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Obama Disputes Claim of Sharing Clinton’s Stance on War
New York Times - New York,NY,USA
Senator Barack Obama yesterday directly challenged former President Bill Clinton’s assertions that Mr. Obama and Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton hold the …

Mr. Obama, of Illinois, was asked in an interview on MSNBC yesterday about Mr. Clinton’s point that the two senators have voted mostly the same way on Iraq.

“Well, I suppose that’s true if you leave out the fact that she authorized it and supported it, and I said it was a bad idea,” Mr. Obama said. “You know, that’s a fairly major difference.”

Mr. Obama then suggested that a fundamental question of judgment was at issue.

“I think very highly of Senator Clinton,” he said. “I think she is a wonderful senator from New York, but — and I think very highly of Bill Clinton. But I think that it is fair to say that we had a fundamentally different opinion on the wisdom of this war. And I don’t think we can revise history when it comes to that.”

Mr. Obama has repeatedly noted on the campaign trail that he opposed the Iraq war as far back as the fall of 2002, when Mrs. Clinton was voting to allow military action. But until yesterday, Mr. Obama had not been so direct in contesting Mr. Clinton’s claims that there was little difference between the two hopefuls.

The Audacity of Hope, by Barack Obama
Independent - London,England,UK
The Democratic contender Barack Obama, in writing a fairly chunky book exploring the matter, and publishing it as he hits the presidential campaign trail, …

As modest proposals go, it’s a tricky one: getting across the idea that the certain conviction one should be the "leader of the free world" is born of nothing beyond a humble wish to serve. The Democratic contender Barack Obama, in writing a fairly chunky book exploring the matter, and publishing it as he hits the presidential campaign trail, has chosen to offer a fairly comprehensive exposition of his paradoxical position.

It helps, of course, that he can write, in an easy, casual, but careful style. Mellifluous and friendly, it hints rather than boasts at an underlying intelligence and determination rather more steely than this gentle, scrupulously fair-minded, but sweeping and generalised text might necessarily confirm. It helps, too, that he has no hesitation in becoming intimate with the reader, offering a touching vignette here of the courtship of his wife, Michelle, and a moving glimpse there of the all-conquering wonder of breathing the scent of a little daughter’s hair.

He does jokes too, self-deprecating ones that acknowledge the distance from ordinary experience that senators inevitably develop, like when he has to admit that his first experience of flying by private jet was "nice". Edgier ones suggest a refreshing relaxation about political correctness, like when a senator turns to him during an impassioned speech by a black firebrand about racism and its iniquities to confess that the speaker’s trouble is that he makes him feel "too white". Obama doesn’t want anyone to feel too anything, except perhaps too lucky not to want to share it round.

Obama opens affirmative action debate
Albany Times Union - Albany,NY,USA
Barack Obama doesn’t think anyone should cut his two daughters any slack when they apply to college — not because of their race, at least. …

Barack Obama: Obama Statement on Iraq Redeployment Plans
All American Patriots (press release) - Taeby,NA,Sweden
“Today, 1518 days after it began, the war in Iraq rages on, with no sign of a resolution.” “The Iraqi people appear no closer to the settling their …

Michelle Obama Adds New Role to Balancing Act
New York Times - New York,NY,USA
It was a triumphant moment for Barack Obama: He was walking through the Capitol for the very first time as a United States senator in January 2005, …

Broncos WR an Obama disciple
Denver Post - Denver,CO,USA
During the past year away from football, Broncos receiver David Terrell picked up Barack Obama’s memoir, "Dreams from My Father," and was so inspired, …

Obama vs. Clinton represents refreshing choice for black women
San Jose Mercury News - San Jose,CA,USA
Barack Obama on the Larry King show, Oprah has brought some extra attention to a familiar and not always welcome question. Are African-American women, …

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