Obama

Interview with Rep. Bob Filner

David Brodnick — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 19:18:17 -0500

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Cornell University Students React to Obama Becoming the Next President of the United States

Harrison D. Sanford — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0500

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Sports President for a Day

Harrison D. Sanford — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0500

First and foremost, I’m feeling good right about now — presidential almost. It didn’t really set in until I talked to my mother Tuesday night. I haven’t heard my mother that joyous in a while, if ever. Even if Barack Obama doesn’t work out how everybody hopes and assumes he will, his election means so much in terms of how far we have come as African Americans and as America as a whole.

And for that alone, Tuesday was a great day in America.

But seeing as this is on the other side of the newspaper — which is the better side — I have to keep this column sports-related.

The Most Important Election Day Issue You Don’t Care About

Mon, 03 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0500

By Greg Demers

As independent voters ready themselves for tomorrow’s election, they will inevitably flock to the websites of Barack Obama and John McCain to pin down the differences between the candidates and, hopefully, help solidify their decisions. While the vast majority of topics on these sites overlap, there is one issue that is strikingly absent from Barack Obama’s website: judicial philosophy.

Poster Pick Up

Jennifer Vargas — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 12:41:44 -0400

Looking for Change in All the Wrong Places

Gavin Michael Arnall — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 17:35:30 -0400

As my friend and I pulled up to the Bonnaroo security checkpoint, I heard a whistle and was confronted by a guy in a neon concert shirt apologetically telling me that my “number had come up.” Evidently, I had won a chance to have my car searched, not by concert security, but by Tennessee’s finest. By entering the festival grounds, I had consented to the agenda of sunburned cops with nothing better to do than to harass music enthusiasts. I didn’t receive one of the 124 citations the police handed out throughout the weekend; I just got manhandled a little bit before I went to see Stephen Marley.

McCain, Obama Duel on Economic Fix-It Plans

The Associated Press — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 15:52:16 -0400

DENVER (AP) -- Barack Obama and John McCain agree on this much: The economy is staggering under the Bush administration, and Americans are hurting. But who's to blame and how best to fix it?

Well, they part ways on that, as they made clear in dueling economic speeches Monday on the issue that has taken center stage in their presidential contest.

Obama said that McCain offers "exactly what George Bush has done for the last eight years."

"The progress we made during the 1990s was quickly reversed by an administration with a single philosophy that is as old as it is misguided: reward not work, not success, but pure wealth," Obama said. Grounded by plane trouble in St. Louis, he phoned his remarks to a gathering in Charlotte, N.C.

The Type-Off Goes National

Munier Salem — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 18:54:27 -0400

Graphic design has always eeked its way into presidential campaigns. Many remember the famous analysis of the Bush/Cheney and Kerry/Edwards logos which analyzed everything from the choice of fonts (obnoxiously bolded sans serif vs. light highbrow serif) to the placement of the flags (firmly anchored vs. flying off the page). All this seemed to confirm Bush’s brawny, strength-obsessed politics, versus the perception of Kerry as an elite weakling.

Clinton Ending Candidacy, Supporting Obama

The Associated Press — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 10:22:00 -0400

WASHINGTON (AP) — Hillary Rodham Clinton will end on Saturday her historic bid to become the first woman president but Barack Obama said he won't be hurried into a decision on whether to make her his running mate.

Clinton, in an e-mail to supporters, said she "will be speaking on Saturday about how together we can rally the party behind Senator Obama. The stakes are too high and the task before us too important to do otherwise."

The e-mail was a shift in tone by the former first lady, who announced 17 months ago that she was "in it to win it." Many of her supporters now are pushing for her to be included as the vice presidential candidate, in their minds a "dream ticket" that would bring Obama her enthusiastic legions and broaden his appeal to white and working-class voters.

Obama and Clinton Flunk Econ 101

Lee Blum — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 09:31:37 -0500

This week’s Democratic primaries in Ohio and Texas may decide who the Democratic nominee for President will be. Obama and Clinton have recently been debating who can most effectively destroy the economy--

Unique Dynamic Gives Obama Upper Hand in Tompkins

Nathan Sermonis — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500

Ithaca’s “ten square miles surrounded by reality” seemed to encompass the whole of Tompkins County last Tuesday when Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) soundly defeated Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) in the county’s Democratic primary. But the question remains: how?

Despite losses in every other county throughout the state, Obama finished with a nearly 17-point lead over home-stater Clinton last week in Tompkins. Across the rest of New York, Clinton received 57 percent of the Democratic vote, while Obama was awarded only 40 percent.