9/16/08 - John McCain's Health Records Must Be Released
John McCain has not yet released his medical records to the public. McCain is 72 years old, and has been diagnosed with invasive melanoma. In May of this year, a small group of selected reporters were allowed to review 1,173 pages of McCain's medical records that covered only the last eight years, and were allowed only three hours to do so. John McCain's health is an issue of profound importance. We call on John McCain to issue a full, public disclosure of all of his medical records, available for the media and members of the general public to review.
9/15/08 - Obama to McCain: "What Economy Are You Talking About?"
Presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama shakes hands after a rally at the Colorado State Fair Grounds in Pueblo, Colorado.
Obama said the upheaval on Wall Street was "the most serious financial crisis since the Great Depression" and blamed it on policies that he said Republican rival John McCain supports. "This country can't afford another four years of this failed philosophy."
9/15/08 - I Just Read The Speeches
You have to wonder if one reason the McCain campiagn "hired" Sarah Palin for the part of vice president is because she reads from a teleprompter really well. Did they want an "empty skirt" who never questions what is written for her to read?
In her acceptance speech - written for her by Matthew Sculley, senior speech writer for George W Bush - she approvingly quoted Fascist writer and rabid McCarthyite Westbrook Pegler, an avowed racist, for the moral superiority of small town values. This author once expressed his fervent hope about Robert F. Kennedy, as he contemplated his own run for the presidency in 1965, that "some white patriot of the Southern tier will spatter his spoonful of brains in public premises before the snow flies."
Was Palin's use of of this Pegler quote in her speech intended to send a subtle but unmistakable signal to far right wing supporters? Or did she even know what she was reading?
9/15/08 - Obama Raises Record $66 Million in One Month
Barack Obama disembarks from his campaign plane upon landing in Grand Junction, Colorado. In August his campaign raised more money than any presidential candidate has ever recorded in a one-month period, reporting it collected $66 million and drew 500,000 new first-time donors. Obama is the first major party candidate to forgo public financing for the general election since it was created 32 years ago. Further, Obama has announced that he will refuse contributions from federally registered lobbyists and PACs.
9/15/08 - "Honor" Ad
Following a weekend of scathing media reports and editorials on John McCains unprecedented campaign of dishonor and dishonesty, the Obama campaign today released a new 30 second TV ad called "Honor" is on the air.
9/14/08 - "Alaska Women Reject Palin" Rally Largest in State's History
People had never seen anything like it in Anchorage. The organizers had someone walk the rally with a counter, and they clicked off well over 1400 people. This was the biggest political rally ever, in the history of the state. The second most amazing thing is how many people honked and gave the thumbs up as they drove by. And even those that didn’t honk looked wide-eyed and awe-struck at the huge crowd that was growing by the minute. This just doesn’t happen in Alaska.
So, if you’ve been doing the math… Yes. The Alaska Women Reject Palin rally was significantly bigger than Palin’s rally that got all the national media coverage! Sarah Palin most definitely does not speak for all Alaskans.
9/14/08 - McCain Dead Wrong on Palin's Earmarks
John McCain got it wrong Friday when he asserted that his running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, had not requested any earmarks, the spending directives lawmakers insert in spending bills that McCain has vowed to eliminate. On "The View," McCain said that Palin would help him reform Washington, in part by putting a stop to the funding of lawmakers' pet projects through earmarks. When co-host Barbara Walters pointed out that Palin requested earmarks of her own, McCain interjected: "No, not as governor she didn't."
Palin, in fact, requested $198 million in federal earmarks in February, including such expenses as $487,000 to fight obesity in Alaska, $4 million to develop recreational trails, $8.7 million to recruit and train workers to build a natural gas pipeline, $25 million to compensate for reductions in the salmon harvest, $13.7 million to create a military readiness center, and $5 million to help schools meet No Child Left Behind requirements.
9/13/08 - Koch Endorses Obama: Palin "Scares the Hell Out of Me"
New York's infamously independent-minded former mayor, Edward I. Koch, this week said he was supporting Barack Obama for president and would be out campaigning for the Democratic ticket, most likely in key swing states. Koch, who endorsed and worked for George W Bush in 2004, wrote that "the issue for me is who will best protect and defend America" and that both parties were strong on terrorism.
