Obama:The Real Straight Talker!

Michelle Obama on The View

Gore supports Obama

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 has built what might best be described as a Web-based rumor clearinghouse, located at fightthesmears.com, in which it hopes all the shady stories about Obama’s faith, his family and his rumored connections with controversial figures can go to die.

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 eighties as an organizer in the antiabortion religious right. I’m a fifty-five year old white man who has been a conservative most of my life. I’ve been a Republican activist who campaigned for McCain in 2000. I’m a big fan of the military. My son served in the Marines. If Obama can reach me he can reach anyone.

Barack Obama: Democratic Nominee

Senator Barack Obama is the Democratic Nominee

Cardoza’s endorsement the first of at least 40 to come

US Rep Dennis Cardoza switched his endorsement from Clinton to Obama today.

Cardoza also waded into the controversy over seating the Florida and Michigan delegations at the Democratic convention. “I will not support changing the rules in the fourth quarter of this contest through some convoluted DNC rules committee process. Yet, we must find a resolution” to the situation with Florida and Michigan, Cardoza said. “I believe we need to avoid this potentially divisive situation by uniting behind one nominee and bringing the party together immediately,” he added.

But according to Al Giordano of the Field, Cardoza’s move signals many more to come.

The Field has learned that Cardoza is the first of a group of at least 40 Clinton delegates, many of them from California, that through talking among themselves came to a joint decision that all of them would vote for Obama at the convention. They have informed Senator Clinton that it’s time to unite around Obama, and that they will be coming out, one or two at a time, and announcing their switch between now and the convention if Senator Clinton doesn’t do the same.

James Baker: Talking to an enemy is NOT appeasement

Nice rebuttal to President George W. Bush and Senator John McCain. James Baker in 2006 explains diplomacy and discusses what is and is not appeasement.