ABC News’ Karin Weinberg Reports: Former President Jimmy Carter plans to endorse the presidential bid of Democratic frontrunner Barack Obama after polls close in the final two primary races Tuesday night.Carter has previously hinted at his support for Obama, noting that many of his family members support the Illinois senator.In an interview last month with […]
Rumors have been circulating all day that Hillary Clinton was going to give up her bid for the nomination before the convention after all. The Politico’s Ben Smith reported early this morning that Clinton was calling all her advance staffers to New York to let them go. Then again, Smith also reported that […]
First Read is an analysis of the day’s political news, from the NBC News political unit. First Read is updated throughout the day, so check back often.From Chuck Todd, Mark Murray, and Domenico Montanaro*** Et tu, Scott? The news of Scott McClellan’s new book on President Bush — first reported by the Politico’s Mike […]
WASHINGTON (AFP) — Explosive new revelations about President George W. Bush and Iraq reverberated along the White House trail Wednesday, exposing Republican candidate John McCain to possible damage on the war.Excerpts from a score-settling memoir by former White House press secretary Scott McClellan, threw the unpopular conflict back into the political crossfire offering an opening […]
Obama wins Oregon primary–US mediaFirst Posted 11:13:00 05/21/2008PORTLAND, Oregon — Barack Obama on Tuesday won the Democratic presidential primary in the northwestern state of Oregon, US media said.The Illinois senator was projected to win the state, which has 52 delegates at stake, NBC, CNN and Fox said.Earlier, Obama’s rival Hillary Clinton won a decisive victory […]
“Some idiot out there’s going to put a bullet in that silver-tongued devil,” he says, “and then there’ll be a race war. There are some in our movement who are preparing for war, [even] praying for it.”Until homegrown terrorists incinerated the federal building in Oklahoma City and detonated a bomb during the Atlanta Olympics, civil […]
U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama toasts with a beer in Raleigh, North Carolina, May 6, 2008. Obama and Hillary Clinton split crucial presidential contests in Indiana and North Carolina on Tuesday, pushing Obama closer to securing the Democratic nomination but keeping Clinton’s faint hopes alive. (REUTERS/Jason Reed)CBS News projected Clinton’s win in Indiana, which […]
Size doesn’t matter; thickness does. Just ask Bill Clinton who has suddenly started wearing fat ties with cutaway collars.Recently, while stumping for his wife and Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, the former President wore a veddy British cutaway collar with a Windsor-knotted neck tie–a pointed departure from the drab business attire he’s worn his entire […]
I don’t know what Coburn said exactly. But I’m pretty sure Coburn didn’t bomb any abortion clinics.I can’t believe what I just heard. (I’m on the Left Coast, so forgive my delayed outrage) Video here.Just minutes ago, to his credit, George Stephanopoulos, during the Democrat debate on ABC raised the issue of Obama’s […]
It sounds like Barack Obama may have been thinking through the consequences of a troop withdrawal from Iraq after all.At today’s Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on Iraq, Obama raised a question that gets right to the heart of the debate that will play out in the presidential race – whether the United States could […]