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What to Listen to On Your Way to the Polls: TIME’s Election-Day Playlist
Groove out the vote with our nonpartisan picks
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Friday Night Lights and the Politicians Who Love It
Capping off what had already been a strong week in the debate and the polls, yesterday Mitt Romney secured the coveted Bissinger endorsement. Sports journalist Buzz Bissinger wrote a piece for The Daily Beast saying that he …
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Debate Watch: Obama Eats Up the Clock, But Romney Sets the Agenda
During the first Presidential debate last night, CNN ran a clock on screen showing how long each candidate had spoken in total. It reminded me of a time-of-possession clock in a football game. In a game, if one team burns more of the clock, it can mean that they’re controlling the ball, defending their lead, denying their opponents the …
WATCH: Homer Simpson Votes For Romney
Mmmm… democracy…
Obama on Letterman: Top 10 Things You Missed If You Didn’t Watch Last Night
On last night’s Sept. 18 episode of The Late Show with David Letterman, President Obama sat down with the late-night host—for the whole episode, without sharing the bill—to discuss the campaign, events in the Middle East and the future of the American economy. And, while we know that our POTUS can be funny and can do the format well, …
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The Morning After: The Candidate of Change, Changed
“I recognize that times have changed since I first spoke to this convention. The times have changed and so have I.
“I’m no longer just a candidate. I’m the President.”
In 2008, candidate Barack Obama campaigned at the Democratic National Convention on hope and change. In 2012, the change was that he could no longer just …
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The Morning After: Obama Turns to Bill Clinton, Explainer-in-Chief
Barack Obama has a reputation as a brilliant speaker, but not, on his own behalf, an effective talker. He has delivered passages of soaring rhetoric and inspired crowds, but as President, he has faltered at simply talking to citizens: laying out, convincingly, plainly, point by point, why and how he believes his policies will work and …
Happy 10th Birthday Ellen: The Show’s Top 11 Moments
We’ve put together our favorite moments from the Daytime Emmy award-winning talk show
President Obama to Oprah: Watch Beasts of the Southern Wild
Turns out the Commander-in-Chief is also “Critic-in-Chief.” Oprah Winfrey’s “Super Soul Sunday” program on OWN focused on the hit summer indie film Beasts of the Southern Wild because Barack Obama recommended the movie to her.
2016: Obama’s America: Dinesh D’Souza Sees an End-of-Times
The Mayans were only partly right: the real cataclysm could begin on Nov. 6, if the President is reelected and acts on his radical beliefs
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Fox News Produces Greatest Fox News Parody Video Ever
The general election season has begun in earnest, and over at Fox News, the channel’s slogan seems to have become, “We Report, You Deci—Oh, Screw It, Let’s Just Make Sure Obama Doesn’t Get Re-Elected.” That anyway is the message sent by a remarkable four-minute attack-video on the Obama presidency that aired Wednesday on Fox and …
Auma Obama on Her Famous Brother, Their Instant Connection and Her New Memoir
She was born in Kenya; he was born in Hawaii. They could have easily spent their lives never crossing paths. But they had a major tie: they shared the same father. Barack Obama and Auma Obama, his older half-sister (by one year) …