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[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch/v/P-qLDWQQmmo[/video] Here’s a clip from Barack Obama on the Daily Show in November 7, 2005, which is almost a year ago. If this clip doesn’t load, click HERE. If would like to save this clip for your personal use, I would recommend that you use KeepVid to save this as a FLV file. From there, [...]
Richard Cohen of the Washington Post gets it: I cheer also because Obama is an African American — an African father, an American mother. For someone like him to be a presidential candidate — maybe even president — says oodles about this country. After eight years of George W. Bush and his narcissistic foreign policy [...]
from MediaBistro.com: “I inhaled — that was the point.” That was what Illinois Senator Barack Obama, currently on a book tour that may or may not segue into a run for the 2008 presidency, said to New Yorker editor David Remnick this afternoon at the American Magazine Conference, after Remnick asked Obama whether or not [...]
On Sunday, Barack Obama was on MEET THE PRESS where he announced that he may actually run for president in 2008. To quote: SEN. OBAMA: . . . I don’t want to be coy about this, given the responses that I’ve been getting over the last several months, I have thought about the possibility. But [...]
With a tip of the hat to DailyKos
In the October 23 issue of TIME magazine, there’s a cover article by Joe Klein on the topic of Barack Obama as the next president of the United States. As far as I know, this is the very first national cover article of Barack Obama as a potential presidential candidate.
Ezra Klein asks whether Barack is indeed ready to lead? Read the article at American Prospect.
New York magazine has an article on Barack Obama in the October 2 issue. Here’s a few paragraphs: Perhaps the most captivating component of Obama’s appeal, though, is that he is only the third black candidate to be elected to the U.S. Senate since Reconstruction. And if you’re only the third black senator in 130 [...]
