Barack Obama for President

U.S. Senator John McCain today announced that he has selected Alaska Governor Sarah Palin to be his running mate and to serve as his vice president.
Link:Huffington Post.

Surrounded by an enormous, adoring crowd, Barack Obama promised a clean break from the “broken politics in Washington and the failed policies of George W. Bush” Thursday night as he embarked on the final lap of his audacious bid to become the nation’s first black president.
“America, now is not the time for small plans,” the [...]

“I’m not voting for McCain,” Kathleen Hensley Portalski tells Us. “I have a different political standpoint.
“I’m voting for Obama,” the Phoenix resident says. “I think his proposals to improve the country are more positive and I’m not a big war believer.”
Link:Usmagazine.com

Barack Obama stands before delegates and the nation Thursday - the 45th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s historic “I Have a Dream” speech - to accept the Democratic presidential nomination, the first black man to claim such a prize.
The drama of his long, emotional primary struggle against Hillary Rodham Clinton behind him at last, [...]

Obama has long expressed his desire to run a positive campaign, but that approach has attracted criticism from some Democrats, who say the Illinois senator must hit Republicans harder.
Still, the practice of making wholesale changes to speeches has some Democrats miffed. “This is politics through and through,” said a Democratic source who has seen firsthand [...]

Gallup Poll Daily tracking from Aug. 23-25, the first three-day period falling entirely after Obama’s Saturday morning vice presidential announcement, shows 46% of national registered voters backing John McCain and 44% supporting Obama, not appreciably different from the previous week’s standing for both candidates. This is the first time since Obama clinched the nomination in [...]

US Attorney Troy Eid said: “There is insufficient evidence that there was any kind of a plot or a threat but we’ll keep an open mind as we look.
Link:Sky News.

CBS4 has now learned at least four people are under arrest in connection with a possible plot to kill Barack Obama at his Thursday night acceptance speech in Denver. All are being held on either drug or weapons charges.
CBS4 Investigator Brian Maass reported one of the suspects told authorities they were “going to shoot Obama [...]

A look at Monday’s speakers for the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver
Link:Yahoo! News.

One flashpoint is the assigned speech topic for former president Bill Clinton, who is scheduled to speak Wednesday night, when the convention theme is “Securing America’s Future.” The night’s speakers will argue that Obama would be a more effective commander in chief than his Republican rival, Sen. John McCain (Ariz.).
The former president is disappointed, associates [...]

Sen. Joe Biden of Delaware is Barack Obama’s pick as vice presidential running mate, The Associated Press has learned.
Biden, 65, is a veteran of more than three decades in the Senate, and one of his party’s leading experts on foreign policy, an area in which polls indicate Obama needs help in his race against Republican [...]

Two of the Senate’s most prominent war critics took to the defense of Barack Obama among withering criticism that his opposition to the surge was driven by political ambition.
In statements sent to the Huffington Post, Sens. John Kerry and Russ Feingold derided the current debate over the surge’s successes as campaign theater. A far more [...]

John McCain stated unequivocally in an interview with Politico on Wednesday that he would not pledge to serve only a single four-year term, rejecting a suggestion that some allies believe would allay questions about his age and underscore his nonpartisan message of putting country first.
“No,” McCain said flatly, “I’m not considering it.”
Link:Exclusive: Mike Allen and [...]

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) said in an interview Wednesday that he was uncertain how many houses he and his wife, Cindy, own.
“I think — I’ll have my staff get to you,” McCain told Politico in Las Cruces, N.M. “It’s condominiums where — I’ll have them get to you.”
Link:Jonathan Martin and Mike Allen - Politico.com.

John McCain has overtaken Barack Obama in the presidential race, according to a Reuters/Zogby poll released Wednesday morning.
McCain leads Obama 46 percent to 41 percent among likely voters, which is outside the poll’s margin of error. Reuters/Zogby had Obama ahead by 7 points as recently as mid-July.
Link:Politico.com.