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'''Barack Hussein Obama II''' (reportedly born in [[Honolulu, Hawaii]] on August 4, 1961) is the 44th President of the [[United States]]. Through heavy use of [[early voting]] by the Democrat political machine, Obama was elected president in 2008 with 365 [[electoral vote]]s and 53% of the popular vote. In 2012 he was elected to a second term with 332 electoral votes and 51% of the popular vote, losing 5 million voters from four years earlier. Promoted heavily by [[liberals]], as demonstrated by his unjustified receipt of the 2009 [[Nobel Prize|Nobel Peace Prize]], Obama clutched the presidency despite a short and unremarkable political career by outspending his opponent, [[John McCain]], by hundreds of millions of dollars in 2008,<ref>[http://www.opensecrets.org/pres08/contriball.php?cycle=2008 "Candidate comparison: Top contributors 2008 cycle"] (betw. September-November 2013). OpenSecrets.org website.</ref> and spending more than a billion dollars from special interests to snag reelection in 2012.<ref>Multiple references:

'''Barack Hussein Obama II''' (reportedly born in [[Honolulu, Hawaii]] on August 4, 1961) is the 44th President of the [[United States]]. Through heavy use of [[early voting]] by the Democrat political machine, Obama was elected president in 2008 with 365 [[electoral vote]]s and 53% of the popular vote. In 2012 he was elected to a second term with 332 electoral votes and 51% of the popular vote, losing 5 million voters from four years earlier. Promoted heavily by [[liberals]], as demonstrated by his unjustified receipt of the 2009 [[Nobel Prize|Nobel Peace Prize]], Obama clutched the presidency despite a short and unremarkable political career by outspending his opponent, [[John McCain]], by hundreds of millions of dollars in 2008,<ref>[http://www.opensecrets.org/pres08/contriball.php?cycle=2008 "Candidate comparison: Top contributors 2008 cycle"] (betw. September-November 2013). OpenSecrets.org website.</ref> and spending more than a billion dollars from special interests to snag reelection in 2012.<ref>Multiple references:

*[http://www.opensecrets.org/pres12/candidate.php?cycle=2012&id=N00009638 "Barack Obama (D): Candidate summary, 2012 cycle/Source of funds"] (betw. March-June 2013).  Opensecrets.org website.  34% Individual contributions, 67% large and corporate.

*[http://www.opensecrets.org/pres12/candidate.php?cycle=2012&id=N00009638 "Barack Obama (D): Candidate summary, 2012 cycle/Source of funds"] (betw. March-June 2013).  Opensecrets.org website.  34% Individual contributions, 67% large and corporate.

*[http://www.opensecrets.org/pres12/index.php "2012 presidential race/Overall spending"] (betw. August-September 2015).  OpenSecrets.org website.  This count of over $1 billion has decreased since August-Sept. 2015, but is incomplete (compare, for example, University of California contributions uncounted from the previous reference) and has every chance of remaining close to its later total of $964 million.

*[http://www.opensecrets.org/pres12/index.php "2012 presidential race/Overall spending"] (betw. August-September 2015).  OpenSecrets.org website.  This special interests count of over $1 billion may have decreased at least since August-Sept. 2015, a time which reflects a grand total of individual contributions of less than $1 billion, but the grand total is presumably incomplete (compare, for example, the subtotal of University of California contributions uncounted from the time before August-Sept. 2015, and which thus ''increased''), has every chance of remaining close to its later grand total of $964 million, and does not include Super PAC contributions, which is ''indirect'' spending.

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**([http://web.archive.org/web/20150304050735/http://www.opensecrets.org/pres12/contrib.php?cycle=2012&id=N00009638 Link to version of this reference] on March 4, 2015 (whose pertinent data which follows was the same back to the time indicated in the first reference) which shows $1,212,245 in contributions to the University of California ''vs.'' $1,350,139 in contributions in the version originally published between August-September 2015)</ref>

The [[liberal claptrap]] that helped elect Obama as president seems silly today.  It was claimed, for example, that Obama has millions of followers on Twitter, when allegedly some 70% of them are fake.<ref>Jackson, David (August 24, 2012). [http://content.usatoday.com/communities/theoval/post/2012/08/obama-has-millions-of-fake-twitter-followers/1#.UDfQVqA2et_ "Obama has millions of fake Twitter followers"].  USA Today website/The Oval blog.  See [[USA Today]].</ref>  And although the [[lamestream media]] promoted Obama as a great orator, in fact he relies almost entirely on teleprompters for his speeches and press conferences, and at one point even had teleprompters set up for him in a middle school classroom in order to speak to the media.

The [[liberal claptrap]] that helped elect Obama as president seems silly today.  It was claimed, for example, that Obama has millions of followers on Twitter, when allegedly some 70% of them are fake.<ref>Jackson, David (August 24, 2012). [http://content.usatoday.com/communities/theoval/post/2012/08/obama-has-millions-of-fake-twitter-followers/1#.UDfQVqA2et_ "Obama has millions of fake Twitter followers"].  USA Today website/The Oval blog.  See [[USA Today]].</ref>  And although the [[lamestream media]] promoted Obama as a great orator, in fact he relies almost entirely on teleprompters for his speeches and press conferences, and at one point even had teleprompters set up for him in a middle school classroom in order to speak to the media.