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Barack Obama’s exclusive seat on his Campaign Plane AirBama-O is a plush Recliner with his name campaign logo and the word President all embroidered on the headrest.

ohn Kerry attacked the GOP along with the McCain Campaign for the ‘character assassination of Barack Obama.’ Kerry claims he is talking from experience, apparently relating to the Swiftboat allegations , which were never proven untrue. Bad analogy, John.

PRINCETON, NJ -- Republican John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama are once again tied in the latest Gallup Poll Daily tracking presidential trial heat.

The new McCain Campaign video… tweaked. Obama the messiah. (Video Included)

More from the Obama-rama, silliness persists… (Video)

A promise broken in the two years since his historic visit to his father’s ancestral village in 2006 still hasn’t been realized. Another photo-op and more stagecraft with no pledges kept to help fund the school honored with his name. Now Obama’s promise is being realized with a non-profit charity, Save Senator Obama Kogelo School, Inc. The Charity is the idea of the Baldilocks blogger Kenyan-American milblogger Juliette Ochieng

By Debbie Messina The Virginian-Pilot © July 29, 2008 Elections and law enforcement officials are investigating a growing number of potentially fraudulent voter registrations in Hampton Roads, just months before the November elections. In Hampton, three people already have been charged with voter fraud. The Norfolk voter registrar has turned over a number of suspicious voter applications to police and prosecutors and continues to flag others. In Virginia Beach, the registrar’s office is examining some questionable applications. Statewide, 10 localities have reported irregularities to the State Board of Elections. Republican Party of Virginia Chairman Jeff Frederick on Monday called on...

Monday, July 28, 2008 Email to a FriendAdvertisement The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Monday shows that Barack Obama’s Berlin bounce is fading. Obama now attracts 45% of the vote while John McCain earns 42%. When "leaners" are included, it’s Obama 48% and McCain 45%. Both Obama and McCain are viewed favorably by 56% of voters.

Barack Obama’s promise to his father’s African village hasn’t been kept. A promise broken in the two years since his historic visit to his father’s ancestral village in 2006 still hasn’t been realized. Another photo-op and more stagecraft with no pledge kept to help fund the school honored with his name.

Most say it matters to their country who is elected U.S. president

There's this political consultant for the Democrats named David Saunders, who goes by "Mudcat", and he's full of, well, he's full of a lot of stuff, but he's no doubt an interviewer's dream because he's full of earthy local-color quotes. He's profiled by one of the Weekly Standard's best writers, Matt Labash, and drops an interesting bit of strategery: Mudcat, who describes himself as "an old-timey Democrat: pro-gun, pro-God, pro fiscal conservatism," is tired of teaching remedial Mudcat Math to deaf ears in his own party. It can be distilled as The Twofer Strategy: If you get a rural white...

Barack Obama’s half brother claims that his brother Democrat Presidential candidate Barack Obama was raised as a Muslim. Contrary to the Obama campaign’s assertions otherwise Malik says he will make a good president in spite of his Muslim upbringing.

Obama campaign co-chair Dick Durbin (D-Illinois) described Michelle Obama’s Republican critics’ afterlife as the “hottest ring in hell” for those who would attack Barack’s better half(?). It seems that Durbin has defined the Republicans’ third rail as Michelle (I love this country now, as I never have before, because my husband is a Presidential candidate) Obama.

Barack Obama earned the endorsement of William Jefferson of New Orleans. That’s quite a feather in Obama’s hat. One of the most corrupt Democrat politicians in modern history gave Barack the thumbs up.

He Won, but He Lost His Magic Touch

The most entertaining political show is the little known internet live stream The Strategy Room on the Fox News website. Most of the show is very candid with the pundits opinions open for discussion and with no holds barred. (Video Included)

(CNSNews.com) - Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) is facing renewed criticism regarding his national security policies as he continues his campaign for his party's presidential nomination. In a YouTube video Obama made for a liberal pacifist organization last year, the senator called for major cuts in defense spending, slowing the development of future combat systems, and cutting investments in America's ballistic missile defense program. Some conservatives have expressed surprise at the degree of Obama's proposals on the video, and this past weekend, Sen. Hillary Clinton's (D-N.Y.) campaign released an ad criticizing Obama's alleged national security inexperience and trumpeting her as the...

