Look at that beautiful Black family!

The White House Photo Office released this official familiy portrait of President Barack Obama, First Lady Michelle Obama and their young daughters Sasha and Malia Friday (Oct 23). This photograph was taken in the Green Room of the White House on September 1st 2009 by famed celebrity photographer Annie Leibovitz.

It was announced Friday morning (Oct 9) that our very own President Barack Obama had been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for the year 2009. Barack Obama already made history by being the first African American president, so now he can add “fourth U.S. president to win the Nobel Peace Prize” to his ongoing resume and list of accomplishments. The White House learned of their big win just before 6 a.m. Friday morning.

Obama said he did not feel he deserved “to be in the company” of past Peace Prize winners, but would accept the prize while pushing for a broad range of international objectives, including nuclear nonproliferation, a reversal of the global economic downturn and a resolution of the Arab-Israeli conflict.

He also acknowledged the ongoing U.S. conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, noting that he is the “commander in chief of a country that is responsible for ending a war and working in another theater to confront a ruthless adversary that directly threatens the American people” and U.S. allies.

“This award is not simply about my administration,” he said. It “must be shared” with everyone who strives for “justice and dignity.”

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The recipient of the prize wins about $1.4 million, but Obama says he will be donating the money to charity. Continue reading for a video of Pres. Obama’s speech!

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Pop singer Pink hit the stage Monday night (Sep 28) in Fairfax, VA at the Patriot Center and performed in concert as a part of her “Funhouse” tour. During the show, before getting into her anti-Bush song “Dear Mr. President,” Pink  gave a shout-out to First Lady Michelle Obama for being anti-fur.

“Let’s get political for a second,” Pink told the estimated 10,000 in the audience, according to a PETA spokesman. “Since we’re near D.C., I have to give a shout-out to Michelle Obama, who has announced that she is officially fur free. I love an animal-lovin’ first lady!”

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We’re not sure why people are up in arms about this back-to-school speech from President Obama, but this is definitely something school students of today need to see! People are always blaming teachers, administrators, parents and the government for the failure of the education system, when the majority of the responsibility lies within the students themselves.

The White House has released the entire speech in text-form. You can also check out the video when you continue reading.

Hello, everyone — how’s everybody doing today? I’m here with students at Wakefield High School in Arlington, Virginia. And we’ve got students tuning in from all across America, kindergarten through 12th grade. I’m glad you all could join us today.

I know that for many of you, today is the first day of school. And for those of you in kindergarten, or starting middle or high school, it’s your first day in a new school, so it’s understandable if you’re a little nervous. I imagine there are some seniors out there who are feeling pretty good right now, with just one more year to go. And no matter what grade you’re in, some of you are probably wishing it were still summer, and you could’ve stayed in bed just a little longer this morning.

I know that feeling. When I was young, my family lived in Indonesia for a few years, and my mother didn’t have the money to send me where all the American kids went to school. So she decided to teach me extra lessons herself, Monday through Friday — at 4:30 in the morning.

Now I wasn’t too happy about getting up that early. A lot of times, I’d fall asleep right there at the kitchen table. But whenever I’d complain, my mother would just give me one of those looks and say, “This is no picnic for me either, buster.”

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Rapper Jay-Z took a few shots at TV personality Bill O’Reilly and raido personality Rush Limbaugh in his new song, “Off That” (featuring Drake). The lines that target the political commentators go like this:

This ain’t black versus white, my n*gga, we off that / Please tell Bill O’Reilly to fall back / Tell Rush Limbaugh to get off my balls / It’s 2010 not 1864

O’Reilly mentioned the song in his popular “Reality Check” segment where he let out a loud sigh and called Jay-Z “a regular Otis Redding” before shaking his head and smacking his teeth and moving on to the next story. Limbaugh, however, had this to say:

“I have been mentioned in a rap song by the rapper Jay-Z,” Limbaugh said. “The new song mentions me and the moderate Bill O’Reilly. As far as I know, I have never been mentioned in a rap song by anybody. It means I’ve made it — I’m now on a rap tune by the famous rapper Jay-Z.”

Looks like both guys love them some hip-hop. The song leaked Monday and both Rush and Bill responded less than 24-48 hours later!

