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.
Romney Enjoys Democratic Rivals' Dust-Up
MERRIMACK, N.H. - Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney said Friday that he relishes the infighting that has consumed two of his potential Democratic opponents, Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York and Barack Obama of Illinois. "It's great, isn't it?" Romney said to peals of laughter from a crowd of employees at a solar-related equipment plant on the newly declared candidate's first visit to the leadoff presidential primary state. "I love to see it when it happens on the other side." The former Massachusetts governor described his leading Republican rivals, Sen. John McCain of Arizona and former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, as "friends" and "national heroes," before adding: "I respect them. I'm sure we'll disagree on issues from time to time, but I doubt you'll see the rancor that apparently may exist elsewhere." Earlier this week, Clinton aides called on Obama to repudiate criticism of the former first lady leveled by Hollywood producer David Geffen, a former Clinton backer now supporting Obama.
Hillary-Obama feud imperils party for '08
Democratic strategists say the bitter fight between Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama could undermine their party's bid to win back the White House if it continues.
"I think the Democrats in general, particularly party activists and leaders, do not want to see a knife fight between these two which results in blood all over the Democrats. We want a strong nominee coming out of this primary process, not one that is beaten and bloodied," said Bud Jackson, a Democratic media adviser.
That view summed up what many Democrats were thinking last week when the front-runners were trading political blows through their spokesmen after movie mogul David Geffen, a former Clinton ally who is now backing Mr. Obama, called Mrs. Clinton a disingenuous, "incredibly polarizing figure" who isn't electable and appeared to allude to her husband's past infidelity.
Obama, Clinton camps accuse each other of nasty campaigning
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The rival presidential campaigns of Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama traded accusations of nasty politics Wednesday over Hollywood donor David Geffen, who once backed Bill Clinton but now supports his wife's top rival.The Clinton campaign demanded that Obama denounce comments made by the DreamWorks movie studio founder, who told New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd in Wednesday's editions that while "everybody in politics lies," the former president and his wife "do it with such ease, it's troubling."The Clinton camp also called on Obama to give back Geffen's $2,300 contribution.Campaigning in Iowa, Obama refused."It's not clear to me why I'd be apologizing for someone else's remark," the Illinois senator said. .
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