Topic: obama

I will always remember exactly where I was when Sen. Hillary Clinton suspended the roll call count of delegates for the Democratic National Convention, and called for the party to nominate Sen. Barack Obama by acclamation, officially making Sen. Obama the first non-white presidential candidate for the United States of America. I was sitting in a hospital room, with my sister, as she was waiting...

Oh, and Joe Biden spoke too. What a day. Wednesday, above all else, was the day I actually cast my vote as a delegate from Oregon to nominate Barack Obama. Not that you'd know it from watching on TV, of course. Yesterday I wrote a little bit about how the voting works. After the delegates mark their votes and sign the tally sheets, the votes are entered into some kind of handheld...

Looking for something to do beyond watching the convention? MoveOn.org national offers an opportunity to fight back against the Bush admin's lame-duck, back-door effort to impose by rule a regressive policy enabling individual healthcare workers to impose their own moral views on patients, and an unscientific definition of pregnancy that would redefine the most widely used forms of hormonal...

McCain 49 - Obama 42 Ok you can take Florida out of the "toss-up" column. John McCain has, after Obama announced Joe Biden as his running mate, opened up a pretty good lead and is moving away in the...

Obama campaign confronts WGN radio: The Swamp DENVER — Sen. Barack Obama's campaign organized its supporters Wednesday night to confront Tribune-owned WGN-AM in Chicago for having a critic of the Illinois Democrat on its air The Messiah cannot be questioned!...

Barack Obama's nomination was a key moment in TV coverage It was a meticulously organized peace offering done at a crucial time. Clinton stepped to a microphone on the convention's floor at 6:47 p.m. EDT, when ABC, CBS and NBC were in the midst of their evening newscasts. All three newscasts carried the event live on the East Coast, along with the cable news networks. (ABC broke into regular...

You know, it's funny: when you throw away everything you've ever claimed to stand for in a bid to tear down your opponent and secure the presidency, and you get called on it, it sorta stings. Doesn't it, John? What do you want voters to know coming out of the Republican Convention — about you, about your candidacy? I'm prepared to be President of the United States, and I'll put my...that? O.K., when your aides came to you and you decided, having been attacked by Barack Obama, to run some of those ads, was there...

Here we come, Johnny. Now, we're talking. Never mind my worries, after DNC Day 1 that the Democrats weren't hitting hard enough. Last night's speeches at the Democratic National Convention were what the pundits refer to as "red meat." The prominent speakers were Senator John Kerry, President Bill Clinton, and Vice-Presidential nominee, Senator Joe Biden. And they spent the evening...to maintain his influence with Democrats, is compelled to fully and completely support Barack Obama. That being said, examination of a...

Sometimes they don't work: Political lesson of the day: Be careful what you ask people to pray for; you may find yourself embroiled in a public relations flap. The political arm of the socially conservative Focus on the Family religious group today yanked from its website a video that called on folks to ask God to open the heavens and let precipitation pour on Barack Obama just before his...

Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Portland, made his case to a national audience yesterday when he spoke at the Democratic National Convention. Saddling up alongside presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, Merkley, too, argued for change and equated incumbent Sen. Gordon Smith, R-Oregon, to Bush and McCain, more of the same. This is the text of his speech. I’m Jeff...