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Philanthropist/entrepreneur Russell Simmons, along with actresses Vivica A. Fox and Gabrielle Union, posed for a pic at the Children Uniting Nations’ 4th Annual National Conference, held at The House Capitol Building Tuesday (Jun 9) in Washington, D.C. The woman on the far left is the organization’s founder Daphna Ziman. Actor/singer Terrence Howard attended the event as well and also performed at the National Conference’s Gala at the U.S. Department of State’s Benjamin Franklin Diplomatic Room later on in the evening. Continue reading for the rest of the photos.

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With criticism coming from the Democratic Party,  House Republicans on Thursday have come up with an alternate budget which they say  “shows a leaner budget, a budget with lower taxes, lower spending and lower borrowing.”

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President Barack Obama held a very interactive town hall meeting at the White House Thursday, which included questions from online users from all over the country regarding the state of our country. This was the first online town hall discussion ever hosted at the White House. The President answered questions concerning the mortgage crisis, education, healthcare, national service, and assistance for veterans. A live audience joined  Obama, while a TV screen revealed the online questions and video submissions from inquiring Americans.

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President Obama made a little joke last night when he made an appearance on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. When he was talking to Jay about his bowling average, he made a comment comparing himself to a participant in the Special Olympics, and unsurprisingly, a lot of people made a big deal about it saying he was out of pocket for making such a comment, but not this one 21-year-old Special Olympian from Brentwood, CA:

Daniel Fletcher, 21, a Brentwood man who has bowled in the Special Olympics, has a message for President Obama: Get ready for some competition. Fletcher went online with his parents Friday afternoon to watch a recording of Obama jokingly likening his bowling style to that of competitors in the Special Olympics.

“I am willing to get a team to challenge him,” Fletcher said. He thought of an alternative: “I’d challenge him myself.”

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Television and worldwide mogul Oprah Winfrey interviewed our First Lady, Michelle Obama, for O Magazine. First Lady Obama and Oprah shared the magazine too, which marks the first time in O Magazine history that antoher human being (besides Oprah herself) has covered the popular women’s magazine. Peep a snippet of the interview below:

For all the majesty of the White House, the First Lady has already infused it with a palpable ease; her presence makes the place feel open and approachable. When we sit down to talk, she seems as relaxed as she did when I first interviewed her and her husband in their Chicago apartment in 2004. “This room has the best light in the house,” she tells me as we settle in, shoes off, on a comfortable sofa. “And there’s pie here, too. The pie in the White House is dangerously good.” — Oprah

Oprah: So after the inauguration, what was your first weekend in the White House like?

Michelle Obama: Well, we still had family here, so it was almost like a wedding. A huge, very complicated wedding. The last visitors didn’t leave until Sunday. And then the first Monday was kind of weird. You know: Now we live here, and Barack is getting up and going to work, and it’s just us. This is our home now.

Oprah: I had heart palpitations coming through the White House gate, recognizing that this really is now your home. It’s the White House, and it’s your home.

Michelle Obama: And it’s a beautiful home. When you go out and come back, especially at night, with all the white lights on—it’s just beautiful. We feel privileged, and we feel a responsibility to make it feel like the people’s house. We have the good fortune of being able to sleep here, but this house belongs to America.

For more, you’ll have to pick up the latest issue of O Magazine!

Usher is getting political on us! The R&B recording artist attended a hearing on improving America’s commitment to service and volunteerism at the House Education and Labor Committee hearing room yesterday in D.C. He brought along some of the leaders from his New Look Foundation to talk to the political big wigs. Continue reading for the rest of the pics.

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Well it looks as though President Obama is working hard to keep his word to finally bring much needed change to this country with his goal to cut America’s growing deficit in half by 2013. The president plans to cut spending on the Iraq war, eliminate wasteful public programs and raise taxes on the wealthy.

“The deficit this administration inherited was $1.3 trillion or 9.2 percent of GDP. By 2013, the end of the president’s first term, the budget cuts the deficit to $533 billion or 3.0 percent of GDP,” an administration official said on Saturday.

“Most of the savings will come from winding down the war in Iraq, increased (tax) revenue from those making more than $250,000 a year, and savings from making government work more efficiently and eliminating programs that do not work,” the official said.

