Barack Obama

United States President Barack Obama stepped off the airplane. His wife Michelle followed him.

Barack Obama is spending five out of six days in Ohio, a state no Republican has won the White House without. -We intend to win Ohio.

Barack Obama had to call Egypt's interim leader, Field-Marshal Muhammad Tantawi, to urge him to intervene.

Barack Obama referred to China's recent space walk as a sign that it was catching up while America floundered.

She was protesting against the appearance of Barack Obama, whom she sees as an evil advocate of what she now calls "child killing" .

Volcker, an occasional adviser to President Barack Obama as Chairman of the President's Economic Recovery Advisory Board, said the U.

President Barack Obama, interrupting a speech in Washington, said the incident was a "horrific outburst of violence" .

Barack Obama said he was inclined to back it, while John McCain, his Republican rival, said doing nothing had not been an option.

As President of the United States, Barack Obama is usually the centre of attention wherever he goes.

That's just one of the reasons the Nobel Committee's decision to award this year's Peace Prize to Barack Obama is such a stunning surprise.

President Barack Obama has said he would like to see one million electric vehicles on U. S. roads by the middle of the next decade.

Perhaps Mr Orszag, now the budget director in Barack Obama's White House, is about to storm out of his grand new office.

NEAR the end of his eight-year stint in office, Dick Cheney was asked if he had any advice for the incoming staff of Barack Obama.

So when Barack Obama meets Binyamin Netanyahu in the White House on May 18th, he must be tough with him.

U. S. President Barack Obama is warning that the impact of Tropical Storm Irene is just beginning to be felt.

One of my favorite role models who comes to mind is Barack Obama, the president of the United States.

Barack Obama called to say that he was proud of him.

Barack Obama said the idea of a tax "holiday" was a political trick that would save little and could hurt road projects.

But even some of his critics have been struck by the graciousness with which he is handing on power to Barack Obama.

Some in the British government might have been tempted to highlight this on Tuesday as Barack Obama visited London.

America is realising this, and last month Barack Obama set out his plans for investment in and reforming American schools.

Yet when Barack Obama first burst onto the national stage, very little mention was made of his mother.

When Barack Obama was running for president in 2008, he said that he would not cut Social Security.

Although the US has in the past talked about the links, Barack Obama, US president, and his team have made it a priority, officials said.

As an ethnic Luo, Mr Odinga is proud of his friendship with Barack Obama, an American presidential candidate whose father was also Luo.

U. S. President Barack Obama has left Chile and is on his way to El Salvador, the final stop of his three-nation Latin American trip.

Saturday, the parent of a child gunned down in that shooting delivered President Barack Obama's weekly address.

McKinnon's lawyers said he would appeal against the decision while his mother asked Barack Obama to intervene.

THE moment that Barack Obama knew for sure that Osama bin Laden was dead, he made two telephone calls.

On Monday, President Barack Obama said the U. S. was discussing military options with allies in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

Now Barack Obama has been elected, he can begin to work as the transformative president he said he wanted to be.

At a rally in Columbus, Ohio, Barack Obama acknowledged that this would be a "difficult election" for his party.

However, he made a surprise appearance at the Democratic National Convention to support Barack Obama's candidacy for president.

So the fact that Barack Obama clearly intends to turn America from being a laggard into a leader in this task is therefore encouraging.

Analysts believed the north initially appeared to be offering Barack Obama an olive branch, and Hoare said the US had sent positive signals.

John McCain is trying to tie Barack Obama to oil companies while Obama spend part of the day saying McCain will keep economy in a ditch.

The White House says President Barack Obama has postponed his trip to Asia to stay in Washington as he pushes for health care reform.

He said he also discussed the situation with President Barack Obama during a White House meeting Tuesday.

The share market euphoria that greeted Barack Obama's victory in the U. S. presidential election did not last long.

'Who has done most for peace in the past year? If the question is put in Nobel's terms. . . it had to be U. S. President Barack Obama.

Barack Obama is keen to curb greenhouse-gas emissions with a cap-and-trade scheme. Can Congress come round to his way of thinking?

