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Barack Obama is a "radical Muslim" who "will not recite the Pledge of Allegiance."

Barack Obama was sworn into office on the Quran.

Photograph shows Barack Obama without his hand over his heart while the U.S. national anthem is being played.

Barack Obama has been endorsed for President of the U.S. by the Ku Klux Klan.

Barack Obama's presidential campaign is being funded by Hugo Chvez.

Editorial criticizes anachronisms in Barack Obama's 2007 Selma speech.

Barack Obama urged his supporters to join him in changing "the greatest nation in the history of the world."

Photograph shows Barack Obama with various family members.

Editorial criticizes Barack Obama's political stances.

Access to Michelle Obama's senior thesis was restricted until after the 2008 presidential election.

Photograph shows Barack Obama holding a telephone upside down.

E-mail reproduces Barack Obama's statement about the U.S. national anthem.

E-mail from missionary describes Barack Obama's connection to political events in Kenya.

The Book of Revelation describes the anti-Christ as someone with characteristics matching those of Barack Obama.

E-mail lists fifty lies told by Barack Obama.

E-mail lists quotes garnered from Barack Obama's books.

Barack Obama does not qualify as a natural-born citizen of the U.S. because his mother was too young.

During a campaign stop, Barack Obama said that he had visited "fifty-seven states."

Barack Obama announces every time he claps a child in America dies from gun violence; kid in classroom tells him to stop doing that.*

During the 1960's, Robert F.Kennedy said he believed a black man could become President of the United States within forty years.

The bulk of donations to the Obama campaign come from a handful of wealthy foreign financiers.

E-mail compares proposed changes in taxes after the 2008 presidential election.

Barack Obama's birth certificate is a forgery.

Insurance broker posts "A taxpayer voting for Barack Obama is like a chicken voting for Colonel Sanders" sign.

Barack Obama "blew off" U.S. soldiers during a July 2008 trip to Afghanistan.

Barack Obama removed the U.S. flag from the tail of his airplane and replaced it with his own logo.

During an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Barack Obama said, "a strong government hand is needed to assure that wealth is distributed more equitably."

Hundreds of people with physical ailments have reported being healed by a touch from Barack Obama.

Native Americans dubbed Barack Obama "Walking Eagle."

E-mail presents Bill Brown's assessment of Barack Obama's political record.

E-mail lists unpaid campaign debts incurred by Senator Joe Biden.

Joe Biden is planning to step down from the vice-presidential slot on the Democratic ticket in favor of Hillary Clinton.

E-mail warns of health issues associated with the Obama-Biden ticket.

Three former Fannie Mae executives are linked to the Obama campaign as chief economic advisors.

Barack Obama's education and house were paid for with money obtained from questionable sources.

Barack Obama filed a lawsuit to require banks to "make loans to poor people."

Barack Obama has an acquaintanceship with Bill Ayers, a former domestic terrorist.

The editor of the National Review has endorsed Barack Obama for president.

Photograph shows Barack Obama carrying the book The Post-American World, "a Muslim's view of a defeated America."

The Obama campaign sent Secret Service agents to visit a Texas woman after a volunteer worker deliberately misreported their phone conversation.

Barack Obama never mentioned Israel by name in either of the first two 2008 presidential debates.

Michelle Obama gorged herself on an expensive room service dinner while her husband was attending a meeting at the Waldorf-Astoria hotel.

Barack Obama admitted to being a Muslim during an ABC News interview.

Barack Obama would not qualify for a security clearance due to his relationship with Bill Ayers.

Barack Obama asked law enforcement personnel to remain out of view during a campaign event in Battle Creek, Michigan.

Scholars at the Smithsonian Institution have uncovered new interpretations of Nostradamus that relate to Barack Obama.

The numbers 6-6-6 were the winning combination in an Illinois lottery the day after Election Day 2008.

President Obama issued an order "allowing hundreds of thousands of Palestinians to resettle in the United States."

As part of the inauguration festivities, Tiger Woods gave a speech in thanks of the military.

Photograph shows a store's display window presenting books about Barack Obama with a book about monkeys.

Photograph shows the tail number of Air Force One to be 'N166ER.'

CIA director Leon Panetta's daughter is a "radical anti-American."

Statement reproduces President Obama's response regarding opposition to his veterans' health insurance plan.

Message details decisions made by President Obama in directing the rescue of Captain Richard Phillips from Somali pirates.

Message details requirements of the GIVE (Generations Invigorating Volunteerism and Education) act.

President Obama will legalize marijuana if one million people call a designated phone number.

Prophecy that a black man will inhabit the White house "when pigs fly" ties Obama presidency to swine flu.

Recently released records document that Barack Obama received college financial aid in the U.S. as a "foreign student from Indonesia."

