* Ann M. Fudge, independent director ; former CEO of Young & Rubicam and member of U. S. President Barack Obama's National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform

The current U. S. Ambassador to Japan is John V. Roos, the former CEO of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati and one of Barack Obama's top fundraisers during his presidential campaign.

For example, from literature: Shirley Ann Grau, Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner, and Andrew Breitbart, conservative journalist ; from business: David Filo, co-founder of Yahoo !, and Neil Bush, economist and brother of President George W. Bush ; from entertainment: Lauren Hutton, film actor and supermodel, and Paul Michael Glaser, TV actor of " Starsky and Hutch "; from music: conductor and composer Odaline de la Martinez, who was the first woman to conduct at a BBC Proms concert in London ; from government: Newt Gingrich, former Speaker of the House who famously coordinated the first Congressional Republican majority in 40 years, and Luther Terry, former U. S. Surgeon General who issued the first official health hazard warning for tobacco ; from medicine: Michael DeBakey, inventor of the roller pump, and Dr. Regina Benjamin, President Obama's Surgeon General ; from science A. Baldwin Wood, inventor of the wood screw pump and Lisa P. Jackson, United States Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) Administrator under President Obama ; from sports: Bobby Brown, former New York Yankees third baseman and former president of the American League.

In response to Senior White House Advisor David Axelrod's statement on President Obama's position: " The president does oppose same-sex marriage but he supports equality for gay and lesbian couples in benefits and other issues ", Maddow said, " Got that?

In addition, Biden's wife, Jill, as well as David Plouffe, Obama's campaign strategist, and Steve Schmidt, McCain's campaign strategist all graduated from UD.

In 2008 he was considered by New York Governor David Paterson to fill the Senate vacancy created by the appointment of Hillary Rodham Clinton as President Obama's Secretary of State.

Prior to removing her name from consideration, she was considered a possible candidate to be appointed to the United States Senate by Governor David Paterson after New York Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton was nominated to be a member of President Barack Obama's cabinet.

King praised Obama's nominations of Leon Panetta for United States Secretary of Defense and General David Petraeus for Director of the Central Intelligence Agency saying, " Director Panetta has done an outstanding job at the CIA, and General Petraeus has distinguished himself as one of the great American military leaders.

* David Gergen speaks to Stephen Colbert on The Colbert Report about President Barack Obama's 2010 State Of The Union Speech

On November 17, 2009, two members of the Gang of 14-Senators McCain ( R-AZ ) and Graham ( R-SC )-voted against the motion to invoke cloture on the nomination of David Hamilton, President Obama's pick for the a vacant seat on the Seventh Circuit.

David Bonior, a former U. S. Congressman who once led the AFL-CIO's American Rights at Work division and who was a member of Barack Obama's presidential transition team, facilitated the meeting, and said talks were scheduled to last several weeks.

David Plouffe (; born May 27, 1967 ) is an American political strategist best known as the campaign manager for Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign in the United States.

Plouffe was an outside senior advisor to Obama since the president's first day in office and was then appointed as a Senior Advisor to the President ( inside the White House ) in 2011 following the resignation of David Axelrod, who went on to start Obama's reelection campaign.

Beginning in 2003, Plouffe and fellow AKPD partner David Axelrod worked on Barack Obama's 2004 Illinois Senate campaign, beginning his association with Obama.

* President Obama's Speech to the NAACP on July 16, 2009 — full video by MSNBC

" could be heard on the television broadcast of Barack Obama's pre-inaugural visit to Baltimore as the National Anthem played before his entrance.

* He appeared via satellite to the UK, as a panelist on BBC's Newsnight on January 20, 2009, following Barack Obama's Inauguration.

During Obama's State of the Union Address on January 27, 2010, he said that he would work with Congress and the military to enact a repeal of the gay ban law and for the first time set a timetable for repeal.

On September 20 President Obama appeared on all major news programs except Fox News, a snub partially in response to remarks about the president by commentators Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity and Fox coverage of Obama's health-care proposal.

Some of Obama's supporters as well as his presumptive Republican opponent, Sen. John McCain, accused the magazine of publishing an incendiary cartoon whose irony could be lost on some readers.

President Obama's justice department opposed the transcripts release on privacy grounds.

In a 2011 article entitled " How Not to have a Palestinian State ," Toledo and his co-writers argued that Obama's call for a return to talks based on the pre-1967 boundaries is a " clumsily concealed delegitimization device ," as Palestine does not meet the internal and external requirements to become a state.

* Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar-President Obama's Advisor on Immigration policy during the campaign and the transition, an attorney and professor of law at Stanford University.

In early 2008, she performed on the song " Yes We Can ", a will. i. am project supporting Barack Obama's presidential campaign.

He left his position in Youngstown to become President Barack Obama's auto czar, directing the Presidential Task Force on the Auto Industry.

Cato has criticized President Obama's stances on policy issues since his inauguration, such as fiscal stimulus, healthcare reform, foreign policy, and the War on Drugs, while supporting his stance on the repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell and liberal immigration policy.

