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OBAMA – Obey Giant

UPDATE: Thanks for all those who bought the print in support of OBEY and OBAMA. Unfortunately, the print is sold out and we do not plan on producing another edition. The edition was released earlier today with great response. The PROGRESS screenprint was exclusively available through OBEY and the HOPE offset print will be distributed by the OBAMA Camp as an awareness campaign.

I believe with great conviction that Barack Obama should be the next President. I have been paying close attention to him since the Democratic convention in 2004. I feel that he is more a statesman than a politician. He was against the war when it was an unpopular position (and Hillary was for the war at that time), Obama is for energy and environmental conservation. He is for healthcare reform. Check him out for yourself http://www.barackobama.com. Proceeds from this print go to produce prints for a large statewide poster campaign.

Thanks.

-Shepard

Those of you who emails us, thank you. But we dont have anymore! This screenprint is 24 X 36, edition of 350. Available next Wednesday, January 30th, 2009.

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Obama Articles – Breitbart

President Donald Trump will not re-certify to Congress Iranian compliance with the landmark nuclear deal signed in 2015 under President Barack Obama, but will keep the agreement itself in place. Congress will be urged to pass new trigger points to

by Ian Mason13 Oct 2017, 8:30 AM PDT0

On Tuesdays broadcast of CNNs Situation Room, CNN Senior Legal Analyst Jeffrey Toobin stated the records of the Obama family and Clinton family are tarnished because they were willfully blind to Harvey Weinsteins behavior. Toobin said,You know, this was widely

by Ian Hanchett10 Oct 2017, 5:56 PM PDT0

Judicial Watch uncovered yet another Obama IRS scandal and one that includes the massive Health and Human Services (HHS) running Obamacare AND the Obama White House directly!

by Tom Fitton10 Oct 2017, 3:14 PM PDT0

Tuesdayon CNNs Wolf, network political correspondent Dana Bash asked where the Obamas were on condemning Harvey Weinstein over his growing sexual harassment scandal. Bash said, You broke the news about Hillary Clinton finally putting out a statement condemning his behavior

by Pam Key10 Oct 2017, 11:53 AM PDT0

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, in an exclusive interview Sunday with Breitbart News, discussed the administrations foreign policy, from the war in Afghanistan to Iran.

by Kristina Wong and Amanda House9 Oct 2017, 7:03 PM PDT0

President Donald Trump blamed previous White House administrations for failing to effectively deal with the issue of North Korea, describing the situation as a total mess, in an interview Saturday.

by Ben Kew9 Oct 2017, 5:44 PM PDT0

On Mondays MSNBC Live, Daily Show co-creator and Lady Parts Justice founder and Chief Creative Officer Lizz Winstead expressed disappointment with President Obamas and Hillary Clintons silence on Harvey Weinstein and argued that you cant have the credibility to denounce

by Ian Hanchett9 Oct 2017, 12:27 PM PDT0

Thursdayin Sao Paulo, Brazil, former President Barack Obama said one of the problems with politics dealt with some members of Congress occupying their seats for 20 to 30 years. Obama said, I think politics suffer when you have the same

by Pam Key5 Oct 2017, 5:24 PM PDT0

Tuesday at the Pennsylvania Conference for Women, former first lady Michelle Obama said when she attended the State of the Union address she would notice the Republican side was all men, all white.

by Pam Key3 Oct 2017, 5:43 PM PDT0

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, echoing the position of the United States, says the only two options available for the Taliban at this juncture in the 16-year-old war in Afghanistan are to continue pursuing their terror campaign and be annihilated or renounce violence and embrace peace.

by Edwin Mora27 Sep 2017, 7:46 PM PDT0

Taliban jihadists control or contest 45 percent of Afghanistan as U.S. President Donald Trump begins to escalate the American military footprint in the country, reports the Long War Journal (LWJ), echoing assessments from the United States government and the terrorist group itself.

by Edwin Mora27 Sep 2017, 7:26 PM PDT0

Former President Obama reportedly met with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg after the 2016 election to advise the tech billionaire on how to deal with fake news on the Facebook platform.

by Lucas Nolan25 Sep 2017, 10:42 AM PDT0

In interim guidance released Friday, U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos ended the campus sexual misconduct policies put forward by former President Barack Obama, stating that, while colleges must continue to combat sexual misconduct on campus, the process must be fair and impartial, and inspiring confidence in its outcomes.