Barack Obama's status as a Muslim prevented his wife from traveling with him to Islamic countries.

Representatives sent by the Obama administration to meet with the auto industry advocated legislatively changing the laws of physics.

A proposal before Congress would repeal the 22nd amendment to allow Barack Obama to serve more than two terms as president.

Barack Obama must have used a non-U.S. passport to travel to Pakistan in 1981.

Video clip shows President Obama being snubbed while attempting to shake hands during a visit to Russia.

In 2007, Barack Obama belatedly paid parking tickets accumulated while he was a student at Harvard.

A Certified Registration of Birth issued in Kenya documents that Barack Obama was born in that country.

First Lady Michelle Obama has an unprecedented number of staffers working for her.

Account describes President Obama's August 2009 visit to Montana.

Photograph shows Barack Obama as a Black Panther.

Photograph shows Barack and Michelle Obama at a White House ball.

A June 2004 Associated Press article identified Barack Obama as "Kenyan-born."

Barack Obama's thesis for Columbia University, entitled "Aristocracy Reborn," noted that America's founding fathers "did not allow for economic freedom."

FOX News will be airing a revealing documentary about Barack Obama.

A federal judge has ordered Barack Obama to prove his eligibility for the presidency in court on 26 January 2010.

Photograph shows President Obama during a ceremony at Arlington Cemetery in observance of Veterans Day.

Photograph shows Barack and Michelle Obama saluting the U.S. flag with their left hands.

Photograph shows Barack Obama posing with a couple who crashed a White House state dinner.

Photograph shows President Obama removing his shoes during "Islamic Prayer Day" at the White House.

List details a "trifecta" of firsts related to President Obama.

Photograph shows President Obama "desecrating" the Oval Office by placing his feet on his desk.

Photographs show President Obama using teleprompters to talk to a group of elementary school students.

Barack Obama did not attend Columbia University.

Photograph shows a "Welcome" sign in Kenya identifying that country as the birthplace of Barack Obama.

President Obama has announced plans to ban recreational fishing in the U.S.

The basketball coaching job of Craig Robinson, Michelle Obama's brother, was saved by the hasty procurement of $17 million in stimulus funds.

President Obama refuses to sign Eagle Scout certificates.

Barack and Michelle Obama both surrendered their law licenses for questionable reasons.

President Obama has canceled the National Day of Prayer.

In 2010, President Obama will become the first U.S. president not to lay a wreath at Arlington National Cemetery on Memorial Day.

President Obama changed the decor in the Oval Office from a red, white, and blue color scheme to a "Middle Eastern" one.

The Obamas had their dog, Bo, flown in his own airplane to join them on vacation in Maine.

Video clip captures Barack Obama "lying" about his father's military service.

President Obama nominated Elena Kagan for the U.S. Supreme Court as a reward for her help in getting nine challenges to his eligibility dismissed.

Photograph shows Michelle Obama with Princess Letizia and Carla Bruni-Sarkozy.

President Obama's November 2010 trip to India will cost U.S. taxpayers $200 million per day.

Video clip shows Barack Obama acknowledging that he is not a natural-born U.S. citizen.

President Obama stopped wearing his wedding ring and wristwatch in observance of Ramadan.

The Obamas were "snubbed" and have not been invited to the wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton.

White House press secretary Robert Gibbs was fired for revealing that First Lady Michelle Obama is pregnant.

The Pigford v. Glickman lawsuit settlement paid out more than $1.25 billion, much of it to fraudulent claimants.

Barack Obama uses a Social Security number belonging to man born in 1890.

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Obama, BarackCourtesy of the Office of U.S. Senator Barack Obama

Barack Obama,in full Barack Hussein Obama II (born August 4, 1961,Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S.),44th president of the United States (2009 ) and the first African American to hold the office. Before winning the presidency, Obama represented Illinois in the U.S. Senate (200508). He was the third African American to be elected to that body since the end of Reconstruction (1877). In 2009 he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples.

Obama, Barack Obama for America/Handout/Reuters/CorbisObamas father, Barack Obama, Sr., was a teenage goatherd in rural Kenya, won a scholarship to study in the United States, and eventually became a senior economist in the Kenyan government. Obamas mother, S. Ann Dunham, grew up in Kansas, Texas, and Washington state before her family settled in Honolulu. In 1960 she and Barack Sr. met in a Russian language class at the University of Hawaii and married less than a year later.

Obama, Barack: Harvard, 1990Steve LissTime Life Pictures/Getty ImagesWhen Obama was age two, Barack Sr. left to study at Harvard University; shortly thereafter, in 1964, Ann and Barack Sr. divorced. (Obama saw his father only one more time, during a brief visit when Obama was 10.) Later Ann remarried, this time to another foreign student, Lolo Soetoro from Indonesia, with whom she had a second child, Maya. Obama lived for several years in Jakarta with his half sister, mother, and stepfather. While there, Obama attended both a government-run school where he received some instruction in Islam and a Catholic private school where he took part in Christian schooling.

