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Barack Obama
Barack Hussein Obama (born August 4, 1961) is the junior United States Senator from Illinois and a member of the Democratic Party. The U.S. Senate Historical Office lists him as the fifth African American Senator in U.S. history and the only African American currently serving in the U.S. Senate. (More at Wikipedia)
Barack Obama Buzz
Significant posts about Barack Obama from the last 24 hours, updated every 4 hours.
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Carville predicts Obama win over Clinton
The political consultant who played a key role in putting Bill Clinton in the White House predicted at Furman University on Monday that U.S. Sen. Barack Obama would secure the Democratic presidential nomination.James Carville said he’s been... (Read more...)
The updated definition of the word "distraction"
The short version of the definition is any issue that portrays Obama in a less than flattering light. Rich Lowry has the longer version here. Plus: Is Obama’s problem with white collar voters strictly an Obama problem, or a Democrat party... (Read more...)
McAuliffe Spars With Matthews, Calls Him 'Obama Campaign Chair'
In the race to decide the Democratic party nominee, it's more or less all over but the sarcastic remarks, but what sarcastic remarks they are! And what a treat it is to see two gentlemen best known for verbal diarrhea pointlessly jabb (Read more...)
Obama Advisor: Put Jerusalem on Negotiating Table
In the course of Obama's winding interview with Jeffrey Goldberg yesterday, there was very little discussion of the substantive issues that (Read more...)
Media & Politics
Permanent link to MTA daily media news No Rush for Clinton to Go, but it’s Still Advantage Obama Poll Shows 64 Percent of Dems Say Clinton Should Remain in the Race Obama’s Hot Air Balloon (by Pat Racimora at No Quarter) So far the pins... (Read more...)
Carville hints hope gone for Clinton
by Mike Dorning Former Bill Clinton chief political strategist James Carville, one of Hillary Clinton's most vocal defenders, has all but declared Barack Obama the winner in the Democratic presidential primary, (Read more...)
Labor Group Gears Up for Election
The service workers union boldly issues warnings about its rich campaign coffers to hold Democratic candidates accountable on labor issues. (Read more...)
Is anything older than John McCain?
What do the Golden Gate Bridge, FM radio, chocolate chip cookies, and both of Barack Obama's parents all have in common? They're all younger than John McCain! All this info and more can be found on the amusing (but a... (Read more...)
Anticlimax in West Virginia tonight
Looking for any kind of good news, anywhere she can find it. (Read more...)
Superdelegate Watch
For Obama: Roy Romer, the former DNC chair, DC superdelegate Anita Bonds, Ray Nagin, the mayor of New Orleans, and Rep. Joe Donnelly, the congressman from Indiana. (Read more...)
MS-01 Watch
The most important election taking place today is not in West Virginia. It's in Mississippi, for the first congressional district, a seat held since the Republican revolution of 1994 by Republican Roger Wicker. Wicker's retiring, and there's a... (Read more...)
Obama, the Apostate
I’m a little surprised at those who took at face value Edward Luttwak’ (Read more...)
'Why West Virginia matters'
From NBC's Mark MurrayHours before the West Virginia polls close, the Clinton campaign just released a memo that tries to raise the stakes of today's contest, which Clinton is expected to (Read more...)
Poll: Obama leads big in Oregon
by Jim Tankersley Barack Obama leads Hillary Clinton by 20 points in Oregon's Democratic presidential primary, according to an independent poll released this morning. The poll, conducted by longtime Oregon polling guru Tim Hibb (Read more...)
Republican Slogan Borrowed From Antidepressant (Carl Hulse/The Caucus)
Carl Hulse / The Caucu (Read more...)
Double-Whammy
Obama Racism/Muslim/Unpatriotic/Scary Black Dude Watch Part Forty-Three and Clinton Sexism Watch Part Ninety-One.Wham: (Read more...)
Countdown: Bill Moyers On Democracy & Our Bumper Sticker Media
Download | Play Download | Play (h/t Heather) Bill Moyers, host of PBS’ Bill Moyers Journal, is one of the few remaining REAL journalists left in American media. We’ve covered many of his PBS... (Read more...)
Three more superdelegates for Obama
Romer, a former DNC chairman, endorsed Obama Tuesday. (CNN) — Barack Obama picked up endorsements from three more superdelegates Tuesday, extending his lead over Hillary Clinton in that category to seven. Indiana Rep. Joe Donnelly, New ... (Read more...)
The View From Iraq
Spencer Ackerman posts an IM conversation he had yesterday with a friend who lives in Iraqi Kurdistan: Bilal Wahab: my point is (Read more...)
McCain in the Mud - In 2000, I boarded John McCain's campaign bus ... (Richard Cohen/Washington Post)
Richard Cohen / Washington (Read more...)
Obama General Election Strategy Taking Shape
The Journalist wing of the Democratic party weighs in with a clutch of stories about the "raw racism" encountered by Obama's field staff (this Washington Post story is amplified by reposting at MSNBC and USA Today):For all the hope and... (Read more...)
Guilt by association by association (or, how learned to stop worrying and love the ill-fated Greenwich Village nail bomb)
From Liberal Fascism: Bernardine Dohrn, an acid-loving University of Chicago law student turned revolutionary, reflected the widespread New Left fascination with the serial-killing hippie Ubermensch Charles Manson. “Dig It! First they killed ... (Read more...)
Republicans Cure Depression!
Kevin Drum observes, Democrats are taking unsurprising glee in rubbing GOP noses in the fact that the new campaign slogan chosen by House Republic (Read more...)
Post-Gazette Applies the "Assimilate or Be Called a Racist" Strategy
Obama Nation's strategy of caricaturing any opposition as "racist" is on ignoble display in today's Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, which throws an unseemly tantrum over O'Bigot's expected drubbing in West Virginia. Shrillary's undisputable observation... (Read more...)
Turnout Seems High in W. Va.
Good weather and early voting spell a strong showing among voters. (Read more...)
Don't believe Obama on Hamas
At The American Spectator, Philip Klein explains why it's legitimate to question Democratic Presidential candidate Barack Hussein Obama's position on Hamas (Hat Tip: Hot Air). WITH THIS PAST as prologue, many of the statements (or omissions) Obama... (Read more...)
Obama-Clinton ticket: 55% Dems say yes
by Mark Silva While most Democrats are telling pollsters that Sen. Hillary Clinton should continue her contest with Sen. Barack Obama for the party's presidential nomination, most also say they like the idea of Obama tapping Clinton (Read more...)
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Hot Links
Links posted by multiple bloggers in the last 24 hours. Updated every 4 hours.
- Goodbye to All That: Why Obama Matters (linked in 77 posts)
- Ron Paul's forces quietly plot GOP convention revolt against McCain : Top of the Ticket : Los Angeles Times (linked in 63 posts)
- Jeffrey Goldberg (May 12, 2008) - Obama on Zionism and Hamas (linked in 52 posts)
- Poll Predicts 36-Point Clinton Landslide in W. Virginia (linked in 38 posts)
- Source: Huckabee Tops McCain's Veep List - Capital Commerce (usnews.com) (linked in 33 posts)
- Instapundit.com - Podcasts Archives (linked in 33 posts)
- Mallard Fillmore (linked in 33 posts)
- Robert D. Novak - McCain's Christian Problem - washingtonpost.com (linked in 32 posts)
- Political Punch (linked in 32 posts)
- Breaking News Newsletter Topic Page - Newsletters - MSNBC.com (linked in 30 posts)