By KEVIN SACK : It is one of the most audacious promises in a campaign that has been thick with them.
In speech after speech, Senator Barack Obama has vowed that he will lower the country’s health care costs enough to “bring down premiums by $2,500 for the typical family.” Moreover, Mr. Obama, the presumptive Democratic […]
Posted on July 23rd, 2008 by admin
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By CARLOTTA GALL and JEFF ZELENY : KABUL, Afghanistan — Senator Barack Obama arrived in Afghanistan on Saturday, on a high-profile foreign trip in a country that is increasingly the focus of his clash with Senator John McCain over whether the war in Iraq has been a distraction in hunting down terrorists.
Even as Mr. Obama […]
Posted on July 20th, 2008 by admin
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By ADAM NAGOURNEY and MEGAN THEE
Americans are sharply divided by race heading into the first election in which an African-American will be a major-party presidential nominee, with blacks and whites holding vastly different views of Senator Barack Obama, the state of race relations and how black Americans are treated by society, according to the latest […]
Posted on July 16th, 2008 by admin
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By MARK LEIBOVICH and JEFF ZELENY
UNITY, N.H. — Senators Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton came to this tiny town of Unity on Friday for their first public appearance after a bitter primary fight. Less certain was whether Unity would come to them.
“We had a spirited dialogue,” acknowledged Mrs. Clinton, speaking first before a crowd […]
Posted on June 28th, 2008 by admin
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By JOHN M. BRODER and LESLIE WAYNE
CHICAGO — James A. Johnson, the consummate Washington insider whom Senator Barack Obama tapped to head his vice-presidential search effort, resigned abruptly on Wednesday to try to silence a growing furor over his business activities.
Mr. Johnson’s departure deprives Mr. Obama of decades of experience and access to Washington’s power […]
Posted on June 12th, 2008 by admin
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By JOHN M. BRODER
RALEIGH, N.C. — With the Democratic stage to himself for the first time, Senator Barack Obama opened a two-week tour of battleground states on Monday, attacking Senator John McCain’s economic policies and moving to focus on the ailing economy as the central theme of the general election campaign.
In his most pointed and […]
Posted on June 10th, 2008 by admin
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