US President Barack Obama posted this ‘Equality’ poster on Instagram earlier. Also, check out the comment section for some funny political fights.
May 11, 2012
Barack Obama: “Sometimes I Forget” The Magnitude Of The Recession
Obama on recession: Sometime people forget the magnitude of it…sometimes I forget it.
US President Barack Obama actually said that at a Seattle fundraiser.
Mitt Romney Press Secretary Andrea Saul immediately released this statement in response to Obama’s remarks:
It’s not surprising that a president who forgot to create jobs, forgot to cut the debt, and forgot to change Washington has now admitted that he’s forgotten about the recession. In fact, it seems that the President has forgotten that he’s been in office for the last three-and-a-half years. In November, the American people won’t forget.
May 10, 2012
President Barack Obama Declares Support For Gay Marriage
US President Barack Obama announced today that he supports same sex marriage. This is the first time in history that a U.S. President has openly endorsed gay marriage.
President Obama told ABC anchor Robin Roberts in an interview that is scheduled to air on “Good Morning America” Thursday morning, he said:
“I think same sex couples should be able to get married.”
“I have to tell you that over the course of several years as I have talked to friends and family and neighbors when I think about members of my own staff who are in incredibly committed monogamous relationships, same-sex relationships, who are raising kids together, when I think about those soldiers or airmen or marines or sailors who are out there fighting on my behalf and yet feel constrained, even now that Don’t Ask Don’t Tell is gone, because they are not able to commit themselves in a marriage, at a certain point I’ve just concluded that for me personally it is important for me to go ahead and affirm that I think same sex couples should be able to get married.”
Obama also went on Twitter to voice his support behind gay marriage with the following tweet.
“Same-sex couples should be able to get married.”—President Obama
— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) May 9, 2012
According to retweetingobama.com, a website set up by @BaconSeason to track the number of times Obama’s tweet has been retweeted, The US President’s same-sex marriage tweet received 59,686 Re-tweets in nearly 7 hours.
This screenshot is taken nearly 7 hours after the tweet was sent, it has already gotten 59,686 RTs
The President’s announcement comes three days after Vice President Joe Biden voices his support behind gay marriage.Continue Reading
March 10, 2012
Barack Obama Harvard Video Shows Young Obama Protest For Derrick Bell, Diversity in 1991
Buzzfeed licensed a video from the WGBH Boston, which shows a young Barack Obama speaking in support of Harvard’s first tenured black law professor, Derrick Bell.
Bell, a pioneer of “critical race theory,” was staging a protest over the lack of female black professors at the school, and was taking an unpaid leave until Harvard hired a woman of color.
As Bell said during the protest, “My major effort in teaching is to convince students … that they should be ready and able to take risks and make sacrifices for the things they believe in, and their real success in life will come from making those sacrifices and taking those risks, regardless of outcome. The best way to teach that is to practice it.”
In the 1991 video, Obama, who was then the first black president of the Harvard Law Review, is shown praising Bell, he described Bell as “the Rosa Parks of legal education.”
