Washington (CNN) - President Barack Obama will donate his $1.4 million 2009 Nobel Peace Prize award to 10 charities, the White House announced Thursday.
The organizations receiving the money "do extraordinary work in the United States and abroad helping students, veterans and countless others in need," Obama said in a statement. "I'm proud to support their work."
The list of charities includes:
– $250,000 to Fisher House, a group that helps provide housing for families of patients receiving medical care at military and Veterans Affairs medical centers;
– $200,000 for the Clinton-Bush Haiti fund, which supports relief efforts in the earthquake-ravaged nation;
– $125,000 for the College Summit, which helps prepare students for college;
– $125,000 for the United Negro College Fund, which helps more than 60,000 students attend college annually;
– $125,000 to the Posse Foundation, which awards four-year full-tuition scholarships to students who, according to the White House, "may be overlooked by traditional college selection processes";
– $125,000 to the Hispanic Scholarship Fund, which has awarded scholarships to over 90,000 students over a 34-year history;
– $125,000 to the Appalachian Leadership and Education Foundation, which supports higher education opportunities for students from Appalachia;
– $125,000 to the American Indian College Fund, which provides over 6,000 scholarships annually to Native American students;
– $100,000 to AfriCare, which supports programs primarily in Sub-Saharan Africa dealing with health, food, and water resource development; and
– $100,000 to the Central Asia Institute, which backs education and literacy efforts for girls in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Obama was awarded the Nobel prize for "extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples," according to the Norwegian Nobel Committee.
Obama said he viewed the decision less as a recognition of his own accomplishments and more as "a call to action."
The president accepted the prize in a ceremony in Oslo, Norway, in December.
The decision caught most observers by surprise. Obama had not been mentioned as one of the front-runners for the prestigious award.
The last sitting U.S. president to win the peace prize was Woodrow Wilson in 1919. The other was Theodore Roosevelt in 1906. Jimmy Carter had been out of office for more than two decades when he won in 2002.
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When it turns out that he didn't close Guantanamo, kept troops in Iraq, sent more troops to other war fronts, has not stopped any ill feeling from terrorists, this is only fair. He didn't live up to the hope of the award.
Mr President: Bring the Troops Home like you said.
My President is an awesome man of God!
Good job Mr. President.
I am so proud to continue to support you. The fact that my attitude drives right wingers crazy is just icing on the cake.
Go POTUS you are my hero!
Good for him, I could sure use some of that money or a JOB would even be better!
Yah ... what about get america out of debt fund?
I thought the word "negro" was supposed to be a bad word now? If so then why is Obama giving money to the United Negro College Fund?
Despise this fraud with all my passion, BUT, the Fisher house is a GREAT charity.
I applaud you Mr. President.
But then you read down and $125,000 to the United Negro college fund, this snarky POS just had to do that.
How about dividing that up and giving half to the United Caucasion college fund?
What's that, there isn't one, but, but, but, but.
Never mind.
Thanks for the charity Mr. President. I'm sure if Bush ever won it, he would've donated the proceeds to Haliburton.
I am so proud of this President. He has worked non-stop since the day he took office. He has continually shown his generosity, humanity, intelligence, class and grace. While some may disagree with everything he say and does, I am one of millions who simply love this man.
This must be the Obama socialism the Tea Party eccentrics are talking about?
God bless our President.
The sad thing is that SOMEONE is bound to say something about this list. "Why not give to...?" The usual diatribe and baseles criticism.
Pay close attention to his gift to the families of veterans and college students. It says something about the man.
I have never, ever, heard the level of crap from having one of our very own Presidents win the Nobel Peace Prize. How small, uneducated, disrespectful, and arrogant must we have seemed to the international community. We crticize and act as if we lived in a vacuum where no one else is privy to our irrational temper tantrums.
We have perfected the art of tackiness and disrespect. It is shameful. Will we be viewed as a people who asked for something, voted for it, got it and now act as if they didn't know their own minds. Are we to be viewed as the "industrialized nuts" of the world, or can we pull ourselves together and regain our civility, and respect at least towards the leader of our nation?
