Barack Obama cartoon for Tribune magazine cover image. © Matt Buck Hack Cartoons. Drawn in the UK.

President Obama continued his word-led clean up of US political discourse yesterday in a speech to the US Congress. He’s gathered some early criticism for his tendency to speak bluntly about the size of the economic challenges facing America, but after the eight years of the half-truths, evasions and outright lies told by his predecessor perhaps that is not so surprising.

US correspondent Toby Harnden reported it live.
And the edited highlights package below is from AP.