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[snip] Obama never directly mentioned Bush's name after the ritual thank you at the beginning of his Inaugural Address, but the context of some of his remarks was lost on no one. He criticized "our collective failure to make hard choices and prepare the nation for a new age." He promised to "restore science to its rightful place." He rejected "as false the choice between our safety and our ideals." He assured the rest of the world "that we are ready to lead once more." Some writers, including David Sanger of The New York Times, concluded that it was the...

Here is video from yesterday's inauguration of classless Obama supporters booing and jeering President George W. Bush as he made his way to the platform for Obama's swearing in as President. I don't ever remember such a thing happening at an inauguration. Republicans would just never do such a thing because we have a great sense of respect for the Office of the Presidency. Democrats demonstrated just how lacking in class they are with this conduct. . . . . . (watch video)

President Barack H. Obama is poised to be the most pro-homosexual chief executive in history. Unveiling his agenda Tuesday on the newly refurbished version of the White House Web site, Obama called for the repeal of the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), as well as the extension of more than 1,000 federal marriage benefits and of adoption rights to homosexual couples. The new administration laid out its plans on the Web site--whitehouse.gov--at 12:01 p.m. EST, during Obama’s swearing-in ceremony. The site’s “Civil Rights” section lists a number of items long on the homosexual agenda, including expanding federal hate-crimes laws,...

Military judges will consider Wednesday whether to halt the Guantanamo war crimes trials after President Barack Obama ordered prosecutors to request a 120-day suspension during a review of the system used to try suspected terrorists. The motions, filed just hours after Obama's inauguration, will be heard in the cases of five men charged in the Sept. 11 attacks and of Canadian Omar Khadr, who is accused of killing an American soldier with a grenade in Afghanistan in 2002. Obama has said he will close the military detention center in Cuba, where the U.S. holds about 245 men, and he had...

A "shy" photographer in Indonesia is in great demand because of his resemblance to the new US President, Barack Obama. Ilham Anas, 34, is already a celebrity in Jakarta, where Mr Obama once lived, but his fame is spreading. He has appeared on Indonesia's premier TV talk show, done an advertisement as Mr Obama, and received other marketing offers from companies in the region. The real Barack Obama went to school in Jakarta in the late 1960s, when his classmates knew him as Barry. Mr Anas told Reuters news agency: "I was in the airport in Malaysia in transit and...