Will the children of the rich really "pull the plug on grandma" , as Barack Obama put it (in an admittedly different context)?

Barack Obama even quotes his wife in policy meetings with his cabinet if he thinks her advice has been especially pertinent.

There is no need to tell President Barack Obama that the world is messy and complicated or to list the many things that need to be done.

With just a few days before the election, John McCain accused Barack Obama of being too liberal for the country.

President Barack Obama yesterday promised that BP would be held accountable if it had broken US laws.

You think you know that the candidates will be Barack Obama and Mitt Romney or perhaps one of the non-Romneys such as Newt Gingrich.

Within minutes of Barack Obama's victory, the news was out on Sina - translated from US media and re-written by its own editors.

But down the years, economic summits have been a waste of time for a reason, and some things even Barack Obama cannot change.

If Barack Obama thought Ms Sotomayor would vote to overturn Roe, he would not have nominated her to the Supreme Court.

US President Barack Obama said the US and China will "shape the course of the 21st century" as he opened high-level talks in Washington.

President Barack Obama has said the biggest threat to US security is the possibility of a terrorist organisation obtaining a nuclear weapon.

President Barack Obama, who has a rich ethnic background, has called himself "a mutt" . It does not seem to have done him too much harm.

AT LAST Barack Obama seems to be starting to make up his mind.

Less than a year after Barack Obama's election, European euphoria over the end of the Bush era is fading.

President Barack Obama said the American people sent a loud message in this week's midterm elections - the economy is priority number one.

BARACK OBAMA: "Today, at my direction, the United States launched a targeted operation against that compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan. "

She said the changes, which President Barack Obama signed into law in September, will ensure that patents are of a higher quality.

All this may explain Barack Obama's comment on Wednesday that America "may be seeing the beginning of the end of the recession" .

Should Barack Obama win, he is expected to call for a review of the North American Free Trade Agreement, on which Canada depends.

During his election campaign, he said he would tell Barack Obama to "go to hell" .

President Barack Obama marked his 50th birthday at the White House on Thursday. It was the second day of celebrations for the president.

He said the most urgent threat that Barack Obama and other presidents after him will have to deal with is another attack.

(Applause) And I ask all of you to join me in working as hard for Barack Obama as you have for me.

As Barack Obama gestured to his wife in introduction , Mr Berlusconi threw up his arms in apparent delight .

Over the weekend, Barack Obama faced strong criticism for remarks he made at a San Francisco fundraising event.

More recently, the arrival of President Barack Obama in the United States has opened the door to similar efforts across the Atlantic.

The United States is not a party to the agreement, but President Barack Obama said the U. S. has taken steps to reduce emissions.

The newspaper was a vision of what Americans would love to see under Barack Obama after he takes power in January.

U. S. President Barack Obama is preparing to deliver his State of the Union Address at a time of political turmoil in Washington.

However, if President Barack Obama has his way, the traditional three-month break would be a bit shorter.

Barack Obama plans to honor the sixteenth president, one of his political heroes, at his own inauguration.

John McCain and Barack Obama talk as if it was all down to the greed of modern bankers.

Barack Obama is a reasonable, rational, low-key sort of human being, I suggest, about as good as you could hope for.

But those who did get in were glad to see President Barack Obama, even if they did not get a special note or a greeting from him.

Barack Obama and his wife Michelle said during the presidential campaign that they had promised their two girls a dog after the election.

In a powerful tribute to Senator Edward Kennedy, President Barack Obama described him as the greatest United States Senator of our time.

BARACK OBAMA: "But from where we stand, for the very first time, we are beginning to see glimmers of hope. "

He may not feel it on the eve of what might be a wretched mid-term election for his party, but Barack Obama is a lucky man.

The last of Barack Obama Sr's eight children, George Obama was born less than a year before his father died in a car accident.

BY HIS own admission, Barack Obama received his Nobel peace prize when his accomplishments were still "slight" .

He said President Barack Obama is satisfied that the Iraqi military will be able to take over security operations.

Barack Obama's policy shift fulfilled a promise he made to Cuban-American voters in May 2008 at a campaign stop in Miami.