Good for him. I'm sure some bitter tea-bagger Obama hater will still find fault with this.
Proud to have such a genuine person as Obama as our President. It's really disgusting how so many little people spread so many lies and false rumors about him. And when we've had such a lousy previous President that didn't recieve enough scrutiny and ended up seriously damaging our country.
I know the right wingers, neo-cons, and tea-baggers like to call him the "Messiah", but even with Obama's extensive talent, education, and experiance even he will need more than eight years to get us back on the path of greatness.
When I hear these nasty little people on these sites, radio, and cable TV try to diminish him with lies and rascism it makes me even more proud of my vote to help him become our President.
Hey, I don't like the guy, but in this case, he did the right thing. He didn't do anything to deserve the prize, acknowledged that fact, and gave the money away.
Bravo Mr. President!
And I am proud to support you, Mr. President!
bet gwb would never think of doing ths
Great choices
nuff'said
Not all of those are charities. Some are fronts to launder money for politicians and some are racist organizations. Would like to have seen him use that money to pay down his deficit.
Awesome!
Curious to see how that move will get bashed. Let the creativity begin!!
Great for him! Way to go, but CNN, how does that add up to 1.4 million?
That's wonderful and generous! Well done, Mr. President!
Communist! Communist! This guy OBVIOUSLY hates America! He should spend that money on tobacco and gasoline.
You only named 4 of the 10?
Where are all the haters now!!! Way to go Obama!!
God bless you, Mr. President! A class act and humanitarian.
I wonder if everybody who doubted this man's sincerety (sp) when he stated that the money would go to charities feel like fools considering that he listed the amounts and the charities. Now, you don't have to like the charities or the amount, but don't call this man integrity into question
Good job Mr. Prez. Please stick with non-controversial charities.....
If a Caucasian president donated money to a Caucasian-only college fund there would be an uproar. What's with the double standard?
He gave the money away because he realized he didn't deserve the award and felt guilty keeping it.
Is ACORN on the list? How about Rev Wright's church?
He has to donate that money it's the law. Only half of it is shown above, where did the rest go, Acorn?
There just had to be a hater!!! Get over yourself, he is the President of the USA. Nothing you can do to change it....way to go Obama!!
He has to donate that money it's the law. Only half of it is shown above, where did the rest go, Acorn?
If Bush had donated to a whites only charity the media would be blaring that out 24 hours a day.
Good man, thank you for helping the needy. I wish more people would give like this. This to me is a hand up for someone trying, not a hand out to someone who just doesnt care.
Sheila – is there even a white kids only college fund? I guess if he were Catholic and gave it to Catholic Charities you'd slam him for that too. Pleeze!
don't like barry and the award was a joke, but he did the right thing with the money.
sniffit, liberals, only idiots like you and terrorists are eligable of the NPP.
Looks like obama doesn't like to pay taxes either.
A White House spokesman tells CBS News that Mr. Obama is avoiding tax liability for the prize money by not accepting the award himself.
CBS News White House correspondent Mark Knoller reports that the president is letting the Nobel Committee distribute the prize money according to his list of charities.
Awesome move Mr President!
Not bad at all. way to go Mr. P! Now thats unprecedented.
Sheila, I realize that, in many ways, the African-American-based programs do seem like a double-standard, but you have to realize that, due to many circumstances largely outside the control of non-whites (i.e. slavery, segregation, racism that still exists even today, etc.), it is often very difficult for non-whites to be able to afford college. Funds like this, in many ways, make up for the funding African-Americans were not able to receive until quite recently.
Plus, the reason there isn't so much of a 'Caucasian-only' college fund is because, percentage-wise, Caucasians do not need nearly as much help affording college.
@Sniffit March 11th, 2010 4:27 pm ET
Let's see Bush do something like that.
