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Barack Obama’s speech in Coral Gables, Florida today was interrupted by a group of black protesters calling themselves “Blacks Against Obama.” The protesters waved signs claiming that he has been endorsed by the KKK. The signs said Obama was for gay marriage and abortion, and said his candidacy was “endorsed by the KKK.” Another sign said, “Jesse Jackson hates Obama.” …

Perhaps driven by this week’s horrific financial news, Barack Obama’s polling numbers have him back in the lead (according to Gallup, at least) for the first time in two weeks. Separate Gallup tracking shows that consumer confidence has become significantly more negative as this week progressed, signifying that Americans are clearly paying attention to the major problems facing Wall Street …

Three hot detectives go undercover at Obama headquarters….

The National Organization for Women, presumably a massive collective of Hillary supporters, has at last endorsed the Obama/Biden ticket. America’s largest women’s rights organisation delivered a snub to Sarah Palin’s history-making candidacy yesterday by endorsing Barack Obama and Joe Biden’s bid for power. The National Organisation for Women (NOW) is 500,000 strong and hugely influential. The feminist organisation almost never …

The Obama campaign has launched a religious voters outreach which includes lots of faith swag. The Obama campaign is preparing rolling out a new line of “faith merchandise” – the latest move in an ambitious effort to win over religious voters. “Check out the Believers for Barack, Pro-Family Pro-Obama, and Catholics for Obama buttons, bumper stickers and signs….” says Obama …

From Ultimate Improv, here’s Les Mizbarack, a little something for the Obama supporter and theatre queen in you. I played this ten times in a row last night, it’s really cute.

Well, the lovely Christers at the Values Voters Summit sure don’t hide their racism very well, do they? Activists at a conservative political forum snapped up boxes of waffle mix depicting Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama as a racial stereotype on its front and wearing Arab-like headdress on its top flap. Values Voter Summit organizers cut off sales of Obama …

OK, so we already know that Michael Phelps is hosting tomorrow’s season debut of Saturday Night Live. And we know that Barack Obama is going to make his second cameo appearance on the show. But guess who’s rumored to be making a surprise appearance? Hoo boy, this. will. be. good.

Barack Obama is planning on getting tough. Finally. Senator Barack Obama will intensify his assault against Senator John McCain, with new television advertisements and more forceful attacks by the candidate and surrogates beginning Friday morning, as he confronts an invigorated Republican presidential ticket and increasing nervousness in the Democratic ranks. Senator Barack Obama greeted Senator John McCain at a forum …

Ta-Nehisi Coates on Barack Obama’s blackness: To white people who feel smart enough to assess the relative blackness quotient of black people, I say–Stop Now. No offense, but just on the strength of you having this dialogue, I’m certain you haven’t the fucking faintest idea what you’re talking about. To black people who feel that your years of living in …

Unsurprising. Citizens in all 22 countries polled by the BBC want Barack Obama to win. US Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama may be struggling to nudge ahead of his Republican rival in polls at home, but people across the world want him in the White House, a BBC poll said. All 22 countries covered in the poll would prefer to …

Pundits on both sides are going ballistic over Barack Obama’s usage of a common metaphor for dressing up an old idea. “Let’s just list this for a second. John McCain says he’s about change, too. Except — and so I guess his whole angle is, ‘Watch out, George Bush, except for economic policy, health-care policy, tax policy, education policy, foreign …

“I’ve got the questions and the answers. Now all I’ve got to do is memorize them. It’s just like learning a lot of lines, so I kind of think that as an actor, I’ll be better prepared than most.”- Scottish actor Alan Cumming, who is taking his American citizenship test in October in order to vote for Barack Obama.

This has got to be the lowest attack ad in history. Dan Savage deconstructs it thusly: “That scary black man running for president? He wants to fuck the shit out of your kids.” Obama’s campaign reacts to the ad: It is shameful and downright perverse for the McCain campaign to use a bill that was written to protect young children …

The latest Gallup poll shows McCain taking a sharp upswing as Palin’s post-convention creepy fanclub of snake handlers continues to grow. But from Real Clear Politics, here’s their latest assessment of where the electoral college stands. Of course, these maps can vary widely depending on who’s doing the guessing.

Pretty much every person we’ve met here immediately wants to talk about Sarah Palin thanks to my Obama cap, which only a hour finally elicted the above quote from a shopper at Checkpoint Charlie. The consensus on Palin is completely horrible, of course. One very tall Finn told me last night that she’s become a national joke for his countrymen. …

Politico goes to the actuaries for the hard numbers. It’s a macabre point to raise on the night when Palin will speak to the convention here — but a look at the actuarial tables insurance companies use to evaluate customers shows that it’s not an irrelevant one. According to these statistics, there is a roughly 1 in 3 chance that …