Comprehensive immigration reform, once considered the politically easy part of Obama's second term agenda, looks unlikely.
The idea is to generate a long term agenda for trade and investment, and to raise Africa's profile among American businessmen.
The Government now needs to set out a long term agenda which demonstrates that its rhetoric about creating real opportunity is backed up by substantive policies.
"It is a second term agenda but you can see I have sent out a pretty comprehensive plan for getting on with it," he said.
Other major donors have said they will not fund Organising for Action, the grassroots group set up to build support for Obama's second term agenda.
Obama needs Democrats to get elected if he intends to enact a second term agenda.
When Romney attacks Obama for not presenting a second term agenda, I find myself grudgingly agreeing.
Just two weeks before the election, President Obama finally released a second term agenda.
After my fifth eight-dollar beer, there was no more important issue on my personal "second term agenda".
The time is now and the President has his whole second term agenda riding on the outcome.
"They've done a 'memo to the president' — a public report laying out their view of a second term agenda," he wrote.
