Lynn Sweet: No matter that Sen. Hillary Clinton is still looking for lightning to strike, the November presidential contest between Sen. Barack Obama and Sen. John McCain took shape Thursday, as Obama unveiled his national grass-roots organizing drive and McCain's top adviser called Obama's campaign a ''hypocrisy.''
CHARLESTON, W. Va. -- Her voice raspy, her tone determined, Hillary Clinton urged supporters Thursday to ignore the political pundits who have declared her toast.
Lynn Sweet: "My hope," said an ardent supporter of Sen. Hillary Clinton and one of her donors, "is that she will do this with grace," a reference to the exit strategy Clinton will use to depart from the race for the Democratic presidential nomination when she decides that Sen. Barack Obama indeed has an unbeatable lead.
Barack Obama won a decisive victory in North Carolina, and rival Hillary Clinton squeezed out a much narrower win in Indiana Tuesday. That means Obama continues to pull ahead in the delegate race, but Clinton has her license to keep waging her long-shot fight.
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton lent her presidential campaign $6.4 million over the past month, her campaign said Wednesday, underscoring the financial advantage held by her rival, Barack Obama.
When this long primary season finally ends, it's no longer going to be enough for Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama to kiss and make up.
GARY, Ind. -- Waiting for the "Fat Lady to Sing" is hard work.
Sen. Hillary Clinton's campaign avoided disaster Tuesday by squeezing out a win in Indiana, but she kept falling further behind Sen. Barack Obama by losing North Carolina. On balance, it was a bad though not totally calamitous night for Clinton.
Sen. Barack Obama and his team really wanted this long race to end on Tuesday night, but the split decision -- a big win in North Carolina and a narrow loss in Indiana -- leaves Sen. Hillary Clinton standing.
INDIANAPOLIS -- Barack Obama continued his Election Day tradition of playing basketball -- only to get battered when he was accidentally knocked to the ground by Alexi Giannoulias, the Illinois state treasurer.
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C.---- Republican John McCain is castigating Democrat Barack Obama for voting against John Roberts as Supreme Court chief justice.
White House hopeful Hillary Clinton is hoping to beat Barack Obama here in what should be his own backyard: northwestern Indiana. This is essentially suburban Chicago, the people here watch Chicago television stations, and they know Obama from coverage of his U.S. Senate run.
Mary Mitchell: It's up to the good people in Indiana and North Carolina to do the right thing: They should ignore the political mischief and judge Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton on their visions for America, which has played out during this primary.
Lynn Sweet: "It's sort of like Ground Hog Day," said Kevin Griffis, an Obama campaign spokesman who Tuesday will celebrate his fifth election day since January in this long march toward the Democratic presidential nomination, having served in South Carolina, Virginia, Ohio, Mississippi and now Indiana.
INDIANAPOLIS -- With crucial votes in Indiana and North Carolina on Tuesday, Sen. Hillary Clinton is stressing she is about "real and immediate solutions," with no better dramatic example than the federal gas tax holiday she is pushing.
Is this an omen for how Tuesday's vote will go? About 4,700 people filled this city's Headwaters Park to hear White House hopeful Barack Obama a few hours after rival Hillary Clinton drew 400 people to a rally at Indiana Tech University campus a mile away. But, to be fair, Clinton had a crowd of about 2,000 here a week ago.
Barack Obama scolded Democratic rival Hillary Rodham Clinton on Sunday for saying that the United States would ''totally obliterate'' Iran if it attacks Israel, and likened her to President Bush. Clinton stood by her comment.
FT. WAYNE, Ind. — Towering above the crowd of Hillary Clinton supporters at Indiana Tech, power forward Darko Bilandzic and guard Bradley Webster fed Clinton’s hoop dreams of a Hoosier victory Sunday.
LOS ANGELES -- Elizabeth Taylor said Friday she's supporting Hillary Rodham Clinton's presidential campaign, calling the New York senator a smart, strong leader.
White House hopeful Barack Obama reached out to his Midwestern farmland roots, visiting his great-uncle's home and giving a kiss and an autograph to his distant cousin Annette Noble, 67.
KEMPTON, Ind. -- White House hopeful Barack Obama reached out to his Midwestern farmland roots, visiting his great-uncle's home and giving a kiss and an autograph to his distant cousin Annette Noble, 67.
