US Election 2008 - USA Presidential Election News

Monday June 30, 2008

Obama set to gather foreign experience

WASHINGTON: Barack Obama will soon make his first international trip as a presidential candidate, travelling to the Middle East and Europe to bolster his foreign policy experience in his campaign against John McCain.

Sunday June 29, 2008

Obama, Clinton bury the hatchet in Unity

Former White House foes Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton stood united in Unity today to bury their differences in public and urge Democrats of every faction to take back America.

Saturday June 28, 2008

Clinton, Obama get down to the quid quo pro reality

BARACK OBAMA has written a personal cheque to Hillary Clinton for the maximum permitted individual donation of $US2300 ($2400) as part of some very public fence-mending that began with a meeting with Senator Clinton's top fund-raisers in Washington.

Thursday June 26, 2008

Obama accused of distorting Bible

A LEADING figure of the US Christian right has accused Barack Obama of twisting the meaning of the Bible to confuse voters.

Wednesday June 25, 2008

McCain bucks Bush on climate change

Republican White House contender John McCain has vowed to combat global warming without sacrificing economic growth.

Bill Clinton backs Obama - kind of

Senator Hillary Clinton returned to political life today as her husband, former president Bill Clinton, gave a terse endorsement of Democratic White House hopeful Barack Obama.

Democrats' hope in Unity

BOSTON: Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton will attempt to bring the Democratic Party together on Friday with a rally in a tiny western New Hampshire town with a perfectly on-message name, Unity.

Tuesday June 24, 2008

Goodbye possumus: Obama's seal a 'silly mistake'

White House contender Barack Obama will no longer be using a campaign seal that critics called an arrogant imitation of the US president's official emblem, according to reports today.

Obama, Clinton to hold first joint campaign rally

White House contender Barack Obama and his defeated Democratic rival Hillary Clinton will hold their first joint campaign rally in the aptly named New Hampshire town of Unity, aides said.

Monday June 23, 2008

Candidates are not coming clean

When it comes to a coherent energy policy, neither candidate has really levelled with the US public, writes Anne Davies.

How they ruminate over running mates

A WISE head on national security? Someone with experience at running something? A conservative? A younger running mate? A woman?

Sunday June 22, 2008

Clinton rallies to Obama cause

HILLARY CLINTON will campaign with White House hopeful Barack Obama this week for the first time since she lost their bruising battle for the Democratic nomination.

Saturday June 21, 2008

Clinton to campaign with Obama for first time since defeat

Hillary Clinton will campaign with White House hopeful Barack Obama next week for the first time since she lost their bruising battle for the Democratic nomination, his campaign said today.

Friday June 20, 2008

Cindy McCain placates Michelle Obama

Cindy McCain has sought to cool a row over whether Michelle Obama is unpatriotic, saying her rival to be America's next first lady is a "fine woman" and "a good mother".

Obama, his gay accuser and the lawyer in a kilt

THERE are crazy days in every campaign and one of them just struck the 2008 US presidential election trail. Barack Obama's campaign spent Wednesday dealing with a small crisis after the politico.com website reported that two overzealous volunteers asked two young women in Muslim headscarves to move out of camera-shot at a Detroit rally.

McCain wants to build 100 nuclear reactors

SPRINGFIELD, Missouri: John McCain has proposed dramatically increasing America's commitment to nuclear power, calling for a crash program to build 45 new reactors by 2030 and a long-term goal of building 100 such plants across the country.

Wednesday June 18, 2008

Obama smear campaign moves to press club

THE Washington media are about to be consumed by a new debate: how much attention they should give scandalous claims about Barack Obama when the man making them appears at the National Press Club today.

Tuesday June 17, 2008

Gore endorses Obama

The world's best known advocate in the fight against climate change, former vice-president Al Gore, has endorsed democratic nominee Barack Obama after months of sitting out the primaries race and declining to pick a candidate.

Obama targets absent fathers

THE Democratic presidential nominee, Barack Obama, who grew up without his own father, has delivered a sharp message to black fathers to become more active in bringing up their children.

Sunday June 15, 2008

Warner rules self out as Obama running mate

Former governor Mark R Warner today removed himself from consideration as a vice presidential running mate for Democrat Barack Obama.

Saturday June 14, 2008

The numbers Hillary didn't count on

A lot of people, mostly men, just don't seem to understand why so many of us, and we are not all women, are so upset about the treatment of Hillary Clinton, writes Anne Summers.

World prefers Obama as president

WASHINGTON: If Barack Obama were running for leader of the world, instead of leader of the US, he would probably romp home.

Friday June 13, 2008

Obama launches website to tackle smears

For months, presidential candidate Barack Obama has been fighting a war with right-wing websites that have accused him of being a Muslim, not putting his hand on his heart when he says the pledge of allegiance, and of expressing anti-white sentiments in his books.

Top Obama aide forced to step aside

JAMES JOHNSON, the consummate Washington insider who Barack Obama tapped to head his vice-presidential search, has resigned abruptly to try to silence a growing furore over his business activities.

Thursday June 12, 2008

Obama's vice-president adviser resigns

A key adviser of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has resigned after news reports suggesting a past conflict of interest in obtaining a home mortgage.

Tuesday June 10, 2008

Ex-White House candidate Huckabee saves friend's life

Bass-playing Baptist preacher Mike Huckabee didn't get enough support to win his party's White House nomination, but he is sure to have the vote of a fellow Republican he saved from choking at the weekend.

Monday June 9, 2008

Clinton's new role as force for unity

THE Democratic Party will be watching the polls closely over the coming week to judge whether Hillary Clinton's unequivocal endorsement of her victorious rival, Barack Obama, has soothed the tensions between the two camps.

She couldn't break the glass ceiling, but 'it's got about 18 million cracks'

AT THE end, the most successful female presidential candidate in US history bowed out of the race for the Democratic nomination with the declaration that a gender barrier had indeed been crossed.

Sunday June 8, 2008

Clinton endorses Obama, ends White House bid

Hillary Clinton urges her supporters to unite behind Barack Obama's presidential candidacy.

Loser Clinton slow to go

FRUSTRATED in defeat, Democrat Hillary Clinton was expected to endorse US presidential rival Barack Obama overnight as party strategists urged her to set aside any bad feelings and put on a show of unity.

Obama has travelled far - and taken the Democrats with him

IT BEGAN on the steps of the State Capitol in Springfield, Illinois on a cold day in February, 2007.

Saturday June 7, 2008

Obama: 'Let the Games begin'

An exuberant Barack Obama offered a cheeky prediction he would be president until 2016, as he tried to lend his winning streak to Chicago's Olympics bid.

A battle of temperaments, and moolah

The US presidential race will be decided on personalities as much as policies, writes Anne Davies.

Clinton disowns joint-ticket campaign

BARACK OBAMA has moved forcefully into the US presidential election, placing his stamp on the Democratic Party apparatus and holding a private meeting with Hillary Clinton in an effort to unify Democrats.