Barack Obama was elected president on Nov. 4, 2008, becoming the first African-American to claim the highest office in the land, an improbable candidate fulfilling a once-impossible dream. Obama's Inauguration took place in Washington, D.C. on Jan. 20, 2009.
A nation that in living memory struggled violently over racial equality will have as its next president a 47-year-old, one-term U.S. senator born of a Kenyan father and Kansan mother. He is the first president elected from Chicago and the first to rise from a career in Illinois politics since Abraham Lincoln emerged from frontier obscurity to lead the nation through the Civil War and the abolition of slavery.
Obama's re...
A nation that in living memory struggled violently over racial equality will have as its next president a 47-year-old, one-term U.S. senator born of a Kenyan father and Kansan mother. He is the first president elected from Chicago and the first to rise from a career in Illinois politics since Abraham Lincoln emerged from frontier obscurity to lead the nation through the Civil War and the abolition of slavery.
Obama's re...
Barack Obama was elected president on Nov. 4, 2008, becoming the first African-American to claim the highest office in the land, an improbable candidate fulfilling a once-impossible dream. Obama's Inauguration took place in Washington, D.C. on Jan. 20, 2009.
A nation that in living memory struggled violently over racial equality will have as its next president a 47-year-old, one-term U.S. senator born of a Kenyan father and Kansan mother. He is the first president elected from Chicago and the first to rise from a career in Illinois politics since Abraham Lincoln emerged from frontier obscurity to lead the nation through the Civil War and the abolition of slavery.
Obama's resounding victory over Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) repudiates an unpopular incumbent and an ongoing war, shifts national leadership to a new generation and provides dramatic proof to the world of the American ideal of opportunity for all.
Obama was born Aug. 4, 1961, in Hawaii. He graduated from Columbia University in 1983 with a political science degree, and he entered Harvard Law School in 1988. Obama published an autobiography in 1995--"Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance". He was elected to the Illinois State Senate in 1996. In 2000, Obama ran for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives, but lost to incumbent Bobby Rush.
In 2004, Obama won the Democratic primary for the U.S. Senate. That summer, he delivered the keynote speech at the 2004 Democratic National Convention. His opponent in the senate race was supposed to Jack Ryan. However, Ryan withdrew from the race amid sexual allegations by his ex-wife. Alan Keyes replaced Ryan on the ballot, and in the general election, Obama won easily, grabbing 70 percent of the vote.
A nation that in living memory struggled violently over racial equality will have as its next president a 47-year-old, one-term U.S. senator born of a Kenyan father and Kansan mother. He is the first president elected from Chicago and the first to rise from a career in Illinois politics since Abraham Lincoln emerged from frontier obscurity to lead the nation through the Civil War and the abolition of slavery.
Obama's resounding victory over Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) repudiates an unpopular incumbent and an ongoing war, shifts national leadership to a new generation and provides dramatic proof to the world of the American ideal of opportunity for all.
Obama was born Aug. 4, 1961, in Hawaii. He graduated from Columbia University in 1983 with a political science degree, and he entered Harvard Law School in 1988. Obama published an autobiography in 1995--"Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance". He was elected to the Illinois State Senate in 1996. In 2000, Obama ran for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives, but lost to incumbent Bobby Rush.
In 2004, Obama won the Democratic primary for the U.S. Senate. That summer, he delivered the keynote speech at the 2004 Democratic National Convention. His opponent in the senate race was supposed to Jack Ryan. However, Ryan withdrew from the race amid sexual allegations by his ex-wife. Alan Keyes replaced Ryan on the ballot, and in the general election, Obama won easily, grabbing 70 percent of the vote.
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Backlash emerging over school standards in W.Va.
West Virginia is sticking with new standards for math, reading and writing in public schools, but faces opposition fueled by the tea party movement, which believes the benchmarks are part of an attempted federal takeover of local education authority....
Tags: Tea Party Movement, Teaching and Learning, Nathan Deal, Government, Republican Party
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Mail Call - June 17
“To all you people out there who complain about getting tickets from speed cameras, which allow you 12 miles an hour over the speed limit before you’re fined: Try to stop complaining, and slow down.” — Hancock “I just read...Tags: Security Measures, Federal Reserve, Bill Clinton, Elections, U.S. Congress
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Mail Call - June 14
“What’s all this uproar about the government monitoring phone calls? It’s been going on for seven years. It’s part of the Patriot Act. All the senators and most congressmen voted for the Patriot Act. It was happening under George...Tags: George W. Bush
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George Michael: The president's empty promises
There is a deep and pervasive disease in the current presidential administration. Hope and Change has turned into Hype and Chance. In last Saturday’s Herald-Mail, an AP article recounted the president’s defense of our government’s...Tags: Government, FBI, Lawyers, George W. Bush, Crime, Law and Justice
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Mail Call - June 10
“I was just reading the marriage licenses in the newspaper, and I’m curious to find out, when a woman and a woman get married, how do they decide which name to take? And the same thing with a man, when two men get married, how do they decide...Tags: Bill Clinton, Taxation, Restaurant and Catering Industry, U.S. Congress, Crime, Law and Justice
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Pete Waters: Dogs, demons and Smith Island's future
The rockfish spring trophy season had arrived, and you fishermen know where the nose of the Old Sea Dog was pointed. Smith Island was on the radar, and a few members of the dog pound— Bad Dog Fuller and Good Dog Hoffman — were hankering...Tags: Animals, Tangier (Accomack, Virginia), Somerset County (Maryland), Chesapeake Bay Bridge, Hurricane Sandy (2012)
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Mail Call - June 11
“This is to all the conservative callers who keep calling in trying to justify the invasion of Iraq. They use the inspectors going in, not being let in, as the reason. Conservatives don’t even like the (United Nations), so don’t use...Tags: United Nations, Russia, Judges, Annapolis, Same-Sex Marriage
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Mail Call - June 12
“Instead of the city and the county wasting money on studies and seeing where we can put a new stadium, why don’t they use that money to improve the roads and the streets? They are in terrible shape. It’s a wonder everyone doesn’...Tags: FBI, Taxation, Central Intelligence Agency, Elections, Tea Party Movement
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Tri-State residents sound off on program that tracks telephone and Internet records
caleb.calhoun@herald-mail.comJanice Stephens of Smithsburg said that although she understands the federal government needs to combat terrorism, there is a “fine line” between that and invading people’s privacy. “I kind of feel that part of it is necessary,...Tags: Government, Booz Allen Hamilton Inc., George W. Bush, National Security Agency, Edward Snowden
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Mail Call - June 13
“This is to the lady from Sharpsburg. Mr. Shirley was wrong for beating the guy. It doesn’t matter what he did. He’s supposed to set an example. He needs to keep his anger to himself and not just take his anger out on other people.&...Tags: Government, Parties and Movements, George W. Bush, Elections, Verizon Communications
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Mail Call - May 31
“You know, these people complain about these cameras, for getting caught speeding. I’d like to see them put one out here on Gay Street, at the school path that goes up to Lincolnshire school. These kids use that path, and the street down...Tags: Human Interest, Illegal Immigrants, Bill Clinton, Pharmaceuticals, Richard Nixon
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Mail Call - May 29
“This trial of Jodi Arias, who is on trial and I believe has been convicted of murdering her boyfriend in a very terrible way, by slashing and shooting him, they’re talking about giving her the death penalty, and it’s been so drawn out,...Tags: FBI, Parties and Movements, Slavery, Social Issues, Natural Disasters
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