Posted in Politics on Nov 3rd, 2008
Rev. Al Sharpton will lead an historic “Watch Night” tomorrow in Atlanta to view the election returns at Ebenezer Baptist Church in the pulpit of the Heritage Sanctuary, where Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. preached his ministry of non violence.
The Watch Night participants will hold a candlelight vigil at 7:30 p.m. at the [...]
Legendary US rocker Bruce Springsteen wowed a crowd of 80,000 with a rousing set at a rally for Democrat Barack Obama here Sunday on the White House campaign’s final stretch.
Obama took the stage with his wife Michelle and two young daughters when Springsteen was done, and said there were “a handful of people who enter [...]
IT IS impossible to forecast how important any presidency will be. Back in 2000 America stood tall as the undisputed superpower, at peace with a generally admiring world. The main argument was over what to do with the federal government’s huge budget surplus. Nobody foresaw the seismic events of the next eight years. When Americans [...]
Sen. Barack Obama’s 30-minute TV ad, which ran simultaneously on broadcast and cable networks at 8 p.m. ET Wednesday, is muscle-flexing that has little precedent, a campaign advertising expert said.
“It’s evidence, if you needed any, that the Obama campaign has more money than there is ad time left to buy,” said Evan Tracey, director of [...]
The Democratic presidential candidate will take over a half hour of prime-time television real estate at 8 p.m. Wednesday to make a final pitch to the nation, an intrepid step with less than a week before Election Day.
The 30-minute infomercial is Obama’s final opportunity to reach a mass audience to lay out the principles of [...]
Posted in Politics on Oct 28th, 2008
A state senator who lost the Democratic primary last month was arrested by the FBI on Tuesday and charged with accepting $23,500 in bribes from undercover agents she believed were local businessmen.
Sen. Dianne Wilkerson was charged with attempted extortion as a public official and theft of honest services as a state senator. She did not [...]
Posted in Politics on Oct 28th, 2008
Kwame Kilpatrick was sent to jail for four months Tuesday for his part in a sex-and-text scandal and the judge chastised the disgraced ex-mayor for arrogance and disregard for the rule of law.
Wayne County Circuit Judge David Groner’s sentence was the finale to the scandal that destroyed Kilpatrick’s reign at City Hall and threw local [...]
Posted in Politics on Oct 28th, 2008
Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-Ill.) says he’s ready to take the place of Barack Obama in the U.S. Senate should voters send the Democratic senator to the White House on Nov. 4.
The choice, however, is up to Democratic Gov. Rod Blagojevich, who is in charge of appointing a successor to the state’s U.S. Senate seat [...]
Posted in Politics on Oct 27th, 2008
The hometown newspaper of Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin says thanks, but no thanks by announcing its endorsement of her rival, Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama, for president.
“Gov. Palin’s nomination clearly alters the landscape for Alaskans as we survey this race for the presidency — but it does not overwhelm all other judgment,” [...]
Democrat Barack Obama holds a 10-point lead over Republican rival John McCain in the U.S. presidential race, according to a Reuters/C-SPAN/Zogby poll released on Friday.
Obama leads McCain by 51 percent to 41 percent among likely U.S. voters in the three-day tracking poll, which has a margin of error of 2.9 points. Obama had a 12-point [...]
Posted in Politics on Oct 24th, 2008
Colin Powell, a Republican who was President Bush’s first secretary of state, endorsed Democrat Barack Obama for president Sunday and criticized the tone of Republican John McCain’s campaign.
The former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said either candidate, both of them senators, is qualified to be commander in chief. But he said Obama is [...]
Barack Obama attracted 100,000 people at a Saturday rally here, his biggest crowd ever at a U.S. event.The crowd assembled under the Gateway Arch on a sunny Saturday afternoon to hear Obama speak about taxes and slam the Republicans on economic issues.Lt. Samuel Dotson of the St. Louis Police Department confirmed the number of attendees [...]
*Who knew John McCain and Barack Obama had jokes? The night after going at each other in the last debate of the torrid presidential campaign, the two men swapped self-deprecating jokes instead of campaign jabs Thursday night at the 63rd annual Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner.
McCain cracked that he had replaced his team [...]
- A majority of debate watchers think Sen. Barack Obama won the third and final presidential debate, according to a national poll conducted right afterward.
Fifty-eight percent of debate watchers questioned in a CNN/Opinion Research Corp. poll said Democratic candidate Obama did the best job in the debate, with 31 percent saying Republican Sen. John McCain [...]
![John Legend - Live at the House of Blues [Blu-ray]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51n5r8KyZtL._SL160_.jpg)
