he won.
US President Barack Obama has championed the plight of the small busines owners of America; the 'Mums & Paps stores', entrenpeniers etc that are at the heart and fuel the 'American Dream'.
Obama addresses the issue of the 100s and 1000s of job losses in the small busines areana and the struggle for small business owners to get finance.
Obama criticized the banking and finance industries, earlier this week, accusing them of using their influence to "maintain the status quo" for the maximization of their profits at the American consumer's expense even though those same comsumers bailed the indutry out, using $700 billion of taxpayers money for the consequences of the "bad decisions made by the industry".
Obama said Small businesses "must be at the forefront of our recovery."
On 23rd JULY The Professor was arrested by Cambridge cops on a 'disorderly conduct' rap whick was quickly dropped by prosecutors.
Gates's neighbor, Lucia Whalen, spotted what she believed to be "two black males with backpacks" trying to force entry into the Professor's home and quiet righlty called the cops.
President Barack Obama condemned the Cambridge cops for acting "stupidly" adding even more controversy and thunder to the already stormy situation.
US President Barack says he's surprised, humbled to be awarded Nobel Peace Prize and accepted it "...as a call to action" rather than as a reward for past accomplishments. I will accept this award as a call to action, a call to all nations to confront the common challenges of the 21st Century,''
President Obama's full statement
The chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, Thorbjorn Jagland, said "The question we have to ask is who has done the most in the previous year to enhance peace in the world," Jagland said. "Who has done more than Barack Obama?"
Obama's "extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples.'' were also cited by the award committee.
Waitrose, Britain's most upmarket supermarket chain, is the latest firm to pull it's ads from Fox News.
In July, presenter Glenn Beck called Obama a"racist" with "a deep-seated hatred for white people or the white culture" after the president's comments on Cambridge, Massachusetts Police arrest of his friend and distinguished professor Henry Louis Gates.
Not wanting to be tainted by association Companies, including Best Buy, Travelocityand and Wal-Mart, withdraw their adverts from Beck's show after his outburst.
A customer services spokesman for Waitrose, which is part of the John Lewis Partnership, said "We take the placement of our ads in individual programmes very seriously, ensuring the content of these programmes is deemed appropriate for a brand with our values,"
US President Barack Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize this morning.
The Nobel Commite awarded the Peace Prize to Obama for "his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and co-operation between peoples".
The Norwegian Nobel committee's decision has sparked some controversy because Obama has been in office less than a year and some feel Obama has yet to produced tangible goods or there may be others more deserving of such a prestigious prize.
Obama is only the third sitting U.S. president to win the Nobel Peace Prize, joining the ranks of Woodrow Wilson and Theodore Roosevelt.
