President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama arrive at the 2015 Kennedy Center Honors reception in the East Room of the White House
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Actress and Broadway star Cicely Tyson, conductor Seiji Ozawa, actress and singer Rita Moreno, filmmaker George Lucas, singer-songwriter Carole King
President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama receive a standing ovation at the Kennedy Center Honors
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President Barack Obama addresses the country from the Oval Office. He spoke on the terrorism threat to the United States and the recent attack in San Bernardino, California
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Obama just spoke with the voice of reason. Imagine that.
— Stephen King (@StephenKing) December 07, 2025
Media and conservatives upset President Obama refuses to send 3,000 plus Americans to die in some god forsaken desert. #ObamaSpeech
— Oliver Willis (@owillis) December 07, 2025
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Fabulous response from Ian. For context, click and view the embedded tweet
Perhaps the President of the United States shouldn't base our national security policy on his approval rating. twitter.com/politicalwire/…
— Ian Millhiser (@imillhiser) December 07, 2025
So much of Obama's presidency has been about him repeatedly explaining shit to folks. Not much new was said tonight. But he had to say it.
— Jamil Smith (@JamilSmith) December 07, 2025
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Having lived through the insanity of the post-9/11 era, It is gratifying it is to have a president who refuses to be goaded by terrorists.
— Ian Millhiser (@imillhiser) December 07, 2025
Tonight, I am thankful that Barack Obama is president.
— Ian Millhiser (@imillhiser) December 07, 2025
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I supported Obama in 2008 because I believed he was the candidate most likely to use American military power sparingly. You're welcome.
— Ian Millhiser (@imillhiser) December 07, 2025
This obsession with whether Obama does or does not describe something as terrorism is by far the stupidest debate in modern US politics
— Michael Cohen (@speechboy71) December 07, 2025
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No matter the post-speech coverage of this speech, there is no better alternative anti-ISIS strategy than what US is currently doing
— Michael Cohen (@speechboy71) December 07, 2025
I love it when a politician treats me as an intelligent adult and not a bigoted moron. #ObamaSpeech
For a crypto-Muslim who wants to shove Sharia law down the throats of God-fearing Christian America, President Barack Obama seems to be doing it wrong.
Word came out that UK Daesh member, “Jihadi John”, star of many decapitation videos, was killed in a US drone strike. Not only killed, but, according to reports, “eviscerated”. And reports also state that he was the only person to have died in the attack; no collateral damage was incurred.
Of course, some are saying that it would have been better for him to have been captured and stand trial. While I sympathize with that sentiment, I somehow doubt the Caliph of ISIL would have honored an indictment delivered to Raqqa. And most people wouldn’t want to risk our soldiers to effectuate such a capture. Whether some people want to admit it or not, this is a war in which we’re engaged. You don’t have Miranda rights if you’re in a war zone beheading innocents. So I have no particular regrets that Jihadi John won’t be in the dock in London or New York.
President Barack Obama during a welcome ceremony at the National Palace in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
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Ethiopia’s President Mulatu Teshome welcomes President Barack Obama for a meeting at the National Palace in Addis Ababa
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President Barack Obama sits down to a bilateral meeting with Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn
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President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn hold a news conference after their meeting
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President Barack Obama holds a meeting on South Sudan and counterterrorism issues with African heads of state at his hotel
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Doug Mills: Obama touches “Lucy”. Lucy is estimated to have lived 3.2 million years ago in Ethiopia. #ObamaInEthiopia @POTUS
Dr. Zeresenay Alemseged Lemseged of the California Academy of Sciences, laughs at a quip by President Barack Obama as he and Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn look at the bones of Lucy, an early human. Lucy is the most famous fossil of the species Australopithecus afarensis, and was found in Ethiopia in 1974
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Obama touches "Lucy". Lucy is estimated to have lived 3.2 million years ago in Ethiopia. #ObamaInEthiopia http://t.co/b0gpfFYq59
— Doug Mills (@dougmillsnyt) July 27, 2025
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President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn sit down to a State Dinner in President Obama’s honor at the National Palace in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
President Barack Obama smiles as he arrives to deliver a speech at the Global Entrepreneurship Summit at the United Nations Compound in Nairobi. President Obama’s visit to Kenya is focused on trade and economic issues, as well as security and counterterrorism cooperation
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President Barack Obama and Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta take part in a roundtable with young businesspeople at the Global Entrepreneurship Summit
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President Barack Obama delivers remarks at the Global Entrepreneurship Summit. He told African entrepreneurs in Kenya on Saturday they could help counter violent ideologies and drive growth in Africa, and said governments had to help by ensuring the rule of law was upheld and by tackling corruption
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In his first visit as president to Kenya, President Obama struck a relentlessly upbeat tone nyti.ms/1OsJjV7 http://t.co/GJhGTX7wKo
— The New York Times (@nytimes) July 25, 2025
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President Barack Obama looks at a mobile payment platform and solar exhibit during the Power Africa Innovation Fair
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President Barack Obama, left, looks at a solar powered lamp during a tour of the Power Africa Innovation Fair
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President Barack Obama participates in a wreath laying ceremony in Nairobi, at Memorial Park in honor of the victims of the deadly 1998 bombing at the U.S. Embassy
President Barack Obama inspects the honor guard after arriving to meet with Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta at the State House
President Barack Obama shake hands with Kenya’s Chief of Defence Forces Samson Mwathathe
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President Barack Obama is escorted into a bilateral meeting by Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta at the State House
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President Barack Obama and President Uhuru Kenyatta participate in a joint press conference
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Obama pushes African nations to treat LGBT people equally ti.me/1HQfb4u