This is the Presidential Campaign Thread.

Barack Obama Vs. John McCain.

Edited November 6, 200817 yr by Toups

ITS NOT TRUE. Barack came on TV and dispelled those rumors a few days ago.

See which Presidential candiate you are most like: http://glassbooth.org/

My views agree most with Mitt Romney.

79% Obama, 75% Edwards and 74% Clinton for me

No Obama isn't a muslim, and I wouldn't be surprised if fox news is the one that is starting these rumors since obama won't appear on fox news after they said he went to school in a mosque which wasn't true. I guess since they can't smear obama on their own network they have to do it another way. Its also really sad and pathetic that bill o'reilly keeps going to obama and hillary's supporter rallys trying to get interviews with them. In relation to clinton this idiot went to her rally and had one of her supporters ask a question for him but it was hillarious because that same supporter told hillary it was a question from bill and called him out. In relation to obama this idiot went to his rally with a camera crew trying to force obama on his broadcast, and got mad when obama's security told him he couldn't tape there.

Edited January 27, 200817 yr by EricaKane70

Morrison endorses Obama for president

WASHINGTON - The woman who famously labeled Bill Clinton as the "first black president" is backing Barack Obama to be the second.

Author Toni Morrison said her endorsement of the Democratic presidential candidate has little to do with Obama's race — he is the son of a black father from Kenya and a white mother from Kansas — but rather his personal gifts.

Writing with the touch of a poet in a letter to the Illinois senator, Morrison explained why she chose Obama over Hillary Rodham Clinton for her first public presidential endorsement.

Morrison, whose acclaimed novels usually concentrate on the lives of black women, said she has admired Clinton for years because of her knowledge and mastery of politics, but then dismissed that experience in favor of Obama's vision.

"In addition to keen intelligence, integrity and a rare authenticity, you exhibit something that has nothing to do with age, experience, race or gender and something I don't see in other candidates," Morrison wrote. "That something is a creative imagination which coupled with brilliance equals wisdom. It is too bad if we associate it only with gray hair and old age. Or if we call searing vision naivete. Or if we believe cunning is insight. Or if we settle for finessing cures tailored for each ravaged tree in the forest while ignoring the poisonous landscape that feeds and surrounds it.

"Wisdom is a gift; you can't train for it, inherit it, learn it in a class, or earn it in the workplace — that access can foster the acquisition of knowledge, but not wisdom," Morrison wrote.

In 1998, Morrison wrote a column for the New Yorker magazine in which she wrote of Bill Clinton: "White skin notwithstanding, this is our first black president. Blacker than any actual black person who could ever be elected in our children's lifetime. After all, Clinton displays almost every trope of blackness: single-parent household, born poor, working-class, saxophone-playing, McDonald's-and-junk-food-loving boy from Arkansas."

Obama responded to Morrison's endorsement with a written statement: "Toni Morrison has touched a nation with the grace and beauty of her words, and I was deeply moved and honored by the letter she wrote and the support she is giving our campaign."

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Sen. Kennedy backs Obama for president

By DAVID ESPO, AP Special Correspondent 7 minutes ago

Two generations of Kennedys — the Democratic Party's best known political family — endorsed Barack Obama for president on Monday, with Sen. Edward M. Kennedy calling him a "man with extraordinary gifts of leadership and character," a worthy heir to his assassinated brother.

"I feel change in the air," Kennedy said in remarks salted with scarcely veiled criticism of Obama's chief rival for the nomination, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, as well as her husband, the former president.

"I have marveled at his grit and grace," he said of the man a full generation younger than he is.

Kennedy's endorsement was ardently sought by all three of the remaining presidential contenders, and he delivered it at a pivotal time in the race. A liberal lion in his fifth decade in the Senate, the Massachusetts senator is in a position to help Obama court Hispanic voters as well as rank-and-file members of labor unions, two key elements of the Democratic Party.

He is expected to campaign actively for Obama in the days before a string of delegate-rich primaries and caucuses across 24 states on Feb. 5, beginning later this week in Arizona, New Mexico and California.

The senator made his comments at a crowded campaign rally that took on the appearances of a Kennedy family embrace of Obama, who sat smiling as he heard their praise.

He was introduced by Caroline Kennedy, daughter of the late president, who said Obama "offers that same sense of hope and inspiration" as did her father. Rep. Patrick Kennedy also endorsed Obama from the stage before a boisterous crowd at American University.

"Today isn't just about politics for me. It's personal," Obama, 46, said when it came time for him to speak. "I was too young to remember John Kennedy and I was just a child when Robert Kennedy ran for president. But in the stories I heard growing up, I saw how my grandparents and mother spoke about them, and about that period in our nation's life — as a time of great hope and achievement."

In his remarks, Sen. Kennedy sought one by one to rebut many of the arguments leveled by Obama's critics.

"From the beginning, he opposed the war in Iraq. And let no one deny that truth," he said, an obvious reference to former President Clinton's statement that Obama's early anti-war stance was a "fairy tale."

"With Barack Obama, we will turn the page on the old politics of misrepresentation and distortion.

