It was one year ago today that Barack Obama was elected to the presidency. Now, he rallies the troops, encouraging more community action and engagement with issues. It’s like the campaign never ended!
Obama: one year in
How Obama has changed the world
Barack Obama’s presidential record may not be perfect, says Eugene Robinson, but in only 287 days since he took office, he has brought some remarkable change.
Time for Obama to start taking some risks
The four major issues that dominated the Obama campaign were the economy, healthcare, climate change and foreign policy and Obama has struggled with them all throughout his presidency. Is the US too divided to agree on anything?
Why Obama’s performance doesn’t matter
There’s no point in asking what difference Obama has made in office, says Rick Perlstein: the American political structure continues to block his initiatives at every turn.
Fox News: Obama has proved himself to be a politician, nothing more, nothing less
Barack Obama isn’t a socialist, a racist, or un-American. To be any of those things he’d need a set of political beliefs, which he doesn’t have. Rather, he’s just a politician who created a campaign persona for voters, writes S.E Cupp of Fox News.
If an election was held today, Obama would lose
What a difference a year makes: a new Rasmussen Reports survey has found that only 45% of Americans would vote for Obama if an election were held today.
Yes he can: so why hasn’t he?
Barack Obama may have campaigned on the promise of change, but the US political machine just isn’t built to support a revolution. Anna Quindlen defends Obama’s record in office so far: change may be coming slowly, but it is coming.
What Obama has done in one year
John Richardson is sick of people saying Barack Obama hasn’t done anything yet; just the highlights from an action-packed year in the life of the new president shows the problem isn’t Obama — it’s narrow-minded people not looking hard enough.
What would Candidate Obama think of President Obama?
It’s been a year since Barack Obama won the US election, and the man who once shouted “Yes we can!” has had to grapple with the reality that, quite often, no we can’t. How would the Obama of a year ago view himself today? muses Arianna Huffington.