by Dr. Susan Berry22 Sep 2017, 3:26 PM PDT0

Did President Obama spy on the Trump campaign? It sure as hell looks like it.

by Brian Darling22 Sep 2017, 12:16 PM PDT0

The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) is strengthening its presence in Afghanistan, spreading its tentacles into seven provinces where it carried out 237 attacks in just the first half of this year, nearly doubling the assaults attributable to the terrorist group during the same period in 2016, reports the United Nations.

by Edwin Mora21 Sep 2017, 11:50 AM PDT0

Wednesdayin New York during a speech to the Gates Foundation, former President Barack Obama said it is aggravating the Republican Party is seeking to inflict real human suffering with their attempts to repeal the Affordable Care Act. Obama said, But

by Pam Key20 Sep 2017, 11:13 AM PDT0

Wednesday on Fox News Channels Fox & Friends, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said the administration of President Barack Obama did not always put America first. When asked about Trump calling Kim Jong-un rocket man, Sanders said, Thats

by Pam Key20 Sep 2017, 8:01 AM PDT0

If the national media loses its ever-loving mind and launches a campaign to brand Trump a liar, that can mean only one thing that Trump is not only telling the truth, he is telling a Big Truth, an inconvenient truth, a truth the MSM does not want the American people to hear.

by John Nolte19 Sep 2017, 2:21 PM PDT0

California legislators voted Tuesdayto designate a section of the 134 Freeway in Los Angeles County asthe President Barack H. Obama Highwayin honor of the 44th President of the United States. In order to place the signs with Obamas name along

by Assemblyman Tim Donnelly6 Sep 2017, 5:15 AM PDT0

In his 2013 memoir, Still Dreaming: My Journey from the Barrio to Capitol Hill, Gutierrez recalled that President Barack Obama had argued that DACA was not legally possible that is, until he actually did it.

by Joel B. Pollak5 Sep 2017, 11:12 AM PDT0

Politics, it is said, ought to stop at the waters edge. Not so for former U.S. Ambassador to South Africa Patrick Gaspard, who trashed President Donald Trump and his administration in a visit to his former host country last week.

by Joel B. Pollak4 Sep 2017, 9:43 AM PDT0

Friday on Fox News Channel program, host Tucker Carlson criticized Republican members of the House and Senate that were opposed to the possible rollback of President Barack Obamas Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) immigration policy. The Tucker Carlson Tonight

by Jeff Poor1 Sep 2017, 7:24 PM PDT0

News outlets are reporting that President Donald Trump is considering ending DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals). The unconstitutional Obama-era executive action granted amnesty and work permits to approximately 800,000 illegal aliens on the condition they attest they illegally entered the United States as minors.

by Rep. Steve King30 Aug 2017, 8:58 AM PDT0

Monday in Washington D.C. at the National Action Networks Ministers March for Justice, author, radio host and Georgetown University sociology professor Michael Eric Dyson said President Donald Trump just hates the fact that a black man was in charge, referring

by Pam Key29 Aug 2017, 9:33 PM PDT0

U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson told American lawmakers in a letter this week that his department will abolish many of the nearly 70 U.S. special envoy positions, including the ones charged with shutting down the U.S. military prison in Guantnamo Bay, Cuba, and dealing with the Iran nuclear deal.

by Edwin Mora29 Aug 2017, 9:12 PM PDT0

Judicial Watch is leading the way in uncovering the corrupt maneuvering by the Obama administration to impose its leftist agenda on our country. As Obama holdovers and the federal Deep State continue to push this agenda even now in the Trump administration, our work is essential. A good example of this is our new lawsuit on the Obama teams alliance with radical environmentalists to halt work on the Dakota Access Pipeline.

by Tom Fitton28 Aug 2017, 12:43 PM PDT0

A government report on the nations power infrastructure whitewashes the crushing effects of government regulation on the coal industry, according to the Heartland Institute.

by Tom Ciccotta27 Aug 2017, 5:33 PM PDT0

American troops in Afghanistan are still fighting the Taliban under an authority granted by former U.S. President Barack Obama in June 2016 that allows American service members to aggressively target the jihadists, Breitbart News has learned.

by Edwin Mora25 Aug 2017, 10:10 AM PDT0

Friday on MSNBCs Morning Joe, former Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean said President Barack Obama getting involved in the current political cycle could be a net negative for Democrats. Dean said he disagreed withCaroline Randall Williams New York Times

by Jeff Poor25 Aug 2017, 6:35 AM PDT0

Former President Barack Obamas National Security Advisor Susan Rice admitted on Thursday that, over the course of Obamas two terms in office, his administration failed to stop the communist North Korean government from building its nuclear weapon capability.

