Obama Factor

(via NPR.com) Wednesday morning, the Clinton campaign sent reporters and bloggers covering the campaign a statement that consisted of questions and comments under the title of “Keystone Test: Obama Losing Ground.”
The Obama campaign’s communications department decided to annotate those questions and comments with some comments of their own… and boy, they held nothing back.
Below you’ll [...]

(via Yahoo) CHICAGO - Democrat Barack Obama expressed frustration Wednesday that racial issues keep rising to the top of his presidential battle with Hillary Rodham Clinton, but he said the great majority of voters will base their decisions on substantive issues.
At a news conference, Obama said he feels his primary victories in an array of [...]

by Sam Graham-Felsen from BarackObama.com
CHICAGO—Citing his judgment and ability to lead, admirals and generals from the United States Army, Navy and Air Force that together have served under the last nine Commanders-in-Chief today announced their endorsement of Senator Barack Obama for president.
In offering their endorsement, the generals and admirals recognized Obama’s judgment to oppose the [...]

A rabid Obama supporter is trying to hype up his own quest to help Obama raise $1M.  Check out www.milliondollarobamapage.com and donate a buck or two.  Hey, weirder things have happened.

Finally, as promised, a Special Comment on the presidential campaign of the Junior Senator from New York.
      By way of necessary preface, President and Senator Clinton — and the Senator’s mother, and the Senator’s brother — were of immeasurable support to me at the moments when these very commentaries were the focus of the most [...]

Today, Eliot Spitzer resigned as Governor of NYS.  The one question most people are probably asking themselves is, “What could have been?”.

“If Jesse Jackson were not black, he wouldn’t be in the race,” she said.
Really. The cite is an April 15, 1988 Washington Post story (byline: Howard Kurtz), available only on Nexis.
Here’s the full context:
Placid of demeanor but pointed in his rhetoric, Jackson struck out repeatedly today against those who suggest his race has been an [...]

(CNN) — Illinois Sen. Barack Obama has won the Texas Democratic caucuses and will get more delegates out of the state than his rival, Sen. Hillary Clinton, who won the state’s primary, according to CNN estimates.
Under the Texas Democratic Party’s complex delegate selection plan, Texas voters participated in both a primary and caucuses on March [...]

Obama wins the 30th contest of this election season with Hillary in a distant second with only 14 states won.   Not only did Obama gain back the delegates he lost in Ohio, he has padded his lead a little bit more.  How Hillary can stand in front of crowds with a striaght face saying that the DNC [...]