I have concluded that the country is safer in the hands of Barack Obama, leader of the Democratic Party and protector of the philosophy of that party. Protecting and defending the U.S. means more than defending us from foreign attacks. It includes defending the public with respect to their civil rights, civil liberties and other needs, e.g., national health insurance, the right of abortion, the continuation of Social Security, gay rights, other rights of privacy, fair progressive taxation and a host of other needs and rights.
If the vice president were ever called on to lead the country, there is no question in my mind that the experience and demonstrated judgment of Joe Biden is superior to that of Sarah Palin. Sarah Palin is a plucky, exciting candidate, but when her record is examined, she fails miserably with respect to her views on the domestic issues that are so important to the people of the U.S., and to me. Frankly, it would scare me if she were to succeed John McCain in the presidency. (AP Photo by Gerald Herbert)
9/13/08 - Obama Scales Back Campaign Events in Ike's Wake
U.S. Democratic presidential nominee Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) shakes hands with the audience during a rally at Veterans Memorial Park in Manchester, New Hampshire. Obama asked his supporters Saturday to help with recovery from Hurricane Ike and canceled his plans to crack jokes on "Saturday Night Live" in the aftermath of the storm.
Obama didn't put aside his differences with Republican rival John McCain. In an outdoor rally attended by thousands, he discussed the "quiet storms that are taking place throughout America" as people lose their jobs, health care and pensions, and he argued that McCain is out of touch with those struggles. (Photo by Reuters)
9/12/08 - Conservative Political Forum Sells Racist "Obama Waffles"
Republican activists at a political forum sponsored by the Family Research Council 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. The Family Research Council was founded by right-wing minister James Dobson. Speakers at this year's conference included Republicans Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich.
9/12/08 - Devastating Ad About McCain's Lies
In the last few days we have seen a disgusting descent into the worst of sleazy smear politics. We need to spread the facts and the truth. Tell your friends and relations about this video, especially if they are unsure or undecided — they're more willing to believe you than a talking head!
9/12/08 - Obama in New Hampshire
Democratic presidential nominee U.S. Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) speaks during a town hall style meeting at New Hampshire Technical Institute in Concord, New Hampshire. Senator Obama is on a two day swing through New Hampshire, his first since accepting the democratic nomination last month. (Photo by Getty Images)
9/11/08 - "McCain's Integrity" by Andrew Sullivan, The Atlantic
Editor's Note: Historically a John McCain supporter, conservative journalist and blogger Andrew Sullivan takes on the issue of John McCain's integrity as he strives to win the presidency.
For me, this surreal moment - like the entire surrealism of the past ten days - is not really about Sarah Palin or Barack Obama or pigs or fish or lipstick. It's about John McCain. The one thing I always thought I knew about him is that he is a decent and honest person. When he knows, as every sane person must, that Obama did not in any conceivable sense mean that Sarah Palin is a pig, what did he do? Did he come out and say so and end this charade? Or did he acquiesce in and thereby enable the mindless Rovianism that is now the core feature of his campaign?
So far, he has let us all down. My guess is he will continue to do so. And that decision, for my part, ends whatever respect I once had for him. On core moral issues, where this man knew what the right thing was, and had to pick between good and evil, he chose evil. When he knew that George W. Bush's war in Iraq was a fiasco and catastrophe, and before Donald Rumsfeld quit, McCain endorsed George W. Bush against his fellow Vietnam vet, John Kerry in 2004. By that decision, McCain lost any credibility that he can ever put country first. He put party first and his own career first ahead of what he knew was best for the country.
And when the Senate and House voted overwhelmingly to condemn and end the torture regime of Bush and Cheney in 2006, McCain again had a clear choice between good and evil, and chose evil.
He capitulated and enshrined torture as the policy of the United States, by allowing the CIA to use techniques as bad as and worse than the torture inflicted on him in Vietnam. He gave the war criminals in the White House retroactive immunity against the prosecution they so richly deserve. The enormity of this moral betrayal, this betrayal of his country's honor, has yet to sink in. But for my part, it now makes much more sense. He is not the man I thought he was.