Oh wait, he didn't even win the Peace prize. i wonder why!
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I'll tell you why, Sniffit.... its because the left wing socialists in Europe are in love with Obama-types, just like you seem to be. Obama did NOTHING to earn that reward when he received it...and he has done NOTHING to earn it since. Idiots like you are going to be the death of this once-great country.
I'm no Obama supporter, but good for him.
This just raises my already sky-high opinion of him. but the haters would figure out a way to slam him if he walked on water and raised the dead. and most of the idiots slamming him are the very people he's trying his best to help out of the mess the party they support put us in. go figure! proves that old saying that not all republicans are stupid but most stupid people are republicans.
Very well done Mr. President. We stand tall and proud with you in NH, ready for the second round.
I'm really glad to see that we're putting party lines ahead of a person doing a generous thing.
It's BOTH parties that are going to run this country into the ground by making everyone hateful and unwilling to work together.
What a bunch of haters there are on this blog. I am so proud of our President. He contnues to show his generosity and his humanity towards the American people. It doesn't matter what he does, the haters will disrespect him. HE DESERVED THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE. People greater than the haters deemed it so. He wouldn't say so, because he is such a modest man. Thank goodness he is head of our country and is working every day to solve the problems of the American people. Can you imagine what the international communty is thinking as they watch these disrespectful people who show such disrespect to the President of the United States? I AM SO PROUD OF YOU, PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA.
crawl back under your rocks ... you're BOR-ing.
@Dominican mama 4 Obama March 11th, 2010 4:07 pm ET
"I have never, ever, heard the level of crap from having one of our very own Presidents win the Nobel Peace Prize..."
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No, George Bush didn't win the Nobel Prize, but were you DEAF when all the crap was being dished out by liberals over the eight years he was in office?
Go back to the Domincan Republic.......
None of you haters will ever get the Nobel Peace Prize Award. Eat your hearts out and cry me a river. I guess you haters wanted the money donated to the tea baggers, or the kkk. Thank you Mr. President, Americans are proud of you and the job you are doing.
Let's
Unite
Not
Create
Hate
Mark-
There's no question of tax avoidance here - the Internal Revenue code excludes scholarships and prizes such as the Nobel from gross income. Every American who has received a Nobel gets the money tax-free.
First of all bush was to dumb to win anything,second thing the repugs are blocking him from closing guantanamo,and third the money will help a lot of veterans and their families,which would not need it if bush abd cheney had attacked the people that had struck us instead of going for the oil in Iraq.The president did a good deed,he spread the wealth around.
Let us pray for those in authority....and those it spew hate ...is only hurting themselves ...it takes a lot of energy to hate as some of you bloggers.
Quit hating on the President. He gave the money to a very diverse group of GREAT non-profits. You GOP AND TEA PARTY sheep are just angry that no one in your party deserves to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. Where where you guys the past 8 years when we were getting into this debt and health care reform. Making the rich, richer!!!
thats a good thing....
It's amazing how ignorant people can be. I bet half the people complaining voted for former President Bush too! Look at the bigger picture. He trying to clean up this mess of of this world we live in. One step at a time. Change is coming, and I have faith in him. Go & educate yourself first. He is not the first President to give money to the United Negro college fund. With that said bottom line you can never satisfy people!
Bravo Mr. President!
Barack Obama, I simly love you. Enough said.
I get to say it again, Mr. President, I SIMPLY LOVE YOU.
I LOVE YOU BARACK OBAMA!!!
He's a good President and I don't give a hoot what you foaming-at-the-mouth neo-cons think. I predict that 10 or 15 years from now history will be showing him to be one of our greatest leaders.
Obama to give Nobel Peace Prize award to 10 charities
Republicans will find a reason to bitterly criticize Obama even for this.
@ Monster Zero – "Good for him, I could sure use some of that money or a JOB would even be better!"
Here's an idea. Instead of spending your time typing whiney, bitter comments on this site why don't you spend your time LOOKING for a job!