The outline of the Obama administration’s first budget is set to be revealed on Thursday for the 2010 fiscal year. This budget is said to show huge increases in spending on public works that were part of the $787 billion stimulus bill that the president signed this week. Obama has also demanded the U.S. Treasury to implement tax cuts for 95 percent of Americans in hopes of bringing America out of the economic downward spiral.

“They’ll have to find someone else to write the next stimulus bill,” is what one of the officers in the editorial cartoon above say after shooting a chimpanzee three times in the chest/abdomen. The chimpanzee is laying in the grass, obviously dead, with blood surrounding its body. This piece of sh*t, illustrated by cartoonist Sean Delonas, was published on the New York Posts‘ website and in the print version of the popular news publication.

But wait, President Barack Obama just signed a stimulus bill into action, didn’t he? He sure did. So does that mean the New York Post is racist? It sure does. And Rev. Al Sharpton thinks so too! Below is a statement he released earlier today:

“The cartoon in today’s New York Post is troubling at best given the historic racist attacks of African-Americans as being synonymous with monkeys. One has to question whether the cartoonist is making a less than casual reference to this when in the cartoon they have police saying after shooting a chimpanzee that “Now they will have to find someone else to write the stimulus bill.”

“Being that the stimulus bill has been the first legislative victory of President Barack Obama (the first African American president) and has become synonymous with him it is not a reach to wonder are they inferring that a monkey wrote the last bill?”

This horribly offensive cartoon also comes just two days after a 200 pound pet chimpanzee was shot to death by police officers after the animal suddenly attacked a family friend, ripping half of her face off. Doctors say it took 7 hours of surgery to stabilize the victim. What do you think about the cartoon? Is it really that offensive or are people reading into it too much? We say it’s F*****G OFFENSIVE!

President Barack Obama has signed the $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act into law on Tuesday after a grueling and long debate between Democrats & Republicans on whether the bill should be passable to revive our crumbling economy.

Before signing the bill, the President quickly reassured Americans of the long road ahead to better economic times and that of course this package would not quickly solve all of our problems.

Today does not mark the end of our economic troubles,” Obama said before signing the bill at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science. “But it does mark the beginning of the end – the beginning of what we need to do to create jobs for Americans scrambling in the wake of layoffs; to provide relief for families worried they won’t be able to pay next month’s bills; and to set our economy on a firmer foundation.

In case some readers aren’t in the loop with what this plan consists of  and would like to read the full outline of the stimulus plan, they can visit U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Appropriations and/or the  Library of Congress to read this bill.

With the recovery package signed, Obama is now putting his attention on the housing market. He will travel to Phoenix, Arizona on Wednesday to reveal his $50 billion foreclosure prevention program to help homeowners who are struggling to keep their homes.  Phoenix is one of the cities that has been hit the hardest according to foreclosure numbers. There hasn’t been many details given according to this program, however officials are looking to lend a hand to homeowners who are in danger of defaulting on their mortgages and for those who find themselves unable to keep up with the payments.

Music legend Stevie Wonder will receive a huge honorary award (The Library of Congress Award) next Wednesday, February 25th 2009. President Barack and First Lady Michelle Obama will present the award to Wonder.

The White House says the president and first lady will present Wonder a Library of Congress award on Feb. 25. The concert will be broadcast the next day on PBS as part of its “Performance at the White House” series. The award-winning Motown legend performed at the Democratic National Convention in Denver on the night Obama accepted his party’s nomination. He also sang at a concert during the week of Obama’s inauguration. His song “Signed, Sealed, Delivered I’m Yours” and “Higher Ground” were used as theme songs during Obama’s campaign stops.

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Here are a set of photos from President Obama’s Inauguration in D.C. a couple of weeks ago on January 20th 2009 in front of the Capitol building. Continue reading for an amazing set of historical photos. Download them and put them away for safe keeping. We can only celebrate having the first Black president in office once in a lifetime!

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I’ve been a little detached from the internet over the past couple of weeks due to a few offline obligations and what-not, but I’m slowly getting Gossip On This back into the groove of things. I’m not sure if many other blogs have shown a lot of these but here are a few photos of some of the biggest names in Hollywood watching history in the making as Barack Obama was sworn into office as the 44th President of the U.S.