In his own life, Barack Obama has lived the American dream, as a community organizer, in the state senate, as a United States senator.

WILL Barack Obama, who arrives in India for his first official tour of the country in the next few days, be forced to utter the K-word?

For most Greenlanders, the referendum was as replete with a sense of the righting of historic wrongs as Barack Obama's election in America.

And despite some occasional wobbles, Barack Obama's administration ultimately came down on the side of the demonstrators.

After the election, obviously, there's Barack Obama's acceptance speech, but then look here - the next one is called CNN Hologram First. . .

All this means that for the Castros, Barack Obama may turn into a far more formidable foe than his predecessors.

As long as Barack Obama is president, the composition of any new White House economic team may be largely irrelevant.

The new Mrs. Barack Obama wore her hair pulled back into a classic chignon for her wedding day.

Barack Obama said he wanted to see the logjam broken in the next couple of days and urged members of Congress to think in ambitious terms.

She said the family was making plans to attend Barack Obama's inauguration, and suggested the happy ending was good for the country.

It did not take long for Barack Obama to crave the wind in his hair again.

And any lingering stigma associated with OK is long since gone. Now OK is not out of place in the mouth of a US president like Barack Obama.

The U. S. unemployment rate dipped in March to its lowest level in two years, and President Barack Obama hailed the "good news. "

U. S. President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle have spent the day in London with Britain's royal family.

Just a few weeks ago, Barack Obama's re-election bid was beginning to look like an easy downhill jog.

Thus Barack Obama captured one of two powerful global trends forcing pharmaceutical giants to look for a new business model.

In a televised speech to Congress, Barack Obama said "the time for bickering is over" and urged lawmakers to pass a meaningful bill.

For all the pomp and circumstance of his four-nation Asian tour, Barack Obama was seen to leave Seoul a diminished president.

So far Barack Obama has kept his counsel on the kind of package he would like to see.

On a tour of a Chrysler car plant in Ohio, President Barack Obama said the economy continues to recover from the worst recession in decades.

Barack Obama said the earthquake was "a potentially catastrophic disaster" .

This was a rare instance of Barack Obama reacting reflexively, without attempting to think creatively, about a serious policy question.

During the campaign, Barack Obama said he would consider an overhaul or "complete repeal" of the merit pay system.

Meanwhile, Barack Obama's degrees from prestigious universities were, to his critics, evidence of his unfitness for office.

Chicago is clearly proud of Barack Obama. Pictures of him are all over the city.

WITH a seven-point lead in the polls a few days before voting, the race for America's presidency is now Barack Obama's to lose.

WHEN Barack Obama was running for the Senate, an adviser showed him a file of damaging facts that Republicans had dug up about him.

McCain and Barack Obama have sparred over ties to lobbying firms and financial institutions caught up in the Wall Street turmoil.

This was the anticolonial ideology of Barack Obama Sr. and many in his generation, including many of my own relatives in India.

He made his remarks as Pakistani lawmakers ponder a controversial American aid package which President Barack Obama signed on Thursday.

None of which turned out to be nearly as controversial as the presence at the Global Summit of Barack Obama.

But this time was different: the crisis brought Barack Obama to power close to the beginning of the economic collapse.

Mr. Geithner is one of President Barack Obama's closest advisers and has outlasted the rest of his top economic team.

Think too of the Illinois governor, Rod Blagojevich, accused of trying to sell Barack Obama's Senate seat.

US President Barack Obama has used his inaugural address to pledge a "new era of responsibility" in a time of crisis at home and abroad.

When Obama took the microphone, he said he needed to correct some misconceptions since McCain had been asking "Who is Barack Obama? "

HISTORIANS may one day label the first two years of Barack Obama's presidency as the most activist in economic policy of post-war history.

Obama's father Barack Obama is a Kenyan, his mother, Ann Dunham, a white female teachers in the United States.

In his first big speech on the conflict in Libya Barack Obama laid out the reasons why he thought America should be involved.

