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JUST IN: President Obama statement on the murders of 3 young Muslims in Chapel Hill, North Carolina http://t.co/wSfmfjWQQc

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NBC Nightly News (@NBCNightlyNews) February 13, 2015

Sister of Muslim #ChapelHillShooting victim says suspect repeatedly flashed a gun at them bit.ly/1D3PYDu http://t.co/g9HanfjRGt

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Talking Points Memo (@TPM) February 13, 2015

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Yusor Abu-Salha's sister writes: "more than just a victim of a terrible crime, more than just a woman in a hijab" theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

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Matt Sullivan (@sullduggery) February 13, 2015

For doctors who are Muslim, many Americans still see us as "Muslims who just happen to be doctors" trib.al/73Yv48d

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If #AllLivesMatter we wouldn't be talking right now.

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Ijeoma Oluo (@IjeomaOluo) February 11, 2015

Until black men are no longer being called "thugs"

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Ijeoma Oluo (@IjeomaOluo) February 11, 2015

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Until Muslim people can speak Arabic on airplanes without the pilot diverting the flight

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Ijeoma Oluo (@IjeomaOluo) February 11, 2015

Until a black man no longer does 4x the time for the same drug offense as a white man

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Ijeoma Oluo (@IjeomaOluo) February 11, 2015

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Until teachers watching brown children at play no longer automatically view those kids as more aggressive

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Ijeoma Oluo (@IjeomaOluo) February 11, 2015

Until the first question after a black man is killed is no longer "Well what was he doing wrong?"

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Ijeoma Oluo (@IjeomaOluo) February 11, 2015

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Until Mexican Americans are no longer used as scapegoats every fucking election.

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Ijeoma Oluo (@IjeomaOluo) February 11, 2015

Until politicians stop trying to scare white people with lies of decapitated heads lining the Mexican border

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Ijeoma Oluo (@IjeomaOluo) February 11, 2015

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Until men with rifles are no longer opening fire on Sikh temples

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Ijeoma Oluo (@IjeomaOluo) February 11, 2015

Until people stop ignoring the high rate of sexual and physical abuse that black women face every day

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Ijeoma Oluo (@IjeomaOluo) February 11, 2015

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You Don’t Know What You’ve Got Until It’s Gone

@RickStrandlof

President Barack Obama: The Jobs Creating President

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Adam Hartung: Obama Outperforms Reagan On Jobs, Growth And Investing

To put this week’s jobs report in economic perspective I reached out to Bob Deitrick, CEO of Polaris Financial Partners and author of “Bulls, Bears and the Ballot Box” (which I profiled in October, 2012 just before the election) for some explanation. Since then Polaris’ investor newsletters have consistently been the best predictor of economic performance. Better than all the major investment houses. This is the best private sector jobs creation performance in American history

As this unemployment chart shows, President Obama’s job creation kept unemployment from peaking at as high a level as President Reagan, and promoted people into the workforce faster than President Reagan. President Obama has achieved a 6.1% unemployment rate in his 6th year, fully one year faster than President Reagan did. At this point in his presidency, President Reagan was still struggling with 7.1% unemployment, and he did not reach into the mid-low 6% range for another full year. So, despite today’s number, the Obama administration has still done considerably better at job creating and reducing unemployment than did the Reagan administration. We forecast unemployment will fall to around 5.4% by summer, 2015. A rate President Reagan was unable to achieve during his two terms.”

Obama Outperforms Reagan on Jobs, Growth and Investing onforb.es/1tzn5tZ via @forbes *cough* @SpeakerBoehner @RepPaulRyan @MittRomney

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Steve Crandall (@JayandSteve) September 06, 2014

When President Obama took office America was gripped in an offshoring boom, started years earlier, pushing jobs to the developing world. Manufacturing was declining in America, and plants were closing across the nation. This week the Institute for Supply Management (ISM) released its manufacturing report, and it surprised nearly everyone. The latest Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) scored 59, 2 points higher than July and about that much higher than prognosticators expected. This represents 63 straight months of economic expansion, and 25 consecutive months of manufacturing expansion.

While most Americans think they are not involved with the stock market, truthfully they are. Via their 401K, pension plan and employer savings accounts 2/3 of Americans have a clear vested interest in stock performance. it is undeniable that President Obama has surpassed the previous president. Investors have gained a remarkable 220% over the last 5.5 years! This level of investor growth is unprecedented by any administration, and has proven quite beneficial for everyone.

