In comments to reporters on Thursday, McCain said, “I can tell you that [the troop increase] is succeeding. I can look you in the eye and tell you it’s succeeding. We have drawn down to pre-surge levels. Basra, Mosul and now Sadr City are quiet and it’s long and it’s hard and it’s tough and [...]
Beverly Fanning is among the campaign donors who’ll be joining President Bush at a gala at Washington’s Ford’s Theater Sunday night, but she says that won’t dissuade her from her current passion: volunteering for Barack Obama’s presidential campaign.
She isn’t the only convert. A McClatchy computer analysis, incomplete due to the difficulty matching data from various [...]
Obama used the Democrats system of awarding delegates to limit his losses in states won by Clinton while maximizing gains in states he carried. Clinton, meanwhile, conserved her resources by essentially conceding states that favored Obama, including many states that held caucuses instead of primaries.
In a stark example, Obamas victory in Kansas wiped out the [...]
The Democratic Party’s rules and bylaws committee doesn’t meet until this weekend to decide the fate of the Michigan and Florida delegations and the final Democratic primaries don’t conclude until next week, but Democratic heavyweights are already talking about how to push the undeclared superdelegates who will pick the Democratic nominee into someone’s corner.
Link:The Huffington [...]
Maybe it’s his background teaching constitutional law.
If elected president, Democratic White House hopeful Barack Obama said one of the first things he wants to do is ensure the constitutionality of all the laws and executive orders passed while Republican President George W. Bush has been in office.
Those that don’t pass muster will be overturned, he [...]
Rupert Murdoch Chairman of News Corp, new WSJ owner, and longtime torchbearer for conservative politics said this about Barack Obama: “He is a rock star. I love what he is saying about education. I think he will win and I am anxious to meet him.”
About the presumptive Republican nominee, Murdoch said, “McCain is a friend [...]
Asked aboard his plane returning to Chicago from Colorado if the general election will begin after Tuesday’s voting in South Dakota and Montana, Obama answered in one word: “Yes.”
“You know, it’s technically not over until we have the number of delegates needed to secure the nomination,” Obama said of the 2026 delegates needed. “Once we [...]
Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain’s national campaign general co-chair was being paid by a Swiss bank to lobby Congress about the U.S. mortgage crisis at the same time he was advising McCain about his economic policy, federal records show.
Link:The Huffington Post
The Barack Obama campaign said Tuesday the candidate mistakenly referred to the wrong Nazi death camp when relating the story of a great uncle who helped liberate the camps in World War II.
The Democratic presidential candidate said the story is accurate except that the camp was Buchenwald, not Auschwitz.
Link:The Huffington Post
“At the end of the April, John McCain had cash on hand of over $60 million, and Sen. Obama had cash on hand of over $50 million,” Fiorina said on CNN. However, she added the money that the Republican National Committee (RNC) has in the bank to McCain’s total. The RNC has a significant cash [...]
During an evening rally in Montana’s largest city Tuesday night, Hillary Clinton explained to the crowd why she should be the Democratic Party’s nominee, but what ensued was a list of overstatements and exaggerations as she made her case. “You have to ask yourself, who is the stronger candidate? And based on every analysis, of [...]
In fact, MSNBC’s bias has actually hurt the Illinois senator. After all, it was the Obama cheerleading from MSNBC (among others) that helped lead to Clinton’s New Hampshire comeback. And even if you think (as I do) that the Clintons have made too big of a deal out of the “sexist” and “unfair” portrayal their [...]
Barack Obama has done poorly in the Democratic primaries with women, Catholics and others who will be pivotal in this falls presidential election. Yet early polling shows that with several of these groups, hes competitive when matched against Republican John McCain.
A look at voters who have been closely contested in recent presidential elections _ or [...]
According to CQ, Senator John McCain has voted with President Bush 100% of the time in 2008 and 95% of the time in 2007.
Link:Progressive Media USA
McCain: Well, in 2004, I expect to be campaigning for the reelection of President George W. Bush, and by 2008, I think I might be ready to go down to the old soldiers home and await the cavalry charge there.
Link:Crooks and Liars