And when he had the chance to engage in a real and substantive debate against the most talented politician of the next generation in a fall campaign where vital issues are at stake, what did McCain do? He began his general campaign with a series of grotesque, trivial and absurd MTV-style attacks on Obama's virtues and implied disgusting things about his opponent's patriotism.
And then, because he could see he was going to lose, ten days ago, he threw caution to the wind and with no vetting whatsoever, picked a woman who, by her decision to endure her own eight-month pregnancy of a Down Syndrome child in public, that he was going to reignite the culture war as a last stand against Obama. That's all that is happening right now: a massive bump in the enthusiasm of the Christianist base. This is pure Rove.
Yes, McCain made a decision that revealed many appalling things about him. In the end, his final concern is not national security. No one who cares about national security would pick as vice-president someone who knows nothing about it as his replacement. No one who cares about this country's safety would gamble the security of the world on a total unknown because she polled well with the Christianist base. No person who truly believed that the surge was integral to this country's national security would pick as his veep candidate a woman who, so far as we can tell anything, opposed it at the time.
McCain has demonstrated in the last two months that he does not have the character to be president of the United States. And that is why it is more important than ever to ensure that Barack Obama is the next president. The alternative is now unthinkable. And McCain - no one else - has proved it.
9/11/08 - Obama Honors Agreement to Put Politics Aside on 9/11
U.S. Presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) (L) greets firefighter Liam Glinane as he visits Ground Zero on the 7th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks in New York City. Obama and Republican U.S presidential nominee Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) visited the World Trade Center area together to pay tribute to the more than 2,700 people killed on September 11, 2001. Both campaigns had agreed to not campaign on 9/11. Arriving late, Senator McCain managed to earlier squeeze in what could only be described as a campaign appearance and speech at the Shanksville, PA Flight 93 memorial service.
9/10/08 - Barack Solid With Hispanics
Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) greets supporters after addressing the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute's 31st annual awards gala at the Washington Convention Center in Washington, DC. A poll released at the institute's annual meeting Wednesday said that Obama had a "distinct advantage" over Republican candidate Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) among Hispanic voters in Nevada, New Mexico and Colorado and the two candidates are tied in Florida.
9/9/08 - Cheap Talk Express Lies About Sex Ed for Kindergartners
McCain is running a new ad that says:
Obama's one accomplishment? Legislation to teach "comprehensive sex education" to kindergartners. Learning about sex before learning to read? Obama is "wrong for your family."
The ad is based on Obama's support for a bill, in the Illinois state legislature, that said: "Each class or course in comprehensive sex education offered in any of grades K through 12 shall include instruction on the prevention of sexually transmitted infections, including the prevention, transmission and spread of HIV." The bill would simply add instruction on disease prevention to already existing Illinois sex-ed standards.
But the McCain campaign cheerfully turned this into Obama's support for "learning about sex before learning to read." A so called "civil" and "honorable" McCain approved the message.
9/8/08 - Palin is Clueless
To state the following means Sarah Palin does not have a grasp of what or who Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae are. Speaking before voters in Colorado Springs on September 6, the Republican vice presidential nominee claimed that lending giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac had "gotten too big and too expensive to the taxpayers." The companies, as McClatchy reported, "aren't taxpayer funded but operate as private companies."
"You would like to think that someone who is going to be vice president and conceivable president would know what Fannie and Freddie do," said Dean Baker, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research. "These are huge institutions and they are absolutely central to our country's mortgage debt. To not have a clue what they do doesn't speak well for her, I'd say."
9/8/08 - Country First, Truth Last -- "I Stopped the Bridge to Nowhere"
A new ad from John McCain's presidential campaign contends his running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, "stopped the Bridge to Nowhere." In fact, Palin was for the infamous bridge before she was against it. The Anchorage Daily News interviewed Palin during her 2006 run for governor. They asked if she was in favor of continuing state funding for the project. “Yes,” she responded, noting specifically her desire to renew Congressional support.
Palin did abandon plans to build the nearly $400 million bridge from Ketchikan to an island with 50 residents and an airport. But she made her decision after the project had become an embarrassment to the state, after federal dollars for the project were pulled back and diverted to other uses in Alaska, and after she had appeared to support the bridge during her campaign for governor.
