Fun Pictures of Barak Obama

We often see the President of the Unites States dressed up in smart suits but in these pictures you will see him in a diiferent light.

 

 

Barak Obama - The Challenges Ahead

Second term in office: President Obama

After a long and gruelling campaign,  President Barak Obama has won the US elections by a whisker. This comes as good news to Democrats and not so good news for Mitt Romney. Across America, statistics show that more Latinos voted for Obama than ever. This comes as good news to the Obama camp but projects a split view of America - whites on one side and African Americans, Latinos and other ethnic minorities on the other...a divided country. Mor women and youths also voted for Democrats.


Challenges Ahead

The most important task for President Barak Obama will be to bring all groups together and  most especially the Republicans (who have clout in American power circles) in order to make the story of America a success. Politics in America should not be a white and black affair.

Many people around the world including in African believed that Obama won by chance but with his re-election shows that the president has substance and is an obvious choice but he now needs to work out a strategy to pull everyone together.

President Obama will need to focus on:

• A workable plan
• Pushing forward policies that will pass the Republican camp
• Uniting the senate
• Taxes
• Unemployment
• Health insurance reforms
• Technology
• Immigration
• Housing
• Ethical food production
• Peace in the world

Finally, president Obama needs to eat some good food and take a long relaxing sleep! He looks like he needs it.
 
Congratulations President Obama and Vice-president Biden, from iSHINE Magazine 

OBAMA RE-ELECTED AS PRESIDENT

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Obama won re-election in a tight campaign, besting Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney in enough swing states to secure four more years in office.

Propelled by wins in Ohio, Wisconsin, Iowa – states long touted as Obama’s “firewall” – the president won a long-fought election in which the economy, its slow pace of recovery and Obama’s management of it, became the central issue.

NBC News declared Obama the projected winner of Ohio and the election after polls had closed on the West Coast. The president also held onto a series of Democratic strongholds, beating back Romney’s efforts to take back states Obama had won in 2008 and make inroads into traditionally Democratic strongholds, like Pennsylvania, Minnesota and Wisconsin.

Exit polls suggested that the economy was, by far and away, the issue at the front of voters’ minds on Election Day. Romney edged Obama nationally by six points among voters who said the economy was their top issue.

But Obama outperformed Romney on questions of empathy, and voters nationwide were virtually tied on the more direct question of who would better handle the economy and the budget deficit.

Obama also held a demographic edge over Romney among two key groups of voters. The president bested the former Massachusetts governor by 10 points among women (Romney beat Obama by 8 percent among men). Hispanic or Latino voters also broke heavily for Obama by a 39-point margin.

In losing, Romney fails at his task of becoming the first challenger to unseat a sitting president since 1992.

The president will enter his second term facing a political landscape much like his last two – that is, gridlock. NBC News projected that Republicans would retain their majority in the House, and that Democrats would retain their majority in the Senate (because Vice President Joe Biden would be able, in his official capacity as president of the Senate, to break a 50-50 tie).

The specter of gridlock would undoubtedly loom before Obama as he confronts an immediate task in addressing the series of automatic tax hikes and spending cuts – the so-called “fiscal cliff” – set to spring into place at the end of this year. As Obama won a second term, House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, said Republicans’ retention of their House majority meant “the American people have also made clear that there is NO mandate for raising tax rates.”

As election results continued to trickle in, Nevada, Florida, Colorado and Virginia remained too close to call. North Carolina, where Romney was declared the apparent victor, was the lone state that flipped from Obama in 2008 to Republicans this election cycle.

Obama awaited results earlier in the evening at his home in Hyde Park, Chicago, where he had dinner with the first family. Romney joined his family at a hotel suite near his election night party in Boston. The president spent the day doing a series of interviews and participating in a pick-up game of basketball, an Election Day tradition for Obama.

Romney, meanwhile, added some last-minute campaigning to his schedule instead of enjoying down time. He stopped in Cleveland and Pittsburgh in a last-minute bid for votes in the crucial battleground state of Ohio.

Speaking to reporters traveling with him from Pittsburgh to Boston, Romney said he sensed that victory was on the horizon.

“You know, intellectually, I've felt we're going to win this and have felt that for some time,” Romney told reporters traveling with him from his last campaign stop from Pittsburgh back to Massachusetts. “But emotionally, just getting off the plane and seeing those people standing there … just seeing people there cheering as they were connected emotionally with me and I not only think we’re going to win intellectually, I feel it as well.” 

Did Romney say that too soon?

News: NBC

THE ULTIMATE FASHION DIVA: Michelle Obama or Ann Romney?

Simple and classic: Michelle Obama

US and China elect new leaders - what Africa can expect

China and the United States are about to go to the polls to choose new leaders. And what crucial events to happen at a time like this.  On Tuesday, the next American president will be elected and two days later, the 18th congress of the Chinese Communist Party will select the new Chinese president and prime minister.

Whoever ever becomes leader in these two powerful countries will determine the course the world takes both in terms of peace and prosperity in the next four years.

 Relations with China

Mitt Romney has said that he finds China's power uncomfortable and if he wins the US elections, Romney will focus his attention on reducing China's rise to supremacy in the world realm. This could reduce political and economic deals and harm the global recession. If Obama wins on the other hand, political watchers have concluded that president Obama would probably re-focus on the American people by creating more jobs, implement more health and social reforms.

Outlook for Africa

The love for Obama is still waxing strong in many sub-Saharan African countries and especially in South Africa, Nigeria and Ghana. South Africa has been the biggest recipient of American aid. Millions of dollars and medication has been donated to South Africa to cater for HIV sufferers by the US. But a during a visit to Cape Town made by Mrs Clinton in July 2012, she informed South Africans that she could not promise that the aid and business from the US will continue if president Obama is not re-elected into power.

American Presidential Elections: Obama or Rommey?

President Barak Obama and Mitt Romney during the presidential debate in October. Photo: Reuters

HURRICANE SANDY: Massive clean up begins

• Massive clean up begins in the north eastern region
• New York State governor Andrew Cuomo to invest in storm surge barriers costing $10bn 
• Repairs will take months and run into $17billions
• Presidential race plunged into race into uncertainty