Barack Obama's Inaugural Address was a stark repudiation of the era of George W. Bush and the ideological certainties that surrounded it.
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President Obama drew one of his sharpest contrasts with Republicans at Tuesday night's State of the Union address when he called for Congress to pass legislation giving illegal immigrants a pathway to citizenship.
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney released tax records on Tuesday indicating he is paying $6.2 million in taxes on a total of $42.5 million in income over the years 2010 and 2011. Bowing to increasing political pressure to provide more detail about his vast wealth, t …
I hope all the republicans senators and others see what Abe Lincoln wrote. It is the rich who have step on the middle class and lower class to get where they are today. After all, it was Walmart who ran out all the "mom and pop's grocery stores, and not to mention 5 and 10. Obama can't take credit for it. All this has been going on before Obama took office, why are people trying to blame him for everything. If you were at the end where you lost your home or can barely pay bills, not to mention feeding your family then you would have a different perceptive about just what President Obama is trying to do. It isn't the people that makes 200,000.00 complaining, it is the ones who makes under 200,000.00 complaining.
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