Wyden was among several moderate Democratic senators who in early January 2009 criticized President-elect Barack Obama's stimulus plan, calling for a greater emphasis on " tangible infrastructure investments " and warning that an effort had to be made to differentiate it from the Bush bailouts Wyden had opposed.

In 2012, D ' Souza released 2016: Obama's America, a documentary based on his 2010 book The Roots of Obama's Rage, both of which posit that Barack Obama's attitude toward America derives from his father's anti-colonialism and from a psychological desire to fulfill his father's dream of diminishing the power of Western imperial states.

After writing The Roots of Obama's Rage, D ' Souza began to work with Schindler's List co-producer Gerald R. Molen on a film called 2016: Obama's America, a documentary film.

The film has been critiqued on the grounds that what D ' Souza posits as being an investigation into Obama includes considerable projection and speculation and selective borrowing from Obama's own autobiography in seeking to prove D ' Souza's psychoanalysis of Obama.

Oaks ( far right ) with President of the Church | LDS Church President Thomas S. Monson ( left ) and President of the United States | U. S. President Barack Obama ( center ) in the Oval Office on 20 July 2009, presenting a personal volume of President Obama's family history as a gift from the The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints | LDS Church.

In November 2011, a column fiercely critical of " Obama's America " and falsely attributed to Sowell was circulated on the Internet.

*" Obama's Faith-Based Office " ( video | audio ), Speaking of Faith with Krista Tippett ( May 21, 2009 )-a public radio interview with Joshua DuBois

* Anju Bhargava-Member, " President Barack Obama's Inaugural Advisory Council on Faith Based and Neighborhood Partnership " USA

A Black Man's View of America, Listening to the Spirit Within: 50 Perspectives on Faith and The First: President Barack Obama's Road to the White House as originally reported by Roland S. Martin.

* How Obama's Faith Council Worked: Six Points of Consensus, Jim Wallis, God's Politics blog, March 11, 2010.

* Obama's Faith-Based Follies, Faith Complex, On Faith, Washington Post, June 22, 2009-Jacques Berlinerblau interviews Washington Post's Jacqui Salmon about the Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships

* American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, a US stimulus package passed at the beginning of Barack Obama's administration.

* Jonathan Singletary Dunham, prominent early American settler of Woodbridge Township, New Jersey, President Barack Obama's eighth great-grandfather

Facebook support for a presidential bid drew comparisons with Barack Obama's campaign for the American presidency.

* 2012: Obama's America: Unmaking the American Dream, Regnery Publishing ( ISBN 1596987782 )

Sarah Palin recommended it to her Twitter followers, prompting the President of People for the American Way, Michael B. Keegan, to ask whether Palin " agree with Sowell that President Obama's work to hold BP accountable for the worst oil spill in American history can be compared to the actions of Hitler?

On 18 September 2009, Russian Prime Minister Putin welcomed Obama's plans for missile defense which may include stationing American Aegis armed warships in the Black Sea.

On 18 September 2009, Russian Prime Minister Putin welcomed Obama's plans for missile defense which may include stationing American Aegis armed warships in the Black Sea.

On September 18, 2009, Russian Prime Minister Putin decided to welcome Obama's plans for stationing American Aegis defense warships in the Black Sea.

McKeon voted in favor of American military intervention in Afghanistan and Iraq, as well as Barack Obama's Afghanistan " surge " strategy, and has voted for increasing money and supplies to troops there.

Hewitt also covered Barack Obama's campaign for President during the autumn of that year, broadcasting from Grant Park when Obama was elected the first African American President of the United States on Tuesday November 4th 2008.

Obama's domestic initiatives also included the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, which made large reforms to the American healthcare system.

On January 28, 2009, Peterson was amongst the seven Democrats who voted in the House together with the unanimous Republican opposition against President Obama's stimulus package ( American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 ).

On October 29, 2008, LeBron James gathered almost 20, 000 people at the arena for a viewing of Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama's 30-minute American Stories, American Solutions television advertisement.

The focus of the rally was largely on Obama's timeline for leaving the Middle East and how Presidential candidate Mitt Romney, who is successful and wealthy, is unable to relate with the average American trying to earn money.

WorldNetDaily has emerged as a leading outlet publicizing conspiracy theories about Barack Obama's citizenship status, claiming that Obama is not a natural-born American citizen and is thus not eligible to serve as president.

In late October 2008, the progressive advocacy group Progressive Future produced a 60-second television ad featuring " American Tune " in support of Senator Barack Obama's presidential campaign.

In 1999, he moved to the Century Foundation ’ s Washington office, where he is a Senior Fellow and in 2003 he became a Senior Fellow of the newly formed think tank, the Center for American Progress, headed by John Podesta, Chief of Staff to President Clinton and co-chair of President Barack Obama's transition team.

President Barack Obama's American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 called for an investment of $ 7. 2 billion in broadband infrastructure and included an openness stipulation.

Ross wrote part of Barack Obama's speech to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee during the 2008 Presidential campaign, and the speech stated that " Jerusalem is Israel's capital " and that it should not be divided again.

On September 22, 2011, President Obama's administration created We The People, a platform that gives all American citizens a way to create and sign petitions on the White House web server, https :// wwws. whitehouse. gov / petitions.