Archive for the ‘Politics’

  • President Barack Obama To Host a Superbowl Party At The White House Today
    Share As we congregate to watch the New Orleans Saints play the Indianapolis Colts tonight, President Obama and his family will be hosting Democrat friends and Republican frenemies for an evening of football, reports CNN. About 40 people are expected to gather at the White House tonight. We can only imagine what they’ll feast on since the President and First...
    by hiphopucit at February 7th, 2010 at 02:02 pm
  • President Barack Obama State Of The Union Address “We Will Not Quit” [VIDEO]
    Share Obama’s message to the public was: ‘I hear you’. ‘Jobs must be our number one focus in 2010,’ he said as U.S. unemployment remained at a painful 10 per cent. ‘People are out of work. They are hurting. They need our help. And I want a jobs bill on my desk without delay. ‘I don’t quit,’ he told the congress....
    by hiphopucit at January 27th, 2010 at 10:01 pm
  • Barack Obama Anniversary…1 Year Later
    Share On this day last year, millions of Americans huddled on a crisp winter day near the steps of the Capitol in Washington, D.C., to watch Barack Obama’s historic inauguration. The nation’s first black president encouraged the multitudes to unite in hope against what he called the “gathering clouds and raging storms” of economic despair and...
    by hiphopucit at January 20th, 2010 at 10:01 am
  • Michelle Obama’s Wax Statue Added Next To Barack Obama’s at Madame Tussaud’s
    Share And First Lady Michelle Obama has been commemorated in wax at London’s Madame Tussaud’s museum.  They put her right next to her hubby’s wax statue in the makeshift Oval Office.
    by hiphopucit at January 19th, 2010 at 10:01 am
  • President Obama Speaks On the Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. [VIDEO]
    Share President Obama celebrates MLK Day by speaking on legacy and ideals of the civil rights leader.
    by hiphopucit at January 18th, 2010 at 04:01 pm
  • Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Message Lives On
    Share Today, America will celebrate — if that’s the right word — Martin Luther King Day. Today, there are two generations of Americans who are too young to personally remember Dr. King as he led what would become known as the Civil Rights Movement. A civil rights march through Memphis is held in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Share I am not...
    by hiphopucit at January 18th, 2010 at 10:01 am
  • Michelle Obama’s Haiti PSA [VIDEO]
    Share Michelle Obama, like many others in the public eye, has stepped forward to pledge her support to the victims of the Haitian earthquake. The First Lady Teamed up with Ad Council and the Red Cross to bring attention to dire condition the people of Haiti are in right now, and just how desperately they need our help. “I was eager to join the Ad Council and the...
    by hiphopucit at January 16th, 2010 at 10:01 am
  • Bill Clinton on Barack Obama, “A Few Years Ago He Would Have Been Getting Us Coffee”
    Share As more details from the forthcoming book “Game Change” are revealed, the more journalists Mark Halperin and John Heilemann (who co-authored the book) keep dropping political bombs. In the latest doozy, an excerpt from the book paraphrases a conversation between Senator Ted Kennedy and former President Bill Clinton in which the latter says about...
    by hiphopucit at January 11th, 2010 at 10:01 am
  • Glenn Beck Says “African American is Not a Race” [VIDEO]
    Share Conservative talk show host Glenn Beck continues on his tirade on anything to do with people of color. This time he’s going after African Americans, saying the term itself is a ‘bogus, PC, made-up term,’ reports the New York Daily News. Speaking about forms for the 2010 Census, in which respondents are asked to classify themselves from three...
    by hiphopucit at January 10th, 2010 at 11:01 am
  • Senate Health Care Bill Passes Without GOP Votes
    Share WASHINGTON — After 25 consecutive days of debate, the U.S. Senate today approved sweeping health care legislation, moving a goal that has eluded Democratic presidents since Franklin Roosevelt closer to enactment than ever before. President Obama, who put off his Hawaii Christmas vacation to remain in town for the 60-39 vote, says the legislation goes a long...
    by hiphopucit at December 24th, 2009 at 08:12 am