Looks like it's a flip-flopping warmonger vs RFK'08...
10-0 and 1319, here comes the freakin' Teamsters, with the working class, which could mean the end for some other candidates
FOX News attacks Obama
"Analysis: Obama has advantage in head-to-head with McCain" CNN.com
Obama 52%
McCain 44% (CNN)
Obama 48%
McCain 41% (TIME)
"We Are The Ones We've Been Waiting For"
"A Quick Fundraising Spike Online" Washington Post (blog)
A source inside the Obama campaign says the candidate's web site has seen one of its best hours tonight, raising $525,000 in one hour. A senior aide inside the Obama campaign said the candidate's site saw its "highest peak" tonight in both online donations and traffic, "bigger than after Iowa, bigger than after New Hampshire."
The Obama campaign measures online donations every 15 minutes, and the source said that online money was pouring in at the rate of more than $500,000 per hour.
"Obama wins in SC, regaining momentum" Huffington Post
"The choice in this election is not about regions or religions or genders," Obama said at a boisterous victory rally. "It's not about rich versus poor, young versus old and it's not about black versus white. It's about the past versus the future."
Good, bad or just ugly?
"Bush Spiritual Adviser Endorses Obama" Click2Houston
The Rev. Kirbyjon Caldwell -- senior pastor of Windsor Village United Methodist Church -- said Saturday that he's backing the Illinois senator because of Obama's "character, confidence and courage."
He said Obama, a Democrat, is electable and would bring people together.
"Why Obama is losing" MyDD
The reason why Obama lost in Nevada was because he was unable to turn out the youth vote, he lost liberal support, and he lost the last week of the campaign
"Obama Hints of Sharper Edge Vs. Clinton"! The Guardian
``I think that Senator Clinton, obviously, is a formidable and tough candidate, and we have to make sure that we take it to them just like they take it to us,'' the Illinois senator said. ``I come from Chicago politics. We're accustomed to rough and tumble.''
"Fresh from Iowa win, Barack Obama asks New Hampshire to 'change America'" The Times of London
Barack Obama began campaigning with full force in New Hampshire today after storming to victory in the Iowa caucuses last night.
The Illinois senator pushed Hillary Clinton into third place in the opening contest of the 2008 Democratic presidential race, which he declared had been a "defining moment in history" for America.
In a rally in Portsmouth,
New Hampshire, this morning, Mr Obama told his screaming supporters that they
had a chance to change their country.
"New Hampshire," he told them, "in four days, you can change
America.
"In four days, you can do what Iowa did last night, and what America could do next year."
Winners? How About Obama,
Huckabee and John McCain?
Yahoo News (the Nation)
So here's a morning call -- subject to alternations, rejections and denials -- for caucus day:
Obama wins among Democrats, with Edwards second and Clinton third. Faster than his foes when it comes to adjusting his message to meet the moment, and now ably articulating the hope that his election would fundamentally improve America's standing in the world, Obama has hit his stride in Iowa. A win here would open the way for a New Hampshire score, creating the prospect that the old starting-state combination gives us a new Democratic race.
First the Oprah, now the Scarlett
"Scarlett Stumps For Obama In Iowa" Huffington Post
As we followed Barack Obama out of the Marriott Hotel in Coralville, Iowa after a campaign rally on Wednesday, we noticed Scarlett Johansson in the crowd - going in the opposite direction. Being dedicated political journalists, of course we turned and followed Johansson into a conference room, told organizers that we were absolutely invited to be at the press conference with a camera, and got lost in the actress' smoky voice during her fifteen-minute speech.
"Oprah Lends Star Power to Obama in Iowa" Huffington Post
Talk-show diva Oprah Winfrey said worry about the direction of her country and a personal belief in Barack Obama pushed her to make her first endorsement in a presidential campaign, invaluable support in a tight race for the Democratic nomination.
"Barak Obama enlists
Oprah Winfrey in
campaign to capture female vote" The
Times
Barack Obama has revealed that he will deploy the queen of American daytime television in an audacious raid on Hillary Clinton's core support among women voters in the Democratic presidential contest.
"Why Oprah Won't Help Obama" TIME
To win the Democratic nomination for President, Barack Obama still needs the same thing he has needed all along — for voters to see him as ready to be commander in chief by January 2009. So now the question is: Will appearing at weekend campaign rallies with Oprah Winfrey help him achieve that goal?
Mark me down as more than a bit skeptical.
