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Snow Was 'the Best': Cheney
Snow Was 'the Best': Cheney
Jul 13, 2008 2:41 PM CDT

Snow Was 'the Best': Cheney

Sunday shows also tackle VP rumors, economics, and the mortgage meltdown

(Newser) - Tony Snow, economic policy, veepstakes, and the Freddie Mac/Fannie Mae crisis sparked conversation on the Sunday talk show circuit today. Time sums them up:
  • Fox News Sunday paid homage to late newscaster and press secretary Tony Snow; Dick Cheney called him "the best" he's known.
  • Arnold Shwarzenegger applauded John
...

Governator Open to Obama Energy Czar Job

But vows to promote green causes, in or out of White House

(Newser) - A foreign-born citizen, Arnold Schwarzenegger can't be US president—but though he's endorsed John McCain, he's open to serving as energy czar in a Barack Obama administration. Asked about it on today on This Week, the California governor called the idea "hypothetical" but showed enthusiasm for green issues. His...

Obama, Stop Acting Like a Child
Obama, Stop Acting Like
a Child
OPINION
Jul 13, 2008 12:04 PM CDT

Obama, Stop Acting Like a Child

Putting kids on TV was a blunder, but so was whining about it: Dowd

(Newser) - Caught up in a Fourth of July celebration, Barack Obama agreed to let his daughters be interviewed on "Access Hollywood," a turnaround from his position on his family's privacy and a big slip-up, writes Maureen Dowd in the New York Times. But Obama compounded the error by expressing...

Hillary Still in Veepstakes, Obama Says

But Bill, 'always a president,' makes choice 'complicated'

(Newser) - Barack Obama told a donor this week that he may still invite Hillary Clinton on the ticket, but worries husband Bill might crowd the White House. "He said once you're a president, even if you're a former president, you're always a president," the donor told the Los Angeles ...

Bernie Mac's Act Too Salty for Obama

Comedian earns rebuke for his racy jokes at fundraiser

(Newser) - Bernie Mac landed in hot water for making off-color jokes about women while introducing Barack Obama at a Chicago fundraiser yesterday, reports the Chicago Sun-Times. His last quip—which had the word "ho's" in it—drew complaints from a heckler. When Obama came on, he chided the comedian playfully....

Holdout Hillraisers Are Acting Like Spoiled Rich

Do Hillary-backers support a progressive agenda, or do they want a GOP victory?

(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...

Obama Campaign Will Sponsor NASCAR Entry

Democrat near deal to have name on car during Aug. 3 race at Pocono

(Newser) - Barack Obama appears set to sponsor a NASCAR racecar in the Aug. 3 Pocono event, the first presidential candidate to try such a stunt. Trying to sell a political left-hand turn on what’s traditionally Republican turf, the Democratic car will likely be part of a broader get-out-the-vote effort, Sports ...

GOP's Hagel Will Travel to Iraq With Obama

Republican has been a vocal critic of the war

(Newser) - GOP national-security stalwart and longtime McCain friend Chuck Hagel will join Barack Obama on his upcoming trip to Iraq, sources tell the Wall Street Journal. The retiring Nebraskan senator has been a vocal critic of the war and the Bush administration. Despite his Republican credentials, he has been floated as...

Poll: McCain Trails by 3 in Arizona

Libertarian Barr seen into GOP candidate's rightward flank

(Newser) - A new online poll shows Barack Obama leading John McCain 42%-39% in the Republican’s home state of Arizona. Libertarian hopeful Bob Barr is playing a sizable spoiler role, the Washington Independent reports, with 7% of Arizona voters giving him their backing—including 16% who call themselves very conservative. (Independent...

Obama Raises $30M in June, Below Expecations
Obama Raises $30M in June, Below Expecations
OPINION
Jul 11, 2008 11:45 AM CDT

Obama Raises $30M in June, Below Expecations

It's still more than McCain's $22M, but far below record months

(Newser) - Insiders say that Barack Obama raised about $30 million in June, which, by the campaign's own lofty standards, is a bit lackluster, reports the Wall Street Journal. Obama hopes to have raised $300 million by mid-October, with an additional $180 million for the DNC, bringing his record budget to nearly...

