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Obama 2008

The junior senator from Illinois becomes the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee

Ask five Americans about Barack Obama, and you're likely to get six opinions: America's not ready for a black president; America can't afford not to have a black president; Barack Obama isn't really black. We're about to find out. The wunderkind Chicago Senator became the party's presumptive nominee in June after clinching the magic number of delegates. Will the man who inspires comparisons, favorable and not, to Kennedy, make it all the way?

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July 2008
- Obama Appears Cocky, Presidential
  
  newser | New York Times | Jul 23, 08 12:19 PM CDT
  
  The better Barack Obama’s foreign excursion goes, the more nervous Republicans get, Maureen Dowd writes in the New York Times. Images of John McCain happily sharing a golf cart with Bush 41 don’t contrast well with images of Obama happily sharing a helicopter with David Petraeus. But there is also an element of arrogance in the trip. More »
- VF Spoof Bumps New Yorker
  
  newser | Boston Globe | Jul 23, 08 9:15 AM CDT
  
  Vanity Fair has taken a jab at the New Yorker , posting a spoof of the magazine’s controversial Barack Obama cover on its website. VF ’s "cover" shows a doddering John McCain gripping a walker and fist-bumping his wife, Cindy, who cradles a pile of prescription drugs. In the background, the Constitution burns in the fireplace under a portrait of President Bush. More »
- Obama Health Care Cure May Prove Elusive
  
  newser | New York Times | Jul 23, 08 8:09 AM CDT
  
  In a campaign that has made several big promises, perhaps Barack Obama's most ambitious vow is that he will bring down health care premiums by $2,500 by the end of his first term as president. But whether he can deliver that is an open question, writes the New York Times . Even if he can muster the political will to cut down a bloated system, the savings might not materialize. More »
- Obama Meets With Israeli Leaders
  
  newser | New York Times | Jul 23, 08 7:10 AM CDT
  
  Barack Obama got an early start in Israel today, breakfasting with Ehud Barack and meeting Shimon Peres and opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu before a stop at Yad Vashem, to lay a wreath at the Holocaust memorial, the New York Times reports. Peres greeted him warmly, saying he hoped for a “great president of the United States. That is the greatest promise for us and the rest of the world.” More »
- McCain Video Mocks Media Coverage of Obama
  
  newser | ABC News | Jul 22, 08 7:14 PM CDT
  
  The McCain campaign debuted an Internet video today it says documents the press corps’ one-sided swoon over Barack Obama, ABC News reports. Set to music, the video features on-air personalities—MSNBC's Chris Matthews is among those featured prominently—offering adoring sentiments about Obama. It also airs Democratic-primary complaints from top Hillary Clinton backers who charged a similar bias. More »
- Obama, in Israel, Vows to Work for Peace as President
  
  newser | Associated Press | Jul 22, 08 5:16 PM CDT
  
  Barack Obama touched down in Israel late today, promising work on peace negotiations “starting from the minute I’m sworn into office.” He said that while the “historic and special relationship” between the US and Israel “is not going to change,” an American president could be more concerned with “the legitimate difficulties that the Palestinian people are experiencing,” the AP reports. More »
- One Day, the World Will Hate Him
  
  newser | Times (UK) | Jul 22, 08 4:40 PM CDT
  
  Should he win the White House, the rest of the world will one day see Barack Obama as a villain, David Aaronovitch writes in the London Times. The spectacle of empire and popularity drives the country's allies to both anger and envy, he argues, and every American president has come to be depicted “as a cowboy astride a phallic missile.” More »
- McCain's Long-Shot Status Slips Into No-Shot Territory
  
  newser | Time | Jul 22, 08 3:35 PM CDT
  
  The presidential race has broken so hard in Barack Obama’s direction that Michael Grunwald asks “the question the horse-race-loving media are never supposed to ask” in Time : “Is McCain a no-shot?” The Republican is in dire straits, having lost advantage on Iran (Bush is moving toward negotiation), the economy (voters want federal intervention) and now Iraq (Maliki is with Obama on withdrawal). More »
- Candidates Failing to Reach Florida's Hispanic Voters
  
  newser | St. Petersburg Times | Jul 22, 08 2:36 PM CDT
  
  Hispanics could swing the presidential election in November, especially in crucial Florida, but the presumptive nominees aren’t reaching them, the St. Petersburg Times reports. Hispanics tend to vote on issues rather than along strictly party lines, but the media and candidates are pushing immigration reform though polls show the economy and education atop their list of concerns—with immigration reform 10th. More »
- Next, Thicket of Arab-Israeli Conflict Awaits Obama
  
  newser | New York Times | Jul 22, 08 1:27 PM CDT
  
  With the war leg of his foreign tour behind him, Barack Obama must next navigate the Middle East peace process. He’ll meet with top Israeli and Palestinian leaders tomorrow, the New York Times reports, and will visit the rocket-bombarded town of Sderot. US Jewish voters will be particularly attentive after the Democrat’s recent slip over the status of Jerusalem. More »
- Jews Like Obama Far Better Than Lieberman, McCain
  
  newser | Huffington Post | Jul 22, 08 1:11 PM CDT
  
  Despite Barack Obama’s much debated Jewish problems—and Joe Lieberman’s place of pride as unofficial Jewish spokesman—the Dem is viewed favorably by 60% of American Jews and unfavorably by only 34%, while the Independent scores 37% and 48% (McCain comes in at 34% and 57%). The numbers are part of a poll by new progressive Jewish group J Street—which also notes that the demographic prefers liberal MoveOn to right-leaning AIPAC. More »
- Move Over Jesse, This Is Obama's House
  
