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President Barack Obama, interviewed in Moscow today, said that his vice president’s assertion that Israel is a sovereign nation and cannot be told what to do, or not to do, about Iran’s nuclear program is “absolutely not” a green light for a preemptive attack against Tehran’s nuke plants.

“Absolutely not,” Obama told CNN’s Ed Henry. “And [...]

President Barack Obama, the first African-American president of the United States, founded with the slavery of Africans and perpetuating legalized racial discrimination well into the 20th Century, addressed the parliament of Ghana today in his first journey to Africa as president.
Obama called this time “a new moment of promise.”
He told an intimately personal tale of [...]

President Barack Obama, the son of a Kenyan and travelling through Ghana today, was asked what Africa means to him – “Is it half of you?”
“Well, no, I don’t think it would be fair to say it was half,” the president told an interviewer for Sky News. “You know, I never lived here. I didn’t [...]

President Barack Obama, presiding over “the most severe economic downturn since the Great Depression,” has returned to the United States from the most recent of many international journeys with a message: Confidence that the U.S. “will weather this storm.”
In an Op-ed essay appearing in newspapers today, the president says this of the $787-billion economic stimulus [...]

On the eve of the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birthday celebration and the approach of his own historic swearing-in as president, Barack Obama stood Sunday in front of the Lincoln Memorial, evoked the country’s heroes and heritage and told the nation that “the dream of our founders will live on in time.”
Obama spoke during [...]

Acting at Barack Obama’s behest, President George W. Bush on Monday asked Congress for the final $350 billion in the financial bailout fund, effectively ceding economic reins to the president-elect in an extraordinary display of transition teamwork. Obama also sharply criticized Bush’s handling of the money and promised radical changes.
Bush’s move sets the stage for [...]

Obama’s organization retains some $30 million after his successful presidential bid, but it’s unclear how the Democratic president-in-waiting might use the money.
Members of his party are doing their best to appeal for the funds without appearing greedy, ungrateful or hostile to their new leader.
“If I was a top adviser to the president elect, I wouldn’t [...]

HAVANA (Reuters) – Cuba’s former leader Fidel Castro said on Thursday his country could talk to U.S. President-elect Barack Obama, in Havana’s latest overture to the incoming Democratic administration in Washington.
His remarks followed comments from his brother, President Raul Castro, who told a U.S. magazine he could meet Obama in a “neutral place” to [...]

Lately I’ve been thinking about Obama’s Philadelphia speech. In that speech, he got me to think about the color of my skin in ways I never had before.
It afforded me a new paradigm, a new way of thinking about my place in society. It also gave me the best insight into his problem solving skills. [...]

Election day is less than 24 hours away and this Halloween weekend, we ran into two different election posters that seek to get your vote by dressing the candidates up in a different skin color.
The first, sent to us by a reader and designed by Tor Myhren who is Chief Creative Officer for Grey Advertising [...]