Will President Obama be elected for a second term? (Poll)

Watching President Obama giving his very powerful, authoritative speech at the United Nations was a strong reminder of how suitable this man is to the White House.

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As Times reporters James C McKinley Jr. and Sam Dillon wrote:

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A Rhodes scholar and an Oxford Ph.D., she's done stints as an AIDS activist, barista, landscaper, Air America host, and mascot in an inflatable calculator suit.

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This is a real find, Barack Obama being interviewed 13 years ago about his book; the sincere answers he gives and the poise and charm with which he answered the questions. Even so long ago, he was a leader in the making. Still as charismatic and approachable as ever.

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So with Democrats gathering this month in Denver for their national convention, the Scene offers its own critique of Bredesen in the public interest and in the hopes of saving Obama from his biggest mistake since he joined Jeremiah Wright's church.

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20 Reasons why a President Obama would be wrong for America (Generosity to Obama Critics Week!)

With John McCain sinking to a new level of negativity to attack Barack Obama with each new day, clutching at pathetic straws while struggling to find brickbats, I thought I might help him to highlight some predictable reasons for Obama's obvious unsuitabilty to the presidency, to …

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In the patois of punditry, "charismatic" has come to mean little more than "like a rock star." But the striking thing about the charismatic leader is the extent to which his followers regard him as a healer of wounds, an alleviator of pain.

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McCain: We Don't Hate You

We just call them how we see them.

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Right-Wing nuts are fretting over Obama's alleged 'huge ego,' not knowing that this is a normal trait he inherited from his father. Embedded in Luo culture (Obama's father is a Luo from Kenya), as in other African cultures, is a certain machismo.

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This isn't to suggest that Obama is a messiah or a God-like figure, of course. Nor does the magnitude of this movement ensure that revolutionary change will necessarily follow what his critics call mere words.

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Nope, it's not what you might think. The best thing about Barack Obama has almost nothing to do with him as a person or as a leader or even as Oh My God The First Black President Who Could Really Change Everything I Mean Wow.

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What's the Big Deal With OneRepublic?

One of the newest popular bands on the scene, OneRepublic has taken it by storm. Their first single, "Apologize" (which I'm about 90% sure you've heard) is catchy, dramatic and rhythmic.

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It's the Inspiration Thing — Stupid

On Friday morning there was a piece on NPR with a 50-something female school teacher and a 20-something female college student in Ohio. The teacher was a Hillary supporter. The student was an Obamite.

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Would we call this a cult of personality? Today that term is all around Barack Obama — perhaps because there seems so little other way to explain how a first-term senator has managed to dazzle his way to front-runner in the race for the presidency, how he walks on water for so …

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TAKING office in 1933, Franklin D. Roosevelt confronted a country in crisis. Four in 10 working-age Americans were jobless. Banks were collapsing. There were long lines outside tellers' windows as people rushed to withdraw their savings.

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Believing in yourself may be good for the soul, but it can also be good for the bank account, according to a new University of Florida study that finds self-confidence can translate into earning hundreds of thousands of dollars more over a lifetime.

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America is not a country of intellectual voters. We do not calculate our ballots on the basis of financial or class interests. Sure, advocacy groups back candidates by virtue of their sympathy with cherished causes.

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Remember this about Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Hizbullah: he grew up very poor but very smart, and although he wears the robes of a minor Shiite cleric, he is a world-class politician. The U.S. government defines him as a terrorist, but that is only one of his faces.

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