He returned to Hawaii in 1971 and lived in a modest apartment, sometimes with his grandparents and sometimes with his mother (she remained for a time in Indonesia, returned to Hawaii, and then went abroad againpartly to pursue work on a Ph.D.before divorcing Soetoro in 1980). For a brief period his mother was aided by government food stamps, but the family mostly lived a middle-class existence. In 1979 Obama graduated from Punahou School, an elite college preparatory academy in Honolulu.

Obama attended Occidental College in suburban Los Angeles for two years and then transferred to Columbia University in New York City, where in 1983 he received a bachelors degree in political science. Influenced by professors who pushed him to take his studies more seriously, Obama experienced great intellectual growth during college and for a couple of years thereafter. He led a rather ascetic life and read works of literature and philosophy by William Shakespeare, Friedrich Nietzsche, Toni Morrison, and others. After serving for a couple of years as a writer and editor for Business International Corp., a research, publishing, and consulting firm in Manhattan, he took a position in 1985 as a community organizer on Chicagos largely impoverished Far South Side. He returned to school three years later and graduated magna cum laude in 1991 from Harvard Universitys law school, where he was the first African American to serve as president of the Harvard Law Review. While a summer associate in 1989 at the Chicago law firm of Sidley Austin, Obama had met Chicago native Michelle Robinson, a young lawyer at the firm. The two married in 1992.

Obama, BarackNam Y. Huh/APAfter receiving his law degree, Obama moved to Chicago and became active in the Democratic Party. He organized Project Vote, a drive that registered tens of thousands of African Americans on voting rolls and that is credited with helping Democrat Bill Clinton win Illinois and capture the presidency in 1992. The effort also helped make Carol Moseley Braun, an Illinois state legislator, the first African American woman elected to the U.S. Senate. During this period, Obama wrote his first book and saw it published. The memoir, Dreams from My Father (1995), is the story of Obamas search for his biracial identity by tracing the lives of his now-deceased father and his extended family in Kenya. Obama lectured on constitutional law at the University of Chicago and worked as an attorney on civil rights issues.

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When terrorists have struck during his presidency, Obama has typically reacted cerebrally, trying to ensure that reason triumphs over the fear and emotion of the moment even as critics such as Donald Trump assail it.

On Thursday in Orlando, Obama had to yet again console Americans grieving from a mass shooting -- and on this occasion he had to also reassure Americans reeling from the dawn of a new era of mass casualty, lone wolf, homegrown terrorism that authorities have long feared.

There is a method to Obama's analytical response, namely that he believes it is the best way to neutralize a threat that preys on emotion and paranoia. While he typically offers prayers for the victims and their families and warns he will hunt terrorists wherever they are, the President often makes the point that terrorism in some form is an inevitable fact of modern life.

"I've said before, these lone actors or small cells of terrorists are very hard to detect and very hard to prevent. But across our government ... we are doing everything in our power to stop these kinds of attacks," Obama said Tuesday, leveling with the nation about the reality of homegrown terrorism. "We work to succeed 100% of the time. An attacker, as we saw in Orlando, only has to succeed once."

But this intellectual response to terrorism has also created a political opening that his opponents are exploiting, none more than the presumptive Republican presidential nominee.

With that in mind, Obama also used his speech on Tuesday, delivered after meeting National Security Council officials, to launch a fiery denunciation of Trump's much more visceral response to the tragedy, which called for banning Muslim migration in to the U.S.

Indeed, Obama has steered clear of emotive displays following terror attacks, though he has expressed more impassioned responses to mass shootings such as the one at a school in Newtown, Connecticut, and a church in Charleston, South Carolina.

In Orlando on Thursday, Obama vowed that the United States would do whatever it took to pursue ISIS abroad, but said it was not just the military that had to be involved. He quickly turned from terrorism to focus on gun control, issuing a fresh demand for Congress to take action to keep the most lethal weapons from being used in mass killings that have occurred over and over during his presidency.

His remarks, betraying his frustration at the failure of lawmakers to act, had more in common with his response to gun massacres than his more intellectual approach to talking about terrorism.

"Our politics have conspired to make it as easy as possible for a terrorist or even just a disturbed individual to buy extraordinarily powerful weapons, and they can do so legally," Obama said after meeting families of the 49 victims of the shooting.

"Today, once again, as has been true too many times before, I held and hugged grieving family members and parents, and they asked, 'Why does this keep happening?' And they pleaded that we do more to stop the carnage. They don't care about the politics. Neither do I."

Vice President Joe Biden joined Obama in Orlando, as did Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio in a show of bipartisan unity.