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Rev. Jesse Jackson, Sr. was asked by Essence to write an open letter to President Barack Obama. In the letter, he mainly talks about ways to improve the future of our country by investing in the education of our youth. Check it out below, and after the cut.

Dear Mr. President:

What a joy and relief it is to be able to salute you as President Obama. Congratulations on a magnificently run campaign. Your discipline, vision, strength and courage will take America and the world a long way. Now that we have made it through the courtship of the primary season, the engagement party in Grant Park on November 4th, and the wedding on January 20th, we’re entering into marriage—the final stage, one that is full of challenges.

It’s high noon in our politics, where hope abounds. But it is midnight in our economics. But we have hope that the darkness will lead to a new light that will shine even brighter. We are in a time of the worst economic crisis of the last half century, and amid expanding wars and conflicts in Iraq, the Middle East and Africa. The two great themes of ending poverty at home and unnecessary wars abroad must dominate our priorities.

We need an economic stimulus. We also need equal protection under the law, which we’ve never had. Those who have been dealt the most inequality deserve targeted stimulation. Our character is measured, as you mentioned in your Inauguration speech, by how we treat the least of these. The least of these are gripped in poverty, high infant mortality, less access to capital, first-class jails and second-class schools, the highest victims of home foreclosures. They need targeted job creation and job training to offset targeted discrimination and denial leading to structural inequality. They need to be able to restructure and modify their loans, real foreclosure relief to save their homes.

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President Barack Obama’s official presidential portrait was unveiled a few weeks ago. They say it’s the first presidential portrait ever to be taken with a digital camera. You can add that to the historical list of “firsts” we as a country have experienced in such a short amount of time.

President Obama began to take action regarding fuel efficiency & global warming with plans to reverse several Bush decisions concerning green issues. Obama directed his Environmental Protection Agency to review a California application to regulate greenhouse gases and told his Department of Transportation to begin implementing fuel efficiency standards passed in late 2007 but not implemented by the Bush administration.

As well all know the President has been pushing for the passage of the $825 billion stimulus package in the House and Senate to help revive the economy.  Included in this package the bills include money for investments in renewable energy, conservation, and a better electric grid.

“America will not be held hostage to dwindling resources, hostile regimes and a warming planet,” said Obama. “This is the boost that our economy needs and the new beginning that our future demands.”

Dear Malia and Sasha,

I know that you’ve both had a lot of fun these last two years on the campaign trail, going to picnics and parades and state fairs, eating all sorts of junk food your mother and I probably shouldn’t have let you have. But I also know that it hasn’t always been easy for you and Mom, and that as excited as you both are about that new puppy, it doesn’t make up for all the time we’ve been apart. I know how much I’ve missed these past two years, and today I want to tell you a little more about why I decided to take our family on this journey.

When I was a young man, I thought life was all about me-about how I’d make my way in the world, become successful, and get the things I want. But then the two of you came into my world with all your curiosity and mischief and those smiles that never fail to fill my heart and light up my day. And suddenly, all my big plans for myself didn’t seem so important anymore. I soon found that the greatest joy in my life was the joy I saw in yours. And I realized that my own life wouldn’t count for much unless I was able to ensure that you had every opportunity for happiness and fulfillment in yours. In the end, girls, that’s why I ran for President: because of what I want for you and for every child in this nation.

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President-elect Barack Obama plans to order the closing of the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay as early as his first week in office.  The closing of the prison will show a break from the Bush administration’s approach to the war on terror. Officials say it would follow Obama’s campaign promise to shut down the prison through executive order.

Obama on ABC’s  “This Week”:

“It is more difficult than I think a lot of people realize and we are going to get it done, but part of the challenge that you have is that you have a bunch of folks that have been detained, many of whom who may be very dangerous who have not been put on trial or have not gone through some adjudication,”

The military prison at Guantanamo Bay is a major issue because it has become a symbol of mismanagement and overreach in the war on terror.

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PRESIDENT-ELECT OBAMA REVEALS ECONOMIC RECOVER PLAN IN D.C. » There’s no doubt that President-Elect Barack Obama has a lot on his agenda when he officially enters the office on Jan. 20th, but for now he is working hard with his administration on creating a plan to help bring America’s economy back on its feet. He began his campaign on Monday for a tremendous package of tax cuts and spending proposals to boost an economy that was officially confirmed as being in a recession last year.  A tax cut in the amount of  $300 billion dollars will be proposed for individuals and businesses. The President-elect has not put a price tag on the overall amount for his stimulus plan, however his advisers expect the amount to fall between $675 billon and $775 billion.  It is also known that 40%  of the amount would be in tax cuts. Several tax breaks are also being considered.

