Barack Obama to Visit Australia – Mr Obama is due to arrive in Canberra this afternoon (AEDT) for a two-day Australia visit to update the 60-year-old security alliance for a new century marked by the rise of China. The visit is expected to include an announcement on new basing and supply arrangements for US forces, [...]
Tags: Australia, barack obama
Posted in Politics
Obama’s Uncle Arrested – Onyango Obama, 67, is the “long-lost” uncle who left Kenya for the US in the 1960s and who the US President wrote of in his memoir Dreams From My Father. Mr Obama was arrested on August 24 outside a Framingham, Massachusetts restaurant after he drove his Mitsubishi through a stop sign [...]
Tags: barack obama
Posted in Politics
Elizabeth Edwards Death – Elizabeth Edwards lost her hair to cancer, her son to an accident, her husband to another woman. No wonder she called one memoir “Resilience.” And another “Saving Graces.” Edwards’ death Tuesday at age 61 ended a struggle of extraordinary and multiple dimensions, any one of which might have consumed the more [...]
Tags: Admission, Adversities, barack obama, Betrayal, Child Advocate, Clout, Doctors, Elizabeth Edwards, Health Care Reform, John Edwards, Left Behind, Memoir, Political Ambition, Presidency, Resilience, S Child, Saving Graces Edwards, Senate Campaign, Strategist, Videographer
Posted in General
Americans Think Obama Is A Muslim – Roughly one in five Americans wrongly says President Barack Obama is a Muslim, according to two new US opinion polls out Thursday amid a furor over a planned mosque near New York’s “Ground Zero.” And about 30 percent of Americans say followers of Islam should be barred from [...]
Tags: Americans Think Obama Is A Muslim, barack obama, muslim
Posted in General
U.S. Reduces Troop Presence In Iraq – The United States has completed the drawdown of its forces to Iraq to 50,000 ahead of the scheduled August 31 date, a senior administration official said on Wednesday. He added the combat mission was not yet over and would continue until August 31.
Tags: 4th Stryker Brigade, Administration Official, Administration Officials, barack obama, Border Gates, Brigades, Combat Mission, Combat Troops, Dictator Saddam Hussein, Drawdown, Explosive Issues, Iraqi Dictator Saddam, Nbc News, Nbc Reporter, Police Units, Saddam Hussein, Senior Administration, Service Member, Troop Presence, Tv Footage
Posted in World
No Comments