Text of Obama’s Speech: A More Perfect Union
Here, the full text of Sen. Barack Obama’s speech, “A More Perfect Union,” as prepared for delivery.
“We the people, in order to form a more perfect union.”
Two hundred and twenty one years ago, in a hall that still stands across the street, a group of men gathered and, [...]

The New York Times has a great article today about Barack Obama’s mother. I recommend this article to anyone who wants to know more about the background and struggles of the individual Presidential candidates.

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Yesterday, Hillary Clinton, in a move she is not always noted for, apologized. She apologized three separate times: once for her husband’s Jesse Jackson comments in South Carolina, once for Geraldine Ferraro’s recent comments and separately for the U.S. government’s response to Katrina.
This is her best statement of healing to date in this campaign.
“I [...]

Geraldine Ferraro has finally resigned for her racially-charged diatribes about Barack Obama. Her resignation statement wasn’t an admission of guilt or contrition about the scandal now engulfing the Clinton campaign:
Dear Hillary –
I am stepping down from your finance committee so I can speak for myself and you can continue to speak for yourself about [...]

Geraldine Ferraro, the Democratic 1984 Vice Presidential Candidate and a major supporter of Hillary Clinton in this election, has said some very ugly things about Barack Obama. She is quoted as saying:
“If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position. And if he was a woman of any color, he [...]

So, first, there was the whole Commander-in-Chief nonsense. Hillary Clinton and her surrogates essentially claimed Obama had little more to offer America as President than a 2002 speech against the War in Iraq. At the same time, she praised the presumptive Republican nominee John McCain for his “years of experience.” Those comments got a [...]

Back on Mar. 7th, I thought that Hillary Clinton had recently displayed such moral turpitude in her attempt to best Barack Obama in the Democratic primary contest that I couldn’t overlook it any more. That sentiment continues to grow
I would consider myself to be a middle-of-the-road voter, a Rockefeller Republican, a Libertarian — all [...]

Earlier today in the news, it was revealed that our top man in the military in the Middle East, William J. Fallon has asked to retire and resign from his post (see story)
This story may seem innocuous and of little to no consequence at a time of huge news coverage: Eliot Spitzer, Geraldine Ferraro, Barack [...]