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    • Why did you wait to release the documents if you said you wanted to tell the world about the NSA programs since before Obama became president?
    • Snowden:
    • Obama's campaign promises and election gave me faith that he would lead us toward fixing the problems he outlined in his quest for votes. Many Americans felt similarly. Unfortunately, shortly after assuming power, he closed the door on investigating systemic violations of law, deepened and expanded several abusive programs, and refused to spend the political capital to end the kind of human rights violations like we see in Guantanamo, where men still sit without charge.

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    Love this on WSJ - Not even an attempted photobomb by Malia could keep Sasha from capturing a kiss between Barack and Michelle Obama on her iPhone at the presidential reviewing stand during the inaugural parade.


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    He’s just fought and won an election and is now on a whirl wind tour of South East Asia, no wonder Barack Obama’s feeling a bit weary during the East Asia Summit plenary session in Phnom Penh. In his first meeting with a Chinese leader since his re-election, Obama said Washington and its chief economic rival must work together to ‘establish clear rules of the road’ for trade and investment. Photograph: Jason Reed/Reuters

    He’s just fought and won an election and is now on a whirl wind tour of South East Asia, no wonder Barack Obama’s feeling a bit weary during the East Asia Summit plenary session in Phnom Penh. In his first meeting with a Chinese leader since his re-election, Obama said Washington and its chief economic rival must work together to ‘establish clear rules of the road’ for trade and investment. Photograph: Jason Reed/Reuters

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    Obama celebrated his election victory this week by immediately tweeting an emotional photograph of him and his wife, Michelle, embracing, and it has become the most re-tweeted picture in history. That’s partly because it captures his humanity and the sincerity of his love for his family, his wife and daughters, to whom he paid lavish tribute in his eloquent victor’s speech. It also indicates the nature of his support: younger people who tweet, as opposed to older folk who go hunting. Obama is on the right side of history, and that includes the technological future. In this election, the America of Steve Jobs defeated that of Donald Trump. - Jonathan Jones on the most retweeted moment in history

    Obama celebrated his election victory this week by immediately tweeting an emotional photograph of him and his wife, Michelle, embracing, and it has become the most re-tweeted picture in history. That’s partly because it captures his humanity and the sincerity of his love for his family, his wife and daughters, to whom he paid lavish tribute in his eloquent victor’s speech.

    It also indicates the nature of his support: younger people who tweet, as opposed to older folk who go hunting. Obama is on the right side of history, and that includes the technological future. In this election, the America of Steve Jobs defeated that of Donald Trump.

    - Jonathan Jones on the most retweeted moment in history

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