Kyle Bell

The conspiracy driven “birther” movement surrounding President Obama’s birth certificate has been well covered lately on the news. Many Republicans do not feel that the current president is legitimate, despite his overwhelming victory in November. In their racist desperation, they have latched on to this idea that Obama was born in Kenya, not in Hawaii, [...]

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Yesterday, President Obama paid his seventh visit to the South Bend area (his third as president) in a speech in Wakarusa, Indiana in Elkhart County. Elkhart County, which is just east of South Bend, is nationally known for its incredibly high unemployment of nearly 17 percent. It actually peaked earlier this year and has come [...]

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It has now been several weeks since the controversy over a white police officer arresting a black professor in his own home for disorderly conduct has emerged in the national spotlight. I have so far kept quiet on the subject, but feel the need to speak out having seen the reaction from the national media [...]

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President Obama delivered the commencement address at the University of Notre Dame today in my hometown of South Bend, Indiana. It is an honor to have President Obama back in South Bend as President of the United States. Just about this time last year he was visiting the city campaigning for the Indiana primary. Now [...]

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I thought I would share a couple of political cartoons that I ran across today. This first one is by Mike Keefe of The Denver Post. As the cartoon points out, the so-called “Country First” Republican Party is now rooting for our president to fail. What a reversal! This second cartoon is from Pat Bagley [...]

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You can now track where your stimulus dollars are going. The Obama administration has just launched a website that will allow you to keep track of where the money in the recently passed stimulus bill is going. According to the administration they will update it to allow taxpayers to drill down to specific projects in [...]

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Embedded video from CNN Video Also, below are the videos of Obama in Elkhart. The first is his speech, the second is the Q & A: var wordpress_toolbar_urls = ["http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/video"];var wordpress_toolbar_url = “”;var wordpress_toolbar_oinw = “”;var wordpress_toolbar_hash = “aHR0cDovL2t5bGViZWxsLmNvbS8yMDA5LzAyLzEwL2Vsa2hhcnQtbWF5b3ItcmVhY3RzLXRvLW9iYW1hLXZpc2l0Lzx3cHRiPkVsa2hhcnQgTWF5b3IgUmVhY3RzIHRvIE9iYW1hIFZpc2l0PHdwdGI%2BaHR0cDovL2t5bGViZWxsLmNvbTx3cHRiPkt5bGUgQmVsbA%3D%3D”;

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With the election of the first African American president, Barack Obama, America won in last night’s election. Not only will he be the first black president, he will also be the first Democrat to win a majority of the popular vote since Jimmy Carter in 1976. With not all of the vote yet counted, Obama [...]

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President Barack Obama (oops, Freudian slip!) was officially nominated today as the first African-American nominee to a major party. Hillary Clinton led on the convention floor to declare that Obama was the nominee of the party to defeat John McCain and the Republicans in November. It’s something that could only happen in the Democratic Party: [...]

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Hillary Clinton delivered perhaps her best speech of her political career tonight. I’m an Obama supporter and while I was disgusted by the tactics that the Clintons used against him in the primaries, Hillary gave a rousing speech tonight and deserves much credit for the effort she put forth. As the first woman to have [...]

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