Barack Obama's rise through the rough-and-tumble politics of Chicago, his victory over a well-heeled and well-known front-runner and his ability to draw out new voters in droves shows character aspects of a great president.
DENVER - Sen. Barack Obama tonight made history as the first African American presidential nominee with a stirring, substance-heavy speech in which he directly challenged Republican John McCain's judgment on matters of foreign policy and national security while drawing deeply on his own personal ...
Election '08: Barack Obama says we can't afford four more years like the last eight. What, exactly, is bad about winning a war on terror, keeping Americans alive and free, and letting us keep more of what we earn?
If they had it to do over, it’s a good bet that Barack Obama’s campaign would not have moved the final night of the Democratic convention from a cozy basketball arena to an open-air football stadium. The change in venue, concocted back in those heady days just after June 3 when every quantitative and qualitative indicator pointed to a sweeping Democratic victory this fall, created the ...
DENVER - First District Congressman G.K. Butterfield was on the convention floor Wednesday night as history was made and Sen. Barack Obama became the first African-American to be nominated as president by one of America's two major political parties.
Election '08: Barack Obama says we can't afford four more years like the last eight. What, exactly, is bad about winning a war on terror, keeping...
Barack Obama stepped triumphantly into history Wednesday night, the first black American to win a major party presidential nomination. Convention notebook: Red, blue and green Photo Gallery: Democratic National Convention Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama joins running mate Joe Biden onstage.
DENVER – Sen. Barack Obama stepped triumphantly into history last night as the first black American to win a major-party presidential nomination while thousands of Democrats transformed their convention hall into a joyful, shouting celebration. Competing chants of “Obama!” and “Yes, we can!” surged up from the convention floor when the outcome was announced.
Long before Denver, the drum roll of history began: If Barack Obama could capture the Democratic nomination for president, he would deliver the biggest speech of his life exactly 45 years after Martin Luther King Jr.'s immortal "I Have a Dream" address.
Obama is reaching out to the economically struggling state.