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It was the moment when President Obama was confronted with liberal disappointment in his presidency – and appeared to respond with a new slogan: “Yes we can, but…”, writes Felicity Spector.
They’re the most important voters in the Democratic party base. Now President Obama is reaching out to women in an all-out effort to win over crucial support, writes Felicity Spector.
Barack Obama suffered a podium malfunction – when the the US presidential seal fell off his lectern while he was giving a speech.
A well-timed leak of the juiciest bits to the Washington Post and the New York Times guaranteed Bob Woodward’s book a slot on the bestseller lists. Job Rabkin looks at the revelations in detail.
President Obama warns burning the Koran would endanger troops as Sarah Smith gauges reaction from Muslims while a pastor flies to New York to confront the backer of the planned Islamic centre.
In June Barack Obama likened the Gulf of Mexico oil spill to the terror attacks of September 11, 2001. It was one of several incendiary comments from the president critical of BP.
As the last fighting forces leave Iraq, US soldiers have been proclaiming they “have won the war”. President Barack Obama didn’t dare make such bold claims in his address from the Oval Office.
As Barack Obama returns from his summer break Felicity Spector asks if he can regain the “hope factor” which won him the 2008 election, in the face of negative ratings ahead of the mid-terms.
US President Barack Obama defends the right of Muslims to build a mosque near Ground Zero, in New York, despite local opposition and a vocal campaign by families of 9/11 victims to block the project.
Obama won a landmark battle to extend health insurance to millions of Americans in March 2010. Channel 4 News visited US hospitals and talked to documentary maker Michael Moore about Obama’s change.
Iowa made history in January 2008 as the first state to put a black candidate at the top of a presidential election poll. Channel 4 News returns to discover what voters made of President Barack Obama.
Little of substance was said at Barack Obama’s joint press conference with China’s President Hu, writes Jonathan Rugman.
The Obama administration have all but admitted that their attempts to re-start the Middle East peace process have failed. The State department are now advocating a new tactic – where both sides take “baby steps” toward lower level talks because they know there is no chance of getting Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas to sit down…
Jon Snow
US president Barack Obama heads for the Middle East and Europe this week. Having inaugurated his “opening” to the Muslim world during his inspired stop in Turkey on his first foreign foray, he heads for Egypt to make his keynote speech setting out his Middle East ambitions. The Turkey trip remains a touchstone of his…
WASHINGTON DC, USA – Is there nothing that Barack Obama can’t do effortlessly well? This weekend he’s had a lot of praise for his comic timing as he pulled off a very assured performance at his first White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner. Traditionally the president makes a comic speech. Some do better than others –…