Obama to Bush: You don’t have our support for a war against Iran

The following is an excerpt from a speech Barak Obama is scheduled to give today in Iowa: We hear eerie echoes of the run-up to the war in Iraq in the way that the President and Vice President talk about Iran. They conflate Iran and al Qaeda. They issue veiled…

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Barack Obama talks tough to Detroit

As reported by Newsweek, on May 11 Barack Obama told Detroit that it could do much better.  This scolding came at a time that American automakers "lost more than $16 billion last year, while Toyota earned a record $14 billion and surpassed GM as the world's largest automaker." Obama castigated…

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Obama reaches out to African-American communities with tough love

The Washington Post reports on Obama's willingness to address issues that afflict many African American communities: Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) is delivering pointed critiques of the African American community as he campaigns for its votes, lamenting that many of his generation are "disenfranchising" themselves because they don't vote, taking rappers…

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