Speaker Larijani said after a year of U.S.President Barack Obama's speeches and slogans, it is a "disgrace" the U.S.

VOA: standard.2009.11.15

If you look at the words in both Barack Obama and John McCain's speeches, it really set up a generational fight.

NPR: Obama Re-Writes History, Clinches Party Nomination

In 2012 Barack Obama is no longer delivering thrilling speeches, but an unembarrassed press corps is still available, in full prosecutorial mode when it comes to coverage of the Republican challenger.

WSJ: Dorothy Rabinowitz: The Fourth Estate, Still Thrilling to the Spirit of '08

With one sentence, Chief Justice John Roberts did what scores of speeches from President Barack Obama and hundreds of pages of legislation from Congress could not do: define what the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act actually was.

FORBES: Roberts Calls Mandate What Obama Swore It Was Not -- A Tax