Topic: obama

Late last week, we talked a lot about the Supreme Court's ruling on gun rights -- but not at all about another ruling they made on the same day. A ruling that will have far-reaching consequences in this year's elections, right here in Oregon. On Thursday, the Supreme Court invalidated a little known rule called the "Millionaire's Amendment." Here's how it used to work: Candidates for the U.S....money to buy a race. The most famous case of the Millionaire's Amendment was in 2004, when Barack Obama faced Blair Hull in the Democr...

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...

I’m a big supporter of DNC Chairman Howard Dean’s 50-state strategy. I like the fact that Obama has run his campaign in all 50 states, instead of adopting a more common recent strategy of focusing only on run-off states like Florida, Pennsylvania and Ohio. When I was frustrated with my options in some of the Democratic primaries my husband would quote the mantra of a political blog he...

UPDATE: It looks like Barack Obama is going to throw Gen. Wesley Clark under the bus now. How many folks is that so far? A grandmother, a couple of pastors, some childhood mentors and now a retired...

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...

Do you remember that scene in Jesus Camp where the kids are offering a prayer to a cardboard stand-up of George Bush? (Youtube link here, if you haven't seen it before.) Well, some Obama supporters have officially creeped me out just as much as that scene in Jesus Camp did by "informally" changing their middle names to "Hussein" to show solidarity with their chosen one candidate: Emily...

An excellent picture of what is going on today with politicians and taxes, submitted by a FairTax Volunteer: POLITICIANS ONLY GIVE LIP SERVICE TO TAX REFORM “There you go again.” At a recent presidential debate, this statement made famous by Ronald Reagan, should have been directed to both Senator Obama and Senator Clinton when each of them spoke of changing the tax code to penalize...

pa.barackobama.com | Susan C. Moyer's Blog: Impeaching President Bush However, after watching "911 Mysteries" I can only say it is worse than I imagined. The movie, while not coming right out and saying it, basically leads one to conclude that President Bush was behind the attacks (which would mean he knowingly created the situation and authorized its enactment) and the horrible deaths of the...