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  • July 2008

    • Want Denver Coronation Tix? Be Prepared to Work

      Denver Post  |  Jul 24, 08 8:36 PM CDT

      Want Denver Coronation Tix? Be Prepared to Work

      (Newser) - Barack Obama wants you to help fill Denver’s Invesco Field for his coronation at the Democratic convention—but you’ll have to work for it, the Denver Post reports. A campaign official says would-be spectators will have to outline a plan for activism before and after the Aug. 28 event; tickets will then be awarded to as many as 60,000 supporters who will be expected to draw more converts by November. More »

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      Barack Obama  • Democratic National Convention  • Barack Obama supporters  • Denver  • political activism  • Invesco Field

    • Holdout Hillraisers Are Acting Like Spoiled Rich

      Time  |  Jul 12, 08 6:09 AM CDT

      Holdout Hillraisers Are Acting Like Spoiled Rich

      (Newser) - To Hillary supporters continuing to nurse their wounds and vowing to vote for John McCain, Michael Kinsley has this to say in Time: "Now is the time to just get over it." Their complaints of sexism in the campaign are misdirected—"there is no easy way these folks can vent their anger at Chris Matthews. So they are taking their revenge on people without health care, women who need abortions, and others who they (if they supported Hillary) must think will be harmed by a Republican victory in the fall. That'll show 'em."  More »

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      Barack Obama  • Hillary Clinton  • Election 2008  • Democrats  • Obama 2008  • Barack Obama supporters  • Hillary Clinton supporters  • party unity

    • No Flip-Flop: Swooning Fans Missed Message

      New York Times  |  Jul 10, 08 8:00 AM CDT

      No Flip-Flop: Swooning Fans Missed Message

      (Newser) - As early as his convention speech 4 years ago, Barack Obama has made reconciliation and a "new consensus" his hallmarks. So why, asks Gail Collins, are his most ardent supporters so dismayed that he's shifted to the center? Almost all of the issues for which Obama has taken heat this summer were predictable, writes the New York Times columnist, and "it’s not his fault that we missed the message." More »

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      Barack Obama  • Election 2008  • campaign finance  • Barack Obama supporters  • flip flop  • consensus

    • Supporters Blast Obama on His Own Website

      New York Times  |  Jul 2, 08 10:53 AM CDT

      Supporters Blast Obama on His Own Website

      (Newser) - Barack Obama’s abrupt about-face on new FISA legislation that would grant immunity to telcos that aided the Bush administration in warrantless wiretaps has some supporters hopping mad—and they’re using the forums on the candidate's own website to protest, the New York Times reports. During the primaries Obama pledged to oppose the legislation, but now supports a compromise version. More »

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      Barack Obama  • social networking  • warrantless wiretapping  • Barack Obama supporters  • FISA  • compromise  • web portal

    • Rising New Money Class Powers Obama

      New York Times  |  Jul 1, 08 8:56 AM CDT

      Rising New Money Class Powers Obama

      (Newser) - Barack Obama likes to tout his small-donor network, as though a wave of inspired regular folk came out of the woodwork just for him. In reality, Obama is mining a money class that Democrats have been cultivating for years, writes David Brooks in the New York Times —"the rising class of information age analysts." More »

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      Barack Obama  • Obama 2008  • campaign fundraising  • campaign finance  • Barack Obama supporters  • political donors

  • June 2008

    • The (Middle) Name Is Hussein

      New York Times  |  Jun 29, 08 4:55 PM CDT

      The (Middle) Name Is Hussein

      (Newser) - A growing group of Barack Obama fans are adopting his middle name, even as conservative pundits use it to label him a Muslim or terrorist, the New York Times reports. The trend of using "Hussein" has picked up speed since February and exists mostly online, in blogs and on Facebook. "I am sick of Republicans" using Obama's middle name like "some sort of cuss word," blogged Jeff "Hussein" Strabone. More »

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      Barack Obama  • Facebook  • Islam  • Barack Obama supporters  • Hussein

    • Obama Slams Black Dads on Father's Day

      New York Times  |  Jun 15, 08 6:27 PM CDT

      Obama Slams Black Dads on Father's Day

      (Newser) - Barack Obama sharply critiqued black fathers today at one of Chicago's biggest black churches, the New York Times reports. “Too many fathers are M.I.A, too many fathers are AWOL,” he said to a mostly black audience, including his wife and daughters. “I say this knowing that I have been an imperfect father,” he said, “knowing that I have made mistakes and I’ll continue to make more." More »

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      Barack Obama  • Obama 2008  • Michelle Obama  • African Americans  • Barack Obama supporters  • church  • domestic violence  • fatherhood

    • Bolting Clinton Fans? It's a GOP Myth

      New York Times  |  Jun 15, 08 6:27 AM CDT

      Bolting Clinton Fans? It's a GOP Myth

      (Newser) - John McCain's aggressive courtship of Hillary Clinton's female supporters shouldn't surprise anyone who's been paying attention, Frank Rich writes in the New York Times. "The fictional scenario of mobs of crazed women defecting to Mr. McCain" rather than Barack Obama fits right in with the "new bogus narrative" that ignores a plethora of statistics, which Rich runs down. More »

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      Barack Obama  • John McCain  • Hillary Clinton  • McCain 2008  • Barack Obama supporters  • Hillary Clinton supporters

    • 'Obamacon' Denied Communion

      Washington Post  |  Jun 3, 08 4:07 PM CDT

      'Obamacon' Denied Communion

      (Newser) - The question of whether pro-choice Catholic politicians should take Communion is a familiar one in election years, but in 2008 it has a new twist. A Repubilcan abortion opponent, onetime Reagan administration official, and private citizen who supports Barack Obama was denied Communion in April. EJ Dionne of the Washington Post tells the story of Douglas Kmiec, "one of the nation's leading 'Obamacons.'" More »

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      Barack Obama  • Republicans  • Catholic Church  • abortion  • Barack Obama supporters  • abortion rights  • Catholic

  • May 2008