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.
The Obama campaign has launched a new anti-smear website to try and clear up the mud that has been thrown over him over the past months:
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
Keith Olberman of MSNBC’s COUNTDOWN compared Senator Obama and Senator McCain’s TV performances on June 3.
Today it appears certain that Barack Obama will become the Presidential Nominee for the US Democratic party in the 2008 elections.
Obama has 2,154 delegates to Hillary Clinton’s 1,919. There now seems no way forward for the former first lady.
Its been an amazing journey for Obama and his supporters. I hope in some small way this website helped to contribute to his success.
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.
After Hillary’s ‘big’ win in West Virginia on Tuesday Obama’s campaign needed a little bit of massage to revive the Senators standing as front runner.
Step in John Edwards. Former Democratic contender and all round nice guy to help out.
To a packed crowd in Michigan Mr Edwards delivered a glowing speech endorsing Obama:
“There is one man who knows and understands that this is a time for bold leadership…there is one man who knows in his heart that it is time to create one America, not two - and that man is Barack Obama.“
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