According to Barack Obama’s plan, he would offer a tax cut equal to $500 a year for individuals and $1,000 for couples.  The credit given would work as a payroll tax credit,  in other words the money would be distributed quickly because companies could reduce the tax withheld from employees’ paychecks.

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Someone please tell right wing and controversial political commenter Ann Coulter to stop drinking on that “hatorade” because it’s definitely not a good look for her. Apparently she’s been saying some not so nice things about President-elect Barack Obama’s wife Michelle Obama.  According to her latest book which is said to be published next week, titled “Guilty: Liberal ‘Victims’ and their Assault on America,” she accuses the liberal left of playing the victims when in fact of course they are the victimizers.

But wait … the fun doesn’t stop there.  She then goes on to bash Mrs. Obama about her choice of style in which she says she is an imitation of Jackie O’s personal style.  Jackie O was the first lady and wife of President John F. Kennedy.

Coulter wrote, “Her obvious imitation of Jackie O’s style – the flipped-under hair, the sleeveless A-line dresses, the short strands of fake pearls – would have been laughable if done by anyone other than a media-designated saint.”

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COVER: EBONY MAGAZINE

President-Elect Barack Obama is EBONY’s “Person of the Year,” and he covers the January 2009 of the popular black magazine. This cover is apparently a collector’s edition, and we hear this is the first time they have honored someone as the “person of the year.” We here at Gossiponthis.com have the exclusive HQ version of the cover, so if you’d like to check it out, click the image above!

President-Elect Barack Obama and his wife, First Lady Michelle Obama, both have their own individual covers for a special edition of ESSENCE magazine, which highlights the historic victory of Barack Obama being the first ever African American to be elected president of the United States! Continue reading to peep larger versions of their covers.

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President-elect Barack Obama announces he has directed his economic team to assemble an Economic Recovery Plan that will save or create 2.5 million more jobs by January of 2011. For more information, visit http://change.gov.

Barack Obama is channeling his inner Franklin Delano Roosevelt by addressing the people of the United States with assistance of the latest and greatest technology. In weekly addresses via YouTube, President-Elect Barack Obama will speak directly to the people of America, similar to what FDR used to do with his “Fireside Chats” during his administration during the Great Depression.

FDR got us out of The Great Dpression, and Obama will get us out of this recession. Just wait and see. And when it happens, we won’t even say “we told you so.” Follow the break to check out last week’s address!

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If you thought EVERYBODY is happy about Barack Obama being elected president, then you, my friend, are sadly mistaken. Al Qaeda deputy, Ayman al-Zawahri, has released a video tape coldly acknowledging Obama’s win in the November 2008 elections calling him a “house slave”and telling him that “a heavy legacy of failure and crimes awaits” him.

“You have reached the position of president, and a heavy legacy of failure and crimes awaits you. A failure in Iraq to which you have admitted and a failure in Afghanistan to which the commanders of your army have admitted,” the message said. The speaker also said Obama’s plan to pull troops from Iraq and send them to Afghanistan “is a policy which was destined for failure before it was born.”

“If you still want to be stubborn about America’s failure in Afghanistan, then remember the fate of Bush and Pervez Musharraf, and the fate of the Soviets and British before them,” the message said. “And be aware that the dogs of Afghanistan have found the flesh of your soldiers to be delicious, so send thousands after thousands to them.”

The message said Obama appears “to be captive to the same criminal American mentality towards the world and towards the Muslims.” The speaker cited Muslims’ ire toward Obama’s support of Israel. The speaker also said Obama, former and current Secretaries of State Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice, and “your likes” fit Malcolm X’s description of “house slaves.”

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Robert Kennedy must have been a psychic because in 1968 he said the following:

“Things are moving so fast in race relations a Negro could be president in 40 years. There’s no question about it, in the next 40 years a Negro can achieve the same position that my brother has. Prejudice exists and probably will continue to, but we have tried to make progress and we are making progress. We are not going to accept the status quo.”

