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Obama's Empty Rhetoric Starting to Wear Thin
Obama's Empty Rhetoric Starting to Wear Thin
Opinion
Jul 25, 2008 9:59 AM CDT

Obama's Empty Rhetoric Starting to Wear Thin

Optimism needs substance, Brooks says

(Newser) - Say this for Barack Obama: He’s optimistic. Yesterday in Berlin he promised to “remake the world,” envisioned a “new dawn in the Middle East” and mentioned walls tumbling down no fewer than 11 times. It was trademark Obama rhetoric, writes David Brooks of the New York ...

Campaign Costly for Secret Service

Department nees $9.5 million more than budgeted, leaders say

(Newser) - The Secret Service has asked for an additional $9.5 million to cover the costs of protecting candidates during this year's campaign—already the longest and costliest in agency history, AP reports. The department had budgeted $107 million, up from $73 million in 2004, but between the marathon primary season,...

Maliki Pegs Obama as the Most Pliant: Krauthammer

Iraq PM thinks Dem can be manipulated, writes Krauthammer

(Newser) - Nouri al-Maliki's endorsement of Barack Obama's timetable for withdrawal from Iraq this week was "the earliest and most ostentatious absentee ballot of this presidential election," writes Charles Krauthammer. The Washington Post columnist thinks that the Iraqi PM gave Obama an electorial assist for a clear reason: between him...

Obama Hits Paris
 Obama Hits Paris
Jul 25, 2008 5:47 AM CDT

Obama Hits Paris

Candidate holds meeting, press conference with 'pal' Sarkozy

(Newser) - Barack Obama has arrived in Paris, where the candidate is holding talks with French President Nicolas Sarkozy before a joint news conference. Sarkozy rushed back from a summit in the southwest of France to meet Obama at the presidential palace, reports AP. The two first met in 2006 when Sarkozy...

Gimmickry Makes McCain the Howard Dean of 2008
Gimmickry Makes McCain
the Howard Dean of 2008
OPINION
Jul 25, 2008 1:00 AM CDT

Gimmickry Makes McCain the Howard Dean of 2008

His Berlins ad blast calls to mind antics Dem used in '03-04—when he didn't win, either

(Newser) - What’s the most apt parallel for John McCain’s underdog White House run? It’s Howard Dean’s gimmick-loving, maturity-lacking 2004 run, Ezra Klein writes in the American Prospect. McCain’s “whimsy” shone yesterday with ads in Berlin, NH; Berlin, Penn.; and Berlin, Wis. (with Barack Obama in...

Want Denver Coronation Tix? Be Prepared to Work

Activists with a plan will be rewarded with seats at Dem's acceptance speech

(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...

Not Exactly JFK, But Obama Leaves Crowd Happy
Not Exactly JFK, But Obama Leaves Crowd Happy
opinion
Jul 24, 2008 6:23 PM CDT

Not Exactly JFK, But Obama Leaves Crowd Happy

His speech in Berlin is rather ordinary

(Newser) - Make no mistake, Barack Obama gave a fine speech in Berlin today, writes Shane Danielsen in the Guardian. But any comparisons to JFK can stop right there. His speech hit all the right notes but shaded more toward the ordinary than the memorable. The mood of the mostly young crowd...

The Democratic Party: Is Civil War Brewing?
The Democratic Party: Is Civil War Brewing?
OPINION
Jul 24, 2008 5:05 PM CDT

The Democratic Party: Is Civil War Brewing?

Maybe there's not enough room for both elites and blue collars

(Newser) - Democrats are undoubtedly ascendant in the US, Joel Kotkin writes in the American, but the demographic shift that made it so may undermine the party in the near future. That’s because the working-class party of FDR is now chock-full of elites—two constituencies with different values. The richer Dems...

McCain Ad Links Obama to Castro
McCain Ad
Links Obama
to Castro
Jul 24, 2008 2:12 PM CDT

McCain Ad Links Obama to Castro

'Guilt by endorsement' ad runs on South Florida websites

(Newser) - The McCain campaign is running an Internet ad composed of photos of Barack Obama and Fidel Castro side by side, with the caption “Fidel Castro thinks he is 'the most advanced candidate,'" the Huffington Post reports. The ad is running on websites catering to South Florida, home to...

