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Obama Administration Marks Anniversary of Stimulus Plan: Video

Feb. 17 (Bloomberg) — The obama administration is marking the one-year anniversary of the economic stimulus legislation with efforts to show the measure sparked U.S. growth and curbed rising unemployment. Bloomberg’s Julianna Goldman reports. (Source: Bloomberg) Duration : 0:2:31 Technorati Tags: Administration, all, Anniversary, Audio, Bloomberg, Congress, Construction, Credit, crisis, Crunch, economic, Engineering, english, federal, … Continue reading

Why are Americans upset that Obama is keeping his campaign promises about health care?

During the campaign, Obama said in crystal clear terms that reforming health care was going to be one of his biggest priorities. If people didn’t want this, they shouldn’t have voted for him. But they did vote for him, and he won the election, so why are they now complaining that he is doing exactly … Continue reading

Obama Is Just A Politician, NOT A Leader

Watch more at http://www.theyoungturks.com Duration : 0:8:49 Technorati Tags: Abc, analysis, barack, care, cenk, commentary, commercial, dems, Emanuel, fighting, George, Gop, grassroots, health, mobs, news, obama, option, outreach, political, politico, public, Rahm, reform, stephanopoulos, the, townhalls, turks, unions, uygur, young

AFL-CIO’s Richard Trumka on Racism and Obama

AFL-CIO Secretary Treasurer Richard Trumka blasts racism and underlines why workers should vote obama in 2008. Excerpt of speech given at Steelworkers convention July 1, 2008, sponsored by USW President Leo Gerard. FABULOUS! Entire speech at http://www.usw.org/multimedia/video Mr. Trumka formerly served as president of the United Mine Workers of America. UPDATE: On February 6, 2009 … Continue reading