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Joe Andrew, former DNC Chairman who was appointed to that position by President Clinton, is supporting Barack Obama. The reason that he is supporting Barack Obama is really key. Watch the video. This is very outstanding. ...

We wonder if Hillary Clinton knows her strategist and pal Sidney Blumenthal - who coined the term “vast right-wing conspiracy” - has been distributing right wing articles attacking rival Barack Obama. [HuffPo] ...

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I am surprised that the media has not highlighted this fact: Republican Presidential candidate John McCain was not born in the United States. (No, he wasn't born before the United States was created!) He was born August 29, 1936 on the Coco Solo Naval Air Station in the Panama Canal Zone.Yesterday the U.S. Senate unanimously passed a resolution declaring that McCain is eligible to be President of the United States, despite the fact the United States Constitution (Article II, Section 1) says "No person except a natural born citizen, or a citizen of the United States, at ...

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Gay superdelegate Jason Rae explains his previously announced Barack Obama endorsement: “It was a matter of how many young people were turning out for him. I got elected to be a voice for American’s next generation and I see Obama really engaging with young people. In exit polls, 73% of 18-to-24-year-old Wisconsin voters supported him.” [POQ] ...

Now, to be fair, there is no way that Barack Obama should have granted Fox “News” Sunday an interview. I’m sorry I think that you have to have standards. On the other hand, Hillary Clinton granting an interview with Bill O’Reilly. I think that I’m going to vomit. This clip show just how far the candidates will go to get votes. ...

Via Think Progress. Another week and another racist or sexist slur from the all-white, all-male fratboys at cable "news" network. MSNBC. On Hardball, host Chris Matthews offered Sen. Barack Obama some "practical" "advice" on how to attract more white men... ...

Allen Roskoff’s never been afraid to voice his opinion. Well, that’s not true. Like so many of the lavender set, the New York-based activist once hid in the closet, but found himself out and proud after falling in with the Gay Activist Alliance, one of our city’s first post-Stonewall rights groups. Now, as president of the Jim Owles Liberal Democratic Club, Roskoff remains one of the most progressive activists this side of the Mississippi. In fact, it was an email from Roskoff that spurred the following exchange with our editor. Some of you may recall last week’s story about anti-gay ...

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Fox News outdid itself when it attempted to picture Abraham Lincoln and rival Stephen A. Douglas, whom Lincoln debated back in 1858. Unfortunately they put up a picture of abolitionist Frederick Douglass. Does Fox really think black people were running for office in 1858? If so, why do they make such a stink over Barack Obama? Watch Dan Abrams’ snarky take, after the jump. ...

In the post prior to this, I stated that I would not mention Jeremiah Wright again. I was mistaken. I will now categorically state that I will not mention Jeremiah Wright after this post. As far as I and this blog are concerned, Senator Obama has laid the matter to rest… Obama strongly denounces former pastor WINSTON-SALEM, North Carolina (Reuters) - Democratic Sen. Barack Obama strongly denounced his former pastor on Tuesday, saying he was outraged by assertions made by Rev. Jeremiah Wright about the U.S. government and race that have disrupted Obama’s presidential campaign. The controversy over Wright has been a ...

Press conference on the left, Q&A on the right, via Talking Points Memo. Said Obama: I am outraged by the comments that were made and saddened over the spectacle that we saw yesterday. I had been a member of Trinity United Church since 1992. I've known Reverend Wright for almost twenty years. The person I saw yesterday was not the person that I met twenty years ago. His comments were not only divisive and destructive, but I believe that they end up giving comfort to those who prey on hate, and I believe that they do not portray accurately ...

In light of Clinton-endorsing Governor Mike Easley’s “pansy” remark, here’s an interesting snippet from Ben Smith: “Easley is a meaningful ally in the culture war she’s waging against Senator Barack Obama, as she seeks to cast him as a hopelessly unelectable liberal elitist and to persuade the Democratic Party leaders who will decide the nomination – the “superdelegates” – to choose her instead.” [Politico] ...

Barack Obama laid the smack down on former Preacher man Jeremiah Wright earlier this afternoon. Calling Wright’s National Press Club appearance a “performance,” Obama made his harshest disavowal of Wright since the scandal first broke a billion years ago. What Rev. Wright said yesterday directly contradicts everything I have ever done or said in my life. Whatever relationship I had with Rev Wright has changed as a result of this. … The person I saw yesterday was not the person I met 20 years ago. The real problem with Wright isn’t so much his comments and spotlight grabbing, but the fact that Obama ...

Has the Democratic National Committee gone too far? Republicans say yes. The party organ (ha!) launched its ad wars last week with an ad featuring John McCain erroneously describing our nation as “better off” under the Bush administration. A new ad, which debuted yesterday, revolves around McCain’s infamous “100 years” remark, as in the United States could be in Iraq for another century. The Republican National Committee, however, described the commercial as misleading and “maliciously false”, have asked networks not to run the advert and are now threatening to sue the DNC: Sean Cairncross, the RNC’s legal counsel, told reporters ...

God damn! Jeremiah Wright’s rapidly becoming the story of the year. Barack Obama’s former preacher man found himself on front pages again this morning after he addressed the National Press Club yesterday, when he characterized the fervor as “an attack on Black Churches.” That’s an exaggeration, we think, as does Gay Conservative Liberal. He contends that Wright’s overstating himself, but does offer an illuminating analysis of Wright’s original statement. Rather than simply condemning America, Wright should have elaborated on why people - black, gay and otherwise - have a right to be angry with the nation. Among the examples given, Lawrence ...

I've got a different take on the focus that is being placed on the statement's of Jeremiah Wright and their relationship to the candidacy of Barack Obama. I agree that he isn't doing Senator Obama any favors by appearing at numerous events...especially since many Americans seemed willing to accept his explanations and observations on the issue of race following the first release of excerpts from Pastor Wright's sermons. However, realizing the detrimental effect of Pastor Wright's continued presence in the spotlight ignores an essential and salient question...one that asks why Wright's ongoing remarks and the associated media ...