One Year Later: Obama's Best Speeches (VIDEO)
HuffPost is looking back at President Obama's best speeches since the election. One year in, help us pick the standouts: VideoCampaignText = "How ...
HuffPost is looking back at President Obama's best speeches since the election. One year in, help us pick the standouts: VideoCampaignText = "How ...
AP | BEN FELLER | Posted 10.13.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — For all his flourish, President Barack Obama sure falls back on a few familiar phrases. Make no mistake. Change isn't easy. It won...
nytimes.com | MIKI TANIKAWA | Posted 10.12.2009 | World
TOKYO When Utako Sakai was changing the background music in her beauty parlor recently, she did not opt for the classical piano pieces she usually cho...
HuffPost's Eyes & Ears | Matthew Palevksy | Posted 11.08.2009 | Living
While President Obama was lounging on Martha's Vineyard we asked readers to suggest books he should read. Hundreds of people responded with suggestion...
Rick Horowitz | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics
"Actually, Mr. President..." "David?" "One more thing before we move off the logistics."
Chicago Tribune | Posted 04.08.2009 | Politics
The new president's first address to Congress loomed and Barack Obama had convened a few trusted advisers in the Oval Office. Seated in a chair besi...
AP | LOLITA C. BALDOR | Posted 03.03.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — The "War on Terror" is losing the war of words. The catchphrase burned into the American lexicon hours after the attacks of Sept. ...
AP | MARI YAMAGUCHI | Posted 02.23.2009 | World
TOKYO — Aspiring English speakers in Japan have made President Barack Obama's book of speeches and accompanying CD a national best-seller. In A...
Rick Horowitz | Posted 02.21.2009 | Politics
Barack Obama knows how to get wild, rapturous feedback from crowds. He knows how to set it up -- how to kick up the rhetoric a notch, and the volume a notch -- and how to get a big response.
Vamsee Juluri | Posted 02.21.2009 | Politics
Obama's mentioning in his inauguration speech of some of the world's great religions can be seen as recognition not just of the people who follow them, but that religion is an immense cultural resource.
Yoani Sanchez | Posted 02.20.2009 | Politics
The serene statement delivered yesterday by Barack Obama, with his manner of carefully constructed arguments and invocations to harmony, condemned all the rhetoric to be left in the 20th century.
Grande Lum | Posted 11.29.2008 | Politics
What has particularly impressed me about Barack Obama is how he frames situations, utilizes language in conflict, and comports himself very much like a mediator.
Karin Kloosterman | Posted 10.11.2008 | Green
Obama said this about solar power. McCain said that about climate change. You no longer have to spar with your "green" friends over who is saying what...
Christina Bellantoni | Posted 09.24.2008 | Politics
DENVER — The Democratic National Convention starts in the morning and culminates Thursday night when Sen. Barack Obama formally accepts the part...
Washington Post | Posted 07.21.2008 | Politics
Sen. Barack Obama said he would continue to chastise absentee black fathers and deliver tough love speeches to the black community, even if the Rev. J...
Posted 07.19.2008 | Politics
The Bush administration is denying reports in German newspapers that officials expressed opposition to a possible Obama speech at the Brandenberg Gate...
Posted 07.18.2008 | Politics
**UPDATE** German papers find more evidence that the Bush administration voiced strong opposition to an Obama speech at the Brandenberg Gate. Ben Smi...
Politico | Posted 07.16.2008 | Politics
Major television networks are considering curtailing coverage of the Democratic National Convention after Monday's announcement that Barack Obama will...
HuffingtonPost.com | Rachel Weiner | Posted 07.15.2008 | Politics
Obama will accept the Democratic nomination at Denver's Invesco field -- which can hold over 75,000. "The Democratic Party is nominating a true chan...
AP | JENNIFER LOVEN | Posted 07.08.2008 | Politics
INDEPENDENCE, Mo. — Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said Monday he will never question others' patriotism during the race and bla...
The Huffington Post | Posted 11.17.2008 | Politics
UPDATES: Barack Obama Big News Page Remarks of Senator Barack Obama "A More Perfect Union" Constitution Center Philadelphia, Pennsylvania W...
Chicago Tribune | Christi Parsons and John McCormick | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
As Barack Obama's town hall meeting stretched into its second hour, it was clear the candidate wasn't anywhere close to finishing. Obama had given an...
The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 11.03.2009 | Politics