Obama signing off with style, humour and dignity

Barack Obama emerged from eight years in the Oval Office with his dignity intact at least

Outgoing US president Barack Obama Getty Images

Already, the nostalgia has started. In the face of the tangerine train that is charging at breakneck speed towards Washington, Americans are already waxing lyrical about a Barack Obama presidency that was vilified by huge sections of the population and in the end, rebuked by an electorate that handed Donald Trump and the Republican Party control of the White House, the Senate and the Congress – and with it an apparent mandate to ...