Bob Beckel Seems Very Worried.

The “Comeback Kid” has transformed to the Fade-away Fool. Bill Clinton has lost his luster with the MSM and Liberals. The “First Black President” is experiencing a scathing tell-all article written by Dee Dee Myers’ husband Todd Purdum. Dee Dee was Bill Clinton’s first Press Secretary when Bill could do no wrong. Now the Liberal Media has a new “fair haired boy” with Barack Obama. The Clintons will be thrown off to the side of the road with no fear of retribution. Bill and Hillary have lost their power in the Democrat Party with her waning candidacy for President.

Don't look now, but the U.S.-backed government and army may be winning the war.

This presidential election is the worst in recent memory as far as selection goes. On one side we have Hillary who can’t tell the truth to save her life. There’s Obama who’s not much better and is trying to beat John “I was in Nam” Kerry’s waffling record. And there’s McCain who criticized people who wanted border control while illegals were burning down his home state. In a country of 300 million, is this the best we have to offer?

With gas prices hitting new record highs nearly every day, Congressman Maurice Hinchey says its time for the federal government to step in and get prices back under control. At a Binghamton gas station Thursday, Hinchey discussed several proposals to combat the problem. One bill Hinchey is working on would give the president the authority to set a temporary cap on gas prices at $2.49 a gallon, a big reduction from the current national average of $3.95. Hinchey says oil companies are already making such high profits that they could easily deal with the reduction.

enate candidate Al Franken's satirical and explicit take on virtual sex and other topics, published in Playboy magazine eight years ago, is drawing concern instead of laughter from some Minnesota Democrats. Rep. Betty McCollum, who supported the comedian's rival Mike Ciresi until he dropped out of the race for the party's nomination for the Senate, complained Thursday that she and other Minnesota Democrats will be on the same November ballot as a candidate "who has pornographic writings that are indefensible." "Do they spend all of their time defending him, or do they spend their time talking about issues that are...

Millions of dollars behind in raising money and unlikely to meet a fast-approaching final deadline, the Denver committee hosting the Democratic National Convention is considering spending cuts. Committee sources say they are working with the Democratic National Convention Committee to consider lowering the $55 million in private cash and donated services that must be raised to bring the convention to town. The cuts would be made to the many parties the host committee is obligated to throw for the delegations and the news media, and other hospitality functions not tied to production aspects inside the convention hall. "There have been...

I'm Still Speechless

Washington -- This year's unusual presidential election may toss out one more assumption: the old red-blue map that shows Democrats owning the two coasts, Republicans dominating the South and interior West, and a few battleground states picking the winner. As Sen. Barack Obama moves toward the Democratic nomination, analysts think he could be riding a wave, where a fresh face coupled with a deep desire among voters for change overwhelms traditional partisan geography, topples GOP strongholds and delivers a powerful new majority for Democrats.Yet after being written off last summer, Sen. John McCain emerged as the Republican best positioned to...

A Congresswoman from California has let her mortgage go into foreclosure. Laura Richardson (D)walked away from the mortgage on her Sacramento home, letting the house slip into foreclosure and left it in shambles less than two years after she purchased it with no down payment.

McCain to lean heavily on powerhouse fundraising of Republican National Committee... Developing...

Barack Obama tries to lay blame on the Fox News Channel for his woes in the upcoming Kentucky Primary. It seems that every time he has a new tarbaby such as his upcoming loss in Kentucky Obama finds a new whipping boy. This time the dreaded Fox News is to blame for his problems.

The chickens are coming home to roost. Hillary Clinton’s honesty is questioned, again. Now that Clinton is running for President and the MSM has her in their cross hairs with Obama as their Nominee. Years late, new memos have been discovered in the Library Of Congress donated by a former federal prosecutor. Hillary’s house of cards is beginning to collapse.

PRINCETON, NJ -- Barack Obama's current level of support among white voters in a head-to-head matchup against John McCain is no worse than John Kerry's margin of support among whites against George W. Bush in the 2004 presidential election.

