sweetandcountry8 05:08:12 PM May 17 2008

Democratic presidential hopeful, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., listens as he is introduced at a town hall-style meeting in Roseburg, Ore., Saturday, May 17, 2008. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

EUGENE, Ore. — Attempting to lay a symbolic claim to his party's presidential nomination, Democrat Barack Obama will mark the latest round of primary voting with a rally in Iowa, where his solid win in January caucuses propelled him to his status as the front-runner.

Obama was campaigning Saturday for primaries Tuesday in Oregon and Kentucky as his aides announced the rally on primary night in Iowa, which they described as "a critical general election state that Democrats must win in November."

Rival Hillary Rodham Clinton has a strong lead in polls in Kentucky, but Obama has the advantage in Oregon.

Obama has built a solid lead in Democratic National Convention delegates over Clinton, and is working overtime to cast an image of inevitability to his campaign for the nomination. In recent days

sweetandcountry8 05:03:17 PM May 17 2008

McCain, meanwhile, is guilty of hypocrisy. I am a supporter of Hillary Clinton and believe that she was right to say, about McCain's statement on Hamas, "I don't think that anybody should take that seriously." Unfortunately, the Republicans know that some people will. That's why they say such things.

But given his own position on Hamas, McCain is the last politician who should be attacking Obama. Two years ago, just after Hamas won the Palestinian parliamentary elections, I interviewed McCain for the British network Sky News's "World News Tonight" program. Here is the crucial part of our exchange:

I asked: "Do you think that American diplomats should be operating the way they have in the past, working with the Palestinian government if Hamas is now in charge?"

McCain answered: "They're the government; sooner or later we are going to have to deal with them, one way or another, and I understand why this administration and previous administrations had such antipathy towards Hamas be

jfnikki 02:06:31 PM May 17 2008

Someone ask the president wannabe if he will take his presidential oath on the bible. I think we all know the answer to that - there will be no answer.

Someone ask the junior senator what 57 states he is referring to in his campaign. The only 57 state group is the 57 Islamic states - you know - the "peaceful religion"

Someone ask the inexperienced new boy what he thinks of an institution that would overlook the more experienced female candidate for the new fellow with the charisma, the new suit, the new jokes and the good ole boy democrat mentality of screwing the more qualified female candidate for the job so the new guy can take his step up the ladder.

Now for the enlightened liberals to take their turn to call me racist for pointing out the " inconvenient truth" The junior senator has lost his bearings

jfnikki 01:45:07 PM May 17 2008

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKpCH7OS2nc OBAMAS RELIGION

monroelaw 12:18:24 PM May 17 2008

Poor Barry, now thinks that he is a dead white Republican...

jeanaz8 12:13:06 PM May 17 2008

Type ythetrutheh 09:17:38 AM May 17 2008

Report This! MAYBE OBAMA SHOULD REMIND BUSH ABOUT BUSH'S GRANDADDY DONATING TO HITLERS CAMPAIGN. DID YOU REPUKES FORGET YOUR HISTORY
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You need to be reminded that Joe Kennedy,Sr., father of JFK, RFK, and Teddy was also a Hitler supporter. That is why FDR recalled him as ambassador to England just prior to us getting into the war.

sxmliberal 12:07:29 PM May 17 2008

FIRST THE MEDIA WAS ATTACKING HILLARY TO GET RID OF HER AND IT LOOKS LIKE IT WORKED! NOW THEY ARE STARTING THE ATTACK ON BARAK OBAMA AND THEY WILL EASILY TAKE HIM DOWN! MEANWHILE THEY WILL BE PROMOTING JOHN MCCAIN! JOHN MCCAIN WILL BE PRESIDENT!!!

WHY CAN DEMOCRATS NOT SEE THE BIG PICTURE??? ONLY HILLARY CLINTON CAN STAND UP TO THE GOP!!!

I WILL NOT VOTE FOR BARAK HUSSEIN OBAMA, I WILL WRITE IN HILLARY CLINTON!!!!!!!

jfnikki 12:02:34 PM May 17 2008

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKpCH7OS2nc OBAMAS RELIGION

randyrfd 11:46:43 AM May 17 2008

It is a campaign ploy on Obama's behalf. Get you to pick up the gauntlet for him. defend him! He is a good campaigner but that doesn't mean he will be a good president. just a good manipulator.

gdbaker1 11:16:08 AM May 17 2008

THANKS BIDDR6