Barack Obama will arrive in Britain this summer on a long-expected seven-nation world tour including Europe, designed to answer doubts among global leaders — and US voters — about the direction of his foreign policy.
Source TimesOnline
If we are going to solve the challenges we face - we can’t vacillate - we can’t shift depending on our politicsBarack Obama
Source BBC News
Former Vice President Al appeared in Detroit tonight for his debut campaign appearance with Senator Barack Obama, extending an endorsement and urging all Democrats to rally behind the party’s fall ticket.
It had to happen sooner or later and you just know that once elected Obama won’t let poor old Al stay in political retirement. My guess is some sort of modern climate/environmental office will be created for Mr Gore manage.
In the first sign that voters are coalescing around Barack Obama as the Democratic nominee, two daily tracking polls notice a widening of the gap over his Republican rival John McCain.
Source: Huffingtonpost.com
No more primary groundhog days.
No more reporting the endless see-saw of results.
No more sitting on the fence as to who will be the Democratic nominee.
It has of course been looking like the end for some time.
Source BBC News
Is the Clinton campaign finally shutting down? Ben Smith reports on Politico that the former first lady’s advance staff - responsible for arranging her campaign events - have been summoned to New York for the night of the final primaries on Tuesday and told their roles will then come to an end.
Source TimesOnline
Hillary Clinton has summoned top donors and backers to attend her New York speech tomorrow night in an unusual move that is being widely interpreted to mean she plans to soon suspend her campaign and endorse Barack Obama - not tomorrow night but within a day or two.
Source Huffington Post
Barack Obama crept close to victory in the marathon Democratic presidential race Monday on the eve of the final primaries amid signs that Hillary Rodham Clinton was preparing to acknowledge defeat once he gained the final delegates needed.
Source AP
Did you miss the announcement? So did I. But Nancy Pelosi and Jimmy Carter are two of six uncommitted (or previously committed to Clinton) superdelegates who have said they will support the candidate who wins the most pledged delegates. Last night Barack Obama became that candidate.
Source: Open Left
Senator Barack Obama says he is close to securing the Democratic Party’s nomination to run in the US presidential election in November.
Mr Obama looks set to win a majority of “pledged” delegates, allocated in primary elections, although he is still short of a confirmed overall victory.
Source: BBC News
From Yahoo! News
Warren Buffett, the world’s richest man, is backing Barak Obama for US president and thinks current US economic policy will push the dollar lower against other global currencies
Buffett told a press conference here Monday he had offered support to both Obama and Democratic rival Hillary Clinton but that since it appeared Obama would win the party’s nomination, “I will be very happy if he is elected president.
“He is my choice,” Buffett said.
Former Sen. George McGovern, an early supporter of Hillary Rodham Clinton, urged her to drop out of the Democratic presidential race and endorsed her rival, Barack Obama.
From Huffington Post
“They are the best practitioners of the old politics, so they will no doubt call me a traitor, an opportunist and a hypocrite. I will be branded as disloyal, power-hungry, but most importantly, they will use the exact words that Republicans used to attack me when I was defending President Clinton.”
That’s how Joe Andrews predicted his switch to Obama would be characterised by the Clinton campaign yesterday and, given that they had previously branded Bill Richardson a “Judas” for backing Barack, it’s not hard to see why.
So it comes as no surprise that Hillary’s campaign tried to marginalise Joe Andrew’s Indiana credentials in an MSNBC interview. It was a huge mistake though, because Joe Andrew not only fought back, but dealt an embarrassing knock-out blow to the attempt.
In modern parlance, the Clinton campaign got owned:
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