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The President of the United States of America (acronym: POTUS) is the head of state and head of government of the United States. The president leads the executive branch of the federal government and is the commander-in-chief of the United States Armed Forces.
Article II of the U.S. Constitution vests the executive power of the United States in the president and charges him with the execution of federal law, alongside the responsibility of appointing federal executive, diplomatic, regulatory, and judicial officers, and concluding treaties with foreign powers, with the advice and consent of the Senate. The president is further empowered to grant federal pardons and reprieves, and to convene and adjourn either or both houses of Congress under extraordinary circumstances. Since the founding of the United States, the power of the president and the federal government have grown substantially and each modern president, despite possessing no formal legislative powers beyond signing or vetoing congressionally passed bills, is largely responsible for dictating the legislative agenda of his party and the foreign and domestic policy of the United States. The president is frequently described as the most powerful person in the world.
The United States of America (commonly abbreviated to the United States, the U.S., the USA, America, and the States) is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its forty-eight contiguous states and Washington, D.C., the capital district, lie between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, bordered by Canada to the north and Mexico to the south. The state of Alaska is in the northwest of the continent, with Canada to the east and Russia to the west, across the Bering Strait. The state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific. The country also possesses several territories in the Pacific and Caribbean.
At 3.79 million square miles (9.83 million km2) and with over 312 million people, the United States is the third or fourth largest country by total area, and the third largest by both land area and population. It is one of the world's most ethnically diverse and multicultural nations, the product of large-scale immigration from many countries. The U.S. economy is the world's largest national economy, with an estimated 2011 GDP of $15.1 trillion (22% of nominal global GDP and over 19% of global GDP at purchasing-power parity). Per capita income is the world's sixth-highest.
Barack Hussein Obama II (i/bəˈrɑːk huːˈseɪn oʊˈbɑːmə/; born August 4, 1961) is the 44th and current President of the United States. He is the first African American to hold the office. In January 2005, Obama was sworn in as a U.S. Senator in the state of Illinois. He would hold this office until November 2008, when he resigned following his victory in the 2008 presidential election.
Born in Honolulu, Hawaii, Obama is a graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School, where he was the president of the Harvard Law Review. He was a community organizer in Chicago before earning his law degree. He worked as a civil rights attorney in Chicago and taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School from 1992 to 2004. He served three terms representing the 13th District in the Illinois Senate from 1997 to 2004.
Following an unsuccessful bid against the Democratic incumbent for a seat in the United States House of Representatives in 2000, Obama ran for the United States Senate in 2004. Several events brought him to national attention during the campaign, including his victory in the March 2004 Illinois Democratic primary for the Senate election and his keynote address at the Democratic National Convention in July 2004. He won election to the U.S. Senate in Illinois in November 2004. His presidential campaign began in February 2007, and after a close campaign in the 2008 Democratic Party presidential primaries against Hillary Rodham Clinton, he won his party's nomination. In the 2008 presidential election, he defeated Republican nominee John McCain, and was inaugurated as president on January 20, 2009. Nine months later, Obama was named the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize laureate. In April 2011, he announced that he would be running for re-election in 2012.
Actors: Kevin Sorbo (producer), Said Faraj (actor), Gary Graham (actor), Tim Russ (actor), Mark Gilvary (producer), Jake Busey (actor), Kevin Sorbo (actor), Ron Paul (actor), Jason Morciglio (actor), Sascha Schneider (producer), Mara Marini (actress), Rebekah Kennedy (actress), Brad Linaweaver (actor), Adam Meir (actor), Garrett Wang (actor),
Plot: Alongside Night is the story of the final economic collapse of the United States as seen through the eyes of 16-year-old Elliot Vreeland, searching for his missing Nobel-laureate-economist father, and the mysterious teenage "Lorimer" whom Elliot meets in a black-market underground, whose own father might be the reason Elliot's father is missing.
Keywords: based-on-novelActors: Tom Townsend (actor), Tom Townsend (writer), Tom Townsend (producer), Kevin Leigh (actor), Christina July Kim (actress), Bruce Allen Dawson (actor), Kevin Tan (producer), Kevin Tan (director), Sharon Carpenter-Rose (actress), Kevin Tan (actor), Kevin Tan (editor), Nick Bailey (producer), Greg Coale (actor), Elena Moscatt (miscellaneous crew), Connie Lamothe (actress),
Genres: Drama,Actors: Steve Agee (actor), Scott Chernoff (actor), Scott Chernoff (editor), Scott Chernoff (producer), Scott Chernoff (writer), Scott Chernoff (writer), Scott Chernoff (director), DeMorge Brown (actor), Andy Crocker (actress), Andy Crocker (producer), Andy Crocker (director), Andy Crocker (writer), Andy Crocker (writer), Andy Crocker (actress), Mitch Silpa (actor),
Genres: Comedy, Short,Actors: Kim Estes (actor), Asad Farr (actor), David A.R. White (producer), David A.R. White (actor), Marcella Bremond (miscellaneous crew), Kevin Downes (actor), Kevin Downes (producer), Jesse Jam Miranda (actor), John Gilbert (actor), Wes Llewellyn (producer), Wes Llewellyn (actor), Wes Llewellyn (editor), Wes Llewellyn (actor), Wes Llewellyn (director), Brad Heller (producer),
Plot: After a dramatic escape from death row, former FBI agent Adam Riley (David White) reunites with his friend and mentor Jacob Krause (Brad Heller) leader of The Way, and his small remnant of Christians. Little do they know the forces out for their destruction. Global Alliance leader Commander Fredericks (Monte Perlin) has forced Adam's former partner Charles Baker (Kevin Downes) to hunt them down while a ragtag militia, led by "Captain" Jackson (Lonnie Colon), spy on them for their own gain. As events lead to an explosive confrontation, all will be forced to an awakening of the real struggle... for their very souls.
