NBC Nightly News: Obama’s ‘Family Ties’

Brief look at Barack Obama’s parents and his childhood.

Donna Brazile talks about the Credentials Committee

Hillary Clinton, in an interview with the Washington Post, says that she plans to stay in the race through June and to address the Michigan/Florida delegate issues with the Credentials Committee in August at the Democratic National Convention.
“I know there are some people who want to shut this down and I think they are [...]

Play 3-on-3 basketball with Obama in Indiana

According to the CNN political ticker,
Barack Obama will put his well-reputed basketball skills on the line in an effort to register young voters in this hoops-obsessed primary state, his campaign announced Friday.
Obama’s staff is hoping the chance to play a game of 3-on-3 pick-up with the presidential candidate will entice Indiana high school students to [...]

I Want Barack!

I’m not sure if it’s appropriate to say this video is by Twisted Sister or only Jay Jay French, but I like it.

Hillary Clinton’s pastor comments on Reverend Wright

A STATEMENT CONCERNING THE REV. JEREMIAH WRIGHT
The Reverend Jeremiah Wright is an outstanding church leader whom I have heard speak a number of times. He has served for decades as a profound voice for justice and inclusion in our society. He has been a vocal critic of the racism, sexism and homophobia which still tarnish [...]

Chuck Hagel on Diane Rehm (NPR)

Senator Chuck Hagel (R-NE) spoke candidly about the Iraq War and the Bush Administration’s mishandling of it. Hagel says that most Americans still believe that the mission in Iraq is about terrorism. The senator unequivocally states that the front on terrorism is not in Iraq. The front on terrorism is between Afghanistan and Pakistan. Iraq [...]

Obama Proposes Intelligence Reform

In Intelligence Revolutionary, Barron YoungSmith, intern at The New Republic, explains what Senator Obama means when he says, “I don’t want to just end the war. I want to end the mindset that got us in the war.” YoungSmith states that Obama’s proposal to give the Director of Intelligence (DNI) a fixed term (like that [...]

Chris Matthews: Stop the Clinton sitcom

Bill Richardson appeared on Morning Joe, once again addressing the “Judas” insult by James Carville. To his credit, Chris Matthews said that the media should not be reinforcing Clinton campaign spin but rather discussing the issues that Barack Obama (and Bill Richardson) want to address to move the country forward.

Conservative Republican endorses Obama

Conservative attorney, Doug Kmiec, endorses Obama at Slate.com
 Today I endorse Barack Obama for president of the United States. I believe him to be a person of integrity, intelligence, and genuine good will. I take him at his word that he wants to move the nation beyond its religious and racial divides and that he wants to return [...]

Knee-jerk patriotism?

At Salon.com, Gary Kamiya writes a scathing article, Reverend Jeremiah Wright Isn’t the Problem, in which he rails against what he calls “self-righteous, unthinking, ‘patriotism.’”
This is absurd. We’re worrying about someone in Row 245 who refuses to stand up for “The Star Spangled Banner,” while the people who are singing loudest and waving the biggest [...]