9/8/08 - "No Maverick" Ad
They call themselves Mavericks. Whoa. Truth is, they're anything but. John McCain is hardly a Maverick when seven of his top campaign advisers are Washington Lobbyists. He's no maverick when he votes with Bush 90% of the time. And Sarah Palin's no maverick either. She was for the bridge to nowhere before she was against it. Politicians lying about their records? You don't call that maverick. You call it more of the same.
9/7/08 - Biden Welcomes Questions on Meet the Press
Democratic vice presidential nominee Sen. Joseph Biden (D-DE) (L) and moderator Tom Brokaw wait to begin a live taping of Meet the Press September 7. When asked about Sarah Palin's refusal to answer questions from the press Biden said "Eventually she is going to have to answer questions and not be sequestered. Eventually she is going to have to answer questions about her record."
9/7/08 - No Questions: Palin Won't Talk to Press
According to Nicole Wallace of the McCain campaign, the American people don't care whether Sarah Palin can answer specific questions about foreign and domestic policy. According to Wallace, the American people will learn all they need to know from Palin's scripted speeches and choreographed appearances on the campaign trail and in campaign ads. Since when does the candidate for the second highest office in the land get a pass on taking questions from the press?
9/6/08 - Obama Speaks to AARP Conference
Barack Obama speaks on "Strengthening Middle Class Families & Retirees" before the AARP Life@50+ Annual Conference in Washington, D.C.
9/6/08 - Virginia Repulicans for Obama
9/6/08 - Palin Demonstrates How Big a Lie She Can Tell
In her September 3 speech at the Republican National Convention, Sarah Palin lied when she claimed that Sen. Barack Obama "is a man who has authored two memoirs but not a single major law or reform -- not even in the state senate." She knows full well that he played key roles in the passage of reform legislation at both the federal and state levels.
For example, Sen. John McCain, a co-sponsor of the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act, thanked Obama for his work on the bill. Obama was a lead co-sponsor of that bill (S.2590), which sought to "require full disclosure of all entities and organizations receiving Federal funds" -- an amount that approximately totals $1 trillion in federal grants, contracts, earmarks and loans. While signing the bill into law on September 26, 2006, Bush recognized Obama as a sponsor of the legislation, saying, "I want to thank the bill sponsors, Tom Coburn from Oklahoma, Tom Carper from Delaware, and Barack Obama from Illinois." Moreover, in a press release upon Senate passage of the bill, the bill's primary sponsor, Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK), referred to the legislation as the "Coburn-Obama Bill." In media reports, the bill has also been referred to as the "Coburn-Obama" legislation or bill.
At the state level, Obama was a co-sponsor of a 1998 Illinois ethics law outlawing political fundraising on Illinois state property and barring lobbyists from giving gifts to state legislators. Obama biographer David Mendell wrote about Obama's work on the bill in his book Obama From Promise to Power: Working the bill was an eye-opening experience for the freshman senator. It was a tough assignment for a new lawmaker, since he was essentially sponsoring legislation that would strip away long-held privileges and perks from his colleagues. In one private session, a close colleague angrily denounced the bill, saying it impinged on lawmakers' inherent rights. But Obama worked the issue deliberately and delicately, and the measure passed the senate by an overwhelming 52-4 vote. "This sets the standard for us, and communicates to a public that is increasingly cynical about Springfield and the General Assembly that we in fact are willing to do the right thing," Obama told reporters immediately after the bill's passage. The bill was not a watershed event anywhere but Illinois. It essentially lifted Illinois, a state with a deep history of illicit, pay-to-play politics, into the modern world when it came to ethics restrictions. Obama was also the sponsor of the "Democratic Republic of Congo Relief, Security, and Democracy Promotion Act of 2005" (S.2125), signed into law by President Bush on December 22, 2006. Obama worked with Republican Sen. Richard Lugar (IN) to produce the "Lugar-Obama proliferation and threat reduction initiative," which President Bush signed into law on January 11, 2007. The initiative, according to Obama's Senate website, "expands U.S. cooperation to destroy conventional weapons. It also expands the State Department's ability to detect and interdict weapons and materials of mass destruction." Obama also introduced a bill in the Illinois senate requiring police departments to videotape interrogations of murder suspects within interrogation rooms. The bill was signed into law in 2003. A May 9, 2003, Chicago Daily Herald article reported on Obama's involvement in the bill:[Gov. Rod] Blagojevich's indication Thursday that he supports the plan is a turnaround from his previous position. The governor previously said he opposed videotaping interrogations but supported taping of confessions. Blagojevich said he'd changed his mind after being satisfied that Obama had ironed out "some of the practical challenges that deal with the issue of videotaping interrogations."