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President Barack Obama: Doing So Much Good For The Country

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Keith Boykin: Why Obama May Be The Best President Since WWII

I woke up this morning to a disturbingly silly headline. President Obama is the worst president since World War II, according to a plurality of voters in a Quinnipiac University poll released Wednesday. When you look beneath the numbers, it’s not what it looks like. Only about 33 percent of those polled called Obama the worst president, but that number roughly mirrors the percentage of Americans who identify themselves as Republicans, a group which has tried to sabotage, block, sue and impeach the president in recent years. So for the moment, forget what the polls say. The facts tell the real story of the Obama presidency, and the facts are damn good, especially compared to his predecessor. Under President Obama, the unemployment rate has fallen from 10 percent in 2009 to 6.3 percent today. Under George W. Bush, on the other hand, the unemployment rate rose from 4.2 percent to 7.8 percent. Under President Obama, the U.S. economy is gaining 200,000 jobs a month.

Compared to U.S. Presidents from Truman to Bush, Obama stacks up well. bet.com/news/politics/… http://t.co/9P6AAECpVh

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Keith Boykin (@keithboykin) July 02, 2014

When Bush left office, however, we were losing 700,000 jobs a month. Under President Obama, at least 24 million people have gotten health insurance. The rate of uninsured has declined from 18 percent to 13.4 percent and the rate for Blacks has dropped dramatically from 20.9 percent to 14.7 percent. And despite all the exaggerated GOP claims that Obamacare would be a “job killer,” we’ve actually added more than 9 million new private sector jobs since the president signed the law. Under President Obama, businesses are also booming again. In the first few weeks of his presidency, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was sitting at 6547. Today it’s close to 17,000, a 10,000 point increase in five years!

And corporate profits hit an all-time record high just last year. President Obama ended the war in Iraq, drew down troops in Afghanistan, captured Osama Bin Laden, averted a second depression, helped to rescue the financial sector, stabilized home prices and saved more than a million jobs in the auto industry. At the same time, he enacted the most sweeping health care reform legislation in 50 years, something Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton couldn’t do, and which Ronald Reagan and the two Bushes never wanted to do. as a student of history, as an unapologetic liberal, as an African-American, as a gay man, as a supporter of equal rights for women and as someone who knows what it’s like to lose a job and live without health insurance, I’d say President Obama has done more good for this country than any president before him.

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Happy Birthday, America And Thank You President Obama!

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Spandan Chakrabarti: Not Just A Bull Market, Obama Recovery Points To A Strong Bull Economy

After employment data for June showed Barack Obama besting Bill Clinton’s record on sustained private sector job creation and June’s employment numbers crushing estimates, the DOW rallied to a historical high of over 17,000. To put it in perspective, the day Barack Obama took office in the midst of the greatest recession in (most of) living memory, the DOW lost over 330 points and closed at 7,949. the DOW wasn’t the only stock index to more than double its value over Obama’s presidency. In fact, all three stock indexes economists observe did. The NASDAQ more than tripled its value, going from 1,441 to 4486, and the S&P 500 closed at 1985 on Thursday, nearly 2.5 times its value at closing on January 20, 2009.

Our businesses have added: 9.7 million jobs over 52 months ✔ More than 1.4 million this year ✔ 262,000 in June ✔ → http://t.co/yqb4kdD2fF

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The White House (@WhiteHouse) July 03, 2014

Consider a quick summary of yesterday’s jobs report: The economy has now gained private sector jobs for 52 months in a row, the longest ever on record, besting even Bill Clinton’s previous record of 51 months of sustained private sector job growth. In those 52 months, the economy has added 9.7 million private sector jobs. Adding 288,000 jobs, June not only blew past estimates, it marked 5 consecutive months of over-200,000 job additions for the first time since 1999. In the past year, the stubbornly high long-term unemployment rate has finally begun to drop. The last 12 months saw a 1.4 percentage point drop in unemployment, with fully half of that coming from the previously long-term unemployed finding work. The truth – and I know I keep repeating it – is that if any white president had accomplished Obama’s record on the stock market alone, let alone the rest of the recovery, they would be well on their way to be canonized as a bona fide American saint.

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