Blog posts tagged "Barack Obama"

November 26, 2009 11:37 am No Comments

World leaders meeting in Copenhagen must understand that Brazil is a vast CO2-sapping country with a surging carbon-emitting economy, blogs Jon Snow for Channel 4 News.

October 6, 2009 11:39 am No Comments

Here’s rather sweet aside from the rain stricken wastes of Manchester. Last night I ran into David Cameron and his crew, amongst whom was a protection officer from Greater Manchester. I had met him before.

September 20, 2009 6:04 pm 2 Comments

This final session of the Pontignano conference is dominated by Obama: whether he will “make it”. Consensus is that on health care, on a domestic climate change bill, and even in terms of economic recovery, he will…eventually (though he’ll need two terms). How the participants here love Obama – he really does walk on water [...]

September 16, 2009 10:34 am No Comments

Jimmy Carter’s statement that race has entered the debate in America over setting up a comprehensive health care system reminds me of a link I meant to give you.

July 6, 2009 3:05 pm No Comments

It is 24 years since Reagan and Gorbachev opened the window on the Cold War. They met in November 1985 at a chateau on Lake Geneva. I was lucky enough to be sent from Washington where I was resident correspondent for ITN. Today in a rather more low key moment, Obama meets Medvedev.

June 4, 2009 5:07 pm No Comments

You had to pinch yourself to remember that he IS an American president, I mean a president of the United States of America. The world view Obama laid out in Cairo today was something it is almost impossible to imagine any other US leader ever attempting. I urge you to read it or watch it [...]

June 2, 2009 11:08 am No Comments

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 [...]

May 26, 2009 10:47 am 15 Comments

A hundred and fifty thousand people over 10 days, packing events and discussions that range through politics, philosophy, economics and high culture. The Hay festival appears if anything to have benefited from the recession. “Stay at home” Britain has come in its droves. I have never seen the place fuller.

April 24, 2009 3:19 pm No Comments

Perhaps inevitably, my final highlight from the last 20 years is from the day an African American man became president of the United States. I was out on the streets early in the morning encountering the people from near and far who’d come to share in the moment. - See the whole of Jon’s first show [...]

April 9, 2009 4:30 pm No Comments

We are about to see Obama’s mettle tested domestically in America. I’m in the States this week and very struck by how his first international foray has gone down here. To some extent its supposed success has been taken for granted. There have been comparisons with Reagan in that the office of the US president [...]