Barack Obama’s first state of the union speech divided the pundits but could play well with a hopeful American publicThere is a certain banality to any state of the union address. No matter how gifted an orator a particular president may be, there are cliches and aphorisms that must be indulged. Barack Obama last night [...]
President Barack Obama says he gets it, he knows America is not happy. “I campaigned on the promise of change, ‘change we can believe in,’ the slogan went,” he said Wednesday night in his first State of the Union address.
The US president addresses job creation, healthcare, banking reforms and party division in his first state of the union speech
US president uses his first state of the union speech to promise he will make the creation of a million jobs his priority this year• Datablog: how did Obama’s speech compare to past presidents? As wordlesBarack Obama bowed to the wave of US public anger over unemployment and other recession-related issues when he promised in [...]
The US president’s first state of the union speech• Datablog: how did Obama’s speech compare to past presidents? As wordlesMadam Speaker, Vice President Biden, members of Congress, distinguished guests, and fellow Americans:Our Constitution declares that from time to time, the President shall give to Congress information about the state of our union. For 220 [...]
President vows to repeal law that requires gay and lesbian personnel in the US military not to reveal their sexual orientationSeventeen years after the last Democratic president compromised on a commitment to lift a ban on gay people in the US military and introduced the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy, Barack Obama has promised to [...]
Barack Obama’s state of the union speech focused on the economy, where he must make progress to regain momentumBarack Obama opened his first state of the union speech by noting that the United States has seen dark days when “victory was very much in doubt” and “the future was anything but certain”. Early on, the [...]
Obama uses his first State of the Union speech to promise he will make the creation of a million jobs his priority in the year to come, telling Americans: ‘We don’t quit. I don’t quit’Barack Obama bowed to the wave of public anger in the US over unemployment and other recession-related issues when he [...]
President uses first state of the union speech to make job creation overwhelming priority for coming yearBarack Obama bowed to public anger against his presidency by using his first state of the union speech to address many of the concerns of voters and to make creation of more than a million jobs the overwhelming priority [...]
The White House has released the first extracts from President Obama’s state of the union address to CongressThe White House has just sent out the first set of extracts from President Obama’s speech tonight – so this presumably is what it wants the focus to be on…Part oneWe face big and difficult challenges. And what [...]