RALEIGH, N.C.-- With the polls moving in Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's direction in the Tar Heel State, following a string of problems for Sen. Barack Obama, Clinton's campaign is making a last-minute push here.
INDIANAPOLIS — White House hopeful Barack Obama unveiled a new speech for Indiana voters today, talking in lofty terms about how he’d improve the economy, and in plainer terms about why he thinks rival Hillary Clinton’s plans would not.
White House hopeful Barack Obama told a few hundred workers at the Munster Steel Co. today that he was the better choice for the future of the steel industry. He reminded them that 20 years ago one of his first jobs was helping steelworkers laid off from other steel mills “right up the street.” A steady dripping of water through parts of the plant’s roof during Obama’s town hall meeting here offered a reminder that the industry has seen better days.
RALEIGH, N.C. -- North Carolina Democratic Party Chairman Jerry Meek was looking around at all the people. In routine years, the North Carolina Democratic Party draws 450 to 500 people to its annual Jefferson-Jackson dinner.
MUNSTER, Ind. -- Asked repeatedly about the Rev. Jeremiah Wright on Friday, White House hopeful Barack Obama kept his composure as he told reporters, "What I want to do is move it forward."
PHOENIX -- Republican John McCain was forced to clarify his comments Friday suggesting the Iraq war involved U.S. reliance on foreign oil. He said he was talking about the first Gulf War and not the current conflict.
About two dozen Chicago area black ministers crowded around a small pulpit Friday, pledging their support for Barack Obama's presidential campaign despite the candidate's split from an outspoken pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright.
Sitting on a stool amid hay bales and a wagon in a barn, White House hopeful Barack Obama did his best Thursday to convince Indiana farmers he understands their concerns and will let them farm instead of filling out forms to comply with government regulations.
A leader of the Democratic Party under Bill Clinton switched his allegiance to Barack Obama and encouraged fellow Democrats to heal the party by uniting behind the Illinois senator.
Democrat Barack Obama and his wife said Thursday the public is tired of hearing about incendiary remarks by their former pastor, as they sought to put the controversy that has rocked his presidential campaign to rest.
The violent video game “Grand Theft Auto” is raising our kids because parents are not spending the time they need parenting, White House hopeful Barack Obama said Wednesday as he tried to move the campaign conversation away from the bombastic words of his former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright.
BROWNSBURG, Ind. — In a pitch to female voters, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton enlisted the help of daughter Chelsea and her mother, Dorothy Rodham, on Thursday as she discussed her ideas for helping working families.
Standing in front of a sign proclaiming "I am not a politician," Republican Marty Ozinga III officially kicked off his campaign Wednesday for the south suburban and Downstate 11th Congressional District.
Well, it is likely that Sen. Barack Obama won't be going back to Trinity United Church of Christ. Not after this. On Tuesday, Obama responded to the Rev. Jeremiah Wright's ill-timed defense by condemning his former pastor's fresh comments as "ridiculous," "outrageous" and "appalling."
Lynn Sweet: On Monday, a combative Rev. Jeremiah Wright noted at a press conference here that Sen. Barack Obama "did not denounce me. He distanced himself from some of my remarks." Following what Obama called Wright's "rants" at that session, Obama denounced his pastor "very clearly and unequivocally" on Tuesday.
INDIANAPOLIS — U.S. Rep. Baron Hill endorsed Barack Obama on Wednesday, giving the presidential hopeful a potential boost going into Indiana’s primary next week.
CHAPEL HILL, N.C.---- Thirteen hours after his former pastor startled some with a defiant performance that was televised nationwide, Barack Obama urged 18,000 supporters to stay calm and shrug off such ''distractions.''
LANSING, Mich. — Michigan Democrats working to get the state’s delegates seated at the Democratic National Convention on Tuesday suggested splitting them 69-59 between presidential candidates Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama.
Mary Mitchell: Instead of dousing the flames, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr. has rekindled the fire that erupted after his videotaped sermons became fodder for conservative pundits. "This most recent attack on the black church is not an attack on Jeremiah Wright," he told a sold-out crowd during a speech delivered at the National Press Club.
Lynn Sweet: In March, Sen. Barack Obama went to great lengths not to "disown" his pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, after fiery videotaped comments from sermons surfaced. In return, an unapologetic Wright launched a speaking tour, threatening Obama's presidential bid.
RALEIGH, N.C. -- Gov. Mike Easley endorsed Hillary Rodham Clinton Tuesday, boosting her presidential bid a week before North Carolina's May 6 primary.
