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He's one of four. The president-elect is cited for his leadership and vitality, among other attributes. Se. Ted Kennedy wrote the piece about Obama in the magazine, pointing out again that Obama represents the torch being passed to a new generation.
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(AP Photo/ TIME)This won't come as a shocker, but it's now official that President-elect Barack Obama was chosen by Time Magazine's editors as its "Person of the Year." As for why, other than the obvious, the magazine writes on its Web site: "For having the confidence to sketch an ambitious future in a gloomy hour, and for showing the competence that makes Americans hopeful he might pull it off, the president-elect is Time's Person of the Year." It's hard to think of anyone who has achieved anything more significant than being elected "leader of the free world" in 2008, but Mr. Obama did have some competition. The magazine said the runners-up were: Republican Vice Presidential Nominee Sarah Palin, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, French President Nicolas Sarkozy and Chinese film director Zhang Yimou (for the opening ceremonies at the Beijing Olympics). Last year's winner was Russian President Vladimir Putin. President Bush won the honor in 2004 and 2000, after both of his election victories. You can read ...
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Senator Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said that this week's debate between Barack Obama and John McCain would allow McCain to speak to the differences between how each candidate would address the growing economic crisis.
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I've been reading the speech Barack Obama made on the economy this afternoon, plus his new Rescue Plan for the Middle Class. The speech ends with an eloquent farewell to the age of easy money: We’ve lived through an era of easy money, in which we were allowed and even encouraged to spend without limits; to borrow instead of save. Now, I know that in an age of declining wages and skyrocketing costs, for many folks this was not a choice but a necessity. People have been forced to turn to credit cards and home equity loans to keep up, just like our government has borrowed from China and other creditors to help pay its bills. But we now know how dangerous that can be. Once we get past the present emergency, which requires immediate new investments, we have to break that cycle of debt. Our long-term future requires that we do what’s necessary to scale down our deficits, grow wages and encourage personal savings again. Well said. If President Bush had said something like that in September 2001, instead of tell ...
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A video Sarah Silverman made is part of an effort to get young Jews to go to Florida to persaude their grandparents to vote for him. Dave Price reports.
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"Barack Obama's friend tried to kill my family."
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CBS News' Michelle Levi reports that a PAC called Our Country Deserves Better is now running an ad that is essentially a compilation of most of the character and association attacks made against Barack Obama throughout the year. The ad, "Obama's Wrong Values," began running Sunday night in Reno, Nevada and has since expanded across the state. The group plans to air the spot in Colorado starting tomorrow and run it in Michigan - where McCain has pulled his advertising - by the end of the week. According to a PAC spokesman, the group has already spent just under $100,000 in Nevada and Colorado to run the spot. The group said its budget in Michigan is "$500,000 or higher." It said it has plans to expand to Ohio and Pennsylvania, adding that its funding comes largely from a large number of small donors. The anti-Obama group says it is kicking off a two week "Stop Obama Tour," which will include rallies, starting tomorrow. According to its web site, the group has one objective: "to defeat Barack Obama in the 2 ...
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I'm just going keep saying it: Googlephone, Googlephone, Googlephone. Even though it's not the Googlephone, it's the T-Mobile G1. Whatever. Bring on your lawyers Sergei Brin! Anyway. Just wanted to point you to Anita Hamilton's good old-fashioned rave for the Googlephone. I haven't spent a ton of time with it, but I can say that it looks better in person than it does in pictures. The flip-out touchscreen feels a lot more solid than I expected, and the screen is very bright and sharp. If you want to get seriously granular, ZDnet has a 7-page feature-by-feature walkthrough. (It's also an overall positive review.) At first I kinda figured this thing for a glorified tech demo -- proof of concept, basically. But I'm starting to think it might actually be a contender. It's going to be so interesting to watch how this face-off works, between the iPhone and the Googlephone. It's the ultimate showdown between open and closed ...
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The "Joe the Plumber" miscue could boost McCain to the White House.
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Tatas will launch 200-300 Nano cars by end this year which would be the soft launch of Nano," a vendor, who attended Tata Motors' Vendor Meet, told reporters here. The company, which recently shifted its Nano plant to Gujarat from
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TAMPA, Florida (Reuters) - Democrat Barack Obama criticized Republican White House rival John McCain for a "say anything, do anything" political style on Monday as he opened a two-day tour to kick off early voting in Florida.
