President Barack Obama was on Letterman on Monday Night and the whole talk show revolved around two topics racism and Healthcare and there was amazing chemistry (sens of humor) between Obama and Letterman which came absolutely free.

Letterman started with recent racist remarks mentioning the Jimmy Carter comments in the media. On which Barack replied, “It’s important to realize that I was actually black before the election.” He also mentioned the names of the previous president like JFK, Ronald Regan who also went through tough phases when they tried to take some steps out of the box.

He further said,”The American people, I think, gave me this extraordinary honor. That tells you a lot, I think, about where the country is at.” On Healthcare  issue some serious discussions was held on the show.

As USA Today Reported:-

On a less serious note about another serious topic — health care — Letterman said that when he doesn’t feel good he goes to the CBS nurse. Obama said everyone should have a nurse, but the problem is nearly 30 million people lack insurance.

In hitting familiar notes about his health care plan, Obama said many Americans are confused by misinformation from opponents. “They’re scared of the devil they don’t know,” he said.

In a discussion of foreign policy, Obama said the military remains on pace to withdraw troops from Iraq, though “Afghanistan is a real difficult situation.”

Before sending any more U.S. troops, Obama said he wants to make sure a new Afghanistan strategy is worthy of the risks. He said the main threat in Afghanistan remains “extremists who want to kill innocents.”

Please Watch Obama Letterman Video below after the jump.

President Barack Obama called the much disgraced rapper Kanye West a “jackass” on Monday in an off-the-record comment during an interview with CNBC, an ABC News anchor reported on Twitter. Obama absolutely didn’t like it when he grabbed the microphone from Taylor and told her in front of the packed house that Beyonce has a much better video than hers.

As ABC News anchor reported on Twitter:-

“Pres. Obama just called Kanye West a ‘jackass‘ for his outburst at VMAs when Taylor Swift won. Now THAT’S presidential,” “Nightline” co-anchor Terry Moran wrote Monday evening to his more than 1 million followers. However the news network had to issue an imidiate apology for the remarks made offline by Obama

An ABC spokesperson said, “In the process of reporting on remarks by President Obama that were made during a CNBC interview, ABC News employees prematurely tweeted a portion of those remarks that turned out to be from an off-the-record portion of the interview,” Politico reported. “This was done before our editorial process had been completed. That was wrong. We apologize to the White House and CNBC and are taking steps to ensure that it will not happen again.”

Well the Kanye controversy doesn’t intend to end just now. Barack Obama is also a part of it now and so who’s next on the list???

Obama School Speech in Virginia can be said as a success, as the president did his every bit to impress and inspire the high school children. He told children not to spend the whole day before Xbox or TV and try and concentrate on studies.

He tried to explain them how his mom used to wake him up at 4:30 a.m. in the morning to study and he told them if you work hard now, your life will be easier later. And of course the children were applauding him almost every children. He also told them how lucky they are to get to go to the school as his mother couldn’t afford sending him to the school where an Average American Child used to go for education.

Obama almost convinced the children to treat their parents and grandparents with respect. Overall Obama told them to put in all the hard work to succeed in life as he found hard work is the only way to success.

Please Watch Obama School Speech Video below after the jump.

After Barack Obama was criticized for wearing “Mom Jeans” at a baseball game, now it was turn for his wife and first lady Michelle Obama to face the music as she was photographed in shorts while on a vacation to Grand Canyon.

The picture above is almost gone viral and is the topic of discussions these days. Hello…. I mean don’t we have more important topics to discuss such as recession than just the First Lady’s Fashion Faux.

Decide Yourself……

US President Barack Obama was in Italy to attend the G8 summit that’s when he got caught by paparazzi when he looked at the Bottom of the a girl called Mayara Tavares who was representing Brazil at Junior 8.

While Barack Obama was busy looking at the girl, the France President Nicolas Sarkozy perhaps smiling sarcastically at…..well any guesses????

Also see the Video Below after the jump.

President Barack Obama was greeted with cheers when he entered University of Notre Dame, considered to be America’s foremost Roman Catholic University, for the commencement ceremonies on Sunday, while there were somewhat 100 protesters waiting to protest around the campus. It’s far clear that the country is divided over abortion and stem-cell research.

Even the President supports the abortion but insists that procedure should be rare. There were many signs like “Shame on Notre Dame” and “Stop Abortion Now” at the university gate. Even few students wore graphic T-shirts showing the picture of a baby throwing in the trash can. There were around 19 arrests already made on Saturday.