Some you people need to chill. The man can do whatever he pleases with HIS money!
Please expalin (you Bush bashers) what does Bush have to do with this? So you are telling me you know the heart of Bush so much you can make such a ridiculous statement like that?
Can't you just applaud Obama without bashing anybody? No? I really didn't think so!
@ Sniffit, Bush did not win because of war, right? We are still at war right? AND increasing in Afghanistan, right?
Look, itis right simple, The Nobel committee awarded THEIR award THEIR way. We didn't get a vote! Keep in mind he was nominated 1 or 2 weeks into his term. That tells me he won based not on accomplishment but promise! IMHO, he won because he is not Bush! BUT somebody else's award, somebody else's rules to award! End of story!
What a beautiful man. God Bless President Obama.
Jonathan Reese....
The Actual word NEGRO has never been derogatory.
The other "N" word is considered hateful and rude.
Your trying to pervert things.
It is so nice to have a President that shows real compassion for others. Thank you President Obama for being a leader I can be proud of.
He should have donated the money to the unemployment fund for all those unemployed people he has done far too little to help.
Bravo to Mr. Obama to doing the right thing with the money he received for a prize he didn't deserve. It almost equals out.
He donated. Period. Quit judging. What have you all done to better mankind???? Enough said...
to "Kevin in Ohio" :
The people to whom you've responded here have more common sense & dignity than you will have in a lifetime....your right wing rants are deplorable !!
Another unfathomable display of generosity, compassion and class. How many of you Obama-haters would donate $1.4 million (tax free)to charity? If President Obama weren't elected President and McCain/Palin was elected, we all would be wishing that the mountains would fall on us because it would be the final straw in the implosion of America. I wonder what's in the hearts and minds of people when they hate the person trying to clean up America's mess more than the one who created it? I wonder.
The full list (I don't know why CNN didn't give them all):
250k Fisher House
200k Clinton-Bush Haiti fund
125k College Summit
125k Posse Foundation
125k United Negro College Fund
125k Appalachian Leadership and Education Foundation
125k American Indian College Fund
100k AfriCare
100k Central Asia Institute
All perfectly calculated by the WH strategists.
Hearing people from MAINE and NEW HAMPSHIRE blindly support the Obamanation is hilarious. You live in States that are 99% White and have no idea what goes on in the rest of the country. Get a clue.
ANYTHING the president does, good or bad, he will be criticized for…its customary..It comes with the job.
Sarah Palin and Rush will find some stupid way to make a good deed look bad….ohh how they make me sick…lol
Bravo. Where did the other Nobel Prize winners donate their award?
He did the right thing. By law, anything a President receives belongs to the American people and has to be given away, so he had no choice.
However; the charities will truly benefit.
Keep up the work Mr. President!
You are a better man than I would be. After all the hell you and your family have unnecessarily gone through, I wouldn't blame you one bit if you would have kept it for yourself. But instead you chose to be such a better person, rather than a bitter, selfish person. God Bless you and this nation.
Mr. President,
You show how much class you have EVERY DAY! Wonderful news that Anericans can be proud of !! You are a fine example to all of us!! Thank you!!
The Fisher House, Bravo Mr. President, once again you prove to be a class act! Truly top notch. You who would condemn him should be ashamed, I would bet not one of you knew what the Fisher House was before this article and still do not have any idea how integral it can be to military families, when their service members are injured.
I can't wait to vote for you again sir.
LT PJ Meyerpeter
USN
Whoever this is is reading my comments and not posting them so how about an answer. You are starting to show your liberal bias. LMAO. No wonder your ratings sucks.
To everyone criticizing the fact that the President donated to the UNCF, do a little more research and you will find that he gave the same amount of money to these other scholarship funds: the Hispanic Scholarship Fund; the Appalachian Leadership and Education Foundation; and the American Indian College Fund.
Way to go, Barack! We love you!
To "Lee" @ 5:16 pm ...
YOU are the blind one here!