PASSING through California on a mid-term campaign swing, Barack Obama made a point of stopping off to see Steve Jobs, the boss of Apple.

Some city aldermen are now trying to rename the street after Barack Obama before he takes office.

US President Barack Obama is to meet Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao on the last day of his much-watched visit to the rising Asian nation.

U. S. President Barack Obama will outline ideas for creating jobs when he unveils a plan to put millions of Americans back to work Tuesday.

WHO would have believed, Barack Obama mused on television the other day, "that the least of my problems would be Iraq? "

Republican presidential nominee Senator John McCain supported the surge. His Democratic opponent, Senator Barack Obama, did not.

There is no doubt, and I have said this repeatedly, that our troops [in Iraq] make a difference, said Barack Obama.

US President Barack Obama, meanwhile, has said he hopes to have sanctions in place "within weeks" .

Last used in the Carter administration, such a credit was touted by Barack Obama during the presidential campaign.

But under Barack Obama, after a cordial start, slights have been building up for a while.

Barack Obama has long been a favorite in Europe - young, energetic, full of charisma and words that promised change.

US President Barack Obama has said the Libyan leader should step down and leave the country immediately.

"The long battle to stop the leak and contain the oil is close to coming to an end, " said president Barack Obama.

Mr. Bush said it leaves a strong foundation for his successor, Barack Obama, who campaigned on a promise to bring the war to an end.

Barack Obama, son of a black African father and a white American mother, today becomes the 44th president of the United States.

He hailed Barack Obama in their first meeting in London in April, inviting the American president to Moscow in July.

President Barack Obama on Tuesday said he has enough votes in the U. S. Senate to pass financial reform legislation.

In 2008 it was one of only four New York districts that voted for John McCain over Barack Obama.

Barack Obama's remarks came as he is winding up a world tour that has taken him to Afghanistan, the Middle East and Germany.

'Think back. Who would've been the consensus candidate in the U. S? Not Barack Obama, ' he said.

and it included none of the entitlement reforms that President Barack Obama was once prepared to contemplate.

Meanwhile, a top aide to President Barack Obama said the administration was preparing for the gusher to continue for months.

In June of this year it was the turn of Barack Obama to make a spellbinding speech at a university in Cairo.

Mr. Singh will be the guest of honor at a state dinner Tuesday at the White House, President Barack Obama's first since taking office.

US President Barack Obama vowed to help the ROK defend itself against any further "acts of aggression" , the White House said on Wednesday.

I'm a great admirer of Barack Obama, both for what he has achieved and what he's trying to achieve.

BARACK OBAMA: "So the long battle to stop the leak and contain the oil is finally close to coming to an end. "

President Barack Obama has said he wants to do away with the policy and has urged Congress to take action on the issue.

President-elect Barack Obama and his wife Michelle, for their part, joined TV legend Barbara Walters for a chat.

The military announced the completion of the drawdown on Tuesday, about a week before the deadline set by President Barack Obama.

At a 34-country Summit of the Americas in Trinidad, Barack Obama called for a "new partnership" between the United States and Latin America.

BARACK OBAMA had difficulty pronouncing the name of his Russian counterpart, Dmitry Medvedev, but people forgave him.

Barack Obama hoped to prevent defaults with a plan designed to encourage banks to refinance the mortgages of those unable to pay.

Speaking at the Associated Press annual meeting, Senator Barack Obama said he regrets his comments about small-town voters.

President Barack Obama's chief counter-terrorism adviser said the US government is forging a new approach to tackling violent extremism.

The White House says President Barack Obama still considers Pakistan a strong ally in the fight against extremist forces.

And, they say that is what President Barack Obama is now trying to bring to the U. S , with his plans for health care reform.

President Barack Obama said military action was not his first choice and reiterated that he would not send American ground troops.

During the build-up to the US election, Barack Obama faced allegations that he was a Muslim.

Yet the vitality of the US system resurfaced, and American voters have chosen in Barack Obama a man of vision and statesmanship.

Barack Obama with his wife Michelle by his side told the crowd "We feel very much at home. "

MORE than 17, 000 people turned up in the hot sun on July 16th to see Barack Obama speak at a campaign rally.

