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Chris Dodd Endorses Barack Obama

Sen. Christopher Dodd of Connecticut has endorsed Barack Obama, his former rival in the Democratic presidential race.
"He's ready to be president and I am ready to support him in this campaign" Dodd said at a joint news confernece with Obama.

Obama livid at Clinton ‘racial’ slur

The Obama campaign has accused the Clinton camp of "the most shameful, offensive fear-mongering" after the news website, Drudge Report, published a photo of Barack Obama in full Somali traditional dress, which it said had been sent by a Clinton aide.
The photo, taken in 2006, shows the Democrat frontrunner dressed as a Somali elder, during […]

Obama slams smear photo

Obama Campaign Manger David Plouffe accused the Clinton campaign of "shameful offensive fear-mongering" by circulating a photo as an attempted smear.
Plouffe was reacting to a banner headline on the Drudge Report saying that aides to Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) had e-mailed a photo calling attention to the African roots of Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.).

Barack Obama: Hillary taking false credit for 90’s

By Christina Bellantoni 
Sen. Barack Obama said today Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton presents herself as if she was "co-president" from 1993 to 2000.
Mr. Obama, holding a town hall forum at a wall board manufacturing plant here, said his criticism of her position on the North American Free Trade Agreement is fair because she includes her time […]

Obama suggests Clinton’s anger is theater

Barack Obama today suggested that a passionate denunciation Hillary Clinton delivered this morning assailing his campaign for “Karl Rove” tactics may have been just so much performance art for the cameras.
Clinton blasted the Obama campaign for flyers sent to Ohio voters arguing mandates to purchase insurance contained in her health care plan would “punish” people […]

African Americans Worry About Obama’s Safety

For many black Americans, it's a conversation they find hard to avoid, revisiting old fears in the light of bright new hopes.
They watch with wonder as Barack Obama moves ever closer to becoming America's first black president. And they ask themselves, their family, their friends: Is he at risk? Will he be safe?
There is, of […]