Barack Obama

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President Barack Obama offers remarks urging Congress to pass the infrastructure part of the American Jobs Act, in front of a crowd which included iron workers and steam fitters, at Georgetown Waterfront Park in Washington, D.C., Wednesday, November 2, 2011. (Photo/Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

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With the Key Bridge and Potomac River as his backdrop, President Barack Obama offers remarks urging Congress to pass the infrastructure part of the American Jobs Act, in front of a crowd which included iron workers and steam fitters, at Georgetown Waterfront Park in Washington, D.C., Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2011. (Photo/Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

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With the Key Bridge and Potomac River as his backdrop, President Obama offers remarks urging Congress to pass the infrastructure part of the American Jobs Act, in front of a crowd that included ironworkers and steamfitters, at Georgetown Waterfront Park in Washington on Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2011. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

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Tyrone Thomas of Suitland, Md, and member of Ironworkers Local 5 walks past the U.S. flag as he and others wait for President Barack Obama's arrival and remarks urging Congress to pass the infrastructure part of the American Jobs Act, in front of a crowd which included iron workers and steam fitters, at Georgetown Waterfront Park in Washington, D.C., Wednesday, November 2, 2011. (Photo/Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

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President Obama waves goodbye to a crowd that included ironworkers and steamfitters following his speech urging Congress to pass the infrastructure part of the American Jobs Act, at Georgetown Waterfront Park in Washington on Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2011. If he is re-elected next year, he would break a long history of losses by incumbents who had an approval rating below 50 percent a year before voters go to the polls. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

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Secret Service agents scout the scene prior to the arrival of President Barack Obama, who was scheduled to offer marks urging Congress to pass the infrastructure part of the American Jobs Act, in front of a crowd which included iron workers and steam fitters, at Georgetown Waterfront Park in Washington, D.C., Wednesday, November 2, 2011. (Photo/Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

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President Barack Obama shakes hands with Washington D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray after he offered remarks urging Congress to pass the infrastructure part of the American Jobs Act, in front of a crowd which included iron workers and steam fitters, at Georgetown Waterfront Park in Washington, D.C., Wednesday, November 2, 2011. (Photo/Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

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President Barack Obama shakes hands with people in the crowd who came to see him, after he offered remarks urging Congress to pass the infrastructure part of the American Jobs Act, in front of a crowd which included iron workers and steam fitters, at Georgetown Waterfront Park in Washington, D.C., Wednesday, November 2, 2011. (Photo/Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

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President Barack Obama speaks in front of the Key Bridge, which spans Arlington, Va., and Washington, Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2011, urging Congress to pass the infrastructure piece of the American Jobs Act. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

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President Barack Obama speaks in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2011, where he signed a proclamation designating Fort Monroe as a national monument. Fort Monroe was the third-oldest Army post in continuous active service and is an important part of the history of slavery, the Civil War and the U.S. military. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

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President Obama speaks in the Oval Office before signing an executive order Monday directing the Food and Drug Administration to take steps to reduce drug shortages. From left are pharmacy manager Bonnie Frawley with Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, cancer patient Jay Cuetara from San Francisco and FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg. (Associated Press)

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Barack Obama was forced into crisis mode with the widespread distribution of videos showing his longtime pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright (seen here), shouting anti-American slogans. (Associated Press)

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President Obama speaks in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington on Thursday, Oct. 20, 2011. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

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** FILE ** In this Sept. 8, 2011, file photo President Barack Obama speaks to a joint session of Congress at the Capitol in Washington, as Vice President Joe Biden and House Speaker John Boehner listen. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

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President Obama has dinner with campaign donors and winners of the "Dinner with Barack" contest at the Liberty Tavern in the Clarendon neighborhood of Arlington, Va., on Oct. 27, 2011. From left to right: Ken Knight, U.S. postal worker from Chandler, Ariz.; Wendi Smith, artist and retired professor from Corydon, Ind.; Casey Helbling, entrepreneur from Minneapolis, Minn.; the president and Juanita Martinez, retired teacher from Brighton, Colo. (Associated Press)