Obama Makes Vow to End Iraq Conflict
April 20, 2007 by info · Leave a Comment
A woman’s tearful plea to Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama (news, bio, voting record) to end the Iraq war momentarily caught him off guard Friday at a New Hampshire town hall meeting.
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Clinton, Obama trade barbs over donor
February 21, 2007 by info · Leave a Comment
Two Democratic presidential campaigns accused the other of nasty politics on Wednesday over a Hollywood donor who once backed Hillary Rodham Clinton’s husband but now backs her top rival.
Amid the accusations in tit-for-tat news releases, Clinton tried to remain above the fray.
“I’m just going to stay focused on my campaign and I’m going to run a positive campaign about the issues that affect the people in our country,” she said in a brief interview with The Associated Press. Read more
Two S.C. black leaders back Clinton
February 15, 2007 by info · Leave a Comment
Two key black political leaders in South Carolina who backed John Edwards in 2004 said Tuesday they are supporting Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s bid for the Democratic presidential nomination.
State Sens. Robert Ford and Darrell Jackson told The Associated Press they believe Clinton is the only Democrat who can win the presidency. Both said they had been courted by Illinois Sen. Barack Obama; Ford said Obama winning the primary would drag down the rest of the party.
“It’s a slim possibility for him to get the nomination, but then everybody else is doomed,” Ford said. “Every Democrat running on that ticket next year would lose - because he’s black and he’s top of the ticket. We’d lose the House and the Senate and the governors and everything.”
“I’m a gambling man. I love Obama,” Ford said. “But I’m not going to kill myself.” Read more
Virginia governor to endorse Obama
February 15, 2007 by info · Leave a Comment
Virginia Gov. Timothy M. Kaine will endorse Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, perhaps as early as the weekend, two officials said Wednesday.
Kaine, a Democrat who took office last year, has decided to endorse the Illinois senator in his bid for the party nomination, according to two officials with political ties to the governor. They spoke on the condition they not be identified because the decision had not been made public. Read more
Giuliani confirms he’s running in 2008
February 15, 2007 by info · Leave a Comment
Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, a moderate Republican best known for his post-Sept. 11 leadership over his city, confirmed Wednesday his intentions to run for president in the 2008 elections.
Giuliani made the announcement during an appearance on CNN’s “Larry King Live.” He had filed a statement of candidacy earlier this month with the Federal Election Commission and filed paperwork for an exploratory committee in November.
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Obama apologizes for saying troops’ lives ‘wasted’
February 14, 2007 by info · Leave a Comment
CNN reported that democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama is apologizing for saying the lives of the more than 3,000 U.S. troops killed in the Iraq war were “wasted.”
During his first campaign trip this weekend, the Illinois senator told a crowd in Iowa: “We now have spent $400 billion and have seen over 3,000 lives of the bravest young Americans wasted.” (Watch Obama announce his candidacy)
He immediately apologized on Sunday, saying the remark was “a slip of the tongue.” Read more
Barack Obama slams Australian prime minister’s ‘cowboy rhetoric’
February 12, 2007 by info · Leave a Comment
US presidential hopeful Barack Obama has blasted as “empty rhetoric” Australian Prime Minister John Howard’s attack on Senator Obama’s plan to bring US troops home from Iraq.
The 45-year-old senator waded into a major foreign policy row just one day after formally announcing his candidacy, telling Mr Howard he should dispatch 20,000 Australians to Iraq if he wanted to back up his comments. Read more
Sen. Obama launches White House bid
February 10, 2007 by info · Leave a Comment
Barack Obama (news, bio, voting record) announced his bid for president Saturday, a black man evoking Abraham Lincoln’s ability to unite a nation and a Democrat portraying himself as a fresh face capable of leading a new generation.
“Let us transform this nation,” he told thousands shivering in the cold at the campaign’s kickoff.
Obama, 45, is the youngest candidate in the Democrats’ 2008 primary field dominated by front-runner Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and filled with more experienced lawmakers. In an address from the state capital where he began his elective career 10 years ago, the first-term U.S. senator sought to distinguish himself as a staunch opponent of the Iraq war and a White House hopeful whose lack of political experience is an asset. Read more
George Bush says Obama has long way to go to be president
February 1, 2007 by info · Leave a Comment
President George W. Bush said on Wednesday that Democratic Sen. Barack Obama was an impressive politician but had a “long way to go to be president,” as he weighed in on the race for the White House in 2008.
“He hasn’t gotten elected yet. He hasn’t even gotten the party’s nomination. He’s an attractive guy. He’s articulate,” Bush said in an interview with Fox News. Read more
FOX reporters no longer welcome on Obama campaign after Madrassa slam
February 1, 2007 by info · Leave a Comment
These are chilly days on Capitol Hill … and on the campaign trail for Fox News journalists — at least when they’re anywhere near Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.).
Sources tell The Sleuth that the Obama camp has “frozen out” Fox News reporters and producers in the wake of the network’s major screw-up in running with the erroneous Obama-the-jihadist story reported by Insight magazine.
