Obama speech Tuesday: A time for theater

The first speech by a new president to a joint session of Congress is one of Washington’s magnificent ceremonial events.

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Big speeches a new political tool for Obama

In April 2003, Barack Obama rose in the Illinois Senate to discuss a delicate issue: legislation calling for a study of whether police discriminate against black drivers by making up excuses to pull them over.

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Barack Obama, the World's Greatest Orator (™all news organisations), didn't exactly cover himself in glory when the BBC's political editor Nick Robinson asked him a question about who was to blame for the financial crisis.

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Lest we forget. [Well worth listening to again in its entirety].

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