Tag archive for ‘Senator Barack Obama’
Obama on Race: Choosing the Past over the Future
Throughout the Democratic primaries, Senator Barack Obama emphasized that the choice for voters was between the past, represented by his main rival, Senator Hillary Clinton, and the future, which belonged to him. Yet on serious issues involving race in America, Obama has stood time and again with the attitudes, grievances and failed policies of the [...]
Barack Obama warns Republicans to leave Michelle alone
Senator Barack Obama has made clear that there was one target in the White House race he considered off limits to Republicans, declaring: “Lay off my wife.”
The Democratic senator was responding to an advertisement produced by the Republican party in Tennessee.
Republican activists had portrayed her as unpatriotic because she said in [...]
Politico: Bush - Obama misinterpreted remarks
Washington, D.C. (Politico.com): President Bush is disputing coverage of his “appeasement” remark as an attack on Barack Obama, telling NBC News with a smile that the widespread interpretation is not “exactly right.”
White House officials say they were taken aback by the ferocious political reaction back home to that passage in the president’s remarks on Thursday [...]
Guardian: Republicans fear Obama victory after polls shock
London, UK (Guardian.co.uk): The language of the internal party memo was stark and brutally honest. Sent out by Republican congressman Tom Davis last week after a stunning congressional by-election loss in the Deep South, it warned colleagues of a potential disaster ahead.
The result, in which the Democratic party won a Mississippi House of Representatives seat [...]
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