Great choices Mr. President!
All of us are aware of the public discussion of personal generosity and charity that was generated when the public learned that Vice President Al Gore’s charitable giving in 1997 was only $353. Because of politics, we also know that Senator John Kerry, presidential candidate in 2004, gave nothing to charity in more than one year when he was a U.S. Senator. Before his marriage to Teresa Heinz (whose reported fortune was half a billion dollars), Kerry’s 1991–1995 charitable contributions were ($0, $820, $175, $2039, $0), less than one-half of one percent of his income for the period. In contrast, private citizen George W. Bush gave ($28,236, $31,914, $31,292) in 1991–1993. His highest giving was 15.7 percent of income and his average 9.1 percent. As Texas governor he gave
$27,000 (6.5 percent of income) and $9,178 (2.3 percent) in the next two years, after which his giving returned to higher levels.
To those of you who wonder about the President using this prize to his advantage for tax purposes, any American that wins the NPP gets the cash award tax free. The President, however, cannot keep any prize moneis won while in office. What he has done is to notify the Prize Committee of how he wants the funds distributed and therefore he will not get the funds in hand. If you look at his taxess this year, you will see the prize funds distribution on his tax form. It is such a shame that this man can do no good in the eyes of some people. I am confident that if he put our economy on top before leaving office and then walked on water, there would be people that would complaine about that.
Following is a breakdown of Obama's donations:
- $250,000 to Fisher House, a national nonprofit organization providing accommodation for families of patients receiving medical care at military and Department of Veterans Affairs medical centers.
- $200,000 to the Clinton-Bush Haiti Fund, which was set up in the aftermath of the Haitian earthquake to help survivors.
- $125,000 to College Summit, a national nonprofit organization to increase college enrollment rates.
- $125,000 to the Posse Foundation, which awards scholarships to promising public high school students.
- $125,000 to the United Negro College Fund.
- $125,000 to the Hispanic Scholarship Fund.
_ $125,000 to the American Indian College Fund.
- $125,000 to the Appalachian Leadership and Education Foundation.
- $100,000 to AfriCare, which promotes health, food security and access to water primarily in Africa.
- $100,000 to the Central Asia Institute, which education and literacy, especially for girls, in remote regions of Pakistan and Afghanistan.
A W E S O M E!!!
President Barack Obama is a extraordinary man. Presidebt Barack Obama is helping students, veterans and countless others in need. Outstanding job Mr President, God bless you
Unless Kevin in Ohio is a Native American, he should also have to go back to where his ancestors came from. I bet it's a socialist European country.
So he won an award that he does not deserve, and now he tries to diverge this fact by giving it to the charities that deserve it.
United Negro College Fund is nothing more than racism. Time for minorities to fend for themselves. After all, last time I checked our president was black. Get off the race card. Stop making excuses.
To all you haters... They have been giving this award away a long time, I think the Nobel guys know what they are doing......
Jonathan Reese - March 11th, 2010 4:02 pm ET
I thought the word "negro" was supposed to be a bad word now? If so then why is Obama giving money to the United Negro College Fund?
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I doubt that if a 'normal' person were to try his HARDEST, he wouldn't be able to come up with a dumber post than this one.
BRAVO!
IowaMark – March 11th, 2010 5:15 pm ET- So what?
'Lee – March 11th, 2010 5:16 pm ET
Hearing people from MAINE and NEW HAMPSHIRE blindly support the Obamanation is hilarious. You live in States that are 99% White and have no idea what goes on in the rest of the country. Get a clue.'
So? The only support from the pOTUS MUST come from those of his race? Are you Nazi or what dude/lady?
Kevin in Ohio – March 11th, 2010 4:47 pm ET
'No, George Bush didn't win the Nobel Prize, but were you DEAF when all the crap was being dished out by liberals over the eight years he was in office?'
So after realizing that them, like the whole American people, had been lied to (WMD, links between Iraq under Saddam an Al Qaeda) in order help the (R) to approve all laws (including the shameful Patriot Act) that he wanted to...
