An Obama “Love Story”

Simply Beautiful (to quote a friend)

Michelle Obama on The View

Gore supports Obama

Barack Obama’s Father’s Day Speech

Senator Obama gives Father’s Day address at Apostolic Church of God in Chicago.

More than words: Obama helps with flood relief efforts

Senator Barack Obama fills sandbags in Quincy, Illinois to help prevent further flooding. The Mississippi River is expected to crest there on Tuesday or early Wednesday.

He’s also mobilizing his grassroots supporters to volunteer and to make donations to help with the relief efforts.

Obama wins: Newspaper front pages from around the world

Simply the Best!

Obama is Fighting the Smears

The Obama Campaign has added a Fight the Smears component to its web site. Karen Tumulty of Time.com explains why.
…Obama told his top aides it was time for a more aggressive solution to the rumors that have been popping up on the Internet about him and his family for months. And so the Obama campaign [...]

Why a lifelong Republican wants Obama to win

Frank Schaeffer writes why he supports Obama.
This is a great day for those of us who have been fighting for Senator Obama! I’m a good example of why he’ll win in November. I’m the least typical Obama supporter. And there are many more like me.
I cut my political teeth in the seventies through the early [...]

We did it! I’m proud of you!

A beautiful, loving moment.

 

Powerful: What Obama’s nomination means for some

A reader from Andrew Sullivan’s The Daily Dish

Tomorrow I will go to the African American cemetery outside of Chicago where my great-grandparents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, friends, neighbors, and my mother and father are buried. And I will tell them that they were right — that if we studied hard, worked hard, kept the faith, fought [...]