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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
- Judaism's Black Converts Growing Part of US Mosaic
  
  newser | Christian Science Monitor | Jul 17, 08 8:55 PM CDT
  
  The number of African-Americans converting to Judaism is growing, the Christian Science Monitor reports, at a time when Democrat Barack Obama is seeking to renew what was once a strong alliance between the groups. Politics, though, plays a small role; "Obama's candidacy, African-Americans choosing to be Jews ... is all part of the great American story of freedom and choice," one observer says. More »
- Hard-Core Supply-Sider: I'm Voting for the Democrat
  
  newser | New York Daily News | Jul 17, 08 7:45 PM CDT
  
  Being a Reagan, Gingrich and Dole soldier won’t stop former Chamber of Commerce honcho Larry Hunter from voting for Barack Obama this fall, he writes in the New York Daily News . It doesn’t matter that he wholly disagrees with the Dem on every point of domestic policy; the chance to close the book on “unjustified war and unconstitutional abridgment of individual rights” is worth the price of “unreconstructed, dyed-in-the-wool, big-government” liberalism. More »
- Clinton Boosts Efforts to Fight Malaria, GOP
  
  newser | Associated Press | Jul 17, 08 5:00 PM CDT
  
  Bill Clinton's philanthropic foundation has struck a deal to keep a lid on the price of anti-malaria drugs, the AP reports. The former president today outlined a plan that would help limit wild fluctuation in the market for artemisinin, an extract key to treating malaria, which sickens 500 million a year. Six suppliers, and the UN, are on board, and Clinton hopes for more. More »
- Idealism Met Different End for Obama Sr.
  
  newser | Los Angeles Times | Jul 17, 08 4:03 PM CDT
  
  Like his candidate son, Barack Obama Sr. was charismatic, eloquent and idealistic, those who knew him say—so idealistic he was devastated by the corruption he saw in his native Kenya. The Harvard grad was so disillusioned upon his return to Africa, the Los Angeles Times reports, he turned to drink, with several DUI accidents preceding the car crash that killed him, at 46, in 1982. More »
- Fiorina Hosts NY Event for Hillary Funders
  
  newser | Wall Street Journal | Jul 17, 08 2:53 PM CDT
  
  About 25 disgruntled Hillary Clinton donors met Tuesday with a top adviser to John McCain, and promised “hundreds of thousands and maybe millions of votes” for the Republican—if their conditions were met. Carly Fiorina said the women she met in New York were “intensely uncomfortable with the notion of a President Obama,” the Wall Street Journal reports. More »
- Gore Challenge: 100% Clean Electricity by 2018
  
  newser | Time | Jul 17, 08 10:20 AM CDT
  
  Al Gore is challenging the US to produce all its electricity through wind, sun, and other clean sources by 2018. Speaking to the AP ahead of a major address today, the Nobel laureate compared the goal to JFK’s 1961 pledge to make it to the moon—and said that both Barack Obama and John McCain are “way ahead” of most politicians on the climate change issue. More »
- Obama Rakes in $52M in June
  
  newser | Reuters | Jul 17, 08 8:31 AM CDT
  
  Barack Obama is back up in the fundraising stratosphere, pulling in $52 million in June, the campaign said today. The total is just shy of the record $55 million he drew in February, and it more than laps John McCain’s $22 million take in June. The total lays to rest speculation that Obama was in for another down month after raising “only” $30 million in April and $21.9 million in May. More »
- Fox: Jackson Used N-Word in Off-Air Obama Comments
  
  newser | ABC News | Jul 17, 08 4:46 AM CDT
  
  Red-faced civil rights leader Jesse Jackson has again had to apologize to the nation's first black presidential candidate, this time over his use of a racial slur in off-air comments during the taping of a FOX show, reports AP. Fox News confirmed that Jackson said Obama is "talking down to black people, telling n—s how to behave" after a transcript was leaked to TVNewser. Jackson had earlier apologized for his "hurtful words," but his use of a racial slur hadn't been reported. More »
- Iraq Backs Barack, Despite Pullout Fears
  
  newser | New York Times | Jul 17, 08 3:41 AM CDT
  
  Barack Obama is widely popular in Iraq, despite deep concerns about his plans to withdraw American troops, reports the New York Times . Iraqis around the country expressed admiration for Obama and believe he would be a major improvement over President Bush—but also worry that his proposed 16-month withdrawal timetable could reverse hard-fought security gains. More »
- No More Navel-Gazing; Go After McCain
  
  newser | Guardian (UK) | Jul 16, 08 8:00 PM CDT
  
  There are two races for president this year, Michael Tomasky writes in the Guardian , “a race about Barack Obama and a race about what the GOP has done to the country.” And Obama would be well served to turn the focus to John McCain, whose recent gaffes have gone unanswered as the Democrat tries to make people vote for him—and not against his opponent. More »
- Europe Can't Wait for Obama
  
  newser | Los Angeles Times | Jul 16, 08 6:57 PM CDT
  
  Europe is brimming with excitement for the arrival of Barack Obama next week, but his supporters are hoping not to hurt him with too tight an embrace, the Los Angeles Times reports. British, French and German polls show strong support for Obama, but as the Guardian warned, “To be seen as Europe’s pet is the last thing a presidential candidate needs— especially one who wants to shed his elitist image with white working-class American voters.” More »
- McCain Camp Likens Obama —to Bush?
  