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Michael Signator is one of only a few non-relatives to consistently get time with the Democratic candidate for president and a trusted confidant, reports the Politico.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Barack Obama was voted the most influential man of 2008 in an online poll released on Tuesday that asked men to decide who most impacted the way they behave, buy and think.
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Speaking in Miami, the Illinois Senator accuses McCain of lying to voters, saying he has decided to "make up this notion that I've been attacking Joe the Plumber" and is being purposely misleading on his tax plan. "Apparently Senator McCain's decided that if he can't beat our ideas, he'll make up others and run against those." Read [...]
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In a speech in Pennsylvania this morning, John McCain said that Barack Obama and the Obama campaign have been attacking Joe Wurzelbacher, better known as "Joe the Plumber," the Ohio man whom McCain repeatedly referenced during the third presidential debate and has been citing on the campaign trail. "Now, Joe didn't ask for Senator Obama to come to his house, and he didn't ask to be famous," McCain said. "And he certainly didn't ask for the political attacks on him from the Obama campaign." This prompted cheers from the crowd. "Joe's dream is the American dream to own a small business that will create jobs, and the attacks on him are an attack on small businesses all over this nation," McCain added. "We're not going to stand for it." Wurzelbacher has criticized the media for its treatment of him, suggesting that the press corps is worried about issues such as whether he's paid his taxes and "any number of silly things that have nothing to do with America." But asked on Fox News yesterday if he blamed either ...
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This evening in Miami, Sen. Barack Obama taped an interview with Ellen DeGeneres for a piece that will air tomorrow on her show -- a surprise appearance. I regret to inform you that he did, indeed, dance. As he has...
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The Land of Lincolner seems to agree with Gen. Petraeus that negotiating with the Taliban is something to consider for the war in Afghanistan during an interview with TIME's Joe Klein. "This is one useful lesson that is applicable from Iraq. The Sunni awakening changed the dynamic in Iraq fundamentally.... Whether there are those same opportunities [...]
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The Obama campaign is planning to deploy a robocall in Wisconsin tomorrow that features a former McCain supporter who says she switched allegiances to Obama because McCain is "running a dishonorable campaign," Talking Points Memo reports. The supporter says she has received "sleazy phone calls and mail from John McCain and his supporters viciously -- and falsely -- attacking Barack Obama." The script: Hi, this is Jeri Watermolen, calling for the Campaign for Change. I live in Green Bay and, like you, I've been getting sleazy phone calls and mail from John McCain and his supporters viciously -- and falsely -- attacking Barack Obama. I used to support John McCain because he honorably served our country -- but this year he's running a dishonorable campaign. We know McCain will continue many of Bush's policies, and now he's using George Bush's divisive tactics. In fact, he hired the Bush strategists whose attacks even McCain once called hateful. Barack Obama will turn the page on these negative politics and st ...
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BEIJING (Reuters) - U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama enjoys a support rate as high as 75 percent among the Chinese, state media reported on Thursday, with an analyst saying he personified the American dream.
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Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama has opened up a 12-point lead over Republican rival John McCain, according to the latest Reuters/C-SPAN/Zogby daily tracking poll. Continued focus on the economy due to the financial crisis and a solidification of the Democratic base at the same time the Republican base is fragmenting have all contributed to Obama's growing lead, pollsters found.
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ABC News' Imtiyaz Delawala and Lisa Chinn Report: Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin challenged Sen. Barack Obama's comments yesterday dismissing as "rhetorical flourishes" his running mate Sen. Joe Biden’s warning of an international crisis in their first six months...
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On TV and radio, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., is hitting his rival, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., on his "spread the wealth" comments he made to Joe Wurzelbacher, aka Joe the Plumber. The full exchange between the two can be seen...
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Down in both national and battleground state polling, John McCain is up with a new ad that uses the words of Delaware Sen. Joe Biden to stoke voter fears about Barack Obama's readiness to assume the presidency next January. Here's...
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China and Vietnam have agreed to find a solution to a festering maritime territorial dispute this year, the two sides said in a joint statement in Beijing.
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The Republican National Committee has released a new ad, "Storm," set to "run in major markets in target states." "We choose Presidents to lead us through uncertain times," an announcer says as stormy seas are shown onscreen. "Rely on their background and experience to guide us. Some now say this storm cannot get worse. Our nation is so off course that Barack Obama"s quick rise to power and inexperience should not matter." He concludes: "But what if the storm does get worse? With someone who"s untested at the helm." The words "Barack Obama. Untested." then appear onscreen. UPDATE: Obama-Biden spokesman Hari Sevugan responds: "In case the McCain campaign hasn't noticed, the financial storm has already hit, and John McCain responded by erratically steering his ship in about five different directions."