Senate candidate Al Franken wants to talk about jobs, health care and global warming. Republican blogger Michael Brodkorb wants to talk about Franken's failure to pay all his income taxes on time. Guess what everyone is talking about? From the kitchen table in his tranquil suburban neighborhood, Brodkorb for the last year has used his blog "Minnesota Democrats Exposed" to launch a furious political assault on Franken. He's labeled the former comedian and liberal commentator a "mean-spirited and un-Minnesotan" candidate who's running a "desperate and ridiculous" campaign. That's routine stuff in the world of political blogging, but in the last...

Hillary Clinton, in her first appearance on FOX News’ “The O’Reilly Factor,” said Barack Obama made the right move by condemning Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr. but that she was still offended by the pastor’s statements. In the first part of a two-part interview — the second will air at 8 p.m. ET Thursday on FOX News — Clinton also defended her stances on health care and oil companies and sought to burnish her image as a “fighter” candidate. Asked about Wright, Clinton said it’s up to voters to decide whether the mounting controversy over Obama’s retired pastor should impact the...

The Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. has wriggled out from under sound bites and screen-grab loops to put himself into context in that most American of ways: on television. And he went deep into context — a rich, stem-winding brew of black history, Scripture, hallelujahs and hermeneutics. Mr. Wright, Senator Barack Obama’s former pastor, was cocky, defiant, declamatory, inflammatory and mischievous, but most of all, he was all over the place, performing a television triathlon of interview, lecture and live news conference that pushed Mr. Obama aside and placed himself front and center in the presidential election campaign. His rehabilitation...

Jeremiah Wright, in all his omniscience, appeared on Bill Moyers’ PBS Show Friday evening April 25 and tried to justify his sermon God damning America. No matter how Wright tries to frame the reasoning for the sermon (from 2003) he falls on his face.

Hillary Clinton's threat to "obliterate" Iran, in an ABC interview broadcast just as the voters of Pennsylvania prepared to head to the polls this morning, doesn't appear to have been particularly well received by anyone other than the hard right, which is somewhat telling as to where the former first lady is pitching her policies - or at least campaign pledges - these days. While one assumes that her campaign must have known what she was planning, it too seemed a little taken aback at just how belligerent and absolute her language was: it spent a large part of last...

Chris Wallace must be happy... Fishbowl DC has learned that Sen. Barack Obama will finally appear on Fox News Sunday this weekend. A pre-taped interview is slated to take place Saturday in Marion, Indiana. You'll recall that Wallace started the "Obama Watch" in March (and even put notice of it on his office door) and dated it back to May 2006, when Wallace said Obama agreed to a face-to-face interview on Fox News Sunday. Obama has largely avoided Fox throughout the campaign, although things changed on January 9 when he did do an interview with the cable news network. We...

<p>Manipulative. Shameful. Race-baiting. Those are the only words to describe a new television ad from the Republican Party running in North Carolina that attacks Senator Barack Obama as “too extreme” for the state.</p> <p>Senator John McCain was right to condemn the ad and demand that state Republican Party leaders pull it — a demand they refused. As of Friday, the state party’s Web site was soliciting contributions to “keep this ad on the air.” The country cannot afford such divisiveness.</p>

As the nation gets to know liberals, the more they turn towards our candidate. As we speak, Barack Obama and all his media fansclub leads John McCain in the latest Gallup and Rasmussen polls, and that's after the best week Obama has had in his life and a not-so-good week for McCain. Imagine what McCain can pull off once the campaign is started and all of us, or at least most of us are united again as one party. We won't let ultra-liberal Obama win the presidence and pull our troops out of terrorism hot-bed that is Iraq. No way.

1. McCain Should Be Feared, Writer Says Presidential hopeful John McCain is being billed as the Republican that liberals can live with, but his credentials as a “bipartisan progressive� are in fact a “lazy, hazy myth,� according to liberal pundit Johann Hari. “The truth is that McCain is the candidate we should most fear,� writes Hari, a columnist for The Independent in Britain, in an article that appeared in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. “Not only is he to the right of Bush on a whole range of subjects, he is also the Republican candidate most likely to dispense with Hillary Clinton...