And here we are, 2008, no more or no less than 40 years later, and we have elected our first Black president – Barack Obama! It’s been 3 days, and we here at Gossip On This are still in awe. These 74 days will not move quickly enough for us!

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We hear at Gossip On This called it months ago (back in January during the primaries) but CNN is projecting that Barack Obama has won the 2008 presidential election. WE DID IT! Not only have we elected the first African American president in the history of the United States of America, but we have put someone in office who can possibly turn this country around. It’s very doubtful that he’ll be able to restore our country 100% over the next 8 years, but he has a better chance of doing it than old man McLame.

It’s surreal to believe that all of this is a reality…

CNN projects that Barack Obama will be the nation’s 44th president. As polls closed on the West coast, the Illinois senator was projected to receive enough electoral votes to pass the 270-vote threshold. Obama is projected to win California, Washington, Oregon and Hawaii. He also is projected to win Virginia, a state that hasn’t voted for a Democratic president since 1964.

As Obama built up a commanding lead over Sen. John McCain, senior aides to the Arizona senator were growing pessimistic about his chances. When asked if they saw a path to victory, two senior McCain aides said no.

Click here to read more! And follow the break to check out a video of his historical victory speech.

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This is probably the most easiest guess who ever posted in the history of Gossip On This. So no hints, no info, no dice. Just hit the link below to see who the hell it is…

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PHOTOS: EMMANUEL DUNAND FOR GETTY IMAGES

Future President Barack Obama and his wife, future First Lady Michelle Obama, cast their votes this morning in Chicago. Their daughters, Malia and Sasha, accompanied them at the booths. OBAMA ‘08!!

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LAST UPDATE: 8:00 PM EST (NOV. 5TH 2008)

* OBAMA: 349 ELECTORAL VOTES *
MCCAIN: 163 ELECTORAL VOTES
TOTAL NEEDED TO WIN: 270

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With the election less than two weeks away, I believe it is time to introduce something new to GOT, and we are going to appropriately borrow a little slang from our friends over at Globalgrind.com and call it “politricks!” Because that’s exactly what they are: tricks from politicians and supporters alike who want nothing but failure for the Democratic party in this year’s election. Let’s face it: at this point, if everyone goes out and votes like they’re supposed to, a black man is going to be in office. And that scares people. It scares people to the point where they (and when I say they I mean THEM – the Republicans) will go as far as sabotaging an election.

Three Putnam County voters say electronic voting machines changed their votes from Democrats to Republicans when they cast early ballots last week. This is the second West Virginia county where voters have reported this problem. Last week, three voters in Jackson County told The Charleston Gazette their electronic vote for “Barack Obama” kept flipping to “John McCain”.

In both counties, Republicans are responsible for overseeing elections. Both county clerks said the problem is isolated. They also blamed voters for not being more careful.

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Former U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell has officially announced his endorsement for Democratic presidential nominee, Barack Obama – a move that will make a lot of undecided and Republican voters alike hop on the Obama train. Why? Because Colin Powell is Republican!

“I think we need a transformational figure. I think we need a president who is a generational change and that’s why I’m supporting Barack Obama, not out of any lack of respect or admiration for Sen. John McCain,” Powell said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”

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Two weeks, folks! Two weeks! Not far away at all…

Governor Sarah Palin (emperor of Alaska) made a damn fool of herself over the weekend on Saturday Night Live. Of course she was going for the “keeping it real” look, but once again … FAILED. She doesn’t get it. We’re laughing AT you, not WITH you!

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It is hard to believe that we are less than three weeks away from the 2008 presidential election. Senator Barack Obama and Senator John McCain participated in the last of the debates for this year’s presidential race. Last night’s debate was Obama’s last chance to convince us even more than he already has that between him and that old dude, he’s the best candidate for the job of running this country. McCain’s old negative and sarcastic ass made himself look like a fool tonight. This whole Obama thing must be really pissing him off! Check out the videos here if you didn’t get a chance to catch it on every major network on television (yeah, there’s almost no excuse for you not to have already seen this).

Follow the break to check out tons of photos of people from all over supporting Obama!

