| Obama to traverse the state on Monday
CLEVELAND White House hopeful Barack Obama will make several stops in the Buckeye State next Monday. The Democratic Illinois senator was already expected in Cincinnati for a breakfast fund-raiser. Now, he's scheduled to go on to Columbus for a similar luncheon event and then end his day in Cleveland, where he'll appear at a private reception downtown and at a public rally at the Cuyahoga Community College campus in suburban Highland Hills. Obama formally kicked off his 2008 campaign for the White House earlier this month. ___ Information from: The Plain Dealer, http://www.cleveland.com Copyright 2007 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. .
Obama tickets available starting Friday
Tickets for U.S. Sen. Barack Obamas appearance in Louisville Sunday at the Downtown Marriott hotel will be available beginning Friday.
The tickets, which cost $25 each, will be available from 4-6 p.m. Friday and noon to 2 p.m. Saturday at Glassworks, 815 W. Market St.
Because of incorrect information from the Obama campaign, a story yesterday on courier-journal.com contained incorrect information about when the tickets could be purchased.
Obama, D-Ill., is a candidate for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination. .
Sam Smith: The Politics Of Nothingness
Perusing still more puerile pandering in the cause of pacific politics by Barack Oblather, a vision suddenly appeared. While, according to Google, a few others have already experienced this transformational experience, it is still rare enough to deserve mention. The apparition was, without doubt, Chauncy Gardiner aka Chance the gardener, the last manifestation of magnificent nothingness to appear on the American political scene - albeit the fiction of Chance was safely contained in the movie "Being There" while Obama is running for election to a real White House. Like Obama, no one knew where Chance had come from. Even the CIA and FBI were unable to discover any information, with each concluding he is a clever cover-up by one of their own agents. In the final scene, reports Wikipedia, "Chance is seen apparently walking across the surface of a lake while the most important movers and shakers in the USA discuss running him for President.
Barack Obama, Not 'Black Enough’?
A very interesting piece by Louis Chude-Sokei is featured in the L.A.Times today, titled Redefining 'Black' and centered upon the question of Barack Obama's relative "blackness". Some of you may have noticed that Barack is not getting the automatic support from African American leaders that many assumed he would get since throwing his hat into the ring for the Democratic nomination for the presidency and Mr. Chude-Sokei makes an effort to inform us as to why this might be true. Unfortunately, while it has a few good points, it misses the mark in too many ways. The main point, according to Chude-Sokei, is that Obama isn't "black enough" to get the support of the standing Black American leadership because of his White/Hawaiian/African (meaning NOT African American, but real African) heritage.
Clinton makes early bid to court black voters
Hillary Rodham Clinton chose Liberty City Tuesday for her first public appearance in Florida as a presidential candidate, signaling that she won't forfeit black voters to Democratic rival Barack Obama. The senator from New York and former first lady set an informal tone at the Joseph Caleb Community Center, fielding questions from community activists seated all around her. She reminded the crowd that she had visited nearby Charles Drew Elementary School 13 years ago, calling out to the former principal, Fred Morley. ''I've been to Liberty City before, so I am happy to be back,'' she said. Clinton's visit to Florida also generated hundreds of thousands of dollars from private campaign fundraisers in Coconut Grove, Hollywood and Tampa. Though two South Florida members of Congress -- Alcee Hastings and Debbie Wasserman Schultz -- endorsed Clinton Tuesday, U.S.
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