Recycled from TPM Cafe, via DailyKos: U.S. Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) today introduced binding and comprehensive legislation that not only reverses the President’s dangerous and ill-conceived escalation of the Iraq war, but also sets a new course for U.S. policy that can bring a responsible end to the war and bring our troops home. _ [...]
Recycled from DailyKos diaries, and PrairieStateBlue. Bear with me as I figure the proper HTML coding… From the NY Times: Barack Obama recently lamented the fact that “politics has become so bitter and partisan” – which it certainly has. But he then went on to say that partisanship is why “we can’t tackle the big [...]
“Chuck Hagel for president! If it ever narrows down to a choice between him and some Democratic hack who hasn’t the guts to fundamentally challenge the president on Iraq, then the conservative Republican from Nebraska will have my vote,” quoted by Robert Scheer, editor of TruthDig, co-author of the book “The Five Biggest Lies Bush [...]
With a tip of the hat to Daily Kos, here’s a high school yearbook photo of Barack Obama from Eve Maler‘s Pushing String blog, back when he was known as “Barry.”
Today, I received an email from Mr. Barack Obama: As many of you know, over the last few months I have been thinking hard about my plans for 2008. Running for the presidency is a profound decision – a decision no one should make on the basis of media hype or personal ambition alone – [...]
Even though for the past couple of months I’ve been running a website called “Barack Obama- Now,” I honestly don’t know if Barack Obama is ready to be ready to be president, or if the United States of America is ready for Barack Obama to be president. Is there any hope for a skinny kid [...]