The real confusion is over the women have the right to terminate a pregnancy and that unused embryos created outside the womb for couples who cannot otherwise conceive should be available for stem cell research.Such research holds the promise of finding treatments for debilitating ailments. Such research holds the promise of finding treatments for some of mankind’s most debilitating ailments.

Within weeks of taking office in January, Obama eased a Bush administration executive order that limited this research to a small number of stem-cell strains that existed when President George W. Bush issued his stem cell directive.

And Here is Barack Obama’s Speech Transcript:-

Thank you, Father Jenkins for that generous introduction. You are doing an outstanding job as president of this fine institution, and your continued and courageous commitment to honest, thoughtful dialogue is an inspiration to us all.

Good afternoon Father Hesburgh, Notre Dame trustees, faculty, family, friends, and the class of 2009. I am honored to be here today, and grateful to all of you for allowing me to be part of your graduation.

I want to thank you for this honorary degree. I know it has not been without controversy. I don’t know if you’re aware of this, but these honorary degrees are apparently pretty hard to come by. So far I’m only 1 for 2 as President. Father Hesburgh is 150 for 150. I guess that’s better. Father Ted, after the ceremony, maybe you can give me some pointers on how to boost my average.

I also want to congratulate the class of 2009 for all your accomplishments. And since this is Notre Dame, I mean both in the classroom and in the competitive arena. We all know about this university’s proud and storied football team, but I also hear that Notre Dame holds the largest outdoor 5-on-5 basketball tournament in the world – Bookstore Basketball.

Now this excites me. I want to congratulate the winners of this year’s tournament, a team by the name of “Hallelujah Holla Back.” Well done. Though I have to say, I am personally disappointed that the “Barack O’Ballers” didn’t pull it out. Next year, if you need a 6′2″ forward with a decent jumper, you know where I live.

Every one of you should be proud of what you have achieved at this institution. One hundred and sixty three classes of Notre Dame graduates have sat where you are today. Some were here during years that simply rolled into the next without much notice or fanfare – periods of relative peace and prosperity that required little by way of sacrifice or struggle.

You, however, are not getting off that easy. Your class has come of age at a moment of great consequence for our nation and the world – a rare inflection point in history where the size and scope of the challenges before us require that we remake our world to renew its promise; that we align our deepest values and commitments to the demands of a new age. It is a privilege and a responsibility afforded to few generations – and a task that you are now called to fulfill.

This is the generation that must find a path back to prosperity and decide how we respond to a global economy that left millions behind even before this crisis hit – an economy where greed and short-term thinking were too often rewarded at the expense of fairness, and diligence, and an honest day’s work.

We must decide how to save God’s creation from a changing climate that threatens to destroy it. We must seek peace at a time when there are those who will stop at nothing to do us harm, and when weapons in the hands of a few can destroy the many. And we must find a way to reconcile our ever-shrinking world with its ever-growing diversity – diversity of thought, of culture, and of belief.

In short, we must find a way to live together as one human family.

It is this last challenge that I’d like to talk about today. For the major threats we face in the 21st century – whether it’s global recession or violent extremism; the spread of nuclear weapons or pandemic disease – do not discriminate. They do not recognize borders. They do not see color. They do not target specific ethnic groups.

Moreover, no one person, or religion, or nation can meet these challenges alone. Our very survival has never required greater cooperation and understanding among all people from all places than at this moment in history.

Unfortunately, finding that common ground – recognizing that our fates are tied up, as Dr. King said, in a “single garment of destiny” – is not easy. Part of the problem, of course, lies in the imperfections of man – our selfishness, our pride, our stubbornness, our acquisitiveness, our insecurities, our egos; all the cruelties large and small that those of us in the Christian tradition understand to be rooted in original sin. We too often seek advantage over others. We cling to outworn prejudice and fear those who are unfamiliar. Too many of us view life only through the lens of immediate self-interest and crass materialism; in which the world is necessarily a zero-sum game. The strong too often dominate the weak, and too many of those with wealth and with power find all manner of justification for their own privilege in the face of poverty and injustice. And so, for all our technology and scientific advances, we see around the globe violence and want and strife that would seem sadly familiar to those in ancient times.

We know these things; and hopefully one of the benefits of the wonderful education you have received is that you have had time to consider these wrongs in the world, and grown determined, each in your own way, to right them. And yet, one of the vexing things for those of us interested in promoting greater understanding and cooperation among people is the discovery that even bringing together persons of good will, men and women of principle and purpose, can be difficult.