Unpopular Mich. Governor Could Hurt Obama

Granholm heads list of Democrats' problems in vital state

(Newser) - Michigan has gone blue in every presidential election since 1988, and it should have been an easy state for Barack Obama to win in November. But the presumptive nominee has an albatross around his neck: Jennifer Granholm, the intensely unpopular Democratic governor. Frustration with Granholm is just one of the...

Did Jackson Vent for Many?
 Did Jackson Vent for Many? 
ANALYSIS
Jul 11, 2008 10:08 AM CDT

Did Jackson Vent for Many?

Jackson's crude remarks highlight frustration over apparent shift right

(Newser) - Jesse Jackson is catching plenty of flak for his "cutting" remarks about Barack Obama, but he is unlikely to be the only one feeling some frustration with the candidate, writes Suzanne Goldenberg in the Guardian. Many supporters are angry Obama appears to be shifting to the right as he...

What Jackson Problem? Waning Clout Signals Shift

Obama, younger generation seem little concerned with fallout

(Newser) - Once, Democrats worried about “the Jesse Jackson problem,” the fear that rebuke from Jackson would cost them black voters. But now, some Democrats are saying that Jackson’s latest criticisms of Barack Obama may actually help the Illinois senator, the New York Times reports, both with white voters...

Old World Thinks He's the Messiah
Old World
Thinks He's
the Messiah 
OPINION
Jul 11, 2008 7:39 AM CDT

Old World Thinks He's the Messiah

Looking for deliverance from Bush, Europeans could face rude shock

(Newser) - Barack Obama's trip to Europe this month might not do much for his electoral chances at home. But the Old World doesn't care, writes Financial Times columnist Philip Stephens; when the candidate arrives he "can expect to be greeted as a messiah." Europeans have been starstruck by Obama,...

McCain's $22M June Is Best Month to Date

Mac, RNC have $95M on hand

(Newser) - June was John McCain's best fundraising month yet, the AP reports, with the Republican bringing in $22 million; the perennially poorer candidate now has $27 million on hand. The Republican National Committee also had a good month, bringing in $26 million; the two camps together have $95 million in the...

Gramm in Doghouse After 'Nation of Whiners' Crack

Top McCain adviser in trouble with candidate, claims he was misquoted

(Newser) - After Phil Gramm, a ranking economic adviser to John McCain, described America as a “nation of whiners” suffering from a “mental recession,” the campaign trail is lit up over the topic, Time reports:
  • From McCain himself, “Phil Gramm does not speak for me. I speak for
...

Abortion Activists Split Over Obama Comment

Remarks on late-term exceptions draw ire, support

(Newser) - A brief budge from a purely pro-choice position by Barack Obama last week drew a heavy round of responses from the reproductive-rights crowd, Politico notes. The blowback came after Obama said to a Christian magazine that health exceptions to a late-term abortion ban shouldn’t extend to women merely “...

Rove: Obama Copying My Strategy, With Nod to Nixon

Taking pages from Bush-Cheney playbook may help, but flip-flops hurt credibility

(Newser) - For all Barack Obama's shots at the Bush Administration, the Democrat's campaign "has cribbed an awful lot from the Bush-Cheney playbooks," their author writes in the Wall Street Journal. Karl Rove sees his own winning strategies at work, from Obama's “army of persuasion,” to Internet efforts,...

No Flip-Flop: Swooning Fans Missed Message

For those disillusioned with center shift, what did you think 'consensus' means, asks Collins

(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...

Jesse Jr. Scolds Dad for 'Ugly Rhetoric'
Jesse Jr.
Scolds Dad for 'Ugly Rhetoric'
updated
Jul 9, 2008 6:45 PM CDT

Jesse Jr. Scolds Dad for 'Ugly Rhetoric'

Jackson's son rejects his father's 'divisive' Obama comments

(Newser) - Jesse Jackson is taking heat for his admittedly "crude and hurtful" comments about Barack Obama, and his own son is leading the charge. "I'm deeply outraged and disappointed," said Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., D-Ill. Jackson called his father's remarks—in which he said he wanted to cut...

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