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Obama: has he still got it?

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Has he still got it? The applause meter may be high inside the convention hall, yet Barack Obama is caught in a tight race for re-election. François Picard’s panel pores over the competing messages that are set to dominate the US general election campaign.

DEBATE
  • Forrest G. ALOGNA. Attorney, Member of the New York Bar;
  • Caith KUSHNER. Attorney, Member of the New York Bar;
  • Martin MICHELOT. Program Officer, The German Marshall Fund of the United States;
  • Freddie WINCKLER. CEO, J. Walter Thompson Paris;

Produced by François Picard, Anelise Borges, Mary Colombel, Christopher Davis.

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why killing the ambassador

by Anonyme - 12/09/2012 - 19:52

It is sad to hear that fighters of Islam attacked and killed the America ambassador to Libya for a crime he never committed. Who are they fighting for Allah or prophet Mohammed? . I think they are getting it all wrong simply because it make no sense to fight for god who has all the powers to punish and bless any persons. Let God punish those who offend him and bless those who follow his ways. what is the sense in going after the person you can see and feel for the person you never saw or has never seen before but just on belief him/her.

Issifu sulemana
Northern Ghana

Tunisia

by Anonyme - 07/09/2012 - 03:11

It was very good to have a programme on this as I have been wondering for a good while how Tunisia has been doing? What happens to a country after the the removal of a dictator? Deep democracy? Even worse conditions?

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