9/5/08 - Palin/McCain Lie About Obama Raising Taxes
Sarah Palin and John McCain are repeatedly making the blanket statement "Barack Obama will raise your taxes." This is a lie, unless you are rich. The non-partisan Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center has reviewed both candidates plans and concluded that "Obama would give larger tax cuts to low- and moderate-income households and pay some of the cost by raising taxes on high-income taxpayers. In contrast, McCain would cut taxes across the board and give the biggest cuts to the highest-income households."
9/4/08 - Palin Accuses 'Obama/Biden Democrats' of Attacking Her Family, But Campaign Can't Name One
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin sent out a fundraising solicitation today that charged that "the Obama/Biden Democrats have been vicious in their attacks directed toward me, my family and John McCain." I asked spokespeople of the McCain campaign and the Republican National Committee just which "Obama/Biden Democrats" they're referring to. The response I got was that Obama spokesman Mark Bubriski erroneously attacked Palin as a supporter of Pat Buchanan. That's it. That's the evidence.
An attack on Palin herself. In other words, they can't name one person affiliated with the Obama-Biden campaign who attacked the Palin family. But she made the charge anyway, to help raise money. Incidentally, in 1998 Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz, told the following joke at a Republican fundraiser: "Why is Chelsea Clinton so ugly?" McCain joked about the then-President's then-teenage daughter. "Because her father is Janet Reno." ''This is the bad boy,'' he told the New York Times' Maureen Dowd. "It was stupid and cruel and insensitive. I've apologized. I can't take it back. I could give you a whole bunch of excuses, but there are no excuses. I was wrong, but do you want me crucified? How many days does it need to be a story?'" Now THAT is attacking someone's family! -- Jake Tapper is ABC News' Senior National Correspondent.
8/31/08 - Obama, Biden Talk Politics with 60 Minutes
In their first interview together as running mates, Sen. Barack Obama and Sen. Joseph Biden discuss their roles and strategies for the upcoming presidential election. Steve Kroft reports.
8/30/08 - Paying Respects
US Democratic presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama (D-IL)(R) attends a memorial service for Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones (D-OH) with former US President Bill Clinton in Cleveland, Ohio. Tubbs Jones, an Ohio Democrat who was one of the few dissenting voices in Congress during the 2003 invasion of Iraq, died on Wednesday after a brain aneurysm, a hospital spokeswoman said. (Reuters Pictures)
8/30/08 - Senator Obama, There's Someone Here Who Wants to Meet You . . .
Democratic U.S. presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) greets the crowd at an event with running mate Democratic U.S. vice-presidential nominee Sen. Joe Biden (D-DE) as they campaign together at Dublin Coffman High School in Dublin, Ohio. Obama and Biden are campaigning throughout Ohio and Michigan while the Republicans elsewhere prepare for their Convention in Saint Paul following last week's Democratic Convention. (Photo by Getty Images)
8/28/08 - "Change is Coming"
Barack Obama accepted his party's nomination Thursday night. Surrounded by an enormous, adoring crowd, he promised a clean break from the "broken politics in Washington and the failed policies of George W. Bush" as he embarked on the final lap of his audacious bid to become the nation's first black president.
8/28/08 - Lines to Enter Stadium Up to Six Miles Long
More than 75,000 people packed into the football stadium in Denver, Colorado, to hear Obama's historic speech as the first African-American Democratic presidential nominee.
8/28/08 - Al Gore Likens Obama to Lincoln, Assails McCain on Climate Change
Former Vice President Al Gore addressed the final night of the Democratic National Convention in Denver. "If you like the Bush-Cheney approach, John McCain's your man," Gore said. "If you want change, then vote for Barack Obama and Joe Biden."
8/27/08 - Grandparents for Obama Chair Speaks from DNC Convention
Daniel Roy of Belfair, Washington, tells why he supports Barack Obama. He is leading an eight member Grandparents for Obama delegation - including 5 national delegates - to the Denver convention.