The soldier and the lawyer may both love this country with equal passion, and yet reach very different conclusions on the specific steps needed to protect us from harm. The gay activist and the evangelical pastor may both deplore the ravages of HIV/AIDS, but find themselves unable to bridge the cultural divide that might unite their efforts. Those who speak out against stem cell research may be rooted in admirable conviction about the sacredness of life, but so are the parents of a child with juvenile diabetes who are convinced that their son’s or daughter’s hardships can be relieved.

The question, then, is how do we work through these conflicts? Is it possible for us to join hands in common effort? As citizens of a vibrant and varied democracy, how do we engage in vigorous debate? How does each of us remain firm in our principles, and fight for what we consider right, without demonizing those with just as strongly held convictions on the other side?

Nowhere do these questions come up more powerfully than on the issue of abortion.

As I considered the controversy surrounding my visit here, I was reminded of an encounter I had during my Senate campaign, one that I describe in a book I wrote called The Audacity of Hope. A few days after I won the Democratic nomination, I received an email from a doctor who told me that while he voted for me in the primary, he had a serious concern that might prevent him from voting for me in the general election. He described himself as a Christian who was strongly pro-life, but that’s not what was preventing him from voting for me.

What bothered the doctor was an entry that my campaign staff had posted on my website – an entry that said I would fight “right-wing ideologues who want to take away a woman’s right to choose.” The doctor said that he had assumed I was a reasonable person, but that if I truly believed that every pro-life individual was simply an ideologue who wanted to inflict suffering on women, then I was not very reasonable. He wrote, “I do not ask at this point that you oppose abortion, only that you speak about this issue in fair-minded words.”

Fair-minded words.

After I read the doctor’s letter, I wrote back to him and thanked him. I didn’t change my position, but I did tell my staff to change the words on my website. And I said a prayer that night that I might extend the same presumption of good faith to others that the doctor had extended to me. Because when we do that – when we open our hearts and our minds to those who may not think like we do or believe what we do – that’s when we discover at least the possibility of common ground.

That’s when we begin to say, “Maybe we won’t agree on abortion, but we can still agree that this is a heart-wrenching decision for any woman to make, with both moral and spiritual dimensions.

So let’s work together to reduce the number of women seeking abortions by reducing unintended pregnancies, and making adoption more available, and providing care and support for women who do carry their child to term. Let’s honor the conscience of those who disagree with abortion, and draft a sensible conscience clause, and make sure that all of our health care policies are grounded in clear ethics and sound science, as well as respect for the equality of women.”

Understand – I do not suggest that the debate surrounding abortion can or should go away. No matter how much we may want to fudge it – indeed, while we know that the views of most Americans on the subject are complex and even contradictory – the fact is that at some level, the views of the two camps are irreconcilable. Each side will continue to make its case to the public with passion and conviction. But surely we can do so without reducing those with differing views to caricature.

Open hearts. Open minds. Fair-minded words.

It’s a way of life that has always been the Notre Dame tradition. Father Hesburgh has long spoken of this institution as both a lighthouse and a crossroads. The lighthouse that stands apart, shining with the wisdom of the Catholic tradition, while the crossroads is where “…differences of culture and religion and conviction can co-exist with friendship, civility, hospitality, and especially love.” And I want to join him and Father Jenkins in saying how inspired I am by the maturity and responsibility with which this class has approached the debate surrounding today’s ceremony.

This tradition of cooperation and understanding is one that I learned in my own life many years ago – also with the help of the Catholic Church.

I was not raised in a particularly religious household, but my mother instilled in me a sense of service and empathy that eventually led me to become a community organizer after I graduated college. A group of Catholic churches in Chicago helped fund an organization known as the Developing Communities Project, and we worked to lift up South Side neighborhoods that had been devastated when the local steel plant closed.

It was quite an eclectic crew. Catholic and Protestant churches. Jewish and African-American organizers. Working-class black and white and Hispanic residents. All of us with different experiences. All of us with different beliefs. But all of us learned to work side by side because all of us saw in these neighborhoods other human beings who needed our help – to find jobs and improve schools. We were bound together in the service of others.

And something else happened during the time I spent in those neighborhoods. Perhaps because the church folks I worked with were so welcoming and understanding; perhaps because they invited me to their services and sang with me from their hymnals; perhaps because I witnessed all of the good works their faith inspired them to perform, I found myself drawn – not just to work with the church, but to be in the church. It was through this service that I was brought to Christ.