And after all the blatant demonstrations of mismanagements and illegal acts of him and his buddies...
The Dems were supposed to stay quiet?
Daniel March 11th, 2010 5:23 pm ET
Whoever this is is reading my comments and not posting them so how about an answer. You are starting to show your liberal bias. LMAO. No wonder your ratings sucks.
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But you're here reading and posting (LOLOLOLOL)
The United Negro college fund? That still exists during this day and age. I wish the free ride was available for people like me. Guess I'll just have to work and earn it like all the rest of my kind.
Kevin in Ohio March 11th, 2010 4:47 pm ET
Sweetie, I almost missed your post. Why did you bring up Bush? I didn't. If memory serves me correctly on OUR American history we've had more than one president prior to Obama. Are you saying that Bush is the ONLY president that you will acknowledge?? I mean, WHAT ARE YOU SAYING???? Do you know?
Hey, I'll be visiting my native land Dominican Republic with my 2 sons next year, thanks for asking!
If I was him I'd get rid of it too, it's ill gotten gains. Porkey Pig is more deserving of the Peace Prize than this blow hard.
all the news that's fit to omit - March 11th, 2010 4:03 pm ET
.......But then you read down and $125,000 to the United Negro college fund, this snarky POS just had to do that.
How about dividing that up and giving half to the United Caucasion college fund.......
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– $125,000 to the Appalachian Leadership and Education Foundation, which supports higher education opportunities for students from Appalachia;
OK......
1. See how stupid you are?
2. The monies is awarded to President Obama. He can distribute it in any manner he chooses......so GET OVER IT!
He needs to pay his staff of fools for a couple of months and not drain anymore from the taxpayers.
Giving the money away was a no brainer. It was clearly undeserved and highly controversial that he couldn't possibly have kept it. In any case, any other president, not just Obama, would have done the same thing. It's a no brainer. Perfect PR tactic.
What other international charities were selected and why? Haiti is an obvious case, but why not donate within the US?
I am surpised he did not include the MS (Multiple Sclerosis) society, given that his wife has used many opportunities to talk about her father with MS. I have MS and was hoping to see the president give some money to this organization, but I guess talking about MS is one thing and donating money to them is another.
Concerning Kevin in Houston's accounting of George W.Bush's donations to charity: to which organization did he donate the money from his Nobel prize?
I still remember the day this Nation found out that President Obama had won the Nobel Peace Prize. To say that we were all in shock was an understatement. Talk about winning the runner up prize for not getting the olympics in Chi-town. The Neo-Cons, Tea Bggers and the Republicans just went plain ape over the matter, and as a PROLIBDEM, I loved every minute of it. There, my moment of gloating on them is done... for now.
The FIsher House. The Clinton-Bush Haiti Fund. College Summit. The UNCF. These are non profit organizations to go out and influence people in the communities of this great nation. If the President gave that much to those 4 groups, I can only imagine what the other six are and what they are getting.
Continue the good work that you are doing, Mr. President.
Fiche -lui la paix (leave him alone) ,he is great and he did a great thing . Loving him or not loving him will not change not even a bit of him when it comes to charity. That is a gift he has frome Above.
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I am surprised he did not include the MS (Multiple Sclerosis) society, given that his wife has used many opportunities to talk about her father with MS. I have MS and was hoping to see the president give some money to this organization, but I guess talking about MS is one thing and donating money to them is another.
For those asking why he did not give to the Caucasian College Fund......HE DID! Or did you suppose that the Appalachia Leadership and Education Foundation was giving scholarships to minorities? Only 8% of the population of the Appalachia region are minorities, the vast majority are white.
Mark – March 11th, 2010 4:35 pm ET
'Looks like obama doesn't like to pay taxes either.
A White House spokesman tells CBS News that Mr. Obama is avoiding tax liability for the prize money by not accepting the award himself.'
What tax liability man?
