This year, I voted in a presidential election for the first time. This year, I understood and discussed the presidential election, its candidates from both major parties and the issues at stake. The last time a new president was elected in America I was too young to vote and too young to be intuitively aware [...]
He has proved to be an extraordinary crowd puller, he no doubt is the “World’s Biggest Celebrity and his appeal extends from Columbus to Cape Town., from St. Louis to St. Georges’s, from Denver to Dublin.
Barack Obama drew his biggest US audience of 100K at a rally in St. Louis. He drew the largest [...]
Barack Obama will resign his Senate seat this Sunday as he focuses on his transition to the White House.
“It has been one of the highest honors and privileges of my life to have served the people of Illinois in the United States Senate,”
He also said he would “leave the United States Senate and begin [...]
President-Elect Barack Obama is having a mesmerizing effect on the audience not only in the US but globally as well. It’s not just because of his charm and persona, but because he has become a real Action Figure. It may be Barack Obama’s charisma, his charm, his persona, or perhaps he is a great figure [...]
In a world where borders are becoming increasingly porous to everything from drugs to infectious diseases to terrorism, America must mobilise international coalitions to address shared threats and challenges
One of the first challenges that President Barack Obama will face is the effects of the ongoing financial crisis, which has called into question the future of [...]
Accompanied by double-amputee Iraq war veteran Tammy Duckworth, President-elect Barack Obama went to The John F. Kennedy War Memorial at Chicago’s Soldier Field yesterday morning for a wreath-laying ceremony.
Clad in a dark overcoat, Obama placed a wreath in front of the bronze memorial, bowed his head for a moment, then saluted and walked away.
Inscribed on [...]
• He collects Spider-Man and Conan the Barbarian comics
• He was known as “O’Bomber” at high school for his skill at basketball
• His name means “one who is blessed” in Swahili
• His favourite meal is wife Michelle’s shrimp linguini
• He won a Grammy in 2006 for the audio version of his memoir, Dreams From [...]
Taken at a Manhattan 7-Eleven on November 4 2008, Barack Obama is the clear winner
Millions of Americans woke up on Wednesday morning in joyous disbelief - The first ever African-American president of the United States.
Built between 1792 and 1800 of White-painted Aquia sandstone in the late Georgian style, the White House in Washington DC has never been occupied by a black President for no other reason than the unwritten [...]
Sand sculpture of Barack Obama by sand artist Sudarsan Patnaik on a beach in Puri, India.
India hailed the election of Obama as the next U.S. president on Wednesday, saying his “extraordinary journey” to the White House would inspire people not only in his country but around the world.
” Hello, Chicago. If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible, who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time, who still questions the power of our democracy, tonight is your answer.
It’s the answer told by lines that stretched [...]