"With Barack Obama we will close the book on the old politics of race against race, gender against gender, ethnic group against ethnic group, and straight against gay," Kennedy said.

The Massachusetts senator had remained on the sideline of the presidential campaign for months, saying he was friends with Obama, Clinton and former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards, as well as several Senate colleagues who are no longer in the race.

Lately, according to several associates, Kennedy became angered with what he viewed as racially divisive comments by Bill Clinton. Nearly two weeks ago, he played a personal role in arranging a brief truce between the Clintons and Obama on the issue.

Kennedy refers only sparingly to his assassinated brothers, John and Robert, in his public remarks, and his endorsement of Obama was cast in terms that aides said was unusually personal.

"There was another time, when another young candidate was running for president and challenging America to cross a new frontier. He faced criticism from the preceding Democratic president, who was widely respected in the party," Kennedy said, referring to Harry S. Truman.

"And John Kennedy replied, 'The world is changing. The old ways will not do. ... It is time for a new generation of leadership.

"So it is with Barack Obama," he added.

Kennedy began his remarks by paying tribute to Sen. Clinton's advocacy for issues such as health care and women's rights. "Whoever is our nominee will have my enthusiastic support," he said.

But he quickly pivoted to a strong endorsement of Obama, whom he said "has extraordinary gifts of leadership and character, matched to the extraordinary demands of this moment in history."

"I believe that a wave of change is moving across America," Kennedy said.

Also Monday, Obama picked up the endorsement of author Toni Morrison, who read from her work at Bill Clinton's first inauguration and once labeled him the "first black president." Morrison said she has admired Hillary Clinton for years because of her knowledge and mastery of politics, but cited Obama's "creative imagination which coupled with brilliance equals wisdom."

Morrison said her endorsement had little to do with Obama's race — he is the son of a black father from Kenya and a white mother from Kansas — but rather his personal gifts.

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In Florida, its a very close race for the Republicans between Romney and McCain. Statistically it is too close, 32-33% for both.

And the Obama rumors about the flag have been flying around the net for weeks now. It is false.

Hillary better come up with a new campaign strategy people are throwing her over for obama left and right. You know its bad when republicans are praising obama on these call-in political shows. She needs to tell that husband of hers to STFU, he's ruining her campaign singlehandedly. I'm really starting to lean towards obama, I'm not liking bill clintons false attacks on obama it just shows that the clintons lack integrity and will do anything to win. Also I want a president that can bridge the gap with democrats/repubican, hillary might make things worse. I'm all for a woman being president but it doesn't help hillary at all when one party views her as the anti-christ.

Edited January 29, 200817 yr by EricaKane70

I was talking to the maid of honor at my mom's wedding about politics....I told her that it basically is in the bag for Hillary Clinton on her winning the presidency (since 2004 over the Kerry/Edwards loss). She told me she shudders at the thought of the Clintons back in The White House. So I about told her, "I would rather have a Clinton in The White House than another Bush! And I shudder at the Bushes being back in The White House in eight years!"

I, personally, would save that "In the bag" talk for after everything has been counted.

She may still get the nom, but given the fact that her big mouth husband seems to be spending his time running for president HIMSELF and not doing the job for Hillary, and the fact that both of them come off like political attack dogs, trying to utterly destroy anything that stands in the way of them and a return to the White House....

The message that Obama is speaking is starting to get heard around the country.

And, I can say this as well.......if she and Bill keep this bullshit up with doing anything to win, when it comes November, the voters that she needs just may stay at home instead of voting for her.....

And you have 4 more years of Republican rule.

when it comes November, the voters that she needs just may stay at home instead of voting for her.....

I really hope obama is somehow her vp if she gets the nom, that will go a long way for hillary as far as votes go.

I really hope obama is somehow her vp if she gets the nom, that will go a long way for hillary as far as votes go.

It may, but first she has to show some damn humility. She comes off like "How dare Obama challenge me?! Doesn't he know who I am?!"

They would make one hell of a ticket, even if she was HIS running mate.

Hillary has won with over 50% of the votes in Florida, followed by Obama and Edwards.

McCain has won with 36%, Romney with 31% and Rudy with 15%. This is at 9:30 EST

The Democratic primary in Florida is meaningless because the Democratic National Committee stripped the state of all of its delegates (as punishment for moving up its primary before February 5).

McCain's victory in Florida is a true miracle, considering that (1) he was outspent nine to one and (2) no independents (the group that loves McCain the most) were allowed to vote in the primary. Currently, I am hearing reports on the news that Giuliani will drop out tomorrow and endorse McCain.

See, I don't see it as a miracle. I just think that you may now finally have the American people getting sick and tired of the BS they have suffered through for 7 years and are trying to pick the best person for the job, regardless of money, attack ads or whatever slime that will come out between now and November.

And, it is confirmed..........Rudy has dropped out, and will endorse McCain.

Rudy had such an awful strategy. He went from being front runner to nowhere in a matter of weeks. Who the hell told him ignoring all the early states would work?

Anyone see a McCain/Rudy ticket for the Republican side?