8/27/08 - Biden Accepts VP Nomination
US Democratic presidential candidate Illinois Senator Barack Obama (L) makes a surprise appearance at the end of the speech of his running mate Senator Joe Biden (C) at the Democratic National Convention in Denver. On right is Biden's wife Jill. Democrats made history, installing Barack Obama as the first black presidential nominee of a major US party. A state by state roll-call vote was dramatically suspended when Hillary Clinton appeared on the floor of the convention and called for Obama to be nominated by acclamation. (Photo by AFP/Getty Images)
8/27/08 - Obama in Montana, One Step Closer to Denver
Barack Obama speaks during a campaign event at Riverfront Park in Billings, Montana. Obama will be nominated for President of the United States at the Democratic National Convention, which runs this week in Denver, Colorado through August 28. (Photo from Getty Images)
8/26/08 - No Way, No How, No McCain!
Hillary Clinton summoned the millions of voters who supported her in the primaries to send Barack Obama to the White House, and drew thunderous applause at the Democratic National Convention when she declared her one-time rival is "my candidate and he must be our president."
8/26/08 - Obama Inches Closer to Denver
Barack Obama speaks at a campaign event at the MCIE Overhaul Base in Kansas City, Missouri. Obama will be nominated for president at the Democratic National Convention, which runs this week through August 28.
8/25/08 - Michelle Obama Addresses Convention
Michelle Obama tells the Democratic National Convention that her husband has urged Americans to believe in themselves finding the strength to “strive for the world as it should be” and asks them, “isn’t that the great American story?”
8/22/08 - Joe Biden Obama's VP Pick
Sen. Barack Obama has announced Delaware Sen. Joe Biden as his running mate on the Democratic ticket in the race for the White House. The new teammates made their first public appearance together at a rally at the Old State Capitol in Springfield. Biden, 65, has been a fixture in the Senate since 1973 when Obama was 11 years old. He is the chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee and would bring considerable foreign policy heft to the ticket.
8/21/08 - Obama Visits Virginia
Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee U.S. Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) walks on stage as he is introduced to speak during a town hall event at Oscar Smith High School August 21, 2008 in Chesapeake, Virginia. Reports indicate that Obama has chosen and will soon announce his Vice Presidential candidate. (Photos by Getty Images)
8/19/08 - Campaign Swings Through N Carolina
Sen. Barack Obama listens as Gloria Craven of Eden, N.C. introduces him during a town hall meeting, Tuesday, at North Carolina State Fairgrounds in Raleigh, N.C. (AP Photo by Jim R Bounds)
8/18/08 - Obama Visits New Mexico
US Democratic presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) greets supporters as he arrives at the town hall at the Rio Grande High School in Albuquerque, New Mexico. (Source: Reuters Pictures)
8/17/08 - Reno Event
Presumptive Democratic Presidential candidate U.S. Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) speaks during a campaign event August 17, 2008 at Earl Wooster High School in Reno, Nevada. Senator Obama is campaigning in Reno before heading to San Francisco for a fundraiser. (Photo - Getty Images)
8/16/08 - Obama & McCain at Saddleback Civil Forum on the Presidency
(L-R) Presumptive Republican Presidential candidate U.S. Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), pastor Rick Warren and Presumptive Democratic Presidential candidate U.S. Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) greet the crown before the start of the Civil Forum on the Presidency at the Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, California. Obama and McCain participated in a town hall style meeting moderated by the Saddleback Church pastor Rick Warren.
The Obama camp is pushing a new theme in Pennsylvania tomorrow -- it's called the "Buy American, Vote Obama" campaign. Here's the new logo, to be unveiled tomorrow and to appear on stickers and flyers in select towns around the state. (Source - Greg Sargent/TPM)
8/14/08 - Obama's Visit USS Arizona
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., left, shakes hands with sailors as he tours the USS Arizona Memorial with family and friends in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Thursday. Sen. Obama is in Hawaii for a vacation. (AP photo by Alex Brandon)
8/13/08 - Obama Visits His High School
Sen Obama meets with students and alumni at the Punahou School in Honolulu where he attended high school.