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Lets pretend Oprah doesn't matter "Oprah's
Obama Endorsement a Wash, Say Voters" Respondents said Oprah's endorsement of Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) -- she has stumped and raised funds for him -- will have essentially no effect on getting their vote, but they still think it could help his run for the White House. So if he is getting an advantage from the Big O's endorsement in the eyes of the voters, and with Americans shared love of winners (or people that look like winners from Oprah endorsements), then how is he not benefitting from this celebrity endorsement?
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"Barack Caps Hillary" OneGoodMove (Video)
Hillary seems to think
that making over $97,500
defines the middle class. Barack sets her straight.
Lewis Black on Obama and lapel pins
(insert deleted YouTube video)
"Obama: Bye-Bye Mr. Nice Guy?" Chicago Tribune
It may be bye-bye Mr. Nice Guy for Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, who said Thursday that he is opening the "next phase" of his campaign and plans to more pointedly and aggressively go after frontrunner Sen. Hillary Clinton.
"Now is the time where we're going to be laying a very clear contrast between myself and Senator Clinton," the Illinois Democrat told CNN. "Not just on the past, not just on Iraq, but on moving forward."
Iowa (Newsweek poll)
Obama: 28%
Clinton: 24%
Edwards: 22%
Lets pretend Oprah doesn't matter
"Oprah's Obama Endorsement
a Wash, Say Voters"
Broadcasting & Cable
Respondents said Oprah's endorsement of Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) -- she has stumped and raised funds for him -- will have essentially no effect on getting their vote, but they still think it could help his run for the White House.
So if he is getting an advantage from the Big O's endorsement in the eyes of the voters, and with Americans shared love of winners (or people that look like winners from Oprah endorsements), then how is he not benefitting from this celebrity endorsement?
Candidate Mashup
Senator Barack Obama
gives Charlie Rose his assessment of General Petraeus and Ambassador Crocker's
recent testimony before Congress.
Huffington Post Video 1
In the video, Charlie
Rose asks: "How would you assess the American education system? How well
is it doing from K to High School?"
Huffington
Post Video 2
Mrs Obama goes to Europe
"Obama campaign descends
on London for
fundraising drive among US ex-pats" The
Guardian
Britain is to get its first taste of the Barack Obama fervour sweeping through the US when his campaign arrives London in October hoping to raise hundreds of thousands of dollars from wealthy Democrats in the capital.
A fundraiser to be held at the Landmark Hotel in central London on October 15 will provide a glimpse of the excitement surrounding the Obama campaign. There will only be one drawback: Mr Obama will not be there in person, he will be represented by his wife, Michelle.
"Clooney: Obama's like a rock star" Yahoo (AP)
"You've been in a room once in a while with a rock star. He walks into the world, and he takes your breath away. I'd love him to be president, quite honestly," the actor told reporters Friday at the Venice Film Festival, where his legal thriller "Michael Clayton" was premiering.
Slightly retarded redneck jumps out of closet to kill Obama
"In obscenity-laced tirade, Ted Nugent jokes of killing Obama, calls Clinton a 'bitch'" Raw Story
"Obama, he's a piece of shit, and I told him to suck on my machine gun," Nugent said in front of a screaming crowd as he brandishes what appear to be two large assault rifles.
Obama on the Daily Show OneGoodMove
"Oprah Winfrey Defends Barack Obama Donation" FemaleFirst
"My value to
him, my support of him is probably
worth more than any other cheque that I could write."
Tucker Carlson isn't sure if Barack Obama is black enough
Obama owns Chris Dodd C&L
....Hillary does not.
Easy on the make up there Mitt...
"Sunday Morning Debate Blogging" NY Times
Mitt Romney chose to ridicule Barack Obama, a Democratic candidate whom he does not face in the Republican primary and who is not on stage. Making fun of Mr. Obama’s recent statements, Mr. Romney said he could not understand him, saying Mr. Obama had gone from wanting to have tea with our allies to bombing them. “He’s gone from Jane Fonda to Dr. Strangelove in one week,” Mr. Romney said.
Could it be that mr Flip Flop himself is a little bit scared of B-Rock (a candidate that would crush Romney in a national election). And he really doesn't have to go after Hillary as the M$M is doing that for him.
