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CNBC's Rick Santelli and the traders on the floor of the CME Group express outrage over the notion they may have to pay their neighbor's mortgage, particularly if they bought far more house than they could actually afford. Rick actually captures the mood of the country. Adult Language
The Tea Party movement is now more popular than either major party, and it may become a major force in American politics. The movement, in its essence, is about safeguarding individual liberty, cutting taxes, and ending bailouts for business while the American taxpayer gets burdened with more public debt.
Boris Yeltsin, Russia's first democratically-elected leader came to power after being promoted by former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, a man he then outmanoeuvred. The acceleration of economic restructuring became one of Yeltsin's main priorities with his government overseeing a massive privatization of state-run enterprises.
Listen to the speeches of the Democratic candidates for the President of the United States in the election of 2008.
Rudy Giuliani another Presidential candidate for 2008 election. So far on the campaign trail, he appears to be giving a very different talk at each stop, according to the interests of his audience and, it seems, his mood at the moment.
Audio clips of Fred Dalton Thompson a former senator, lawyer, radio commentator, and actor had announced that his official campaign for president will begin September 6, 2007.
Here are some clips of John McCain flip-flops of the 2008 election so far. He has shown that his strongest trait as a candidate is his ability to change his position and contradict himself at any time. What is most amazing is McCains flip-flopping knows no limits.
Along with "duck and cover" movie reels and backyard bomb shelters, the infamous McCarthy Hearings of the 1950s have come to define the Cold War. Republican Senator Joseph McCarthy ruined lives with his witch hunch style attacks.
Political corruption stories don't get any better than the one that erupted today about the Democratic Gov. Rod Blagojevich, who was arrest in an alleged attempt to sell President-elect Barack Obama's U.S. Senate seat has thrown state government up for grabs.
George H. Bush was a former World War II pilot, Texas oil tycoon, Republican congressman, U.N. ambassador and Director of the Central Intelligence Agency before serving as vice president under Ronald Reagan. Here's his January 29, 1991 third State of the Union address.
Stalin's controversial successor to lead the USSR was Nikita Sergeyich Kruschev (1894-1971). He rose from poverty to power and in the midst of the cold war told the US "We will bury you!" But history also shows him as a Communist Party reformer.
Newt Gingrich was the Speaker of the House of Representatives and one of the key leaders of the so-called Republican Revolution of the 1990s. After the election of President Barack Obama, Gingrich quickly emerged as one of the administration's harshest and most visible critics.
Hear the voices of the biggest ever anti-poverty movement came together under the banner of Make Poverty History in 2005.
Hear the speeches of some of the possible Republican candidates who have expressed their interest in running for Presidency in 2008 Election.
President Bush referred in his annual State of the Union address to an "axis of evil" threatening world peace by its development of weapons of mass destruction. Three states were named as constituting this alliance of menace: Iran, Iraq and North Korea. The instantly famous passage from this State of the Union Address delivered 29 January 2002.
Listen to these two intelligent, exceptional commentators who can think rapidly and respond in a microsecond try to find common ground in each other's politcial agendas.
Barack Obama delivered his first State of the Union speech last 27th of January 2010, Washington, D.C. Overall, a very well-delivered speech. Obama typically can deliver when he needs to, and this wasn't any different. He was measured and precise throughout and really hit home the points he wanted to sell to the American people.
Reagan's first State of the Union address was his first major address following a failed assassination attempt on the president. The speech is also noteworthy as a statement of the philosophy underpinning his Administration's policy initiatives and the twin plagues of high inflation and high unemployment, which burdened the nation in the 1970s.
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