At the time, Cardinal Joseph Bernardin was the Archbishop of Chicago. For those of you too young to have known him, he was a kind and good and wise man. A saintly man. I can still remember him speaking at one of the first organizing meetings I attended on the South Side. He stood as both a lighthouse and a crossroads – unafraid to speak his mind on moral issues ranging from poverty, AIDS, and abortion to the death penalty and nuclear war. And yet, he was congenial and gentle in his persuasion, always trying to bring people together; always trying to find common ground. Just before he died, a reporter asked Cardinal Bernardin about this approach to his ministry. And he said, “You can’t really get on with preaching the Gospel until you’ve touched minds and hearts.”

My heart and mind were touched by the words and deeds of the men and women I worked alongside with in Chicago. And I’d like to think that we touched the hearts and minds of the neighborhood families whose lives we helped change. For this, I believe, is our highest calling.

You are about to enter the next phase of your life at a time of great uncertainty. You will be called upon to help restore a free market that is also fair to all who are willing to work; to seek new sources of energy that can save our planet; to give future generations the same chance that you had to receive an extraordinary education. And whether as a person drawn to public service, or someone who simply insists on being an active citizen, you will be exposed to more opinions and ideas broadcast through more means of communications than have ever existed before. You will hear talking heads scream on cable, read blogs that claim definitive knowledge, and watch politicians pretend to know what they’re talking about. Occasionally, you may also have the great fortune of seeing important issues debated by well-intentioned, brilliant minds. In fact, I suspect that many of you will be among those bright stars.

In this world of competing claims about what is right and what is true, have confidence in the values with which you’ve been raised and educated. Be unafraid to speak your mind when those values are at stake. Hold firm to your faith and allow it to guide you on your journey. Stand as a lighthouse.

But remember too that the ultimate irony of faith is that it necessarily admits doubt. It is the belief in things not seen. It is beyond our capacity as human beings to know with certainty what God has planned for us or what He asks of us, and those of us who believe must trust that His wisdom is greater than our own.

This doubt should not push us away from our faith. But it should humble us. It should temper our passions, and cause us to be wary of self-righteousness. It should compel us to remain open, and curious, and eager to continue the moral and spiritual debate that began for so many of you within the walls of Notre Dame. And within our vast democracy, this doubt should remind us to persuade through reason, through an appeal whenever we can to universal rather than parochial principles, and most of all through an abiding example of good works, charity, kindness, and service that moves hearts and minds.

For if there is one law that we can be most certain of, it is the law that binds people of all faiths and no faith together. It is no coincidence that it exists in Christianity and Judaism; in Islam and Hinduism; in Buddhism and humanism. It is, of course, the Golden Rule – the call to treat one another as we wish to be treated. The call to love. To serve. To do what we can to make a difference in the lives of those with whom we share the same brief moment on this Earth.

So many of you at Notre Dame – by the last count, upwards of 80% — have lived this law of love through the service you’ve performed at schools and hospitals; international relief agencies and local charities. That is incredibly impressive, and a powerful testament to this institution. Now you must carry the tradition forward. Make it a way of life. Because when you serve, it doesn’t just improve your community, it makes you a part of your community. It breaks down walls. It fosters cooperation. And when that happens – when people set aside their differences to work in common effort toward a common good; when they struggle together, and sacrifice together, and learn from one another – all things are possible.

After all, I stand here today, as President and as an African-American, on the 55th anniversary of the day that the Supreme Court handed down the decision in Brown v. the Board of Education. Brown was of course the first major step in dismantling the “separate but equal” doctrine, but it would take a number of years and a nationwide movement to fully realize the dream of civil rights for all of God’s children. There were freedom rides and lunch counters and Billy clubs, and there was also a Civil Rights Commission appointed by President Eisenhower. It was the twelve resolutions recommended by this commission that would ultimately become law in the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

There were six members of the commission. It included five whites and one African-American; Democrats and Republicans; two Southern governors, the dean of a Southern law school, a Midwestern university president, and your own Father Ted Hesburgh, President of Notre Dame. They worked for two years, and at times, President Eisenhower had to intervene personally since no hotel or restaurant in the South would serve the black and white members of the commission together. Finally, when they reached an impasse in Louisiana, Father Ted flew them all to Notre Dame’s retreat in Land O’Lakes, Wisconsin, where they eventually overcame their differences and hammered out a final deal.

Years later, President Eisenhower asked Father Ted how on Earth he was able to broker an agreement between men of such different backgrounds and beliefs. And Father Ted simply said that during their first dinner in Wisconsin, they discovered that they were all fishermen. And so he quickly readied a boat for a twilight trip out on the lake. They fished, and they talked, and they changed the course of history.