In Obama's mind, the logical reaction to terrorism is to deprive the terrorists of what they want, to stay firm to American values and not to indulge in theatrical vows for vengeance and bloodthirsty rhetoric.

"We must define the nature and scope of this struggle, or else it will define us," Obama said in the seminal speech of his administration about terrorism at the National Defense University in 2013.

Terrorism, as he sees it, is by definition is a tactic designed to create the maximum fear, emotion and panic in the populace, to lure the target into taking irrational responses that highlight the terrorists' cause, impugn its own values and lead to a spiral of chaos and ruin.

At times, as with Orlando Sunday, after the Paris attacks last year, or after the Boston bombings, Obama has seemed to do a better job explaining the reasons for the attacks and the concept of terrorism itself than empathizing with Americans suddenly confronting the prospect of death and destruction being unleashed on the homeland.

It's an approach that lacks the cathartic emotion that a politician like Trump can summon among supporters with claims that America is "weak" and needs to start getting "very tough" with terrorists.

And Trump reacted to the roasting he received from Obama Tuesday by noting that the President seemed "more angry at me than he was at the shooter."

Moreover, his rhetorical style is mirrored by a policy approach that is designed to ensure the United States does not overreact to the terror threat -- by waging new foreign ground wars of compromising its own values in balancing liberty and security.

But that has also offered an opening to critics who say he has played down the terror threat and, while still on a victory lap after the killing of Osama bin Laden, failed to anticipate the rise of ISIS.

His comment in 2014 that ISIS was a "JV" team will haunt his legacy, and his frequent comment that ISIS is not an "existential threat to us" -- though perhaps factually correct -- plays into critiques that he has minimized the group's reach.

Critics argue that his decision to pull all U.S. troops out of Iraq and to sit on his hands as Syria imploded directly contributed to ISIS' seizure of parts of the fractured nations to form its so-called caliphate.

Republican Sen. John McCain on Thursday said Obama was "directly responsible" for the Orlando attack because of the withdrawal from Iraq, in remarks that quickly caused an uproar. The Arizona senator later partly walked back the comments, saying he had misspoken by implying the President was personally responsible for the attacks. But he maintained that Obama's policies were to blame for ISIS.

Obama fires back that the U.S. and allied operation to pound the group in its heartland has taken dozens of terrorists off the battlefield, deflated its resources and trimmed the land it controls.

But the group's success in becoming a rallying call for terrorists everywhere -- including lone wolf operators who struck Americans in Orlando and San Bernardino, California -- tends to obscure the battlefield gains, and sheds doubt on their sufficiency.

There is, however, one aspect of his counterterror approach in which Obama does display the more heightened emotion he otherwise shuns: when making the case that his domestic critics could increase America's vulnerability to terrorism.

On Tuesday, he delivered a jeremiad against Trump's proposals to ban Muslim migration into the United States and his claim that thousands of Muslims already here were consumed by hate for this country, calling them an affront to the idea of America itself that could help ISIS win more recruits.

"If we fall into the trap of painting all Muslims with a broad brush and imply that we are at war with an entire region, then we're doing the terrorists' work for them," Obama said on Tuesday.

He also laid into critics like Florida Sen. Marco Rubio and former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani who contend that his reluctance to use the phrase "radical Islamic terrorism" is proof that he does not understand the nature of the threat, let alone how to confront it.

That language too, he argued, can be counter-productive as it plays into terrorists' desire to see a civilizational struggle with the West and see the alienation of Muslims in America.

And he suggested those who still believe he does not get the nature of the threat talk to U.S. Special Forces soldiers he has deployed to war zones or law enforcement officers on U.S. soil or intelligence officers out in the field.

"They know full well who the enemy is," Obama said, pointedly noting that among those they are keeping safe are "politicians who tweet and appear on cable news shows."

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President Obama spends Wednesday in Tampa meeting with military commanders about his strategy against the Islamic State.

Obama, who spent the night in Florida, will visit the U.S. Central Command at MacDill Air Force Base, which supervises military activity in a 20-nation area in the Middle East and Central and South Asia.

That includes Iraq and Syria, where the Islamic State also known as ISIL or ISIS controls large swaths of territory. Obama is backing a plan to roll back the militant jihadists through U.S. airstrikes and the training of local military forces.

"The president will receive a briefing from his top commanders at CENTCOM, and thank the men and women who will partner with others in the region to carry out the president's strategy to degrade and destroy ISIL," says the White House schedule.

The plan includes the prospect of airstrikes in Syria. The U.S. began air attacks in Iraq last month.

The conference in Tampa comes a day after Obama announced an expanded plan to contain the spread of the Ebola virus, an effort also led by the U.S. military.

After the visit to Central Command in Tampa, Obama returns to Washington for an evening event: A White House picnic for members of Congress.

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