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Hope. Obama began drafting his speech while staying in a hotel in Springfield, Illinois, several days after learning he would deliver the address. [9] According to his account of that day in The Audacity of Hope, Obama states that he began by considering his own campaign themes and those specific issues he wished to address, and while pondering the various people he had met and stories he had ...
Pakistani drone strikes against Taliban and al-Qaeda militants increased substantially under President Obama. [214] Some in the media referred to the attacks as a "drone war." [ 215 ] [ 216 ] In August 2009, Baitullah Mehsud , the leader of the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan was killed in a drone strike.
The campaign rhetoric of Barack Obama is the rhetoric in the campaign speeches given by President of the United States, Barack Obama, between February 10, 2007, and November 5, 2008, for the 2008 presidential campaign. Obama became the 44th president after George W. Bush with running mate Joe Biden. In his campaign rhetoric, Obama used three ...
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Barack Obama in His Own Words. Running Press Miniature Editions. ISBN 978-0-7624-3789-4. Ruth, Greg (2009). Our Enduring Spirit: President Barack Obama's First Words to America. London: Collins. ISBN 978-0-06-183455-4. Sharpley-Whiting, T. Denean (2009). The Speech: Race and Barack Obama's "A More Perfect Union". Bloomsbury USA. ISBN 978-1 ...
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The last U.S. troops left Afghanistan on Aug. 30, 2021. Three years later, the Taliban's return to power has allowed al Qaeda and other terrorist groups to regain a presence in the country, and ...
[37] One day before, a video of Al-Qaeda number two Ayman al-Zawahiri was posted to extremist websites, in which al-Zawahiri criticized Obama's policy, declaring "his bloody messages were received and are still being received by Muslims, and they will not be concealed by public relations campaigns or by farcical visits or elegant words." [38 ...