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The Columbus Dispatch reports that "state and local officials are investigating if state and law-enforcement computer systems were illegally accessed when they were tapped for personal information about 'Joe the Plumber,'" the nickname of Joe Wurzelbacher. "Public records requested by...
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The first lady hopeful swings by Jay Leno's studio in Burbank. Airs at 11:30 pm ET/PT.
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A new ad from Barack Obama"s campaign accused John McCain of using "scare tactics" and "smears" as the campaign heads into its final week. "He"s out of ideas, out of touch and running out of time," the ad begins. "But with no plan to lift our economy up, John McCain wants to tear Barack Obama down with scare tactics and smears. Why? McCain"s own campaign admits that if the election is about the economy, he"s going to lose. But as Americans lose their jobs, homes, and savings, it"s time for a president who will change the economy, not change the subject." Watch it:
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Dear Virginia, I went into my 14-year-old daughter’s room the other day to tidy up and found a box of cigarettes. Not only that, but her diary seemed to imply that she goes out to parties and has a kind of “snogging chart” where she gives boys points for how good they are at kissing and so on. I feel |I must have this out with her, but obviously I don’t want her to know I’ve been snooping. I’m so worried. What can I do? Yours sincerely, Cynthia
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CHICAGO (Reuters) - Democrat Barack Obama on Monday called on voters to "turn the page" on the policies of the Bush administration as he emphasized his message of change in a closing argument for the presidential campaign.
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Nikkei index ends at lowest since October 1982 -- just before Michael Jackson's classic LP was released.
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Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama on Monday gave what his campaign called the "closing argument speech" of the race for the White House. In it, he promised to bring the country a "higher purpose," with everybody having responsibility for each other.
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LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - ABC will air "Pushing Daisies" in its usual time period Wednesday night -- not the Barack Obama ad.
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Michelle told Leno about her daughter's protests against Obama's TV commercials: "You're going to be on all the TV? Are you going to interrupt my TV? " asked the presidential hopeful's daughter. The first lady hopeful is relaxed in Jay Leno's studio in Burbank. Read about her appearance here. Watch the clip here. Plus: The NYT on how Obama [...]
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Barack Obama"s battleground state advertising campaign continues to outpace John McCain in big numbers, according to a new analysis by the Nielsen Company. Obama placed 155 percent more TV ads in Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Missouri, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Virginia between October 6th and 26th. That"s a 62,022 to 24,273 advantage, according to the analysis. Obama is hitting Florida very heavily. In that same time period, Obama ran 18,909 ads compared to 5,702 for McCain - a 232 percent difference. Read here for more numbers and analysis.
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“The View” co-host lashes out at the Land of Lincolner's Wednesday night ad buy, pointing to a poor economy and spending, in an interview with Barbara Walters on her SIRIUS radio program. “That to me is, in terms of the economy is - that is repulsive.” Also talks about the media's focus on Palin's wardrobe, appearance, labeling [...]
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The Land of Lincolner goes on the attack on his rival's health care plan during a rally in Harrisonburg, Virginia Tuesday. Points to McCain aide Holtz-Eakin's remark published Tuesday that people can get better health insurance currently from their employer than under McCain's plan, calling it "an October surprise." "And the truth is, John McCain's health care [...]
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The Obama campaign has released a new ad, "Better Off," which casts America's present economic situation in a strongly negative light. "We need a new direction - now," Obama says in the spot. It will air in "key states." "The highest unemployment in seven years," an announcer says as the spot opens. "A record one million homes in foreclosure. Financial markets in turmoil. Wages declining. Food and gas prices soaring." Then Obama can be heard speaking. "For too many, the American dream is fading," he says. The middle class is struggling. We simply can"t afford more of the same. We need a new direction - now. And that"s why I"m running for president."
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Biden slips up while discussing Obama's tax plan, and the McCain-Palin rift grows.
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Remember last April when Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., clumsily described economically struggling small towners as "cling"ing to guns, God, and bigotry? Hank Williams Jr., does. In a new radio spot airing in Montana, Williams says: "When Barack Obama said folks...
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RADNOR, PA. -- More than 75,000 Jews throughout the Keystone state got an email Thursday from the “Republican Federal Committee of PA – Victory 2008” that compares a victory by Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., to Nazi victories before the Holocaust....
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Secret Service reports record number of assassination threats.
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