8/11/08 - Obama on Conflict in Georgia
Sen Obama, on vacation in Hawaii, makes a statement on the Russian / Georgian conflict. He called for an end to Russian hostilities. But he tempered his comments, saying: "We seek a future of cooperative engagement with the Russian government and friendship with the Russian people." He said Russia could play its "rightful role as a great nation -- but with that role comes the responsibility to act as a force for progress."
8/11/08 - Obama At Home In The Islands
Obama and Marty Nesbitt, friend and campaign treasurer, walk along Kailua Beach.
Sen. Barack Obama went for a workout with his wife, Michelle, at a fitness center to start his second full day of vacation in Hawaii. After the workout Sunday morning, the Democratic presidential candidate went back to the beachfront home his family is staying at and hung out for a few hours.
In the afternoon, Obama took his family and friends to visit the Valley of the Temples, which friends say he often visited when he was younger. Obama and his family stopped at the Aloha Tropical Farm which grows macadamia nuts as they headed to the North Shore for an evening barbecue at a high school friend's house.
The Honolulu-born candidate arrived Friday for a weeklong family vacation. (Photo: Mike Burley/The Honolulu Star-Bulletin, via Associated Press)
8/9/08 - "Hands" Ad
8/4/08 - Obama Speaks on Energy in Lansing, Michigan
Barack Obama is proposing a broad energy plan designed to end U.S. reliance on imported oil within 10 years. The approach includes two significant reversals of positions he's taken in the past: tapping into the country's emergency oil stockpile and offshore drilling. In a speech today in Michigan, Obama also endorsed long-term work on hybrid cars and renewable energy sources. He said, "Breaking our oil addiction is one of the greatest challenges our generation will ever face." Obama says his "single overarching goal" is to end U.S. dependence on oil from the Middle East and Venezuela.
8/2/08 - Urban League Conference in Orlando, FL
Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., left, shakes hands with supporters after speaking at the National Urban League Annual Conference in Orlando, Saturday, Aug. 2, 2008. (AP Photo by Jae C Hong)
7/30/08 - Sen. Obama Conducts Town Hall Meeting in Missouri
Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., top right, speaks at a town hall-style meeting in Rolla, Mo. (AP photo by Jae C Hong)
7/29/08 - Meeting with House Democrats
Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., center, waves after giving a statement at Cannon House Office Building in Washington, Tuesday, July 29, 2008. Obama told the group that as president, he would direct his attorney general to scour White House executive orders and expunge any that "trample on liberty." From left are Rep. Xavier Becerra, D-Calif., Rep. John Larson, D-Conn., House Majority Whip James Clyburn D-S.C., and Rep. Steny Hoyer, D - Md.
7/29/08 - Obama Meets with Pakistan Prime Minister
Barack Obama talking with visiting Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani during a meeting in Washington. Obama said that he had discussed how to better pursue the US campaign against Al-Qaeda and the Taliban with visiting Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani. The Democrat met with Gilani in Washington a day after the Pakistani premier, following talks with President George W. Bush, called on the United States not to act "unilaterally" against Islamic militants in his country.
7/28/08 - Barack Obama Holds Economic Summit
Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., center, back, speaks during a meeting with his economic advisors, Monday, July 28, 2008, in Washington, Monday. Form left are, former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill, AFL-CIO President John Sweeney, former Federal Reserve Board Chairman Paul Volcker, Obama, Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Chair Anna Burger, former Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin and New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
7/26/08 - Obama Ends Tour in London
Speaking in London, Barack Obama defended his travels to Europe and the Middle East, arguing that America faces global issues that cannot be solved independently. NBC's Andrea Mitchell reports
7/25/08 - French President All But Endorses Obama
European "Obamania" has hit the Elysee Palace after President Nicolas Sarkozy all but endorsed the American Democratic senator in his bid for the White House Photo: AP
7/24/08 - Obama Draws Massive Crowd in Germany
Senator Barack Obama drew a crowd of more than 200,000, according to German estimates, in Berlin on Thursday. (Photo - New York Times)
7/24/08 - 200,000 Hear Obama in Berlin
"I come to Berlin as so many of my countrymen have come before. Tonight, I speak to you not as a candidate for President, but as a citizen – a proud citizen of the United States, and a fellow citizen of the world."