by Penny Starr11 Aug 2017, 6:59 PM PDT0

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Justice Department: No evidence Obama wiretapped Trump Tower …

New York police officers guard the entrance of Trump Tower as protesters gather against President Donald Trump on August 14 in New York. | Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/AFP/Getty Images

There is no evidence to support President Donald Trump's claim that President Barack Obama ordered the wiretapping of Trump Tower during the 2016 presidential campaign, the Justice Department said in a new court filing.

The DOJ made the statement in a motion for summary judgment filed Friday in response to a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit by the watchdog group American Oversight.

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"Both FBI and NSD confirm that they have no records related to wiretaps as described by the March 4, 2017 tweets," the government said, referring to the Justice Departments National Security Division.

James Comey, who was FBI director at the time Trump made the statements, also said, in sworn testimony before Congress, that neither the FBI nor the Justice Department had information to support the tweets. Trump later fired Comey, a move that has come under increasing scrutiny amid federal investigations into Russian interference in the 2016 campaign.

The FBI and Department of Justice have now sided with former Director Comey and confirmed in writing that President Trump lied when he tweeted that former President Obama wiretapped him at Trump Tower, said Austin Evers, executive director of American Oversight.

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Trump has never produced any evidence to back up the explosive claim, which he made on Twitter in March, and which a spokesman for Obama promptly denied.

"Terrible! Just found out that Obama had my 'wires tapped' in Trump Tower just before the victory. Nothing found. This is McCarthyism!" Trump wrote at the time.

"How low has President Obama gone to tapp [sic] my phones during the very sacred election process. This is Nixon/Watergate. Bad (or sick) guy!" Trump added.

In response to a question about the DOJ filing, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Saturday, This is not news, and that the White House had responded to the matter weeks ago.

The White House has argued that Trump's comments were merely alleging surveillance, which is why he put "wires tapped" in quotation marks in the initial tweet.

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Obama Foundation Fellowship

The Obama Foundation Fellows will be a diverse set of community-minded rising stars organizers, inventors, artists, entrepreneurs, journalists, and more who are altering the civic engagement landscape. By engaging their fellow citizens to work together in new and meaningful ways, Obama Foundation Fellows will model how any individual can become an active citizen in their community.

The inaugural class of 20 Fellows will be integral to shaping the program and the community of Fellows for future years. For this first class, were seeking participants who are especially excited about helping us design, test, and refine the Fellowship.

Our two-year, non-residential Fellowship will offer hands-on training, resources, and leadership development. Fellows will also participate in four multi-day gatherings where they will collaborate with each other, connect with potential partners, and collectively push their work forward. Throughout the program, each Fellow will pursue a personalized plan to leverage Fellowship resources to take their work to the next level.

Were looking for individuals who are working to solve important public problems in creative and powerful ways. We are inspired by a broad vision of what it means to be civic, one that includes leaders tackling a range of issues, in both traditional and unconventional ways.

We need people working from all angles and with different perspectives to strengthen our communities and civic life. This fellowship is for organizers, inventors, artists, entrepreneurs, journalists, and more. It is for those working within systems like governments or businesses, as well as those working outside of formal institutions.

Successful applicants have already demonstrated meaningful impact in their communities, gaining recognition among their peers for their contributions. Now, they stand at a breakthrough moment in their careers. Theyre poised to use the Fellowship to significantly advance their work, perhaps by launching new platforms, expanding to broader audiences, or taking their work to a national or global stage. If youve already gained global recognition for your work or if your civic innovation work has just begun, you may not be the ideal candidate for this program.

We are committed to expanding the circle of opportunity to include new and varied voices. Thus we have a strong preference for civic innovators who are not currently connected to the networks and resources they need to advance their work. If youre not sure whether you fit this description, feel free to apply and make sure to articulate how the resources of the Fellowship would uniquely impact your work.

We are building an authentic community. A strong moral character is essential for the strength of this community, the integrity of the program, and the longevity of its value. Were seeking inspirational individuals who demonstrate humility and work collaboratively with others towards shared goals.

