Barack Hussein Obama II (born August 4, 1961) was the 44th President of the United States from 2009 to 2017 and the first African American to hold the office. Obama previously served as a United States senator from Illinois, from January 2005 until he resigned following his election to the presidency in November 2008.
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Is Obama the first President of the US to write a computer program?
According to a recent Wired article, US President Barack Obama was the first president to write code:
President Barack Obama told the world that everyone should learn how to code. And now he’s putting his money where his mouth is.
Earlier today, to…
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Is Obama the first U.S. president to "bow to a Muslim King"?
This video, makes the following claim, as aired on Fox News:
[Obama] did bow to the Muslim King, while he did not do it to the British Queen of England, and by bowing he showed the world that "I am subservient, I do bow down to you as a Muslim…
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Did Obama's administration bug Trump Tower?
Trump tweeted this:
Terrible! Just found out that Obama had my "wires tapped" in Trump Tower just before the victory. Nothing found. This is McCarthyism!
At time of writing, this statement has been retweeted more than 48,000 times. The Washington…
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Was Obama's JAMA paper the first academic journal article authored by a sitting president?
I have read a few sources claiming that Obama's JAMA paper published this month was the first academic journal article authored by a sitting president. Is that true?
Example:
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Did Obama remove a Winston Churchill bust from the oval office?
President Obama recently commented on the debate about whether the UK should remain in the European Union. He supported the government position that remaining in the EU is better.
Boris Johnson (mayor of London and a leading campaigner for the…
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Is Obama the only president who has been denied by the opposing party when trying to raise the minimum wage?
This is circulating on Facebook:
Here's a list of every president in American history who has wanted a raise in the minimum wage but been denied by the opposing party:
President Obama
That's not a typo. He's really the only one. Gee... I wonder…
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Was or is Obama's brother living in a shack in Kenya on less than a dollar a day?
Lately, I have come across numerous stories in emails, pushed by what seem to be fringe elements, discussing various aspects of Obama's private family life. Many of them seem to make fantastical claims: A couple I've run across say that his aunt…
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Did Obama tell people to ignore those warning against tyranny?
Did Barack Obama say the following?
"They'll warn that tyranny is always lurking just around the corner.
You should reject those voices."
This is contrasted to Jefferson saying "When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. When the…
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Did Bill Ayers ghost-write for Obama?
According to Conservapedia's article on William Ayers:
In an October 2008 article in American
Thinker, Jack Cashill presented
evidence that Ayers ghostwrote Obama's
first book, "Dreams From My Father".
He based his assertion on a…
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Was Barack Obama nicknamed Barack Oganja?
A Twitter account named History in Pictures (followed by 515,501 users) tweeted the following:
President Obama was known to be heavy marijuana smoker in his teen & college days. His nickname was "Barack Oganja".
The following image accompanied the…
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Did Obama order the drop of over 26 thousand bombs in 2016?
This image is going viral on the web.
According to ZeroHedge,
Sounds about right for a president who bombed 7 nations and became the first in U.S. history to be at war every single day of his eight year administration.
Did Obama order 26…
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Did Obama have a policy of "separating [migrant] families"?
Politfact says,
While the Obama administration's immigration approach was not without controversy, it’s simply untrue to say he had a policy of separating families.
Did any policy though result in separating families?
The Trump administration's…
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Did Obama refuse to help former SEALs in Benghazi?
According to SOS and many small journals, Facebook censored a meme stating that President Obama refused to save the lives of former Navy SEALs in Benghazi. The meme simply stated, “When Obama called the SEALs, they got bin Laden. When the SEALs…
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Did Obama call for online "truthiness tests" to "curate" news on the internet?
I came across an article on Breitbart that cites Obama in the following ways:
We are going to have to rebuild within this
wild-wild-west-of-information flow some sort of curating function that
people agree to.
There has to be, I think, some…
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Does reversing a clip of Obama saying "Yes We Can" become "Thank you, Satan"?
A friend of mine forwarded me Obama Yes We Can = Thank you Satan (when reversed), a video claiming that an audio clip of Obama saying "Yes We Can", when reversed, says "Thank you, Satan".
Is this video accurate? That is, has any manipulation been…
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