Guardian Weekly year in review 2013: Obama's bubble continues to deflate

After the exhilaration of re-election, the US president became bogged down at home and abroad When Barack Obama stood before Congress in February to deliver his state of the union address, it sounded like a throwback to another time. This wasn't the Obama we'd watched during his first term being battered by the vagaries of a collapsing economy and an intransigent Republican opposition. This was