Trading fire over the economy and America’s wrenching housing crisis, White House contenders Barack Obama and John McCain got down to business on Monday for a gruelling, five-month slog to the election.
Barack Obama and John McCain on Monday started the first full week of a five-month election campaign, intent on redrafting the United States political landscape to capture the White House in November.
In Kenya, they name babies after him and quaff ”Senator” brand beer in his honour. Global TV networks camp outside his grandmother’s rural home.
That an Obama victory would mark a radical improvement on United States President George Bush and be far preferable to John McCain, there can be no doubt.
Hillary Clinton on Saturday suspended her bid to become America’s first woman president and vowed to help Barack Obama in his fight to win the White House for the Democratic party.
Johnny Telvor was not happy about Barack Obama becoming the Democratic presidential nominee.
Bob Dylan believes Barack Obama is redefining politics in the United States and could deliver change to a nation in upheaval, according to a British newspaper interview.
Hillary Clinton will lavish praise on Barack Obama on Saturday when she formally concedes the race for the Democratic nomination at a rally for her supporters.
Mystery shrouded secret talks between Democratic presumptive White House nominee Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.
Had he not been assassinated 40 years ago this week, Robert Kennedy would have been elected president of the United States. Kennedy’s campaign is a model for Barack Obama.
As Barack Obama prepares for a gruelling general election fight against John McCain, he faces a tough search for the ideal running mate.
So, bloodied and at least partially bowed, Barack Obama is finally the putative Democratic nominee.
Hillary Clinton said she will bow out of her marathon campaign for the White House on Saturday and throw her full support behind Democratic rival Barack Obama.
Barack Obama, the Democratic presidential nominee, is gearing up for a tough face-to-face confrontation with his defeated rival, Hillary Clinton.
Democrat Barack Obama on Wednesday plunged into a five-month election battle with Republican John McCain.
After making history by capturing the Democratic nomination, Barack Obama turns on Wednesday to the task of unifying a fractured party for a five-month battle for the White House with Republican John McCain. The Illinois senator on Tuesday locked up the 2Â 118 delegates he needs for victory at the August convention.
Hillary Clinton refused to surrender to Barack Obama in the Democratic race for the United States presidency on Tuesday or to acknowledge she had reached the end of the road in her bid for the White House. Rather than concede the loss to Obama, the New York senator told a cheering crowd she would consult supporters and party leaders to decide the future of her campaign.
Wall Street is putting its money behind Democrat Barack Obama for president, despite worries that his administration would raise taxes and take a tougher line on trade and regulation. The signs Wall Street reads point to Democrats prevailing in the November presidential and general election as voters punish the incumbent Republican party.
It was, as nearly everyone among the thousands of jubilant supporters recognised, a little slice of history. Barack Obama, once seen as a most improbable presidential candidate, before their eyes had been declared the Democratic nominee and the first African-American to have a real shot at winning the White House.
China’s state media on Tuesday hailed Premier Wen Jiabao as the world’s sixth-most-popular politician on the social networking site Facebook — well ahead of United States President George Bush. Wen Jiabao’s profile was set up two days after he rushed to the scene of the May 12 earthquake in Sichuan province to oversee rescue efforts.
Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton end their historic Democratic presidential battle on Tuesday with two nominating contests that could help Obama clinch the nomination and push Clinton from the race. Obama is within about 40 delegates of the 2 118 he needs to capture the nomination.
Democrat Barack Obama stood on the brink of history on Tuesday, within reach of becoming America’s first black presidential nominee after a twisting, emotional and divisive battle with Hillary Clinton. As voters in the last two states, Montana and South Dakota, wrapped up the gruelling nominating marathon, Clinton faced the demise of her own quest.
It’s almost over, isn’t it? That seems to be all anyone wants to know from Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, but the only person who truly knows isn’t telling. ”I’m sort of a day-at-a-time person, and we’ll see when Tuesday and the day after Tuesday comes,” Clinton said on board a flight to South Dakota.
Democrat Barack Obama said on Saturday he had quit his long-time Chicago church after months of controversy over racially laced pulpit rhetoric that still threatens to tarnish his White House hopes. The Illinois senator said he and his wife, Michelle, were withdrawing from the 8 000-strong congregation of the Trinity United Church of Christ.
Barack Obama’s campaign on Friday tried to contain a new ”pastor disaster” prompted by a video of a Catholic guest preacher at his Chicago church mocking Hillary Clinton’s tears.In a sermon last Sunday, Father Michael Pfleger, a long-time ally of Obama, accused Clinton and white voters of believing she deserved to be president because she is white.
Senator Barack Obama said on Wednesday he expected to become the Democratic United States presidential nominee after next week and he is considering an overseas trip that may include Iraq. After a hard-fought primary season against rival Democrat Hillary Clinton, Obama said the general election race will begin in earnest next week.
We all saw it. Indeed, that was the whole point. In the United States, the networks stopped regular programming so we had little choice. The White House wanted to make sure we caught the full dramatic impact of the US president landing on the USS Abraham Lincoln in a navy jet.
Democrat Barack Obama accused rival Hillary Clinton on Saturday of ”stirring up” a controversy over the disqualified Florida primary election because it was her last hope of winning their party’s presidential nomination. Obama, an Illinois senator, is leading Clinton, a New York senator, in delegates needed to win the Democratic nomination to face Republican John McCain.
Hillary Clinton mentioned the June 1968 assassination of Robert Kennedy in explaining on Friday why she had resisted calls to end her White House bid, drawing a rebuke from Democratic front-runner Barack Obama’s campaign. Clinton, who later expressed regret over the remark, made it to the editorial board of theSioux Falls Argus Leader.
Democratic party officials disclosed on Thursday that Barack Obama has sanctioned a hunt for a vice-presidential candidate, a further sign that he regards the battle with Hillary Clinton as being over. Time magazine, in a report in its next issue, quotes a friend of Bill Clinton saying he wants his wife to be the vice-presidential candidate.
Barack Obama sounded like the Democratic presidential nominee on a visit to the November election battleground of Florida on Wednesday, praising rival Hillary Clinton and targeting Republican foe John McCain. Clinton also visited Florida, where she pressed ahead with her uphill Democratic race.
Barack Obama passed a milestone to move within reach of the United States Democratic presidential nomination on Tuesday, but rival Hillary Clinton refused to surrender. A split of two nominating contests — Obama handily won Oregon and Clinton crushed the front-runner in Kentucky — gave Obama a majority of pledged delegates won during their lengthy nominating fight.