Presidents cannot accept prizes that comes with money attached to it, unless they keep the prize AND donate the money!
It's the law!
Plus, supposing that he was NOT the President, Nobel Prizes are TAX FREE (or TAX EXEMPT, not sure which term is the correct one), therefore there are NO TAXES that he isn't paying for!
Read a little before you type your hate!
Time to criticise him for the charities he missed! Some people are just cranks.
It sure is amazing that one mention of the United Negro College Fund brings out the racists, but no one has a problem with the Appalachian College Fund.
Kevin in Ohio – what "once-great-country" are you referring to? The 50's when woman weren't supposed to work, just clean and stay in the kitchen? or maybe the 60's when blacks weren't supposed to have equal rights to whites, or the 70's when disco was topping the charts? or the 80's when Reagan decided to pump billions of dollars into a "War on Drugs" that doesn't have a snowball's chance in h3ll of working and sold weapons to Iran? I don't understand this perfect picture of America. America changes, advances and evolves every day...get used to it or get off.
President Obama is such an intelligent and decent man. This country is so lucky to have him as our President.
Nelson Colorado Springs CO: "Presidebt Barack Obama is helping students, veterans and countless others in need."
HAHAHAHA!! Thank you Nelson for unintentionally coming up with a hilarious nickname: PresiDEBT Obama!!! I love it!!! I'm gonna use this to go along with Obummer, Obongo, Obamanation, O, and the Pro-Black Community Organizer. Keep drinkin the kool-aid libs. One day you might wake up.
The "retired army" idiot in San Antonio mocked Obama giving money to the United Negro College Fund. That numbnut didn't balk at the contribution to the Appalachian College Fund. Who else lives there but underprivileged anglo Americans?! Obviously, when you retired your brain retired with you. I think the dissemination of the monies were to various and worthy causes. Yes, it's true any President (even GWB) would have donated the money, but they can all afford to do so. Bush would have donated it to Blackwater or Halliburton.
@Kevin in Ohio and Mark–You two are so jealous, you are turning green. President Obama is doing a great job trying to get us out of the mess Bush got us into. He is liked all over the world. Bush had everybody hating us.
Mr Obama is an awesome man and President.
To those people on unemployment that claim the President is not doing anything to help them..where would you be without all those extensions? also, if you look for resources you'd find that because of reinvestment act, there is money out there for retraining, so if you can't find a job in what you used to do, you can get training in an industry that will have jobs.
I'm so tired of people blaming the President for their situation, remember who put is in this situation in the first place. Also, looking for a job is a full time job and ATTITUDE is everything, if you are looking for a job with that defeated and negative attitude, you will not be finding one any time soon.
@ Daniel – time for minorities to fend for themselves huh? I see someone didn't pay attention in history class. Mommy and Daddy cut off your monthly allowance? Get a life. I hope you are surrounded by extra dark black people for the rest of your miserable little spoon-fed life.
Dominican mamma for Obama: No matter which news I pick to read, there's always a posting from you, quite long and elaborate, always in defense of the president. Sometimes you even do research to defend your position and engage in rebuttals.
Where do you find the time for all this?? Are you employed?
Sprtman March 11th, 2010 5:34 pm ET
The United Negro college fund? That still exists during this day and age. I wish the free ride was available for people like me.......
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...."a free ride" ?!?!?!?
You OBVIOUSLY have no idea what the typical grant size from the UNCF is. If you did......you wouldn't have embarrassed yourself with this post.
President Obama didn't start this war so how dare some of you request that he fix it right away. The Bush administration started these mess with his 70 gpa self. This man received a tax free award and decided to spread the worth, come on now stop hating. Be proud, grow up and stop thinking of me, me, me! Bush made that mistake people
Well, from all the comments on this page, you can't please everyone, all the time! I applaud his efforts.
Let the pundits say what they will, our President is a great and generous American. He's taking so much criticism over the economy and wars and yet has no connection to either. Bravo sir, history will treat you very kind...