With a tip of the hat to DailyKos, here’s what Barack Obama said about the Republicans : I think it’s fair to say that the Republicans were the party of ideas for a pretty long chunk of time there over the last 10-15 years in the sense that they were challenging conventional wisdom. Here’s what [...]
Once again, Media Matters continues to provide more information regarding media misinformation on Obama: http://mediamatters.org/items/200801100003 Conservative radio host Cunningham falsely referred to “Barack Mohammed Hussein Obama,” advanced madrassa falsehood During his nationally syndicated radio talk show, Bill Cunningham repeatedly called Sen. Barack Obama, “Barack Mohammed Hussein Obama,” even though “Mohammed” is not a part of [...]
The Huffington Post provided an interesting spin on the skinny guy from Chicago: There was something improbable about the new guy from Chicago via Honolulu and Jakarta, Indonesia, the one with the Harvard law degree and the job teaching constitutional law, turning up in Springfield, Ill., in January 1997 among the housewives, ex-mayors and occasional [...]
Two interesting things happened today: 1) More than 20,000 people donated to the Obama campaign online. That’s the most ever contributed to Obama in a single day. 2) Today, John Kerry, the 2004 Democratic nominee for president, endorsed Obama for president. I didn’t realize that John Kerry was the guy that wanted Barack Obama to [...]
Kos of Daily Kos writes about Bill Clinton‘s gripes on the supposed media bias towards Barack Obama: I see Clinton’s surrogates complaining about the unfairness of the media coverage, about how Obama is getting a free pass. Does this sort of whining ever work? It sure didn’t in 2004 as us Deaniacs complained about the [...]
Bob Herbert of NY Times describes the Obama Phenomenon Senator Obama’s victory speech was a concise oratorical gem. No candidate in either party can move an audience like he can. He characterized his stunning victory as an affirmation of “the most American of ideas — that in the face of impossible odds, people who love [...]
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“I find the manner in which they’ve been running their campaign sort of depressing, lately. It was interesting in the debate, Sen. Clinton saying ‘Don’t feed the American people false hopes. Get a reality check, you know?’ I mean, you can picture JFK saying, ‘We can’t go to the moon, it’s a false hope. Let’s [...]
One of the biggest gripes I’ve heard about Barack Obama is his “lack of experience.” What most people don’t realize is that he’s actually had more experience as an elected official than either Hillary Clinton or John Edwards. He actually wrote some pretty decent laws that got passed. Charles Peters wrote about his accomplishments for [...]
Congratulations go out to Barack Obama for the historic victory in Iowa tonight. Here’s his victory speech: As Daily Kos points out, things don’t look encouraging for the Republicans. Here’s some interesting statistics for voter turnout in Iowa, a supposedly “red” state: Total Voter Turnout (approximate) Percentage of total vote 24.5% Obama (38% Total Democratic [...]
