Articles filed under U.S. President
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Durbin references Obama early and often during visitMar 18, 2008 11:00 pm - Although not everyone in the audience was of voting age, U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin's Tuesday visit to Libertyville High School could've been mistaken for a presidential camp...
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Clinton's life as the first lady revealedMar 18, 2008 11:00 pm - WASHINGTON -- Hillary Rodham Clinton kept her schedule packed when allegations exploded that her husband had an affair with an intern, according to papers released Wedne...
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Did Obama's speech on race connect with voters?Mar 18, 2008 11:00 pm - Did he succeed? Sen. Barack Obama's speech on race has been called everything from "brilliant" to "phony." But will it, in basic political terms, lift his campaign over ...
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Twisted Sister guitarist rocks for BarackMar 18, 2008 11:00 pm - ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. -- Jay Jay French wants to rock. He also wants Barack. So the Twisted Sister guitarist has rerecorded the heavy metal band's anthem, "I Wanna Rock," ...
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Pastor forged message during civil rights eraMar 18, 2008 11:00 pm - As shocking as they may be, the provocative sermons of Barack Obama's pastor come out of a tradition of using the black church to challenge its members and confront what...
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Bush's lame-duck status could impede foreign policyMar 17, 2008 11:00 pm - President Bush seems ready to move back to Texas. There he was singing a jolly farewell at the Gridiron Club dinner recently, a fancy gathering for journalists and thei...
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Obama confronts nation's legacy of racial divisionMar 17, 2008 11:00 pm - PHILADELPHIA -- Barack Obama unsparingly criticized his longtime pastor's words while strongly defending the man himself Tuesday in a politically risky speech that appea...
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Do-over primary in Florida unlikelyMar 17, 2008 11:00 pm - TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- Facing strong opposition, Florida Democrats on Monday abandoned plans to hold a do-over presidential primary with a mail-in vote and threw the deleg...
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Logical choice for Clinton or Obama to pick as running mateMar 17, 2008 11:00 pm - Were it not for the 12th Amendment, ratified on June 15, 1804, presidential nominees could, and probably would prefer to, run alone without being saddled with pesky vice...
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Race between Clinton and Obama is about identity, not policyMar 15, 2008 11:00 pm - Elections can be about policy, personality or identity. The race between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton is surely not about policy. The differences between the two are...