7/24/08 - Obama in Pre-dawn Visit to Western Wall
Supporters of Barack Obama hold a sign printed with his name in Hebrew as they wait for his arrival at the Western wall in Jerusalem Wednesday. Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama paid a predawn visit to the holiest place in Judaism on Thursday, bowing his head in prayer at the Western Wall.
Obama placed a small note inside a crevice in the ancient wall, a custom observed by many. He made his brief stop as he completed a trip to the Middle East in which he met with Israeli and Palestinian leaders as well as Jordan's King Abdullah. (Photo - Reuters)
7/23/08 - Senator Obama Visits Israel
Presumptive Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) (C) rides in a helicopter with Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak (L) and Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni (R) over Israel on July 23, 2008. (UPI Photo/Israel Government Press Office)
7/23/08 - Obama Meets Olmert and Abbas
Barack Obama made stops in Israel and the West Bank today, meeting with Isreali Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palastinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
7/22/08 - Jordan's King Abdullah Greets Senator Obama
His Majesty King Abdullah greets US Senator Barack Obama ahead of their meeting yesterday. His Majesty on Tuesday stressed that ending the Israeli occupation of Palestinian land and achieving a just settlement to the Arab-Israeli conflict are top concerns for the people of the Middle East. (Photo by Naser Ayoub)
7/21/08 - Obama Mobbed by GIs & State Dept Workers in Baghdad
Barack Obama met with a crowd of cheering troops and State Department workers in Baghdad Monday night.
"So I don't care whether you are a Sailor, a Soldier, an Airmen, or Marine. A National Guard, a Reservist, active duty, we just want to say thank you," Obama said.
7/21/08 - Iraqi Government Spokesperson Reinforces 2010 Troop Pullout
Sen. Barack Obama chats with Iraqi government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh (left) after a meeting with Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki at his office in Baghdad. Al-Dabbagh said he hoped American combat units could be out of Iraq sometime in 2010. (Getty pool photo by Thaier al-Sudani / July 21, 2008)
7/21/08 - Obama Meets with Top U.S. Commander in Iraq
Sen. Barack Obama, left, and David Petraeus, ride inside a helicopter in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, July 21, 2008. (Photo: AP Photo/Ssg. Lorie Jewell)
7/21/08 - Obama Meets with Iraqi President
Sen. Barack Obama, left, talks to the Iraqi President Jalal Talabani in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, July 21, 2008. (Photo: AP Photo/Wathiq Khuzaie)
7/21/08 - Maliki Endorses Obama Timeline in Huge Blow for McCain, Bush
In a stunning diplomatic breakthrough for Barack Obama, Iraq's prime minister yesterday endorsed the Democratic candidate's 16-month timeline for withdrawing combat troops from Iraq.
Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki endorsed the Obama approach in a July 18 interview with the German magazine Der Spiegel.
Here is Maliki's statement, delivered as Obama's visit to the region was beginning:
Whoever is thinking about the shorter term [for withdrawal] is closer to reality. Artificially extending the stay of U.S. troops would cause problems... As soon as possible, as far as we're concerned... Those who operate on the premise of short time periods in Iraq today are being more realistic... Artificially prolonging the tenure of US troops in Iraq would cause problems. U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama talks about 16 months. That, we think, would be the right timeframe for a withdrawal, with the possibility of slight changes. Source - Huffington Post, July 21, 2008
7/20/08 - Obama Begins High-Profile Trip Abroad
KABUL, AFGHANISTAN — Barack Obama met with U.S. troops and received a military briefing on conditions in Afghanistan on Saturday during the opening leg of an overseas trip designed to showcase his appeal in major foreign cities and assure American voters that he would make a reliable commander-in-chief.
7/16/08 - New Obama Ad, "Changing World"
7/15/08 - Obama Delivers an Address on Iraq Policy
Sen. Barack Obama, confronting lingering voter doubts about his strength as commander in chief, sought to put his pledge to end the war in Iraq into the broader context of the war on terror and diplomatic engagement, using a formal, half-hour speech to slam President Bush's foreign policy legacy and to call for huge infusions of military and non-military assistance to Afghanistan and the developing world.
Copyright 2008. Grandparents for Obama. All rights reserved. Not affiliated with Obama for America.