President Barack Obama is leading the nation in remembering Ted Kennedy, calling him one of the greatest senators of our time.

President Barack Obama will celebrate Saturday with a Fourth of July event at the White House accompanied by military families.

US President-elect Barack Obama's announcement of his economic team has given a strong indication of how he intends to govern.

It came as David Cameron, UK prime minister, prepared to meet Barack Obama, US president, today on a two-day visit to the US.

The current president, Barack Obama, will host members of the military and their families for a White House barbecue and concert.

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.

While on the campaign trail last July, Barack Obama identified cybersecurity as one of the biggest challenges facing the United States.

Biden's boss, President Barack Obama, is already known as a man of the people.

Barack Obama said the pull-back was a milestone but warned of "difficult days" ahead.

IT WAS always meant to have been one of Barack Obama's big priorities.

US President Barack Obama has called on Israeli and Palestinian leaders to act with a sense of urgency in restarting stalled peace talks.

But I thought that if I could help Barack Obama get to Washington, then I would have accomplished something great in my life.

Barack Obama in the U. S. Chamber of Commerce speech to entrepreneurs to encourage them to "join game" out of the reserve funds to invest.

When he took power, Barack Obama was in third grade.

Together with other activists, he seeks to prove that Barack Obama is not a true American and is therefore ineligible to be president.

Barack Obama is likely to replace Larry Summers with a prominent boss as director of his National Economic Council.

Vladimir Putin, a man of peace? The mind boggles. He is about as deserving of a peace prize as, say, Barack Obama.

President Barack Obama said he believed the summit will be a 'turning point' in the drive toward global recovery.

Barack Obama is not facing a primary challenger from his own party, but he almost did.

Undoubtedly, this has been US President Barack Obama's best economic initiative since he took power.

The only candidate to have staked out a new policy is Barack Obama.

She was wary at first, a fact she likes to retell: "He grew up in Hawaii! Who grows up in Hawaii? Who names their child Barack Obama? "

Barack Obama used a speech on Labour Day to call for an extra $50 billion in spending on infrastructure as a way to create jobs.

In a departure from his predecessor, President Barack Obama has said his administration intends to directly engage Tehran.

President Barack Obama is trying to win congressional approval to raise the nation's legal debt ceiling before an August 2 deadline.

They voted heavily for Barack Obama in the last cycle and that turned out in the Democrats' favor.

That is the last thing America wants as President Barack Obama gets ready to unfurl a regional strategy for Afghanistan.

U. S. President Barack Obama (L) and Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron play table tennis at Globe Academy in London, England.

A Senate committee has approved a bill to reform US healthcare, a key step in President Barack Obama's attempt to overhaul the system.

Barack Obama's administration has urged Israel not to strike Iran amid fears the US could be drawn into a conflict.

President Barack Obama says his religious faith and values help guide him in setting his policies.

"I don't have to tell you, Ohio, 760, 000 workers have lost their jobs so far this year, " said Barack Obama.

Barack Obama has given up trying to force Mr Netanyahu to halt settlement-building in the West Bank.

CREATING political theatre by cracking down on executive pay may prove to be the easy part for Barack Obama.

But Barack Obama get his hands on Apple's tablet device before it even hit the shops - after being given one personally by Steve Jobs.

President Barack Obama has used the fact that his father was a Muslim to foster better relations with the Islamic world.

The sentence came less than a week after Barack Obama visited China.

Barack Obama needs to measure up to his campaign rhetoric about "real family values" .

Now the West's leaders, including fortysomethings Barack Obama (just) and David Cameron, have never been younger.

Barack Obama has said the US is on track to achieve its goals in Afghanistan, following publication of the US annual strategy review.

Andy: Today President-elect Barack Obama will take his seat in the White House, to be American president of new term.

Barack Obama appears to most people (if not to Paul Krugman) to have brought back Keynesian economics with a vengeance.

Not long after, McCain White House received an invitation from the bottom of Barack Obama.

The US president, Barack Obama, said he was "deeply troubled" by the post-election violence.