  newser | Wall Street Journal | Jul 22, 08 1:01 PM CDT
  
  If threats of castration are any indication, Barack Obama has gotten under Jesse Jackson's skin, writes Shelby Steele in the Wall Street Journal . The Illinois senator has eclipsed the reverend by effectively becoming the anti-Jackson—rather than playing off moral leverage created out of white guilt, Obama "became the first viable black presidential candidate precisely by giving up his moral leverage over whites." More »
- Obama Meets With Jordan King
  
  newser | USA Today | Jul 22, 08 12:07 PM CDT
  
  Barack Obama sat down tonight for a meeting and dinner with Jordan’s King Abdullah II, a leader much like the Democratic candidate (both are 46) in being seen as crossing age and societal gaps, USA Today reports. Abdullah’s Jordan is the most Western-friendly of Arab countries, but is in perhaps the tightest geographical spot—sandwiched between Israel, Palestine, and Iraq. More »
- In Jordan, Obama Urges Iraq-to-Afghanistan Shift
  
  newser | Associated Press | Jul 22, 08 11:29 AM CDT
  
  Barack Obama said today that, with improved security in Iraq, the US should turn its attention to Afghanistan. “There is security progress, but now we need a political solution” in Iraq, Obama said in Amman, Jordan—in his first news conference abroad, the AP reports. Afghanistan, the “central front in the war against terrorism,” is in “a deteriorating situation." More »
- Obama Beefs Up Foreign Policy Cred in Iraq
  
  newser | New York Times | Jul 22, 08 8:30 AM CDT
  
  Presidential candidate Barack Obama's weeklong tour of seven countries has so far been fruitful, politically agile, and especially lucky, reports the New York Times . The Illinois senator's withdrawal plan received a timely endorsement from Iraqi PM Nouri al-Maliki, coinciding with President Bush's embrace of a "time horizon" for pulling troops out of the war-torn country. More »
- McCain May Announce VP This Week
  
  newser | CNN | Jul 22, 08 7:18 AM CDT
  
  Speculation is heating up that John McCain may pick his running mate this week, in a move to divert attention from the media frenzy surrounding Barack Obama's tour through the Mideast and Europe, CNN reports. Then again, there's speculation that the VP rumors themselves are just a “head fake” to distract from the saturation Obama coverage. More »
- Times Rejects McCain Op-Ed 'as Currently Written'
  
  newser | Drudge Report | Jul 21, 08 9:36 PM CDT
  
  The New York Times has turned down John McCain's rebuttal to a recent Barack Obama op-ed on Iraq, telling the Republican’s campaign it isn’t “able to accept this piece as currently written.” A campaign insider tells Drudge that the Grey Lady simply doesn’t agree with his candidate’s policies; the op-ed editor maintains Mac didn’t “offer new information” in his piece. More »
- Dear Obama: Oppose Iran and We'll Love You
  
  newser | New Republic | Jul 21, 08 8:58 PM CDT
  
  On the eve of Barack Obama’s visit to Israel, Yossi Klein Halevi writes to him in the New Republic about Israel's fears. Like many nations, Israel is well-inclined towards Obama: It has no fear of his Muslim middle name and recently hailed his description of Israeli security as "sacrosanct." Yet Israelis worry that as president, Obama would fail to deter Iran’s nuclear ambitions. More »
- Obama Arrives Late for Race Debate
  
  newser | City Journal | Jul 21, 08 7:21 PM CDT
  
  The black community has already started the conversation Barack Obama wants, prominent conservative Myron Magnet writes in City Journal . Liberal icons Bill Cosby and Juan Williams have declared that it’s time for African Americans to take responsibility for their own destiny. They’re telling truths that have left black conservatives “unthinkingly ostracized as race traitors for breaking with orthodoxy” for decades. More »
- McCain, Obama to Share Megachurch Stage
  
  newser | Los Angeles Times | Jul 21, 08 5:49 PM CDT
  
  Influential evangelical pastor Rick Warren has scored the first joint appearance by Barack Obama and John McCain. The presidential candidates will spend just a few minutes on stage together at Warren's Saddleback Church next month between back-to-back interviews with the pastor. It will be the country’s first look at both candidates in one place, the LA Times reports. More »

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Colter Carlisle of Dubuque, Iowa, peers over a campaign sign while attending a grass-roots canvass for Democratic presidential hopeful U.S. Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., at Lincoln Elementary School in... (Associated Press)

Presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., speaks at the National Jewish Democratic Council conference Tuesday, April 24, 2007, in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta) (Associated Press)

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., speaks at the National Jewish Democratic Council conference Tuesday, April 24, 2007, in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta) (Associated Press)

Democratic presidential hopeful U.S. Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., speaks during an Earth Day rally, Sunday, April 22, 2007, at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall) (Associated Press)

Democratic presidential hopefuls Sens. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., left, and Barack Obama, D-Ill., chat as they prepare for the seated portion of the Democratic presidential primary debate hosted by Saint... (Associated Press)

Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., speaks during a forum on faith, values, and poverty hosted by Sojourners/Call to Renewal at George Washington University, Monday, June 4, 2007,... (Associated Press)

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Democratic presidential hopeful U.S. Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., speaks during a town hall meeting, Monday, June 18, 2007, in Newton, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall) (Associated Press)

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