  newser | Huffington Post | Jul 16, 08 6:22 PM CDT
  
  The McCain camp borrowed a page from its rivals today with a new tack on Barack Obama: He looks a whole lot like George W. Bush. McCain's national security adviser took Obama to task for the rigidity of his Iraq strategy, the Huffington Post reports. "I think the American people have had enough of stubbornness and inflexibility in national security policy,” said Randy Scheunemann. More »
- McCain's Elite Fundraisers Trump Obama's
  
  newser | USA Today | Jul 16, 08 5:45 PM CDT
  
  John McCain appears to be more reliant on funds bundled by elite supporters than Barack Obama, USA Today reports. More than half of the Republican candidate’s receipts, or more than $75 million, came from donations assembled by about 500 top supporters. In contrast, Obama’s top 500 pulled in about $50 million, about 17% of his total. More »
- 'Foolish Consistency' Mars Obama Iraq Plan
  
  newser | Washington Post | Jul 16, 08 4:45 PM CDT
  
  The editors of the Washington Post are rankled that Barack Obama has the same position on exiting Iraq now—“with bloodshed at its lowest level since the war began”—as he did a year ago, “at the war’s peak.” His "iron timetable" of a 16-month withdrawal, seemingly "indifferent to the war's outcome," is short-sighted and does not serve America's interests. More »
- All 3 Network Anchors Will Travel Abroad With Obama
  
  newser | Washington Post | Jul 16, 08 3:40 PM CDT
  
  Charlie Gibson, Katie Couric and Brian Williams will all be part of Barack Obama’s foreign trip that begins later this week, Howard Kurtz reveals in the Washington Post —as the Dem’s campaign impressively “draws the anchors halfway around the world by offering access.” The ABC, CBS and NBC anchors will interview the candidate on separate nights in different countries. More »
- McCain Again Banking on Reform Rep
  
  newser | Politico | Jul 16, 08 2:38 PM CDT
  
  After shying away from the issue for some time, John McCain is returning to his credentials as a crusader for campaign-finance reform, Politico notes. In an attempt to woo independent voters, the Republican is underlining his reputation as a Washington reformer, while coping with flak from small-government conservatives within his party—comparing himself to Teddy Roosevelt in the process. More »
- Obama Rebuts Times Race Story—With Paper's Own Poll
  
  newser | Talking Points Memo | Jul 16, 08 1:33 PM CDT
  
  The Obama campaign has fired back at a front-page New York Times story, which concludes from a poll today that the Dem isn’t healing racial division. The campaign uses stats from the paper's own survey, Talking Points Memo reports. The article “ignores…some straightforward points from their data,” an Obama memo charges. Perhaps chief among them, “More white voters say Obama cares about people like them, than say the same thing about McCain." More »
- Crist Could Be Key as Veep Pick
  
  newser | Washington Post | Jul 16, 08 12:59 PM CDT
  
  Florida’s importance in the general election can hardly be overstated, and his presumed ability to deliver it for the Republicans is at the heart of the case for popular governor Charlie Crist in the veepstakes, writes Chris Cillizza for the Washington Post . McCain may select a VP with more conservative bona fides, assuming he’ll take Florida with or without Crist, but that could be a mistake. More »
- Does al-Qaeda Do the Fist-Bump?
  
  newser | Slate | Jul 16, 08 12:36 PM CDT
  
  Terrorists aren’t big on fist-jabbing or bumping—they’re all about kissing and hugging, writes Juliet Lapidos for Slate in the aftermath of the New Yorker's depiction of knuckle-knocking Obamas, a move referred to by Fox News as a “terrorist fist-jab.” Al-Qaeda members, she writes, are likely to enlist a common Middle Eastern welcome of three cheek-to-cheek embraces. More »
- Obama to Take Diplomatic Ace to Israel
  
  newser | Time | Jul 16, 08 12:13 PM CDT
  
  In a move that should put voters at ease who are skeptical of his stance on Israel and Iran, Barack Obama has added Dennis Ross to his Middle East entourage, Massimo Calabresi writes in Time . The well-known diplomat was lead Israeli-Palestinian negotiator under Clinton and the first Bush, and his presence on the trip will be “reassuring” to Israelis and American Jews who have been skeptical of the Dem. More »

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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)

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