President Barack Obama is the incredibly shrinking leader, waiting to see whether Congressional power barons will call.

She was proudly by her husband's side when Barack Obama was inaugurated as President of the United States exactly one year ago.

President Barack Obama said the summit laid the ground for an era of co-operation.

US President Barack Obama has urged North Korea to give up developing nuclear weapons if it wants better relations with United States.

President Barack Obama said he was first briefed on a possible lead on bin Laden's whereabouts in August.

U. S. President Barack Obama says the first signs of an economic recovery are beginning to emerge.

On Sunday, President Barack Obama said in an interview with the BBC that he would be willing to authorize similar strikes in the future.

U. S. President Barack Obama is urging Russians to work with the United States to tackle the big security and economic problems of our time.

Malki said he was disappointed by President- elect Barack Obama's refusal to comment on the Israeli offensive .

How about writing to the US president Barack Obama? There was an activity in the US called "Dear Mr President" .

More than any other candidate, Barack Obama has used the power of the Internet to involve millions of people in his campaign.

So far, President-elect Barack Obama has not said exactly what he wants to do about the nation's housing market bust.

WHEN Barack Obama visited Elkhart, Indiana, in early February, a few weeks after his inauguration, it was a sombre affair.

Barack Obama was born in Honolulu, Hawaii. His mother was from Kansas and his father from Kenya.

They could tell something was up when a guy named Barack Obama was trying to take money from banks instead of giving it to them.

Barack Obama has been elected president of the United States, the first African-American elevated to the White House, AP reported.

Late Tuesday, U. S. President Barack Obama urged extreme caution on both sides, in an attempt to push Sudan back from the brink of war.

Who can fail to be impressed by Barack Obama's energy, or a little stunned by his self-confidence?

Not quite seven weeks into Barack Obama's presidency, the capital's leading thinkers seem to agree that the era of postpartisanship is over.

President Barack Obama's spokesman said the network is a threat to the United States and the people of Pakistan.

Barack Obama called key milestone in the history of the U. S. anti-terrorism and intelligence work of the great victory.

Look out Barack Obama, you're not the only world leader who can double as commander in chief of the basketball court.

Shepard Fairey is a street artist who became famous for his image of Barack Obama that became popular during the last presidential campaign.

What, I ask Hamilton, would he say to Barack Obama if he could spend 10 minutes with the US president standing on Helheim glacier?

US President Barack Obama has laid out his plan for reducing record budget deficits and mounting national debt.

I can't believe Barack Obama got to be president by ripping off Apple.

Their abilities in math have been cited by President Barack Obama as a reason why the U. S. is facing competitive challenges.

U. S. President Barack Obama has condemned North Korea's latest nuclear test, saying the international community must stand up to Pyongyang.

Barack Obama is (at last) due to meet the Dalai Lama, and his government has gone through with the sale of arms to Taiwan.

Barack Obama prepared to travel to the region to view the clean up, and to announce new restrictions on oil drilling.

Barack Obama, too, seems to be caught in this dialectical rut.

Meanwhile, Barack Obama said "the Secret Service employees' store. "

ONE of Barack Obama's riskiest decisions, on winning the presidential election, was to choose Hillary Clinton as his secretary of state.

One of Barack Obama's first acts as president was lifting the U. S. restrictions on medical research using embryonic stem cells.

Time will tell, but this could be the moment that Barack Obama finally found his inner realist when it comes to China strategy.

BACK in March Barack Obama compared the Democratic primary to a "good movie" that has lasted "half an hour too long" .

In the 2008 presidential election, celebrities like Bono and Oprah Winfrey came out for Barack Obama early in the campaign.

Given the state of the economy, it's hard to see how Barack Obama can lose the 2008 election.

President Barack Obama meets with members of his Cabinet in the Cabinet Room of the White House.

Barack Obama, who had recently told Mr Netanyahu to make the move, gave it a cautious welcome.

In Vermont Peter Shumlin, the Democratic candidate for governor, insisted that Barack Obama's reforms had not gone far enough.

Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama opposes such a move, saying the country needs to move away from oil.