Conservatives angry Obama beat them to Pakistan
"Obama's sword" Yahoo (Creators Syndicate)
To be fair to Sen. Obama, there is no doubt that Pakistan is a terror haven and a flimsy ally. But Pakistan's very precariousness in this struggle — to say nothing of its nuclear arsenal — argues for particular finesse and restraint, one would think. What is it about American allies that Democrats seem to find so offensive? When Jimmy Carter was president, he inaugurated a foreign policy ostentatiously based on respect for "human rights." Yet the principal targets of his human rights crusade were American allies like the shah of Iran, while traditional enemies like the Soviet Union and Cuba 'scaped whipping. That turned out well, didn't it?
IOWA
- ABC / WaPo, 7/26-7/31, 500 LVs, no trendlines
Obama: 27
Clinton: 26
Edwards: 26
Richardson: 11
Biden: 2
Dodd: 1
Some sources say that they almost know for certain that they heard someone say once that this might be the Hillary Clinton camp smearing Barack Obama in South Carolina.
"Dems play dirty in Charleston" Pamplettoscoop.com
Hillary or the White House?
"Obama Gains Ground Over Thompson and Giuliani" Yahoo (Rasmussen)
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey of these match-ups shows Senator Obama now leading Giuliani by six points, 47% to 41%. A month ago, Giuliani had a three-point lead.
Obama also has a six-point edge over Senator Thompson, who has all but declared his candidacy. Obama now leads Thompson 46% to 40%, after leading by just a couple points last month. When we first polled this match-up in March, Thompson lagged Obama by 12 points.
Mitt Romney reads not so golden plate
Election Central contacted Romney spokesman Kevin Madden for comment, asking if it was appropriate for the candidate to hold the sign up with the woman. "The governor stopped briefly for a picture with a supporter who just happened to be holding their own sign with an alliterative play on words," Madden said, via e-mail. "I don’t think it was equating or comparing anyone."
The M$M could not be reached
for a comment on
this Republican misstep cause Michael Moore is fat.
Those Swedish Obama kids with their MySpaces and Facebooks
"Obama: Shift Troops to Fight al-Qaida" Huffington Post
The U.S. should shift troops from Iraq to pursue al-Qaida along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said Saturday.
He said President Bush's war-fighting policies have left the United States at greater risk from terrorists. The first-term Illinois senator said decisions by the Republican president had allowed Osama bin Laden and his deputies to elude capture.
"We cannot win a war against the terrorists if we're on the wrong battlefield," Obama said. "America must urgently begin deploying from Iraq and take the fight more effectively to the enemy's home by destroying al-Qaida's leadership along the Afghan-Pakistan border, eliminating their command and control networks and disrupting their funding."
Obama is seen as most religious of the candidates (after Mormon-Mitt). He also beats all the candidates on this issue (except Mormon-Mitt) even when just the Republicants are asked.
"TIME Poll: Faith of the Candidates" TIME
The hoary joke that a "religious Democrat" is more of an oxymoron than "jumbo shrimp" couldn't be more wrong in this election cycle, in which it's the Democrats who are talking comfortably about faith while their Republican counterparts dodge the subject. Even so, as the results of a new TIME poll show, the conventional wisdom about the two political parties and religion may be so ingrained that no amount of evidence to the contrary can change perceptions.
Also turns out the people in the red states dislike Obama less than Rudy. Hmm... gotta love the polls.
"Obama draws loudest cheers at NAACP convention" Houston Chronicle
Presidential hopeful Barack Obama drew the loudest cheers of the eight Democratic candidates at a civil rights forum Thursday as he assailed the Bush administration's record on race relations.
The candidates shared the stage at the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People's 98th annual convention. But it was Obama, seeking to become the first black president, who drew the strongest applause from the 3,000 attendees.
even in the Seychelles,
young Tucker knew his bow tie kicked ass
"MSNBC's Carlson
on Obama: [H]e sounds like a pothead to me"
Media Matters
How high is this guy? It's like, what is he -- he always talks between bong hits? I mean, what is that? What does that mean, an "empathy deficit"?
AmigosdeObama.com proved, once again, that B-Rock owns the Internet.
"Latino Website Promoting
Barack Obama Attracts Over
50,000 Hits and Thousands of MP3 Downloads" Webwire
The website www.amigosdeobama.com was launched a month ago as part of a Latino outreach campaign to promote Presidential candidate Barack Obama and motivate Latinos to vote in key primary states. Because 50% of all Latinos have no opinion of Barack Obama, the website provides information on Senator Obama and his support of key Latino issues. The campaign’s slogan, “¿Cómo Se Dice… Cómo Se Llama? Obama, Obama” is provided as a free downloadable MP3 song and ringtone on the website.