Keywords: bible-prophecy, bible-quote, biological-microchip, christian, christian-film, death-of-friend, digit-in-title, dystopia, end-times, escaped-prisonerActors: Mark Hetherington (actor), Donald Foley (actor), Robert Hines (actor), Michael Humphrey (actor), Michael Humphrey (editor), Jeb Heil (director), Jeb Heil (writer), Jeb Heil (actor), Margaret Somody (actress), Rob Morrison (actor), Norman Plaisted (actor), Bob Cusumano (actor), Maurice Rucker (actor), Jessica Reynoso (producer), Matthew A. Murray (composer),
Plot: Known for his landmark performances in such films as 'Wargames' and 'Hot to Trot,' 80's actor Dabney Coleman goes from obscurity to epidemic in 'Dabney Coleman Fever' - the film which redefined 'genre-bending.' Never before have fan club hysteria and international politics reached such groundbreaking levels. Truly an epic of B-list proportions.
Keywords: dabney-coleman, rocket, student, wargamesActors: David A.R. White (actor), David A.R. White (producer), Patrick G. Ingram (actor), D. David Morin (actor), Kevin Downes (writer), Kevin Downes (producer), Kevin Downes (actor), John Gilbert (actor), Wes Llewellyn (director), Wes Llewellyn (writer), Wes Llewellyn (editor), Wes Llewellyn (actor), Wes Llewellyn (producer), Brad Heller (producer), Brad Heller (actor),
Plot: In the twinkling of an eye, a mass disappearance has occurred. Moments after the turmoil and confusion, the FBI is called in to investigate and locate the missing persons. For Agent Adam Riley (David White), it is personal. For Agent Charles Baker (Kevin Downes), it doesn't matter, it's just a job. Before long the investigation turns toward a mysterious man (Brad Heller) who seems to be raising up a para-military organization. Does this man hold the key to the truth that the world is searching for?
Keywords: apocalypse, bible-prophecy, bible-quote, christian, christian-film, christianity, disappearance, end-times, eschatology, fbiActors: Carl Ciarfalio (actor), Melora Hardin (actress), Don Schain (producer), Steve Dorff (composer), Sven-Ole Thorsen (actor), Michael Kiely (miscellaneous crew), Victoria Jackson (actress), Erick Avari (actor), Jeff Olson (actor), Robert Knepper (actor), Jesse Corti (actor), Bradley Pierce (actor), Marshall D. Moore (miscellaneous crew), Cristie Miele (miscellaneous crew), William Shane Grisco (miscellaneous crew),
Genres: Family,Actors: Adrian Hough (actor), Wallace Shawn (actor), John Candy (actor), Kevin Pollak (actor), Bill Nunn (actor), Rip Torn (actor), G.D. Spradlin (actor), Alan Alda (actor), Dan Aykroyd (actor), Michael Copeman (actor), James Belushi (actor), Michael Moore (actor), Roger Dunn (actor), Rhea Perlman (actress), Steven Wright (actor),
Plot: The US economy is in a rut, and so is the president's approval rating. What we need is a good war, but the Russians aren't interested. Hey -- how about that big polite country to the north? Niagara Fall Sheriff Bud B. Boomer takes this all a bit too seriously, though.
Keywords: anti-propaganda, atomic-weapons, box-office-flop, canada, canada-at-war, canadian-stereotype, cia, cn-tower, conspiracy, defense-workerActors: Yuji Okumoto (actor), Ping Wu (actor), Phillip Rhee (actor), William Christopher Ford (actor), John Ales (actor), Brandon Lee (actor), Peter Malota (actor), Dan Swietlik (actor), Michael Fantini (actor), Craig Ryan Ng (actor), Kent Minault (actor), Athan Karras (actor), Mark Lacy (actor), Mike Mcgrath (actor), Ronald Taft (actor),
Genres: ,Actors: Grant Mitchell (actor), Buddy Roosevelt (actor), Hardie Albright (actor), Fortunio Bonanova (actor), Oscar Apfel (actor), Bill Elliott (actor), Leon Ames (actor), Hale Hamilton (actor), Lew Harvey (actor), Fred Howard (actor), Charles Coleman (actor), Murray Kinnell (actor), Allan Lane (actor), Harold Minjir (actor), Jack Rutherford (actor),
Plot: Henry Wilton is an elderly millionaire saddled with his selfish young second wife Emmy 'Sweetie' Wilton and a pair of spoiled grown children (Peggy and Eddie). To test his family's mettle, Henry pretends to have gone broke. Just as he suspected they would, his children rally to their father's side and change their ways: Peggy forsakes the fortune hunter George Struthers for the nice young man she's really in love with, the polo coach Larry Rivers; while Eddie applies for a demanding job and performs admirably. Only Sweetie seems to desert Henry.
Keywords: banker, based-on-play, business-competition, business-tycoon, butler, chauffeur, deception, engagement, family-relationships, finance