Topic: barack obama

...it is said - oh, Lord, how often it is said - that Barack Obama suffers from the fact that the American people don't know him. That may be true and, if it is, it says some scary things about the state of the American electorate more than anything else, given the wall-to-wall primary coverage over the last eighteen months. What isn't said much, but would be equally true were it to be said more...

According to this article, Republican strategists predict that Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., will pick former House Majority Leader Dick Gephardt, D-Mo., as his running mate in the race for the White House. Like Vice President Dick Cheney, Gephardt has a dyke daughter, Crissy, seen in the recent documentary For the Bible Tells Me So....

I have been seeing that the writers for The National Review have been, relatively respectfully really, claiming Barack Obama as someone who is "not pulling a Sister Souljah" — the focal point being his reluctance to cut ties with Jeremiah Wright, which was to suggest that Obama is, fretfully for them, an actual straight-ahead Liberal poised to win the White House. Actually he's a man who has...

Barack Obama seems intent on genuflecting to churchy conservative types, but I continue to wonder if the would-be church-state fusionists should be careful what they ask for:Obama, a former community organizer in Chicago, would create a new White House office for the President's Council for Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships ... [he] called for rules to ensure that the council wouldn't...

By Matthew Sutton of Medford, Oregon. Matthew is an attorney practicing law in Medford, Oregon and is the group administrator of Oregon South for Barack Obama. He was recently elected as a Delegate to the Democratic National Convention from Oregon's Second Congressional District. As a first time Delegate to the Democratic National Convention, I am still learning about my role. I often ask,...

I don't think continuing the current administration's foray into mixing religion and government is a good idea:Obama will create a President’s Council for Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships As Barack Obama has said many times, he believes that change comes not from the top-down, but from the bottom-up, and few are closer to the people than our churches, synagogues, temples, and mosques....

obama to expand bush's faith based programs from ap: Reaching out to religious voters, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama is announcing plans to expand President Bush's program steering federal social service dollars to religious groups and — in a move sure to cause controversy — support some ability to hire and fire based on faith. obama may keep gates as def sec from...

Hmmm... will this get some of his supporters' knickers in a twist? Reaching out to evangelical voters, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama is announcing plans that would expand President...

Eli Saslow has written an excellent piece at MSNBC that looks at the rumor mill surrounding Barack Obama and its impact on voters' opinions in one town in Ohio. I have been on the receiving end of...

Sen. Barack Obama may not be supportive of same-sex marriage, but the presidential candidate says he's against banning it as well. According to Queerty: "I oppose the divisive and discriminatory efforts to amend the California Constitution and similar effors to amend the U.S. Constitution or those of other states. For too long, issues of LGBT rights have been...