President invites families who benifit from Making Work Pay Tax Credit Promise.

Two Families where invited. The Wrights from Marrietta, Pennsylvania, and the Kirkwoods from Lynchburg, Virginia whom supported then-candidate Obama during the campaign as he was touting his promise of a Making Work Pay tax credit. Chris and Guenna Wright just bought a new home with their four-year-old son after seven years in their previous house. Kelly Kirkwood is a part time Nursery School teacher at Randolph College in Lynchburg, and her husband Scott is a graphic designer for a tiny local company – together they are living paycheck to-paycheck during this economic downturn. Today all of them came to the White House to meet with now-President Obama on tax day, with the President having made good on his campaign pledge.

Clark Harrison from Preston, Maryland and Latoya Malone from West Hempstead, New York both made good on the $8,000 home-buyers tax credit. For Clark it was exactly the breathing room he needed to be able to settle bills and make the fixes to the house, allowing him to get out on his own. For Latoya, who moved from the Virgin Islands to New York City to be close to her mother, the home-buyers tax credit helped put a house that had seemed just out of reach under contract for her

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Obama Forum Launches On Video News Site

On March 31, 2009, in Site News, by Obama Watcher

Today Obama Video News launches a new forum. Discuss anything and everything about Barack Obama, the Presidency and his administration.

Barack Obama is the most web friendly president ever. With all the content on the Internet for Obama thing can get really overwhelming. Meet on the forum and discuss whatever.

The forum will be built slowly in order to keep relevant. Instead of just adding tons of topic at the beginning we will see whats being discussed and add different neighborhoods as needed..

Over the next several days a CODE OF CONDUCT will be added. Until then feel free to post, but please be respectful of others and their opinions. We realize politics can get heated. So please be tolerant of others.

Feel free to suggest forum categories for feature discussions and they may be added according to relevancy.

The goals of Obama Video News is to bring all aspects of President Obama and this great time in history together in one place. To build a community and provide resources to all.