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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.
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.
Ronald Wilson Reagan ( /ˈrɒnəld ˈwɪlsən ˈreɪɡən/; February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004) was the 40th President of the United States, serving from 1981 to 1989. Prior to that, he was the 33rd Governor of California from 1967 to 1975 and a radio, film and television actor.
Born in Tampico, Illinois and raised in Dixon, Reagan was educated at Eureka College, earning a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics and sociology. After his graduation, Reagan moved first to Iowa to work as a radio broadcaster and then in to Los Angeles in 1937 where he began a career as an actor, first in films and later television. Some of his most notable films include Knute Rockne, All American, Kings Row, and Bedtime for Bonzo. Reagan served as president of the Screen Actors Guild, and later as a spokesman for General Electric (GE); his start in politics occurred during his work for GE. Originally a member of the Democratic Party, his positions began shifting rightward in the late 1950s, and he switched to the Republican Party in 1962. After delivering a rousing speech in support of Barry Goldwater's presidential candidacy in 1964, he was persuaded to seek the California governorship, winning two years later and again in 1970. He was defeated in his run for the Republican presidential nomination in 1968 as well as 1976, but won both the nomination and general election in 1980, defeating incumbent Jimmy Carter.
Actors: Luke Barnett (actor), Ronnie Gene Blevins (actor), Jack Huang (actor), Joseph O'Brien (actor), Gary Casey (actor), Charlene Geisler (actress), Tracy Coogan (actress), Robert Pfitzner (writer), Robert Pfitzner (director), Robert Pfitzner (producer), Robert Pfitzner (producer), Tom McCafferty (actor), Eric Dean (actor), Robert Pfitzner (editor), Travis Dixon (actor),
Genres: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi,Actors: George Anton (editor), George Anton (actor), George Anton (producer), George Anton (producer), George Anton (writer), George Anton (composer), George Anton (director), Vitaliy Versace (producer), Vitaliy Versace (writer), Vitaliy Versace (producer), Yeena Fisher (producer), Chris Addison (actor), Linda Weaver (actress), Linda Weaver (producer), Chad Hendricks (actor),
Genres: Adventure,Actors: Antony Hickling (actor), Fedele Papalia (actor), Amanda Lear (actress), Marianne Borgo (actress), Christian Erickson (actor), Anton Yakovlev (actor), Matthew Géczy (actor), Jesse Joe Walsh (actor), Simona Caparrini (actress), Allan Wenger (actor), Alain Azerot (actor), Bruno Henry (actor), Bill Dunn (actor), Jacqueline Corado (actress), George Birt (actor),
Genres: Drama, Thriller,Actors: James Le Gros (actor), Judy Greer (actress), Missi Pyle (actress), Mark Headley (producer), Zach Galifianakis (actor), Carol A. Compton (miscellaneous crew), Fay Masterson (actress), Aubrey Morris (actor), D.W. Moffett (actor), Mía Maestro (actress), Chris Coppola (actor), Andrew Tribolini (actor), Andy Spletzer (miscellaneous crew), Matthew Glave (actor), Clint Brandel (miscellaneous crew),
Plot: The Jeffers Corporation is a world success, endorsed by the U.S. President, pitching productivity and happy talk. George is a third level employee, supervising three or four others. Around the world, people are exploding as the stress of denying feelings takes its toll. The Jeffers' response: mind control. George and his wife are miserable: he's impotent with occasional fits of infantile pique. She's reading a book on happiness, trying everything. His brother, released from prison, starts of freedom-of-expression movement in George's backyard. Plus there's Charisma, a woman from Level Four who sends him paperwork - with smiley faces. Can George connect?
Keywords: brother-brother-relationship, corporate, golf, happiness, husband-wife-relationship, office-work, office-worker, one-word-title, satireActors: Ilan Dar (actor), Lana Ettinger (actress), Eli Gorenstein (actor), Dov Friedman (actor), Alon Gur Arye (actor), Alon Gur Arye (writer), Alon Gur Arye (composer), Ron Shahar (actor), Alon Gur Arye (director), Iris Abramovich (actress), Omer Frenkel (actor), Omer Frenkel (actor), Yaniv Adani (actor), Anat Gidron (actor), Maytal Ben Hamo (actor),
Plot: Rami Haruvi, a daring Mossad Agent, is sent to rescue the abducted US ambassador held at the state of Sugyra. If Rami fails his mission, the annual mossad vacation at "Olga Resort" will be canceled. Due to the importance of the mission, Hayim, the Head of the Mossad decides to assign Rami a new agent to his mission - the daughter of a mythological Mossad agent named Shuki, a ladies' man and Rami's role model. The two are getting into trouble both in their mission and relationship. Are the Americans good? Are the terrorist bad? Yet none of it compares to the real important question: will Hayim get his longed annual vacation at the Olga Resort?
Keywords: agent, ambassador, army, basel, carrot, cult, flag, hebrew, intelligence, israelActors: Jason Alexander (producer), Santiago Segura (actor), Daniel Roebuck (actor), Keith Allen (actor), David Kelly (actor), Anna Chancellor (actress), Keith David (actor), Ray Donn (actor), Mark Williams (actor), Paul Kaye (actor), Anthony Anderson (actor), James Faulkner (actor), Frankie Muniz (actor), Madonna (producer), Danny Gold (producer),
Plot: One year later, agent Cody Banks is back for another awesome adventure but this time he must track down a former instructor who's gone rogue with a mind-control microchip. Banks masquerades as a musical prodigy to get close to a snobby, egocentric scientist in London who's the only person who can make the microchip work. Along the way Banks hooks up with a demoted agent and a cute-as-a-bug Scotland Yard operative. When Agent Cody Banks heads to England to catch an evil scientist who's stolen a mind-control device for his plot to rule the world and turning the world leaders into zombies!
Keywords: ambush, axe, beating, blonde, boarding-school, brawl, british, british-intelligence, british-secret-service, brother-brother-relationshipActors: Gary Chang (composer), Peter Vaughan (actor), Miranda Richardson (actress), John Shrapnel (actor), David Ryall (actor), Jean Marsh (actress), John Woodvine (actor), Clive Russell (actor), Rutger Hauer (actor), Rupert Degas (actor), Michael Kitchen (actor), Garrick Hagon (actor), Marek Vasut (actor), Andrew Jack (miscellaneous crew), Tariq Anwar (editor),
Plot: Fictional account of what might have happened if Hitler had won the war. It is now the 1960's and Germany's war crimes have so far been kept a secret. Hitler wants to talk peace with the US president. An American journalist and a German homicide cop stumble into a plot to destroy all evidence of the genocide.
Keywords: 1960s, actress, alternative-history, anti-semitism, archive-footage, art-collection, based-on-novel, berlin-germany, betrayal, bus-rideActors: Patrick Allen (actor), Ed Bishop (actor), Mick Jackson (director), Mick Jackson (producer), Michael O'Hagan (actor), Carl Sagan (miscellaneous crew), Reece Dinsdale (actor), Paul Vaughan (actor), Karen Meagher (actress), Simon Moorhead (miscellaneous crew), Richard Albrecht (actor), Steve Halliwell (actor), David Brierly (actor), Lesley Judd (actress), Nat Jackley (actor),
Plot: Documentary style account of a nuclear holocaust and its effect on the working class city of Sheffield, England; and the eventual long running effects of nuclear war on civilization.
Keywords: air-raid-siren, apocalypse, armageddon, atomic-bomb, baby, baby-born, barn, bed-wetting, beer-drinking, birth