In a ruling that could help White House hopeful Hillary Clinton's chances in Indiana next week, the U.S. Supreme Court Monday upheld the state's right to demand photo IDs from voters.
The Drudge Report has announced that Hillary Clinton will appear on Bill O'Reilly's 'The O'Reilly Factor' Wednesday night on the Fox News Channel. O'Reilly's own Web site confirms the report.
WASHINGTON--A brash Rev. Jeremiah Wright--longtime pastor to Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) --on Monday said the controversy over his inflammatory comments--threatening Obama's presidential bid--were really "an attack on the black church."
White House hopeful Barack Obama talks a lot on the campaign trail about how failing banks have used subprime loans to victimize customers. "Part of the reason we got a current mortgage crisis has to do with the fact that people got suckered in to loans that they could not pay," he told a crowd in Reading, Pa., last week.
WASHINGTON — Hillary Rodham Clinton has a better chance than Barack Obama of beating Republican John McCain, according to a new Associated Press-Ipsos poll that bolsters her argument that she is more electable in the fall than her rival for the Democratic nomination.
WASHINGTON — Democratic Party Chairman Howard Dean said Monday that either Hillary Rodham Clinton or Barack Obama must drop out of the Democratic presidential race after the June primaries in order to unify the party by the convention and win the election in November.
GRAHAM, N.C. — Hillary Rodham Clinton on Monday criticized Barack Obama for opposing the concept of suspending the gas tax during the peak summer driving months, a plan both she and Republican John McCain have endorsed.
MADISON, Wis. — The latest poll of the presidential race shows that none of the three remaining candidates has a majority of support in Wisconsin.
Big-time Republican contributors are complaining that prospective presidential nominee John McCain is poorly organized for the campaign and off to a bad start in raising money.
Democratic rivals Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton turned up the rhetoric Saturday in their increasingly heated primary battle as she issued a new debate challenge and he complained of a race that's largely been reduced to trivia while working families feel economic pain.
Mark Brown: An Illinois politician stands on the precipice of the Democratic presidential nomination, his fate squarely in the hands of the good people of Indiana. Uh-oh. I'm getting a bad feeling here. If Barack Obama still harbors any hopes of driving a stake through the heart of Hillary Clinton's presidential ambitions before the nomination process reaches this summer's convention, the experts say he's going to have to win the May 6 Indiana primary.
White House hopeful Barack Obama tried to get mileage out of his complaints about high gas prices Friday, but instead faced questions about his former pastor and about whether he is perceived as an elitist. "I understand that he might not agree with me on my assessment on his comments," Obama said Friday at an Indianapolis gas station when asked about the Rev. Jeremiah Wright.
KOKOMO, Ind.---- For Barack Obama, figuring out how to cap a long campaign day in basketball-crazy Indiana was a no-brainer -- you shoot some hoops.
It was supposed to be his day off, but with a union convention in town and the close Indiana primary less than two weeks away, White House hopeful Barack Obama thanked 200 members of the United Food and Commercial Workers for their help on his campaign Thursday.
Face it: The presidency ages its occupants. After a term or two, presidents often look pooped. Popular Photography "aged" John McCain, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton using software to show how they might fare after four years in the Oval Office.
"When Hillary Clinton steps out of her car in Gary, Indiana, the first hand that she touches will be mine because I think it's proper," said Clay, a longtime supporter of Barack Obama's candidacy. "I think it's appropriate that the CEO of the city of Gary should welcome her to the city."
WASHINGTON--The controversial Rev. Jeremiah Wright -- Sen. Barack Obama's pastor -- is speaking Monday at the National Press Club as part of a divinity conference of black church leaders. Wright's decision to headline an event at the Press Club -- open to all media -- risks giving Obama's critics more fodder, as if they don't have enough already.
The day after Hillary Clinton drubbed him by nearly 10 percentage points in Pennsylvania, Barack Obama sought to assure supporters Wednesday that the party would survive the fractious Democratic presidential primary.
How does Sen. Barack Obama spend a day off in his hometown? By urging hundreds of union activists to back his presidential bid in the final Democratic primaries.
Should Hillary Clinton fold her tent because she trails Barack Obama in the battle for delegates to the Democratic convention?
Clinton said her victory was that much more impressive because Barack Obama outspent her in Pennsylvania $11 million to $5 million.
