Blog posts tagged "Barack Obama"

November 17, 2011 5:15 pm 3 Comments

President Barack Obama is cosying up to Australia - but the Chinese are not impressed. Read more from our Asia Correspondent John Sparks.

June 20, 2011 9:27 am 1 Comment

Sarah Smith considers whether 24 hour news channels are helping or destroying American politics.

May 5, 2011 8:18 pm 3 Comments

Lindsey Hilsum writes from Abbottabad's "Bin Laden Town" on the impact of the killing of Osama bin Laden on US/Pakistani relations.

6:56 am 3 Comments

Mugs, t-shirts, yoga mats and coffee cups a-plenty on every New York street corner all emblazened with a reinvigorated belief in the once "No-drama Obama" who is fast becoming the heroic image many americans had never believed possible.

March 28, 2011 5:14 pm 1 Comment

Our Washington Correspondent, Sarah Smith looks at the questions the Obama Administration is still to answer about its intervention in Libya.

March 21, 2011 4:33 pm 3 Comments

A man of decisive words more than decisive action over his time, President Obama has bucked the trend of his time in office announcing firm action in the mission against Gaddafi - but perhaps more words are needed to answer the question, just why he has got so involved?

February 23, 2011 8:30 pm 1 Comment

US politicians pledged to be less vitriolic in their rhetoric after the shooting of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. But will this last to the 2012 Presidential campaign?

February 12, 2011 11:59 am 2 Comments

Washington Correspondent Sarah Smith blogs on America's next move amidst Egypt's power change, and asks if it's time for President Obama to earn his Nobel Peace Prize?

November 24, 2010 5:32 pm 1 Comment

Airline security checks: passengers have been sounding very militant recently and the blogosphere is full of people saying they are determined to make their protest at Thanksgiving, blogs Sarah Smith.

September 2, 2010 12:36 pm 2 Comments

Success looks tricky at the Middle East peace talks because of the unprecedented weakness of the negotiating position of Palestinian Fatah leader Mahmoud Abbas, writes Lindsey Hilsum.