November 18, 2009 – 12:17 pm
Barack Obama visited the Badaling section of the Great Wall in Beijing, China today (November 18).
Meanwhile, the American President admits that the burdens of his job are heavy and have affected him. But chatting with NBC’s Chuck Todd this morning, he cleared up media reports suggesting that the stress is making him thinner and [...]
November 16, 2009 – 1:28 pm
President Barack Obama attended a televised meeting with Chinese youths at the Shanghai Science and Technology Museum in Shanghai, China today (November 16).
Speaking in a town-hall style meeting, the American president pointedly nudged China to stop censoring Internet access, suggesting that Beijing need not fear a little criticism.
“I think that the more freely information [...]
October 23, 2009 – 12:21 pm
The White House unveiled this portrait of the first family this morning (October 23).
It’s the first official White House portrait of the Obamas. The picture was taken by famed photographer Annie Leibovitz.
President Barack Obama, First Lady Michelle Obama are shown smiling, with the arms of their daughters, Sasha and Malia, draped around them. [...]
October 16, 2009 – 6:09 pm
Kids really do say the darndest things.
Proof? A New Orleans fourth-grader named Tyren Scott was rather blunt yesterday (October 15) when he asked President Barack Obama a question about the current ill-mannered state of politics. “Why do people hate you?,” he asked the president, adding that folks are “supposed to love you. [...]
October 9, 2009 – 1:21 pm
President Barack Obama made his first public comments in the Rose Garden of the White House today (October 9) about receiving the Nobel Peace Prize.
Saying he was “surprised and and deeply humbled,” Obama added: “To be honest, I do not feel that I deserve to be in the company of some of the transformative figures [...]
October 9, 2009 – 5:29 am
American President Barack Obama has won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize for “his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples.”
The Norwegian Nobel Committee said: “Only very rarely has a person to the same extent as Obama captured the world’s attention and given its people hope for a better future. His diplomacy [...]