Obama, in Berlin: There Are More Walls to Tear Down

Estimated 100K see Dem give long-awaited speech to Europe

(Newser) - Barack Obama told an estimated 100,000 in Berlin today that “America has no better partner than Europe.” Touching on climate change, nuclear non-proliferation, genocide, and human rights, the Democrat referenced Ronald Reagan’s famous plea to the Soviet Union—saying there are new “walls we must...

Obamas Keep Girls' Feet on Ground

Despite bid for White House, girls don't feel special because dad's running for prez

(Newser) - It can be hard enough to keep kids grounded, but Barack and Michelle Obama's task might be complicated by his quest to be the most powerful leader in the world. Not so, the Obamas tell People, in a look at how they keep it real on the campaign trail. The...

Free of History and Politics, Berlin Is Perfect for Obama

Even 'Victory Column' is associated now with a music festival

(Newser) - Forget the chatter about whether Barack Obama should be stopping in Brussels or giving Germany pride of place over France and Britain. Berlin is “quite an appropriate setting” for the candidate's big European speech, Cameron Abadi writes for the New Republic. The “existential angst of the Cold War”...

Arizona May Not Roll for McCain
Arizona May Not Roll for McCain
Jul 24, 2008 7:12 AM CDT

Arizona May Not Roll for McCain

Candidate shores up support as shift in demographics pushes home state into play

(Newser) - Al Gore's 2000 loss of Tennessee aside, normally a presidential candidate can expect to win his home state relatively easily. But this month John McCain, a full press retinue in tow, made a campaign stop in Arizona, shaking hands and encouraging volunteers to get out the vote. As the New ...

Obama Buys $5M in Olympic Ad Time

Set for NBC and cable channel coverage

(Newser) - The Obama campaign has bought $5 million worth of network and cable television airtime to run during coverage of the Beijing Olympics, reports TV Week. It's the first major TV airtime purchase by a political candidate in 16 years. NBC and its cable channels will air 3,600 hours of...

Obama in Berlin Ahead of Speech

Candidate meets Angela Merkel before public address

(Newser) - Barack Obama arrived in Berlin this morning, where he met Angela Merkel at the German chancellery ahead of a major speech this evening. The Europe leg of the candidate's tour followed an early-morning stop at the Western Wall in Jerusalem. Obama will speak to the chancellor and Frank-Walter Steinmeier, her...

Obama Prays at Wailing Wall
 Obama Prays at Wailing Wall 
Jul 24, 2008 3:18 AM CDT

Obama Prays at Wailing Wall

Candidate wraps up Middle East tour with trip to one of Judaism's holiest sites

(Newser) - Barack Obama finished his Israel trip with a pre-dawn visit to Jerusalem's Western Wall this morning, Reuters reports. The candidate, wearing a skullcap, placed a prayer he had written in the wall as a rabbi read from a psalm. A heckler shouted "Jerusalem is not for sale"—but...

Flailing Attacks Hurt McCain More Than Intended Target

Republican becoming the example of what voters 'want change from'

(Newser) - Attacking Barack Obama relentlessly and sloppily, John McCain has made himself an example of what voters “want change from,” John Dickerson writes in Slate. A good negative attack can be effective, but Mac is doing it “too much and indiscriminately”—making himself so untrustworthy the smart...

Bigoted 'Don't Ask' Has No Support, Must Go Now
Bigoted 'Don't Ask' Has No Support, Must Go Now
opinion
Jul 23, 2008 6:17 PM CDT

Bigoted 'Don't Ask' Has No Support, Must Go Now

Policy does more harm than good

(Newser) - On the occasion of the first “don’t ask, don’t tell” congressional hearing in 15 years, John Cloud revisits the policy that bars gays from serving openly in the military in Time and deems it “a tissue of barely disguised bigotry.” He contends that the policy...

Obama Impressed Law School's Conservatives

University of Chicago courted him despite liberal leanings

(Newser) - The University of Chicago Law School—an institution noted for its conservative leanings—tried hard to recruit part-time lecturer Barack Obama into academia when his early political career was foundering, the New Republic reports. Some of the school's conservative scholars say they disagreed with Obama's political bent but were impressed...

McCain Jab on War Most 'Scurrilous' in Memory: Klein

Time 's Klein can't believe he said Obama would rather lose war than election

(Newser) - John McCain’s latest jab at Barack Obama—“It seems to me that Obama would rather lose a war in order to win a political campaign”–stuns Joe Klein, who writes in Time that the Republican’s Iraq claim is the most “scurrilous statement by a major...

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