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The Obama-Era Deficit Scolds Want Big Tax Cuts Now – New York Magazine

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One of the unnoticed ways in which American politics has changed under Donald Trump is the quiet disappearance of the budget deficit as a fixation of the news media and the business and political elite. During Barack Obamas two terms in office, terror about deficits positively consumed the discourse. A terror of doubt inspired an endless stream of presidential debate questions (none of which bothered with climate change), bipartisan commissions, supercommissions, panels, and op-eds. The concern transcended partisanship indeed, it usually manifested itself as a concern about partisanship, expressed as the hope that the two parties could work together, the purpose of which was assumed axiomatically to be the prevention of fiscal calamity.

No figure in Congress, save former deficit saint Paul Ryan, played as important a role in fomenting deficit hysteria in the Obama era as Judd Gregg. The Republican New Hampshire senator was an especially credible messenger because he briefly accepted a position in the Obama Cabinet before withdrawing under partisan pressure, and he co-sponsored the bipartisan bill to create what became the hallowed Bowles-Simpson commission. Greggs warnings of civilizational peril were thus taken with the utmost seriousness.

The practical implications of [Obamas budget] is bankruptcy for the United States, he warned in 2009. People will not buy our debt, our dollar will become devalued. It is a very severe situation. No less than the dissolution of American government lay ahead: Youre running a banana republic is what it comes down to. You cant afford to pay those debts. And even as the deficit fell, Greggs terror of banana republicdom did not. At some point and if the CBO numbers are anywhere near right, it will be in the not too distant future we as a nation will have a fiscal crisis of potentially apocalyptic proportions, he predicted last year.

The coming fiscal apocalypse no longer grips the minds of the business community or spokesmen like Gregg. Abelsons reporting finds that Greggs about-face is fairly typical of the financial industry. Wall Street was ground zero for deficit panic in the Obama era, and its response to Trump has been largely positive in general, bordering on giddy at his economic proposals. Max Abelson reports that Lloyd Blankfein, Jamie Dimon, and Brian Moynihan are all veterans of Fix the Debt, a powerful voice for austerity in the Obama years, and have all endorsed Republican tax-cut plans.

Developments since the Obama administration departed have clarified some of the controversies during it. The debt scolds professed panic at looming fiscal insolvency turns out to be, in large measure, cover for a panic at a government that would redistribute too much income from people like themselves.

Indeed, Gregg himself, according to Abelson, says it wouldnt be so terrible if slashing taxes added $1 trillion or $2 trillion to the $20 trillion the U.S. already owes. Whats another trillion or two between friends? Especially when as the CEO of a Wall Street lobbying group you are one of the friends poised to enjoy its lucre?

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Obamacare Is Officially Not Collapsing

Convicted killer Mark James Asay lost his last appeal, and was executed on Thursday night.

Weeks ago, nearly 50 counties had no insurer selling Obamacare plans. Despite Trumps many acts of sabotage, that number is now zero.

So long as the president has an internet connection, hes bound to read and, occasionally retweet all manner of far-right wing nuts.

Weve had the time of our lives, and we owe it all to him.

If Trump were to be removed from office via impeachment, the GOP would continue to rule with much the same policies. So why all the talk of a coup?

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke says hes recommending changes to a handful of national monuments.

Its an acknowledgement that the sailors are not expected to be found alive.

History shows the party in the White House struggles to knock off incumbent senators in midterms. Its one of many cross-cutting factors for 2018.

Fix the Debt is now fixin to get paid.

Police are reporting that one person died, and the suspect was shot and taken to the hospital.

It could become a Category 3 storm and cause potentially devastating floods by dumping close to two feet of rain in some areas.

Now that the president has put a government shutdown squarely on the table, Democrats must decide if they want a deal, or just a Trump defeat.

A primer on how the Houses struggle to pass a 2018 budget could blow up tax reform and Americas credit rating.

The White House chief of staff is controlling the flow of information to the president and presenting him with decision memos.

The president plays backseat Majority Leader, as relations between the White House and Capitol Hill continue to sour.

Progressives have taken up a conservative principle as a shield against the federal government. But is it just a marriage of convenience?

Rick Dearborn, who is now deputy chief of staff, reportedly passed along information about someone trying to connect Trump officials with Putin.

The charges stem from his use of pepper spray at the rally in Charlottesville, which he says was justified.

They said his words have given succor to those who advocate anti-Semitism, racism, and xenophobia.

The reported plan gives Mattis six months to figure out what Trumps tweets mean for service members and by then the courts may have weighed in.

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