I will not pretend that the challenges we face will be easy, or that the answers will come quickly, or that all our differences and divisions will fade happily away. Life is not that simple. It never has been.

But as you leave here today, remember the lessons of Cardinal Bernardin, of Father Hesburgh, of movements for change both large and small. Remember that each of us, endowed with the dignity possessed by all children of God, has the grace to recognize ourselves in one another; to understand that we all seek the same love of family and the same fulfillment of a life well-lived. Remember that in the end, we are all fishermen.

If nothing else, that knowledge should give us faith that through our collective labor, and God’s providence, and our willingness to shoulder each other’s burdens, America will continue on its precious journey towards that more perfect union. Congratulations on your graduation, may God Bless you, and may God Bless the United States of America.

Watch the Video Of the Speech Below.

After Obama’s entertaining speech it was time for Comedian Wanda Sykes to have a dig at the President himself.

Wanda Sykes Said,”It’s funny how they never caught you smoking, but they somehow always catch you with your shirt off,” Sykes said, referring to the numerous photos of Obama’s toned physique. “I know you’re into this whole transparency thing, but I don’t need to see your nipples … there was never a nipple portrait of Lincoln!”

She also didn’t forget to mention the names of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and conservative commentator Rush Limbaugh who have been Obama’s worst critics.

She further said,”I think Rush Limbaugh was the 20th hijacker but he was just so strung out on OxyContin he missed his flight,” Sykes said. “He needs a good waterboarding – that’s what he needs.” She also told the gathering that Palin was about to attend the dinner however pulled out at the last minute.

Sykes Said,”Somebody should tell her that’s not really how you practice abstinence.”

Sykes became the first African-American women and the first openly gay person to ever perform jokes at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner.

Wanda also created history yesterday to be the first African-American woman and the first openly gay person to ever perform jokes at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner.

Don’t Forget to Watch Wanda Sykes Video At the White House Below After The Jump.

US President Barack Obama laughed at himself and others too at the recently concluded annual White House Correspondents’ Association dinner. He took playful digs at his frequent use of a teleprompter.

Well when he was poking fun at himself then how can he leave any republican out of hit. So Barack made former Vice President Dick Cheney his target of the day and joked on him in a good spirit.

Obama said,”Dick Cheney could not make the dinner because he is writing his memoir, How to shoot friends and interrogate people.” He said this with reference to the incident when Mr. Cheney once accidentally shot and injured a friend while on a hunting trip while he has robustly defended the treatment of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay.

The dinner was also attended by celebrities such as Natalie Portman, Sting, Steven Spielberg and Jon Bon Jovi to raise money for charity.

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The Obama Family recently welcomed a new member into the White house which was much awaited and publicized addition into in their family.

A six month old portuguese water dog named “Bo” was greeted by none other than President Barack Obama alongwith First Lady Michelle Obama, Malia and Sasha Obama.

The Massachusetts senator who presented the puppy to the Obama family said,”We couldn’t be happier to see the joy that Bo is bringing to Malia and Sasha. We love our Portuguese Water Dogs and know that the girls – and their parents – will love theirs too”

This is what President Obama Answered about Bo’s privileges in the white house.

Will Bo have the privileges of Barney, President George W. Bush’s dog, who was allowed in the Oval Office, asked a scribe.

“Of course,” Obama replied.

Will he sleep in a bed?

“Not in my bed,” the president said.

The first dog will have some other privileges too. “We all have to take turns walking the dog,” said Obama as he, First Lady Michelle and First Daughters Malia and Sasha – scampered around with Bo on the South Lawn. “We ‘re trying to be responsible dog owners,” he said.

The Very lucky “Bo” was named after Malia and Sasha’s cousins’ cat. The word “Bo” is also considered as a tribute to their late grandfather who was nicknamed Diddley – as in rock n’ roll legend Bo Diddley.

I am sure for the obama family it must have come as a change amongst the problems of recession.

boin the white house

Brad Pitt was spotted in Washington D.C. while on a visit to meet President Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi for his Make It Right foundation.

Brad Pitt also met other Democratic Congressman like Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid the day he met Obama. They discussed his charity and reconstruction efforts in New Orleans.

Brad Pitt was wearing a Black Suit when he held a press conference after he met Obama. Pitt Found The Make It Right Foundation to help and rebuild the lives of Hurricane Katrina Victims.