Barack Obama

January 24, 2010

Obama Goes Toe-To-Toe With Stephanopoulos On “Tax Increases”

On “This Week,” George Stephanopoulos and President Obama have a colorful discussion over Obama’s health care reform proposal.

Stephanopoulos takes issue with a mandate that obligates Americans to purchase health insurance, or risk being fined as much as $900. “How is that not a tax?”

“A responsibility to get health insurance is not a tax increase,” obama said.

Stephanopoulos then tells Obama that he looked up the definition of “tax” in Merriam Webster’s dictionary.

“The fact that you looked up… the definition of tax increase indicates that you’re stretching a little bit right now,” Obama responded.

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May 8, 2009

West Wing: Obama Campaign Intro

Watch the new one, with Obama’s top staff for the presidency!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qp6xUuMh5rA

I just thought it’d be fun to put Obama’s Campaign Staff into a credit/title sequence from “The West Wing.” Henceforth, the opening of a show I call “The Campaign Trail.”

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Our Cast of Characters:
Besides Barack Obama, michelle obama, and Joe Biden, there’s
-David Axelrod, media strategist. Founder of Chicago-based AKP Media. Handled obama’s 2004 Senate race. Consults for Mayor Daley, Rep. Rahm Emanuel.
-David Plouffe, campaign manager. Partner, AKP Media, lives in Washington.
-Steve Hildebrand, Deputy Campaign Manager. Runs South Dakota-based political consulting firm and is an Iowa specialist.
-Betsy Myers, chief operating officer. Executive director of the Center for Public Leadership at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. Director of President Bill Clinton’s Office for Women’s Initiatives and Outreach. Sister of Dee Dee Myers, Clinton’s first press secretary.
-Robert Gibbs, communications chief. Spokesman for Obama’s Senate and political operations.

*Information is from Wikipedia, as of September 1st, 2008, and everyone is in alphabetical order in the video.

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