Sen. Barack Obama said Tuesday that overall U.S. interests have been hurt rather than helped by the Bush administration’s decision to increase troop strength in Iraq 18 months ago, and vowed to stick to his plan to withdraw combat troops within 16 months of becoming president.
Link:CBS News
The freshman Democratic senator received a discount. He locked in an interest rate of 5.625 percent on the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage, below the average for such loans at the time in Chicago. The loan was unusually large, known in banker lingo as a “super super jumbo.” Obama paid no origination fee or discount points, as [...]
Hillary Clinton will join Barack Obama for a joint appearance in Washington next week to persuade her donors to begin giving to the Democrats’ nominee, the Daily News has learned.
It’s the first known plan to bring together the victor and vanquished from the Democrat primary race and put their pledges of unity for the fall [...]
In the first Washington Post-ABC News poll since the Democratic nomination contest ended, Obama and McCain are even among political independents, a shift toward the presumptive Republican nominee over the past month. On the issues, independents see McCain as more credible on fighting terrorism and are split evenly on who is the stronger leader and [...]
The resolution increased the number of delegates needed to clinch the nomination to 2,118, leaving Obama just 66 delegates away from the majority needed to secure the nomination.
Link:My Way News
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 [...]
The steady disclosures of past lobbying activity by campaign aides, and the struggle to minimize firings, continue to plague John McCain’s presidential campaign — but the reality is that these problems only get worse the deeper anyone digs. There you’ll find an anti-cigarette tax campaign on behalf of Lorillard Tobacco and a full-scale campaign to [...]
Going forward, the battle over the significance of the popular vote could be the deciding factor in determining the Democratic nominee. That’s because, at this point in time, it appears all but impossible for Clinton to pull out a pledged delegate win. As Plouffe estimated, Obama’s margin among pledged delegates was decreased from 171 to [...]
We’ll never know if Obama Girl is partly successful for Obama’s eventual presidency, but there’s no denying that she has captured the attention of young male voters like no other.
We took a team of young men and forced them to watch all the Obama Girl videos (we’ve never seen such interest in politics).
Link:Best Obama Girl [...]
