Sen Barack Obama New face of US Politics
Everybody saw it coming, but when it was announced last week that one of America's most mixed personalities, US Senator Barack Obama would be seeking Democratic Party nomination for the presidency, it still sent shock waves down the political landscape. Why is that? Is it for his mixed-racial background? His mixed-religious education? Mixed cultural pedigree? Mixed political profile? Or is he truly the new face of the Democratic Party in the United States of America? No doubt, Obama's biography, once wrote Scott Turow, “is both intriguing and inspiring, an American story for he 21st century". The resume detail that initially caught wide attention was his election in 1990 as the first African-American president (that is editor-in-chief) of the Harvard Law Review, the premier legal academic publication in the United States.
OUTSIDE LOOKING IN What they're saying about us
Still hounding Sen. Barack Obama: Is he "black enough" to woo minority voters in his presidential bid? Ronald Walters, president of the African American Leadership Institute at the University of Maryland, tells the Toronto Star, "When you hear about his background, you hear Hawaii, Kenya (where his father was born), or Kansas (his mother's home state). You don't hear Alabama. It's not strange at all that blacks would view him with a little suspicion." Alan O'Riordan of the Irish Independent cared little for the play "Who by Fire." The Auschwitz tale incorporating Leonard Cohen tunes was an unintentional comedy, O'Riordan said. "Such was the unevenness of this production that there were times when you felt you could have been at some neo-Nazi drama circle in Alabama or Mississippi, with the joke firmly on the Jews - a view compounded by the band in baseball caps and jackboots." .
Clinton, Obama, Edwards: Beyond Paralysis
Right now most of the national polls are showing that the race for the Democratic nomination for president is among the three individuals mentioned above with everyone else in the background hoping they will fade. On the other hand, polls of the Black community are showing that Hilary Clinton is ahead of Barack Obama by more than 2-to-1 (52-28; CBS News, Washington Post, January 2007). These are early polls reflect not only the name recognition of the candidates, but the early support among Blacks for their bid. However, the polls could not just be a reflection of name recognition, because if that were true, then John Edwards, having run for vice president most recently in 2004, would be ahead of Barack Obama in all of the polls - but he is not. So, a discussion has arisen about such issues as the relative strength of the Black vote essentially between Obama and Clinton, why the Clinton support is so large and whether Black still owe the Clintons anything.
Hillary and Barack fight
The Brody File was not given a ticket to last night's big Barack Obama fundraiser with the stars in Hollwood. I couldn't make it anyhow. I was watching American idol and folding laundry. But Natalie Maines from the Dixie Chicks was there last night. You can "chick" out her comments above and watch her wax poetic! Because of last night's event, there's already a big spat brewing. A little background here. Remember, Hillary Clinton and President Bill have been Hollywood's favorite couple over the years but now here comes the rock star, Barack Obama who raised 1.3 million dollars last night. The stars love him. They like Hillary too but the topic is clearly a sensitive one between the Clinton and Obama camps. Anyhow, Clinton Communications Director Howard Wolfson issued a statement today demanding that Barack Obama "disavow personal attack that his campaign finance chair made against Senator Clinton in this morning’s New York Times.
Education By Design Launches 2008 Presidential Election Game
Education By Design, Inc. announced today that it has developed a new interactive, online game to educate voters on the 2008 Presidential Election's top candidates. Available at www.the2008race.com, the game spotlights four of the race's top contenders: Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, John McCain and Rudy Giuliani. Free of charge and globally accessible on the Web, the EBD interactive learning tool features questions and answers designed to educate the public on selected presidential campaigns. "It's a game that has been developed to help people learn more about the four candidates -- their thinking, their view points, their life stories and more," said Bunmi Folayan, CEO of Education By Design. "For example, as a user, you can learn about a specific candidate's voting record, background, education and politics -- basically everything you would want to know about before considering them for the Presidency." Education By Design's interactive technology is entirely Web-based, making it an ideal method to discover and research presidential candidates.
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