Marc Ambinder says 527’s supporting Obama may be on their way back.
An Obama adviser privy to the campaign’s internal thinking on the matter says that,with less than two months before the election and with the realization that Republicans have achieved financial parity with Democrats, they hope that Democratic allies — what another campaign aide termed [...]
Obama raised $8 million since Palin’s speech last night and is "on pace" to hit $10 million by the time "John McCain hits the stage tonight."
A new USA Today-Gallup Poll has Barack Obama finally moving out of the 40’s into a 50% to 43% lead over John McCain.
The Democratic National Convention significantly boosted Americans’ views of Barack Obama as a strong leader who “shares your values” and can manage the economy and Iraq, a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll taken Saturday and [...]
Transcript of Barack Obama’s speech at the Democratic National Convention in Denver last night.
Well, it looks like the Times finally got the nominees in the picture rather than the runner-up.
Barack Obama just won the Democratic Party’s nomination for President. In addition to winning the nomination, Obama is the first African-American in the history of our country to win the nomination of any major party. The media’s perspective — So?
Obama may be the nominee, but the media simply cannot stop its lovefest with Hillary Clinton. [...]
City and federal authorities in Denver may have thwarted an attempt to assassinate Sen. Barack Obama during his acceptance speech Thursday evening at the Democratic National Convention.
Law enforcement officials have arrested at least three people (four by some reports). The New York Times reports Tharin Robert Gartrell, 28, Nathan Johnson, 32, and Shawn Robert Adolf, [...]
Via Joe Sudbay:
D.C. City Councilmember [and supredelegate] Jack Evans today announced that he is switching his support from Clinton to Obama.
Well, if Hillary did nothing else, she gave us a few good lines, which seemed appropriate to go with the spanking the Times Editorial Board has given President Bush and the Senior Senator from Arizona, John McCain.
President Bush’s penchant for slash-and-burn politics, learned at the feet of Karl Rove and the late Lee Atwater, is [...]
If there were any doubts that John McCain is George III, McCain removed them in his response to Obama’s speech today. Be afraid — be very afraid of Barack Obama.
Watch it.
McCain is definitely going to continue the fear-mongering that has been the foundation of George Bush’s presidency and dominated [...]
(Update I and Update II below)
Barack Obama blasted John McCain and George Bush this afternoon for their remarks yesterday that Obama was a Neville-Chamberlin appeaser and unfit to “preserve this nation’s security.” Obama accused them of “dishonesty and divisive attacks.” He denounced their foreign policies, saying they were based on “hypocrisy, fear-pedaling, and fear-mongering,” and [...]
Joe Biden on Bush’s remarks earlier today.
“This is bullsh**t. This is malarkey. This is outrageous. Outrageous for the president of the United States to go to a foreign country, sit in the Knesset…and make this kind of ridiculous statement,” Biden said angrily in a brief interview just off the Senate floor.
McCain says Obama is not fit to defend the country because Obama is willing to meet with Iran.
“I think [it] is an unacceptable position, and shows that Senator Obama does not have the knowledge, the experience, the background to make the kind of judgments that are necessary to preserve this nation’s security.”
Obama has said he [...]
Every day George Bush continues to be president is just another day of him demonstrating to the world that he has no intellect, ethics, morals, or respect for the American people. Bush’s attack on Obama today was insulting, disrespectful, and without merit. He stooped so low as to equate Obama to Neville Chamberlin and [...]
(Updated below)
From the AP:
Democrat John Edwards has given his long-awaited endorsement to Barack Obama.
It’s a major boost from a former presidential rival as Obama tries to shrug off Hillary Rodham Clinton, who is determined to press ahead.
Edwards was to appear with Obama in Grand Rapids, Mich., as Obama campaigns in a critical general election battleground.
Update [...]
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