Barack Obama

President Barack Obama gave his inaugural address today, beginning his second White House term with an ambitious agenda and a call for national unity.

On a cold morning in Washington, D.C., the 44th President asked this great nation to live up to its founding ideals and to bringing about needed change.

Obama Inaugural Address 2013

Obama invoked the country's history of hardship - be it from the deficit, rising health care costs, climate change and equal rights - and overcoming adversity.

"We are made for this moment, and we will seize it - so long as we seize it together," Obama said, after taking the oath and being sworn in for a second term.

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It's official: we have four more years of Barack Obama as Commander-in-Chief.

The President was sworn in for the second time today, as Chief Justice John Roberts delivered the oath of office in the White House Blue Room a little before noon.

It will take place again in public tomorrow on the steps of the U.S. Capitol.

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President Obama embarks on his second term in the White House next week with a majority of the nation giving him a good performance review, albeit barely.

Fifty-one percent of Americans surveyed January 11-15 approve of how Obama is handling his job, according to CBS News, while 41 percent disapprove.

Fittingly, Obama received 51 percent of the vote in the 2012 presidential election, while Republican challenger Mitt Romney garnered (yes) 47 percent.

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NRA President David Keene said he is aggressively preparing for "battle" with the White House and Congress over President Obama's gun control plan.

He also defended the new NRA ad calling Obama an "elitist hypocrite."

NRA Ad: Obama a Hypocrite

Keene criticized Obama's announcement Wednesday, surrounded by four children from around the U.S., for "using kids to advance an ideological agenda."

He expressed confidence that few measures would ultimately pass.

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In advance of President Obama's gun control plan, The National Rifle Association preemptively released a new video labeling him an "elitist hypocrite." 

Obama, the ad says, enjoys Secret Service protection of his two daughters at school, yet is "skeptical" about installing armed guards in all schools.

NRA Ad: Obama a Hypocrite

The 35-second video is as harsh as any political campaign ad and illustrates how emotionally charged and personal the debate over gun control is.

The White House quickly blasted the NRA ad using Obama’s daughters to criticize the president on gun control as both “repugnant and cowardly."

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Invoking the painful memory of the Newtown, Conn., massacre, President Barack Obama called today for the most sweeping gun control overhaul in years.

The Sandy Hook conspiracy theorists and gun lobbyists across the U.S. will not be pleased, but Obama said he'll "put everything I’ve got into this."

Obama Gun Control Speech

Among the actions he called on Congress to pass:

• Background checks for every would-be buyer
• Bans on military-style rifles, or assault weapons
• Bans on ammunition clips that hold more than 10 bullets

Some of his proposals are sure to run headlong into fierce opposition from Republicans and some Democrats in Congress, not to mention the powerful NRA.

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The Obama Administration issued a response to an online petition asking the White House to commission an intergalactic Death Star a la Star Wars.

Sadly, it rejected the request.

Guess The Force was not strong enough with this petition.

Claiming it would cost an estimated $850,000,000,000,000,000 and that "the administration does not support blowing up planets," Obama nixed the idea.

The White House was forced to offer an official response, since the petition garnered the requisite 25,000 signatures on the WeThePeople petitioning system.

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Despite more than 100,000 virtual signatures demanding it, the U.S. government has denied a petition from gun advocates to deport CNN host Piers Morgan.

The petition started in response to British-born Piers Morgan's gun control rant was posted to the White House's We the People forum last month.

Morgan has been even more outspoken than usual in the aftermath of the massacre that killed 26 at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn.

Earlier this week, he clashed it Alex Jones in an epic interview ... or whatever that was. Bottom line, people petitioned to throw him out of the U.S.

The Obama administration responds to any petition with 25,000 signatures, and therefore, issued a statement on Morgan and his 1st Amendment rights.

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Beyonce Knowles, Kelly Clarkson and James Taylor will perform at President Barack Obama's inauguration as he officially begins his second term this month.

Obama was personally involved in selecting the performers.

"Their music is often at the heart of the American story and speaks to folks across the country," said Obama, who won a second term in November.

Cuban-American Richard Blanco will become the youngest ever inaugural poet at the quadrennial event, held in Washington D.C. on the 21st of January.

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Good news for President Barack Obama: His Hawaiian vacation home is straight baller.

Bad news: He's already peacing out to go work on fiscal cliff negotiations back in D.C.

So it goes for the Prez.

At least the First Family enjoyed a few days in his home state of Hawaii (as proven by Obama's birth certificate, Donald Trump), for some holiday R&R.

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