It was a great speech – and yet, it fell short. Obama still has work to do with the vision thing. Convincing voters that he has a credible, practical plan to turn the nation around is a process ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's national address on the Gulf of Mexico oil spill on Tuesday fell short of a strong ... delivered his high-profile speech, coming on the 57th day ...

He describes an Obama speech as a reasoned argument that hangs ... just before the entourage boarded helicopters for the short flight from the airport into the city. “Make no mistake,” Obama ...

For no other reason than our own curiosity, we made a tool that will track Obama's speech as he gives it, comparing it to the length of past speeches and the average durations of recent presidents.

Read his research. President Barack Obama’s 2014 speech to the United Nations General Assembly today highlighted a number of major crises facing the world today, but it focused particularly on ...

But the core message of Obama's speech was about more than BP or the ... On what it should include, Obama was short on specifics, deferring instead to Senate leaders. "The one answer I will ...

When people lament the current state of American politics, they’re fond of complaining that politicians focus too much on the short run. Yet, as the reaction to President Obama’s speech ...

The context, though, was nothing short of mind-blowing ... The bulk of the speech, though, was vintage Obama, and anyone unfamiliar with his analysis of the social and economic challenges we ...

More novel than short story, more ballad than poem -- writers ... Others felt the call to action. “With an Obama speech, listening is sometimes enough,” said Pulitzer Prize-winner Thomas ...

Patience with the pace of government action is running short on Capitol Hill ... So tomorrow, President Obama will try a little buckshot. In a speech in Washington, the president is expected ...

President Barack Obama fiercely defended the virtues of ... but officials remained vague about why the value of free speech got short shrift in the administration’s initial response.