WASHINGTON — Turns out Hillary Rodham Clinton ’s victory Tuesday came with a cash prize.
WASHINGTON — Exuding fresh confidence after her Pennsylvania primary win, Hillary Rodham Clinton turned attention Wednesday to contests in Indiana and North Carolina and pressed her case that she can still win the Democratic presidential nomination despite the odds against her.
OKLAHOMA CITY — Oklahoma Gov. Brad Henry endorsed Barack Obama for the Democratic presidential nomination Wednesday, calling him an inspirational leader who can unite the country.
Paige Wiser: Last week, Bruce Springsteen endorsed Barack Obama for president. In a letter on his Web site, Springsteen wrote, "He has the depth, the reflectiveness and the resilience to be our next president. He speaks to the America I've envisioned in my music for the past 35 years." Powerful words from a respected artist -- but will they make an impact on the election? Skeptics will remember that Springsteen endorsed John Kerry, too, and even lent him "No Surrender" as his theme song. (Kerry wasn't a hit.)
Carol Marin: Time to take a timeout. Time to quit being surprised about anything when it comes to the Clinton-Obama fight for the presidency, including Hillary Clinton's victory last night in Pennsylvania. Gosh, listening to the cable chatterers, you'd think that until this pitched battle for the White House, American politics was marked by high-minded messages, not dirty little digs and Swift Boat saboteurs. That so much oxygen has been sucked up marveling about Clinton being negative and Barack Obama being forced to be negative back is baloney.
Mary Mitchell: 'Why can't Barack Obama close the deal?" Hillary Clinton asked a couple of hours before claiming victory in Pennsylvania. It was an interesting question considering that Clinton already knew the answer. Clinton banked on the strength of Gov. Ed Rendell's observation that conservative white voters in that state would not vote for a black man.
Robert Novak: Sen. Hillary Clinton stayed alive as a presidential candidate by winning the Pennsylvania primary. A margin of 10 percentage points demonstrates that she is more than just a survivor. She is the candidate of the traditional Democratic base whose support is essential for winning the presidential election.
PHILADELPHIA -- Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama collided Tuesday in the Pennsylvania primary, the last of the big-state contests in a Democratic presidential campaign growing more negative the longer it goes.
Fox News Channel's conservative pundit Bill O'Reilly is taking on Sun-Times political columnist Lynn Sweet's comments about Barack Obama's relationship with Bill Ayers.
PHILADELPHIA -- Despite weeks of furious campaigning by both candidates, some Pennsylvania Democrats were still scrambling to pick a side Tuesday as they streamed to the polls for the high-stakes presidential primary.
Lynn Sweet: The Obama team has always been very conscious and protective of the Sen. Barack Obama "brand." After a tough Pennsylvania contest, Obama's brand is bruised. Obama is not as pristine as he once was. He's had to deal with a series of controversies and he's gone negative against Sen. Hillary Clinton -- as she has attacked him.
News Item: Barack Obama says John McCain would be ''better than George Bush'' as president.
Just a few blocks from the factory where they make York Peppermint Patties, White House hopeful Barack Obama told 2,600 Pennsylvanians he could do a better job than Hillary Clinton of bringing jobs back to this hard-hit economy.
WASHINGTON — Barack Obama began the month of April with a 5-1 cash advantage over a debt-saddled Hillary Rodham Clinton, setting the stage for his lopsided spending in the crucial primary state of Pennsylvania.
PITTSBURGH -- With all the polls pointing to a win for her in Pennsylvania, White House hopeful Hillary Clinton played nice against rival Barack Obama the day before Tuesday's primary, leaving her television ads and spokesmen to dirty him up.
PHILADELPHIA — Older, whiter and more female than the nation as a whole, Pennsylvania looks like Hillary Rodham Clinton country.
SCRANTON, Pa. — Barack Obama predicted Monday that Democratic presidential rival Hillary Rodham Clinton would get the critical victory she needs in Tuesday’s Pennsylvania primary, but said his goal is to keep it close.
BETHLEHEM, Pa. — Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama swapped some of the most negative attacks of the campaign two days before the Pennsylvania primary, each unleashing television ads on Sunday that accused the other of maintaining ties to special interests they both claim to reject.
Lynn Sweet: Sen. Barack Obama on Friday drew 35,000 people to a rally on the historic grounds surrounding Independence Hall, where he told the adoring crowd, “We’re still the underdog here in Pennsylvania.”
