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When does HOPE become false hope? This is the riddle of the Obama presidency, and Barack Obama's answer, from the very first speech he gave as president-elect, has been clear and consistent. The night Obama won the 2008 election he told us that his victory is not the change his voters seek, "It is only the chance for us to make that change."
Chicago, Jan 11 : In his farewell speech here, US President Barack Obama urged people of America to defend their democracy. [NK World] The 44th President of the United States said: Our democracy is threatened whenever we take it for granted....All of this depends on our participation.
"By almost every measure, America is a better, stronger place" than it was eight years ago when he took office, he told thousands of supporters. He implored Americans of all backgrounds to consider things from each other's point of view, saying "we have to pay attention and listen".
One of the premier cult film shorts, beloved by sophomores at least in 1969, is a ninety second pen-and-black ink drawn animation "Bambi Meets Godzilla". Blissfully unawares in idyllic innocence, Bambi meets a swift, and untimely, erasure from Godzilla's bigfoot.
The looming presidency of Donald Trump has created a deep sense of uncertainty for inmates at Guantanamo on the 15th anniversary of the arrival of the first prisoners at the U.S. base in Cuba. Nineteen of the remaining 55 prisoners are cleared for release and could be freed in the final days of Barack Obama's presidency, part of an effort to shrink the prison since the administration couldn't close it on his watch.
He's noting in his farewell address that his partner for the past 25 years took on a role she didn't want and made it her own with "grace and grit and style and good humor." He says the first lady is a role model who turned the White House into a place that belongs to everybody.
President Barack Obama says in his farewell address that protecting the nation's way of life is the job of citizens as well as the military. He is also making a reference to President-elect Donald Trump's campaign calls for a temporary ban on Muslim immigration to the United States.
President Barack Obama is opening his farewell address in his hometown of Chicago, thanking thousands of supporters and reaffirming his belief in the power of change. In the aftermath of Republican Donald Trump's election as the next president, Obama is acknowledging that the nation's progress has been "uneven."
President Barack Obama says choosing Joe Biden to be his vice president was the first and best choice he made. He says Biden - "the scrappy kid from Scranton who became Delaware's favorite son" - has not only been a great vice president during the past eight years, but he also was an unexpected gift.
President Barack Obama waves as he arrives to give his presidential farewell address at McCormick Place in Chicago, Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2017. President Barack Obama waves as he arrives to give his presidential farewell address at McCormick Place in Chicago, Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2017.
In a farewell address to a hall filled with the activists who helped him become the first black American president, Barack Obama on Tuesday urged all Americans to unite to protect the nation's democracy, which he said is being threatened by outside forces as well as tensions within. "There have been moments throughout our history that threatened to rupture that solidarity," the president said.
Popular but politically humbled, President Barack Obama said goodbye to the nation Tuesday night, declaring during his farewell address that he hasn't abandoned his vision of progressive change but warning that it now comes with a new set of caveats. His voice at moments catching with emotion, Obama recounted a presidency that saw setbacks as well as successes.
President Obama will give his farewell address to the nation in prime time on Tuesday, at 9 p.m. ET. White House aides say the speech is coming together, but here's what we know so far.
After nearly eight years in office, President Barack Obama will give his farewell address tonight at McCormack Place in Chicago. The speech will be broadcast live on all the major television networks and cable news outlets beginning at 6 p.m. Pacific time Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2016.
The federal government forms for applying for health coverage are seen at a rally held by supporters of the Affordable Care Act, widely referred to as ''Obamacare'', outside the Jackson-Hinds Comprehensive Health Center in Jackson, Mississippi, U.S. on October 4, 2013. Roughly 11.5 million people signed up for individual health plan coverage under U.S. President Barack Obama's Affordable Care Act between Nov. 1 and Dec. 24, an increase of 286,000 from a year earlier, according to government figures released on Tuesday.
In an email announcing the speech to supporters last week, Obama said the speech would be "a chance to say thank you for this amazing journey and to offer some thoughts on where we all go from here." In giving a final speech, Obama is continuing in a tradition first started by the President George Washington in 1796 and continued by many outgoing presidents since.
Britain will be in the "front seat" to negotiate a new trade deal with the incoming administration of Donald Trump, a top Republican in the United States Senate said, the BBC reported. Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Corker said after meeting British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson that a trade deal between the two countries would be a priority as Britain prepares to leave the European Union.
His message came at the start of one of the busiest weeks of Donald Trump's transition to the White House. It's a week when he and his team are preparing eight Cabinet picks for confirmation hearings, finalizing appointments and gearing up for his first news conference as president-elect.
In this Aug. 16, 2006, photo, Rapper Corey Miller, who once went by the stage name of C-Murder, arrives at the premier of Spike Lee's new documentary on Katrina “When The Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Parts” in New Orleans.