As Barack Obama is sworn in as the 44th US President, his No. 1 fan, Amber Lee Ettinger, has posted a new video on YouTube in honor of her ‘ultimate crush’.

“To those who cling to power through corruption and deceit and the silencing of dissent, know that you are on the wrong side of history; but that we will extend a hand if you are willing to unclench your fist.”

On the eve of his historic inauguration, President-elect Barack Obama urged Americans to march together in the spirit of Martin Luther King.

President-elect Barack Obama declared on Wednesday that his administration will go after Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and stop the radical group from using the Afghan-Pakistani border as sanctuary to execute terrorist attacks.
Obama said that Al-Qaeda and Bin Laden remain the “number one threat” to US security, after a new voice recording emerged from the terror group’s leader.
“Bin Laden and Al-Qaeda are our number one threat when it comes to American security,” Obama told reporters. We’re going to do everything in our power to make sure that they cannot …

On January 20, 2009, Barack Obama will be sworn-in as 44th president of the United States. And as the Bush era comes to a close, let’s go down memory lane and relive some of the funniest moments of the outgoing president.

CNN reveals how Barack Obama will look like after 4 years.

All the former living US presidents, together with President-elect Barack Obama gathered at the Oval Office Wednesday.

Barack Obama on Monday announced ex-rival Hillary Clinton as his secretary of state and said that President George W. Bush’s defense secretary, Robert Gates, is staying on.
The line-up of cabinet members that stood behind Obama at his Chicago news conference is a high-powered and experienced crew, topped by Clinton.
Obama respects the New York senator’s work ethic, his aides have said. He also believes the former first lady’s star power would boost his efforts to improve America’s global standing.
Reginald Dale, a scholar at the Center for Strategic and International Studies was …

Barack Obama is taking another Chicagoan to Washington D.C.
Desiree Rogers, a friend of the Obamas’ will serve as White House social secretary, leaving her current job at Allstate Financial, a unit of the Northbrook-based insurance firm, where she is president of social networking.
She would be the first African-American to hold the post.
She will be the decider on who gets to come to White House parties, State dinners and other gatherings.
“Desiree is a heavy hitter — she comes with her own range of contacts from around the country,” Valerie Jarrett, a …

With just 65 days left before Barack Obama is sworn in as president, his transition team continues to move fast to fill key senior jobs in the White House.
Obama, who relinquished his Senate seat Sunday, added three veterans from his campaign and Senate office to his incoming White House operations.
The president-elect has tapped his Senate chief of staff Pete Rouse to be a White House Senior Adviser while Mona Sutphen and Jim Messina will both serve as deputy chiefs of staff.
“These individuals are important additions to a team with the …

Rep. Paul Broun of Georgia says an Obama dictatorship, with Gestapo-like security and Marxist rule may come to the US under Barack Obama.
“It may sound a bit crazy and off base, but the thing is, he’s the one who proposed this national security force,” Rep. Broun said of Obama in an interview Monday with AP. “I’m just trying to bring attention to the fact that we may — may not, I hope not — but we may have a problem with that type of philosophy of radical socialism or Marxism.”
“That’s …