Posts Tagged ‘Barack Obama’

PRESIDENTIAL POLITICS: POINT / COUNTERPOINT

March 17, 2008

PRESIDENTIAL POLITICS: THE BIG STATE THEORY

March 11, 2008

QUICK PRIMARY UPDATE

March 4, 2008

* McCain gets his delegates
* Huckabee has already conceded
* Rumor has it that Bush will endorse McCain tomorrow
* Obama takes Vermont (no one is surprised)
* Clinton gets Rhode Island
* Ohio and Texas Democratic races too close to call

PRESIDENTIAL POLITICS: A DARKER SHADE OF DEMOCRAT

March 4, 2008

Per The Stranger and the ever-vigilant Eli Sanders:
It seems that the run-up to today’s contests in Texas, Ohio and elsewhere just isn’t enough political fodder, as some following the Democratic race are starting to cry foul over the Clinton campaign’s portrayal of Barack Obama’s skin color in recent ads.
At issue are these comparative videos:

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BOMBING FOR OBAMA

February 28, 2008

Shepard Fairey (of obey giant fame) stepped up his obama love fest last weekend by installing a HUGE 16′x30′ Obama Billboard on his building in echo park over the weekend.

Shep seems to be obsessed with Mr. Barack HUSSEIN Obama these days, perhaps Supertouch is on to something with the suggestion that he is vying for [...]

PRESIDENTIAL POLITICS: YES, PECAN!

February 20, 2008

While McCain takes a breather and waits for his certain anointment, Obama and Clinton continue the primary slog. The first of two upcoming debates is tomorrow, but Obama obviously has the momentum, with a clean sweep through all of February’s 10 contests behind him. And on that point, Bill Clinton himself acknowledged that it’s do-or-die [...]

FOX NEWS RADIO: OBAMA SOUNDS LIKE HITLER

February 15, 2008

A 65-year-old Texan called into Fox News Radio’s Tom Sullivan with this gem: Obama sure sounds a lot like Hitler. It’s not the message or the style, the caller said, just, you know, the inspiration. Sullivan lapped it up and decided to mash together a few clips of Hitler with some of Obama’s greater hits. [...]

PRESIDENTIAL POLITICS: POTOMAC PRIMARY

February 12, 2008

Obama snaps up Virginia with ease and is doing the same in Maryland and D.C. Clinton continues to write off Obama’s relatively small-state wins and is looking ahead to March 4th and the contests in Texas and Ohio. When the night is all over, however, Obama will have a definitive delegate lead. Hillary is putting [...]

PRESIDENTIAL POLITICS: CAUCUS CATCH-UP

February 10, 2008

Yesterday’s contests all fell for Obama: clear double-digit victories in Washington, Nebraska and Louisiana. The Clinton campaign had all but conceded that Obama would sweep the Saturday vote, but according to which news source you follow, those victories now put Obama ahead of or in a virtual tie with Clinton in the all-important delegate count.
And [...]

AND THE PRESIDENCY GOES TO …

February 6, 2008

With Super Tuesday behind us (not really) the Press-Telegram and LBPost.com tell us what some of you did after you voted: you went to Smooth’s Sports Grille to watch the results trickle in. And trickle. And trickle.
California’s presidential nominees are generally considered to be John McCain and Hillary Clinton, but as the Los Angeles Times [...]

 

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