LANCASTER, Pa. -- White House hopeful Barack Obama trained his sights on President Bush, Republican John McCain and rival Democrat Hillary Clinton as he took an old-fashioned back-of-the-train tour on the "Main Line" leading from Philadelphia's wealthy suburbs to the state capital.
READING, Pa. — Just a few blocks from the factory where they make York Peppermint Patties, White House hopeful Barack Obama told 2,300 Pennsylvanians he could do a better job than Hillary Clinton of bringing jobs back to this hard-hit economy.
PHILADELPHIA — Could it be the ‘‘vast right wing conspiracy’’ is having second thoughts?
READING, Pa. — Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said Sunday that Republican rival John McCain would be better for the country than President Bush has been over the past eight years.
WASHINGTON — Republican John McCain said Sunday that cutting taxes and stimulating the economy are more important than balancing the budget, and accused both Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama of supporting tax hikes that would worsen the impact of a recession.
Williamsport, Pa. is a small town of about 30,000 people. But the 2,800 fans who showed up at Lycoming College on Friday to cheer on Democratic White House hopeful Barack Obama didn’t seem too bothered about his “small-town voters are bitter” comments overheard in San Francisco two weeks ago.
WASHINGTON — Many of the Democratic superdelegates who are still undecided say the most important factor in their decision is simple — they just want a winner in November.
Bill Ayers' brother, Rick Ayers, is lashing out at Hillary Clinton, accusing her of "McCarthyism" for making an issue of rival Barack Obama's links to Chicago professor Bill Ayers during this week's Democratic presidential debate.
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Sen. Barack Obama wrestled Friday over who was tougher, with Clinton mocking Obama after he earlier complained about his treatment at Wednesday's Democratic debate. Obama ended Friday with a massive rally near Independence Hall.
Former President Bill Clinton had to interrupt a speech he was giving in Philadelphia Friday night for several minutes — after an angry homeowner demanded to know his position on a proposed casino in the Fishtown - Northern Liberties neighborhood where he was speaking to 150 people. "WHAT?!?" an exasperated Clinton finally asked Hillary Regan, 26, after she kept shouting her question during his speech in an arts center.
Bill Ayers went underground again Thursday. But this time, it was to avoid a political maelstrom, not the FBI. Ayers, 63, spent 10 years as a fugitive in the 1970s when he was part of the "Weather Underground," an anti-Vietnam War group that protested U.S. policies by bombing the Pentagon, U.S. Capitol and a string of other government buildings.
PHILADELPHIA, PA.--On a local news show, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) said Friday morning she knows Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) spent the day after their debate "complaining about the hard questions he was asked."
Mary Mitchell: Now I'm bitter. After 15 months of listening to Hillary Clinton tell the American public that Barack Obama's positive words don't matter, Clinton is now trying to derail her rival by exploiting negative sound bites. She's had a field day.
MEDIA, Pa.---- To bisect the heart of the Democratic presidential contest, take the Chester exit of I-95 and wend your way to the Pennsylvania Turnpike. If Barack Obama has any chance of cultivating an upset on April 22, this 20-mile stretch is fertile land.
HAVERFORD, Pa. -- White House hopeful Hillary Clinton emerged from a meeting with supporters at Haverford College on Thursday to congratulate hundreds of students for skipping class to spend a beautiful afternoon sitting on the grassy quad waiting to greet her.
ABC News has produced some of the toughest reporting on Barack Obama, and at the Wednesday debate ABC moderators Charlie Gibson and George Stephanopoulos gave Obama the full front-runner treatment: a rare going-over with questions about Rev. Jeremiah Wright, William Ayers, wearing flag pins, those "bitter" comments and gun control views Obama held as a 1996 Illinois state Senate candidate.
RALEIGH, N.C. — In the four years after his first White House bid, John Edwards stayed in the spotlight. In the four months since he abandoned his second bid, he’s all but disappeared.
Instead of Iraq and taxes and jobs, which he said he wanted to talk about, White House hopeful Barack Obama had to spend much of Wednesday night's debate explaining his gaffe about "bitter" small-town people clinging to guns and religion, his former pastor's racially charged comments and his friendship with former radical activist Bill Ayers.
Hillary Rodham Clinton said emphatically Wednesday night that Barack Obama can win the White House this fall, undercutting her efforts to deny him the Democratic presidential nomination by suggesting he would lead the party to defeat.