I was watching Foxnews and they raised an important point. There is some chatter that the fact Governor Huckabee hasn't dropped out is actually helping John McCain. I tend to agree with that assessment for following reasons. KEEPING MAC ON AIRWAVES It doesn't help McCain to leave the airwaves to Hobama. If he is the only one left, media would have no reason to give him proper amount of coverage. He may also be forced to go negative too early and look like an insane old man talking to himself. With Huck in the race, even though the race is...

So, my mother and her coffee friends have never voted Republican in their lives... But...and this is for all these people who are worried about Obama! They would never vote for him and have said that were he to win the Dem nomination they would vote for McCain. This is not to say that McCain is the best nominee, only to say that I don't think we have to fear Obama. He won't win the white women vote, especially working and middle class above the age of 40. They see right past him. Be not afraid of Obama. I think...

Excuse the vanity, but here is mine for the year. Ok folks, let's just resign ourselves to the fact the Huckster is not going to dropout, thus McCain will win the GOP nod by the divide and conquer strategy. I think McCain can beat Hillary because she is polarizing and their is a sense in this country (except among some dumb women) that we don't want anymore of the Clinton's. Obahma has a better chance at winning because he is young and has charisma which McCain lacks. Let's face it folks, we live in a society that likes to be...

Who Will McCain Ask to Be His Running Mate?

Words are the currency of politics. That currency has been devalued greatly since the days of peripatetic Aristotelian philosophers wandering the grounds at Lyceum. Where our forefathers of self-governance sought to attach deep meaning to political discourse, today's politicos seek mainly to remove significance from the words they speak. Locally, a Governor of Illinois can win re-election by promising that he is "getting things done for people." If Rod Blagojevich could have been more vague, he would have been. It just was not possible. Nationally, we get the silliness of Presidential candidates arguing over who is the greater "agent for...

McCain’s Obfuscation Express keeps on rolling along. John McCain considered Benchmarks in Iraq as early as January of 2007. McCain is becoming the flip flopper that was John Kerry in 2004. Problem is that McCain doesn’t claim to be for them before he was against them. McCain just lies about his previous statements.

The Chuckabee facts Chase Cooper IDS 1/8/2008 Chuck Norris doesn’t endorse – he tells America how it’s gonna be.” So says Mike Huckabee , anyway, in a campaign ad featuring his biggest endorser, Chuck Norris. In the ad, Norris and Huckabee, who is known increasingly in conservative circles as the “Huckster,” go back and forth for 60 agonizing seconds telling “facts” about each other, performing a skit patterned after the “Chuck Norris facts” seen in Facebook groups and chain e-mails. Here are a few “Huck Chuck facts” that you may not know about: Fact: Chuck Norris is so corny that...

What We Learned From The Iowa Caucuses By John Ziegler That where candidates stand on the issues matter far less (if at all) than how likable they are and how nice their skin looks. That all the old rules of Presidential politics no longer apply. That strong and real opposition to illegal immigration is not as important to Republicans in Iowa as we were told. That even some liberals really can’t stand Hillary Clinton. That Oprah’s endorsement is more powerful to Democrats than Bill Clinton’s. That when you are bombarded with too many political ads and candidate visits for too...

What We Learned From The Iowa Caucuses By John Ziegler That where candidates stand on the issues matter far less (if at all) than how likable they are and how nice their skin looks. That all the old rules of Presidential politics no longer apply. That strong and real opposition to illegal immigration is not as important to Republicans in Iowa as we were told. That even some liberals really can’t stand Hillary Clinton. That Oprah’s endorsement is more powerful to Democrats than Bill Clinton’s. That when you are bombarded with too many political ads and candidate visits for too...

While Huckabee is the most ardent social conservative of the top Republican candidates, he is also the one who takes the economic anxieties of the lower middle class most seriously. When the Republicans met in Dearborn, Mich., to debate the economy, most of the candidates maintained that times were good and that people who thought otherwise just hadn't seen the statistics. Huckabee had a different message: "For many people on this stage, the economy's doing terrifically well, but for a lot of Americans, it's not doing so well." He talked about people who have trouble paying their rent or getting...