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I called it on Thursday, and Saturday Night Live most definitely clowned Governor Sarah Palin. Follow the break to check out more SNL Sarah Palin parodies! They’re definitely worth watching. Is it ironic that Tina Fey already looks so much like Sarah Palin … without even trying to?!

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I’m not sure if you caught last night’s debate, but if you were worried about Barack Obama being our future president, then I’m here to tell you to worry no more! Sarah Palin and Joe Biden faced off in a vice presidential debate last night at St. Louis University, and after watching the debate, I know 2 things: 1.) Sarah Palin doesn’t know what the hell she’s talking about and has horrible public speaking skills, and 2.) come January 20th 2009, we’re going to have a black man in the oval office. ‘Nuff said. Check out videos of the debate here if you weren’t able to last night. Oh yeah, and REGISTER TO VOTE … NOW!

Oh, and one more thing: is it just me or did Sarah tend to go off topic throughout the debate, and it seemed as though she made up for not knowing how to answer the question by “beating around the bush” or just changing the context of the question in her answer.

Boy, oh boy, Saturday Night Live is gonna have a field day with this one!

DIDI LIMA ON WHY SHE THINKS HISPANICS SHOULD NOT VOTE FOR BARACK OBAMA »

“We don’t want (Hispanics) to become the new African-American community,” Lima the Hispanic community liaison for Republican John McCain’s presidential campaign told The Associated Press. “And that’s what the Democratic Party is going to do to them, create more programs and give them handouts, food stamps and checks for this and checks for that. We don’t want that.”

“I’m very much afraid that the Democratic Party is going to do the same thing that they did with the African-American culture and make them all dependent on the government and we don’t want that,” she said.

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Let’s take a short moment out of our daily gossip reports to talk about something that effects nearly 60% of the readers who visit GOT daily. Congress is currently debating a decision to bail out struggling Wall Street banks. This decision will cost Americans $700 billion. Republicans and liberal Democrats are for it, saying that this bail-out will “help keep the crisis in our financial system from spreading throughout our economy.” Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke also supports the bailout bill, stating that, “this legislation should help to restore the flow of credit to households and businesses that is essential for economic growth and job creation, while at the same time affording strong and necessary protections for taxpayers,” he said in a statement.

But will this really help? Is this a short-term fix that will possibly blow up in the face of our future president later on down the road? Are they just patching up the problem temporarily? Should we, as Americans, write the government a check for $700 billion to fix mistakes caused by 8 years of the George W. Bush administration?

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According to our demographics, 35% of GOT’s readers are between the ages of 18 and 34. If you are a legal United States citizen, then there is no reason (or excuse for that matter) for you not to be registered to vote. You have up until this Saturday (October 4th 2008) to get off of your lazy behind and register! If you visit www.VOTEFORCHANGE.COM all you do is fill out a simple form online and they register for you! This takes all of what … 3 minutes? (depending on the speed of your computer). So what the hell are you waiting on? If Obama doesn’t get into office because of the 55 million Americans not registered to vote, then we don’t deserve to have him as our president. And that’s the truth.

Oh, and by the way, if you turn 18 on or before November 4th, then you are still eligible to vote in this year’s election. So if you are currently 17 years old and your 18th birthday isn’t until November 4th 2008, then you can still register NOW (even before you actually turn 18). SO DO IT!!

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If that doesn’t inspire you to register to vote, then I don’t know what will!

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Senator PRESIDENT Obama and that old dude they call “John McCain” participated in a debate last night in Mississipi. If you’re living on planet earth right now, you’d know that the U.S. is currently struggling financially, and when Obama begins his 8-year term (yes, he will get re-elected … no doubt about that) on January 20th 2009, it is going to be up to him to fix all of this. And after watching last night’s debate, I sincerely believe that between him and McCain, he’s most definitely the man for the job. The two of them also weighed in on issues regarding foreign policy, foreign oil dependence, and more. If you didn’t get a chance to catch the debate last night, then there’s absolutely no excuse for you to not be able to catch the full videos somewhere online. I even did the looking for you :) Click here!