Cindy McCain is joining the ladies on ‘‘The View’’ — at least for a day. Republican candidate John McCain’s wife will be a co-host on the ABC daytime chat show next Monday. She’ll give conservative host Elisabeth Hasselbeck a rare ally in the show’s political conversations.
After days on the campaign defensive, Democrat Barack Obama accused rival Hillary Rodham Clinton on Monday of leveling criticism straight from the Republican playbook and said even so, he will win the White House over John McCain and an ''out-of-touch'' GOP.
PHILADELPHA---- Hillary Clinton is hoping the ''Colbert bump'' will help propel her to victory in Pennsylvania.
Conservative Fox News talk show hosts Bill O'Reilly and Sean Hannity hit back at Barack Obama's retired pastor Rev. Jeremiah Wright Monday for his weekend comments criticizing them at appellate Justice Eugene Pincham's funeral. "Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the church pews, Rev. Jeremiah Wright's back again," said O'Reilly.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- The billionaire founder of Black Entertainment Television says Barack Obama would not be a leading presidential candidate if he were white and that the Illinois senator's campaign has ''a hair-trigger on anything racial.''
PITTSBURGH — Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton told manufacturers and union workers on Monday that her husband made mistakes related to the North American Free Trade Agreement that she plans to fix.
STEELTON, Pa. -- Democrat Barack Obama lashed out Sunday at rival Hillary Rodham Clinton, mocking her vocal support for gun rights and saying her record in the Senate and as first lady belied her stated commitment to working class voters.
PITTSBURGH — Pittsburgh Steelers chairman Dan Rooney on Monday endorsed Democratic Sen. Barack Obama’s presidential bid. In a statement, the 75-year-old Rooney said endorsing political candidates is not something he regularly does.
INDIANAPOLIS — Two students from Indiana schools will have a chance to play three-on-three basketball with presidential hopeful Barack Obama.
Patrick Buchanan joining criticism of Barack Obama as "elitist and out of touch" for saying that some Americans "cling to guns or religion" in troubled times:
Lynn Sweet: The comments that landed Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) in a jam -- that working-class Pennsylvanians clung to guns, religion, anti-immigrant and anti-trade sentiments because they were "bitter"-- came at a high-dollar fund-raiser, the third of four San Francisco Bay area events last Sunday squeezed into an afternoon.
MISHAWAKA, Ind. -- A political tempest over Barack Obama's comments about bitter voters in small towns has given rival Hillary Rodham Clinton a new opening to court working class Democrats 10 days before Pennsylvanians hold a primary that she must win to keep her presidential campaign alive.
MUNCIE, Ind. -- Democrat Barack Obama on Saturday conceded that comments he made about bitter working class voters who ''cling to guns or religion'' were ill chosen, as he tried to stem a burst of complaints that he is condescending.
Thirty words White House hopeful Barack Obama said at a private California fund-raiser threatened Friday to torpedo any hopes he had of catching up to Hillary Clinton in the all-important Pennsylvania primary election 10 days from now.
Former President Clinton has added to the falsehoods surrounding his wife's tale of her trip to Bosnia 12 years ago. In Indiana on Thursday, Bill Clinton defended his wife's mistake in claiming that she landed under sniper fire in Bosnia, accusing the media of treating her like ''she'd robbed a bank'' for confusing the facts.
WASHINGTON — Former President Clinton has added to the falsehoods surrounding his wife’s tale of her trip to Bosnia 12 years ago.
White House hopeful Barack Obama told an almost-hometown crowd in Gary on Thursday that he was their best shot at reviving the economy, bringing jobs back to northwest Indiana, and fixing the crumbling roads and bridges here.
The Democrats have added a sixth “race to watch” in Illinois -- Democrat Scott Harper’s challenge to five-term incumbent Republican Rep. Judy Biggert in the western suburbs.
White House hopeful Barack Obama told an almost-hometown crowd in Gary, Ind., today that he was their best shot at reviving the economy, bringing jobs back to northwest Indiana, and fixing the crumbling roads and bridges here.
Linda Ramirez-Sliwinski, the Barack Obama delegate who got in trouble for calling her neighbor's kids "monkeys," still plans to go to the Democratic National Convention in Denver this summer to cast her vote for Obama.
Barack Obama says if elected president he will not require that his Joint Chiefs of Staff be opposed to the ''don't ask, don't tell'' policy that prevents gays from serving openly in the military.
