Obama and the mid-terms
He may not feel it on the eve of what is likely to be a wretched mid-term election for his party, but Barack Obama is a lucky man. The new boy from Illinois who joined the Senate in 2005 cannot have expected to become president in less than four years. Though not lacking in self-belief, he thought his chance would come later. But within a...
Barack Obama appears on daytime talk show
Barack Obama appears on daytime talk show The View, where he reflected on challenges he has faced. The show, in which US president Obama was asked about the Gulf of Mexico oil spill and the economy, was filmed on Wednesday and will air on Thursday. It was the first appearance by a sitting US president on a daytime TV chat show. The View co-host...
Barack Obama hosts Muslim business summit
US President Barack Obama has announced a series of educational and business exchanges in an effort to improve ties between the US and the Muslim world. Mr Obama unveiled his plans to Muslim entrepreneurs from 50 countries at a summit hosted in Washington. “Real change comes from the bottom up, and that is why we are here,” he...
Barack Obama and Binyamin Netanyahu met at White House
US President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu met Tuesday in an unusual pair of low-profile meetings at the White House. In a break with custom that seemed linked to the crisis complicating US-Israeli relations, reporters were not invited to see them shake hands and begin their talks. In a sign of the tensions between the...
Barack Obama prepares education overhaul
President Barack Obama on Saturday promised to rewrite the nation’s sweeping and controversial education law known as No Child Left Behind with a plan to prepare students for life after high school and to place better teachers at the blackboards. Obama said he would send Congress his proposed overhaul of the 2001 education law that focused...
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