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President Obama and Olympic Gold Medalist McKayla Maroney are not impressed. White House photo by Pete Souza
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Here is an excellent summary of Obama’s foreign policy now as well as a look at what the next 4 years will be like, full of internal and external links and solid information. Bonus: it doesn’t conflate foreign policy with domestic policy and doesn’t suggest that those who are happy that Obama got re-elected are sheeple.
NBC News declares Barack Obama the projected winner of the presidency of the United States.
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President Obama responds to 10-year-old’s letter about her two gay dads.
“I am so glad that you agree two men can love each other because I have two dads and they love each other, but at school kids think that it’s gross and weird, but it really hurts my heart and feelings…,” Sophia wrote last week.
His response, which was no form letter:
“They are lucky to have such an exceptional daughter in you.”
[more]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_md15c5sqbS1qanm80o1_500.jpg)
President Obama responds to 10-year-old’s letter about her two gay dads.
“I am so glad that you agree two men can love each other because I have two dads and they love each other, but at school kids think that it’s gross and weird, but it really hurts my heart and feelings…,” Sophia wrote last week.
His response, which was no form letter:
“They are lucky to have such an exceptional daughter in you.”
[more]
As this map from Slate points out, there have been five times as many unmanned drone attacks under Obama than there were under Bush.
President Obama used a new word during the presidential debate on Tuesday night to describe the masses of immigrants he’s deported during his tenure. He called them “gangbangers,” as in:
“What I’ve also said is if we’re going to go after folks who are here illegally, we should do it smartly and go after folks who are criminals, gang bangers, people who are hurting the community, not after students, not after folks who are here just because they’re trying to figure out how to feed their families. And that’s what we’ve done.”
The line was a curious one, given the reality of Obama’s deportation record, which has been marked by mass deportations to the tune of nearly 400,000 every year carried out at a clip unseen by any prior president. The Obama administration has defended its “smart” enforcement tactics by, as Obama did on Tuesday night, pointing out that it makes a point to deport those who have committed serious crimes and are a threat to their communities and national security. And yet, data collected over Obama’s tenure show that among the close to 400,000 people who are deported annually, far from being “gangbangers,” the vast majority have no criminal record whatsoever.
"- Julianne Hing, “Who Are Those ‘Gangbangers’ Obama’s So Proud Of Deporting?,” Colorlines 10/17/12 (via racialicious)
Eight-year old Make-A-Wish child Janiya Penny reacts after meeting President Barack Obama as he welcomes her family to the Oval Office, Aug. 8, 2012. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
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President Barack Obama hugs Stephanie Davies (C) who was credited for keeping her friend Allie Young (L) alive after the movie theatre shootings in Aurora, Colorado in this White House Flickr image obtained by Reuters July 23, 2012. Picture taken July 22, 2012. [REUTERS/Pete Souza/The White House/Handout]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m7me5putcR1qmaoalo1_500.jpg)
President Barack Obama hugs Stephanie Davies (C) who was credited for keeping her friend Allie Young (L) alive after the movie theatre shootings in Aurora, Colorado in this White House Flickr image obtained by Reuters July 23, 2012. Picture taken July 22, 2012. [REUTERS/Pete Souza/The White House/Handout]
US will not deport young illegal immigrants
The Obama administration will grant work permits to young illegal immigrants who came to the US as children and have led law-abiding lives.
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mehreenkasana:
It’s sad how true this is.
i’m not really sure why these two are being compared? is it simply because they’re both black men who are really prominent in the political sphere, and known as ‘eloquent’? because the two of them operate[d] from really different places. mlk was organizing from a platform of fighting racism, class oppression, and war, and….. obama is the president of the united states. who was a senator and a professor. mlk drew his power was from the people he organized with and mass mobilizations, where obama gets his power is from the US government and corporations… imo they had really different lives and were operating in very different contexts.
the juxtaposition of these images/quotes implies [to me] that we’re supposed to see obama as a shame to the legacy of black progressive organizing, which is pretty weird imo because who does that about shitty white people? (answer: no one)
i think there are some important things to think through around obama’s rise to power and how his position as the president is connected to/relies on/erases/does violence to black organizing and black movements, but this doesn’t do it for me. i think there are better ways of critiquing obama and his warmongering, imperialist, militarized, neoliberal violence without relying on racial tropes.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m5kinshceB1qamcl6o1_500.jpg)
It’s sad how true this is.
i’m not really sure why these two are being compared? is it simply because they’re both black men who are really prominent in the political sphere, and known as ‘eloquent’? because the two of them operate[d] from really different places. mlk was organizing from a platform of fighting racism, class oppression, and war, and….. obama is the president of the united states. who was a senator and a professor. mlk drew his power was from the people he organized with and mass mobilizations, where obama gets his power is from the US government and corporations… imo they had really different lives and were operating in very different contexts.
the juxtaposition of these images/quotes implies [to me] that we’re supposed to see obama as a shame to the legacy of black progressive organizing, which is pretty weird imo because who does that about shitty white people? (answer: no one)
i think there are some important things to think through around obama’s rise to power and how his position as the president is connected to/relies on/erases/does violence to black organizing and black movements, but this doesn’t do it for me. i think there are better ways of critiquing obama and his warmongering, imperialist, militarized, neoliberal violence without relying on racial tropes.
Awesome: Obama writes absence note for fifth-grader
Missing school to see the president? Be sure you get one of these. Ryan Sullivan, an employee at a Honeywell plant in Minnesota, got the chance to introduce Barack Obama Friday, which led to his fifth-grade son, Tyler, missing school. Fortunately, Barack came though with this. Awesome. (thanks HyperVocal, which is also on Tumblr)
