Barack Obama’s big test this week is not whether he can use the power of rhetoric to win back the rapidly dwindling confidence of
US voters, but if he can formulate a specific plan on jobs that can be agreed in the back rooms of Congress.
The US president has set high expectations for Thursday’s address to a joint session of Congress: since 1990 there have been only five occasions in which presidents have sought to speak at such a session outside of the State of the Union, and three of those have involved war or acts of terror.
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