Also, according to our demographics, 35% of GOT’s readers are between the ages of 18 and 34. If you are a legal United States citizen, then there is no reason (or excuse for that matter) for you not to be registered to vote. You have up until this Saturday (October 4th 2008) to get off of your lazy behind and register! If you visit www.VOTEFORCHANGE.COM all you do is fill out a simple form online and they register for you! This takes all of what … 3 minutes? (depending on the speed of your computer). So what the hell are you waiting on? If Obama doesn’t get into office because of the 55 million Americans not registered to vote, then we don’t deserve to have him as our president. And that’s the truth.

Oh, and by the way, if you turn 18 on or before November 4th, then you are still eligible to vote in this year’s election. So if you are currently 17 years old and your 18th birthday isn’t until November 4th 2008, then you can still register NOW (even before you actually turn 18). SO DO IT!!

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OBAMA ‘08!

Calling Barack Obama the democratic presidential nominee is politically correct. But eff that. I’m calling this dude the next president of these here United States of America. Barry shut it down last night in front of a crowd of close to 90,000 people when he formally accepted the Democratic party’s nomination of him as our representative. I’m still in shock that a black man is going to be the next president of the United States. How about you? Part 2 of the history-making speech can be found after the cut!

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Our next First Lady, Michelle Obama, made an amazing speech last night at the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver, CO. The purpose of the DNC is for Barack Obama to formally accept his nomination as the party’s official presidential candidate. But we all have to do our part to get this family into the White House! So if you haven’t registered to vote yet, get off your lazy behind and go register! And once you do that, you have to actually get up (once again, it’s not that bad, I promise) and go out and VOTE on November 4th.

Follow the break to check out John Legend performing “If You’re Out There.”

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It’s hard to keep up on what’s going on in the political world these days. So here’s a compilation of the biggest political headlines from this week!

OBAMA CUTS BACK ON SPENDING TO MATCH MCCAIN » [ CNN POLITICS ]

OBAMA CALLS SITUATION IN AFGHANISTAN URGENT » [ CNN POLITICS ]

BARACK OBAMA GAINS MORE BACKING FROM GREEN GROUPS » [ CNN WORLD ]

IRAQ LEADER, OBAMA DISCUSSES FUTURE TROOP PULLOUT » [ CNN POLITICS ]

NEW MCCAIN AD BLAMES OBAMA FOR RISING GAS PRICES » [ CNN MONEY ]

PASTOR SNAGS OBAMA & MCCAIN FOR JOINT APPEARANCE » [ CNN POLITICS ]

COULD AN OBAMA PRESIDENCY HURT BLACK AMERICANS? » [ CNN POLITICS ]

OBAMA SAYS HELP FROM ALLIES WILL IMPROVE THINGS AT HOME » [ CNN POLITICS ]

MCCAIN STRUGGLES TO FIND MEDIA SPOTLIGHT » [ CNN POLITICS ]

Leading up to the North Carolina and Indiana primaries, three obvious scenarios were discussed by analysts: Obama would win both states, Clinton would take both states, or they would each win one. The latter was thought to be most likely. Well they did each win one state by CNN estimates, but somehow it wasn’t quite that…at least if you were following the results as they came in.

In North Carolina, the polls closed at 7pm, some of the exit poll data was being parsed by analysts, and anchors and reporters were afoot about possible outcomes. Normal fare. Then some 30 minutes after the polls closed with little precinct data: Obama was declared the winner by the networks; the results later giving him a win by 14%. Neat and all wrapped up like a nice chicken burrito.

Indiana was quite a different night.

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PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania (CNN) — Sen. Hillary Clinton claimed victory in Pennsylvania on Tuesday, beating out Sen. Barack Obama after a bruising seven-week campaign.”It’s a long road to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. and it runs right through the heart of Pennsylvania,” she told supporters in Philadelphia. I’m in this race to fight for you … You know you can count on me to stand up strong for you every single day in the White House.”

Clinton commended Obama and his campaign, saying they are in many ways “on this journey together.” Tuesday’s projected victory follows Clinton’s wins in other big states such as Ohio, New York and California. Her campaign said that should raise new questions about whether Obama, who leads Clinton in the overall Democratic race, can beat presumptive Republican nominee John McCain in November.

“The tide is turning,” Clinton told cheering supporters. Chelsea Clinton’s eyes welled with tears as she watched her mother speak.

With about 99 percent of precincts reporting, Clinton was leading Obama by 10 points. Clinton will pick up a majority of the state’s 158 delegates.

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