Tag Archives: Barack Obama

ABC: Obama Has Two Dads

Via Ben Smith at Politico, who calls it one of the “all-time great TV news goofs.”

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Obama Hits 50% For First Time

Convention bounce? Palin anti-bounce? Great news for now, but let’s see how the numbers are after the RNC ends. Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has reached the 50 percent milestone in the latest Gallup Poll, the first time he has hit the threshold considered to be a safe number for victory. According to Gallup’s Daily Tracking Poll, the Democratic presidential …

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Bigger Than Idol, Oscars, Olympics

Huge numbers for Obama’s speech last night. Barack Obama’s acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention was seen by more than 38 million people. Nielsen Media Research said more people watched Obama speak than watched the Olympics opening ceremony in Beijing, the final “American Idol” or the Academy Awards this year. Obama talked before a live audience of 80,000 people …

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Obama’s Complete Speech

I’ll have more thoughts tomorrow, I’m beat.

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“We Have Our Differences”

In the waning minutes of his address, Barack Obama made an acknowledgment of gay rights that seemed meant to both encourage LGBT followers and reassure others that he isn’t in our evil clutches: “I know we have our differences on same sex marriage, but surely we can agree that our gay and lesbian brothers and sisters deserve to visit the …

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McCain’s Post-Obama Speech Ad

John McCain will air this kind acknowledgment of Obama’s achievement on this “historic day” immediately after the conclusion of Obama’s speech tonight. If nothing else, McCain is very, very good at playing the nice guy, all while his Rovian minions wreak behind-the-scenes bullshit.

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Can Lightning Strike Twice?

On the 45th anniversary of Martin Luther King’s I Have A Dream speech at the 1963 March On Washington, many are hoping that tonight Barack Obama can somehow recapture the excitement and optimism of that day. Many veterans of the march will gather at televisions in their living rooms Thursday night, or sit with friends and old comrades and watch …

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McCain Wants To Upstage Obama Tonight

Barack Obama will be making the most important speech of his life tonight when he accepts the Democratic nomination and John McCain is planning to steal the show. According to the Drudge Report, McCain’s camp plans to leak his VP pick at 6pm and then give some sort of confirmation at 8pm. Classy all the way. So much for the …

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O’ Hail The Messiah Lord Obama

This clip was created by wacko conservative radio star Glenn Beck. It’s to the tune of the national anthem of the former USSR and while Beck means it as a rip on Obama, you gotta admit it’s damn funny. “Hope for the change of the hope for the change.”

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Obama’s Surprise Appearance At DNC

After Joe Biden’s acceptance speech, Barack Obama made a surprise appearance at the convention. Obama was not expected to show until his acceptance speech tonight.

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Obama Nominated By Acclamation

As planned, when the nomination roll call got to New York, Sen. Clinton stopped the proceedings and asked that Barack Obama be nominated by general voice acclamation. It’s official and it’s history.

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The McSame Ol’ Tune

One of Obama’s tougher attack ads. Without the advent of YouTube, we wouldn’t have a new campaign ad every.single.day. Good thing?

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BREAKING: Obama Assassination Plot Foiled In Denver, Four Gunmen Arrested

Fuck. Terrifying news from Denver. A gang of four white supremacists have been arrested with high-powered rifles and have admitted planning to assassinate Barack Obama. Police are investigating whether they have foiled an assassination plot against Barack Obama after four people were arrested near the Democratic convention in Denver in the possession of high powered rifles. One of the suspects …

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When Doves Cry

For the record, I really like Michelle Obama and thought her speech tonight was quite solid, if a little too slick and rehearsed. But what the heck was CNN doing with those relentless cutaways to sobbing women in the audience? “Oh mah Gawd, she loves her children JUST LIKE I LOVE MINE.” And when the Obamatots came out onstage for …

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New Owner Of Advocate & Out Magazines Tears Up Donation Check For Obama

Paul Colichman, the new owner of The Advocate and Out Magazine, tells Page 6 about watching Barack Obama at last week’s Saddleback Forum. “I’m a die-hard Democrat,” he tells Page Six. But Colichman was also a die-hard Hillary Clinton supporter. He and Harry Thomason produced a documentary, “The Hunting of the President: The 10-Year Campaign to Destroy Bill and Hillary …

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No Biden Bounce: Hillerites Abandon Obama Over VP Pick

According to a CNN poll taken this weekend, Barack Obama’s pick of Joe Biden as running mate has cost him among die-hard Hillary supporters and provided no “bounce” in his popularity. Sixty-six percent of Clinton supporters, registered Democrats who want Clinton as the nominee, are now backing Obama. That’s down from 75 percent in the end of June. Twenty-seven percent …

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Hillary To Release Delegates

Hillary Clinton is expected to formally release her delegates to Barack Obama on Wednesday. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, hoping to unite the Democratic Party and cement her future in it, will gather her hard-won primary delegates Wednesday at a reception where she is expected to formally release them to Barack Obama. The New York senator has invited her pledged delegates …

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McCain On Obama-Biden

John McCain uses Joe Biden’s own words to attack Obama. There’s always some of this when running mates are former candidates.

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It’s Joe Biden

Confirmed via CNN at 12:45am EST.Earlier tonight: The United States Secret Service has dispatched a protective detail to assume the immediate protection of Sen. Joseph Biden, D-Del., a source tells ABC News, indicating in all likelihood that Biden has been officially notified that Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, has selected him to be his running mate. Sources also tell ABC News …

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It Won’t Be Hillary

Sorry, PUMAs and other diehard Hillarians. There’s one Democrat who would seem to have little or no chance of being picked by Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) to be his running mate – his former opponent, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.). But it’s not for the reason you think. Obama has often said, most recently on NBC’s “Meet the Press” on …

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