"A black man in the White House?" BBC Americas
Senator Barack Obama has taken a big lead in the competition to raise political donations for the 2008 White House race. But he has many bridges to cross if he is to become the first black president, not least attracting the support of white southerners, writes the BBC's Nick Bryant.
"Obama tops $30 million in second quarter" ABC News
ABC News' George Stephanopoulos Reports: A source close to Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., says his presidential campaign raised more than $30 million during the second quarter, which ended yesterday.
Joe Biden, like Dick Cheney but without the power Huffington Post
"Obama pledges stronger lobbying reforms" Washington Post
Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) has promised a "different kind of campaign," one that hovers above the political fray. And so on Friday, after a week of contentious exchanges between his campaign and those of his Democratic rivals, Obama returned to talking about his reformist agenda.
Sweet Home Gore-Obama
"Obama wins as Democratic hopefuls vie in Take Back America straw poll" Raw Story
Obama received 29% of the 720 votes. Former North Carolina Senator John Edwards finished second with 26% support. Senator Hillary Clinton of New York wound up third with 17% in spite of her traditional front runner status in most national polls.
Life Sucks
Shit Happens
I'm a Student of T-shirts
Barack O'Bama goes latin
Amigos de Obama
"Obama Statement on Pride Month" BarackObama.com
"Too often, the issue of LGBT rights is exploited by those seeking to divide us. But at its core, this issue is about who we are as Americans. It's about whether this nation is going to live up to its founding promise of equality by treating all its citizens with dignity and respect."
"Obama Leads Four Republicans in U.S. Race" Angus Reid
Democrat Barack Obama is the top 2008 presidential contender in the United States, according to a poll by Zogby International. At least 46 per cent of respondents would support the Illinois senator in head-to-head contests against four prospective Republican nominees.
John McCain not down with the military lingo of this century.
"Media flacks for McCain's false "flak" attack on Obama's spelling" Media Matters
Radio host Rush Limbaugh, Politico senior political writer Jonathan Martin, and other media figures uncritically repeated Sen. John. McCain's (R-AZ) attack on Sen. Barack Obama's (D-IL) spelling of "flack jacket" with a "c" in "flack," without noting -- as MSNBC congressional correspondent Mike Viqueira did -- that "flack" is an "alternative to the spelling of 'flak.' "
Obama votes no Huffington Post
Obama is counting on the young ones...
"Obama "counting" on young voters in New Hampshire" Yahoo (Reuters)
Energized by wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, America's youth have leaned Democratic in recent elections, pollsters say, providing an attractive lure for Obama and other candidates to court them in the race for their party's nomination.
...while NewsMax has another crowd in mind
"Obama Rakes in $750K with Soros in Greenwich" NewsMax
About 300 people turned out Saturday at a reception at the waterfront home of hedge fund billionaire Paul Tudor Jones II. Fellow billionaire investor George Soros and celebrity Tyra Banks were among the attendees at the $2,300-per-person fundraiser.
Did you see it? Cause
that's the only time he's mentioned. But he sure makes a scary great
headline.
Barry on ABC's This Week
"THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM - George W. Bush has the lowest presidential approval rating in a generation, and the leading Dems beat every major ’08 Republican. Coincidence?" Newsweek
Obama is seen as the most optimistic candidate (a consistent measure of electability) in either party: 51 percent of registered voters say the Illinois senator is optimistic, compared to 47 percent who say Edwards is, 46 percent for Clinton, 45 percent for Giuliani, 40 percent for McCain, and 27 for Romney.
The Oprah on Barry H.
LARRY KING: Have you endorsed a candidate before?
O: Never.
KING: What made you do so now?
O: Because I know him personally. I think that what he stands for, what he has proven that he can stand for, what he has shown was worth me going out on a limb for and I haven't done it in the past because I haven't felt that anybody -- I didn't know anybody well enough to be able to say, I believe in this person.
Obama beating Mama in latest Rasmussen
"2008 Democratic Presidential Primary" Rasmussen
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey shows Illinois Senator Barack Obama with a statistically insignificant two point advantage over the former First Lady. It’s Obama 32% Clinton 30%. Former North Carolina Senator John Edwards remains in third with support holding steady at 17%. No other candidate tops 3%.
It's official, the ladies love the Obama.
Oh, Halle. Why don't you call us anymore?
