Obamamania

                              Sarah Palin has announced that she intends to resign from the office of Governor of Alaska effective the end of July.   This is the same Sarah Palin who famously mocked then candidate Sen. Obama for having been a “community organizer”, and lacking “real responsibilities.”  Well, now the responsibilities will be responsibly handed over to Lt. Gov. Sean Parnell on July 25th.            

Barack Obama's Africa policy may become more active in a positive sense in the months and years ahead. But on the evidence so far it does seem credible that the African continent itself would have been better off if Hillary Clinton had become ...  

Last fall an Internet hobo named Jack Cashill broke a certain “biggest political scandal ever” proving that Bill Ayers, the hippie terrorist, colluded with then-Sen. Barack Obama, in 1995, to ghostwrite the latter’s profane memoir, Dreams From My Father. Cashill noticed that several sentences in Dreams incorporate similar (if not exact) individual proper nouns and [...]  

On the campaign trail, Barack Obama promised that he would “reboot America’s image” around the world. Indeed, many Americans who voted for Obama believed that his global popularity would somehow reverse the tide of anti-Americanism that so vexed his predecessor. Echoing this sentiment of Obama as savior of America’s image abroad, presidential advisor David Axelrod recently asserted that “anti-Americanism isn’t cool anymore.” In Europe, where...  

Michelle Obama raises fears over Hillary Clinton-style debacle from Times of London reports that Democrats are worried that Michelle Obama's overt statements and activities about wanting a more powerful voice in shaping the Obama administration's agenda are fanning fears of...  

WASHINGTON--First Lady Michelle Obama and California First Lady Maria Shriver--both Chicago born--team up Monday in San Francisco to promote volunteerism and public service. My photos of Mrs. Obama, Shriver, Oprah Winfrey and Caroline Kennedy taken on Feb. 3, 2008, before...  

Over the past five months Michelle Obama has basked in some of the most flattering reviews ever earned by an American first lady. Yet the first stirrings of discontent are beginning to surface as President Barack Obama’s wife emerges from her newly ...  

One day last August, groggy and in need of coffee, I saw my dad on television. I spazzed out and did a double-take, only to see it wasn't my dad at all, but some guy named Bill Ayers. The resemblance was uncanny - the hair, the glasses, the... shortness. Who was this mysterious Bill Ayers that had everyone up in arms? Ayers had loose ties to fellow Chicago-ite Obama, and his history of bombing federal and municipal buildings looked like big...  

"[I]t is a clear abuse of power to use such [Presidential signing] statements as a license to evade laws that the president does not like or as an end-run around provisions designed to foster accountability. I will not use signing statements to nullify or undermine congressional instructions as enacted into law." - Senator Barack Obama, December 20, 2007 (Boston Globe) "However, provisions of [HR 2436] ... would interfere with my...  

FILE - In this Sunday, May 4, 2008 file photo, then-Democratic presidential hopeful, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., stands with his two daughters, Malia, left, and Sasha, as he is introduced by his wife Michelle, right, at Headwaters Park in Fort Wayne ...  

Boston.com just put out an article with new poll data, and Barack Obama pulled into a tie for first place with Hillary Clinton. That is big news for a first-time senator with no "political family" ties to rely on for fundraising and national press. Boston.com printed: On the heels of a burst...  

I've been looking for more information on where Barack Obama stands on many key political issues. Here are some of the sources I've found so far. Abortion Debate Unions War in Iraq Faith and Politics How to End the War in Iraq Stem Cell Research Environment Energy Schools and Education...  

It is an unfortunate middle name for someone who aspires to the White House. As the media is fond of reporting,the name "Hussein" tests the limits of American "nomenclatural tolerance". "Hussein" is the name of a dictator and enemy. "Obama" sounds a lot like the world's most wanted terrorist...  

Senator Obama raised $32.8m in the second quarter of 2007. Fellow Democrat Hillary Clinton, who is ahead in most of the polls, raised only $27m. Might sound like a small difference, but that's almost $2 million PER MONTH more for Obama.  

There are a number of great Obama podcasts available. Here are a few sources for Barack Obama podcast: His US Senate site An oldie but goodie on Digg Odeo's Barack Obama channel