Obama faces uphill fight for Houston's black vote
As Sen. Barack Obama gets set to campaign for president in Houston, local political leaders and voters reflect the national surveys showing that he has no early lock on the black vote, which could play a key role in next year's Texas Democratic primary. Linzy Hughes, 94, one of several black voters interviewed at lunch Tuesday at the Family Cafe, a political crossroads near downtown Houston, said America is not ready for a black president and he will support Hillary Clinton, if he "make(s) 95," simply because he thinks she has a better chance of winning. On the other hand, Obama's relative youth and outlook appeal to Carroll Robinson, a former Houston councilman and associate dean of external affairs at Texas Southern University. Robinson, who is 45, the same age as the presidential contender, said he did not experience the John F.
Earl Ofari Hutchinson: Turf Battle Drives Hillary and Obama Tiff
At first glance the tiff between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama seemed surprising. It sounded petty and petulant for Hollywood mogul David Geffen, a long time Clinton family cheerleader and campaign bankroller, to sucker punch Hillary with the knock that she's polarizing voters. The implication is that she would be a disaster for the Democrats if she were to get the party presidential bid. .
Abercrombie Believes Obama Will Emerge as Frontrunner
HONOLULU (KHNL) - U.S. Congressman Neil Abercrombie of Hawaii says his old friend Barack Obama is on a path to the White House. Rep. Abercrombie was a guest on KHNL News 8 Today on Tuesday morning. The Democrat has known the Obama family since the 1960s. "I knew Barack's mom and dad, and I went to school with his father at the University of Hawaii, before he went to Harvard and back to Kenya." Abercrombie says back then, Barack was known as "Little Barry." He says Obama has always had an engaging and magnetic personality. "I think part of his appeal is his the fact that he understands our diversity. He defines us, rather than divides us. And that's a message that I think needs to be taken into this poisonous political atmosphere." Abercrombie says Obama will emerge as the frontrunner in the Democratic Party.
Clinton and Obama camps trade opening salvos
The presidential campaigns of Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) and Barack Obama (D-Ill.) traded shots Wednesday over remarks Obama-backer and media mogul David Geffen made regarding the Clintons. Geffen, quoted in a New York Times op-ed, took several swipes at Clinton, and her camp fired back in the direction of Obama. Geffen said Clinton would be the easiest Democrat to defeat in a general election, adding that while everyone lies in politics, the former first family does so with "such ease." The Clinton campaign called Geffen's statements vicious and personal attacks on the New York senator and former President Bill Clinton. "If Senator Obama is indeed sincere about his repeated claims to change the tone of our politics, he should immediately denounce these remarks, remove Mr.
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