Sen. Patrick Leahy has gone where no Democratic leader has dared go. It's time, the Vermont senator said, for Hillary Clinton to get out of the presidential race. "She ought to withdraw and she ought to be backing Senator Obama," he told Vermont Public Radio.
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/03/28/where_no_other_democratic_lead.html?hpid=topnews
]]>Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton disparaged the Rev. Jeremiah Wright on Tuesday and told a conservative newspaper publisher, and later a news conference, that she would not not have been a member of a church whose leader offered fiery opinions such as those by Wright. But it turns out that the leader of the church Clinton attended for eight years when her husband was president has leaped into the debate -- on the side of Wright.
]]>SAN DIEGO - Sen. Barack Obama wrote and delivered a brilliant and brave speech that not only addressed the controversy involving his former pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, but also kicked off a national conversation - not just about race (been there, done that), but about how members of different generations view race differently. As Obama reminded us from Philadelphia, how you see the world isn't just influenced by the color of your skin but by the year of your birth.
]]>This one is a little hard for us to believe. XXL magazine sat down with the rapper DMX recently, and he told the interviewer that he had never heard of Barack Obama. In the interview, which took place in January of 2008, the New York-based recording artist sounds surprised to learn there's a black man running for president.
http://thedailyvoice.com/voice/2008/03/rapper-dmx-hasnt-heard-of-obam-000347.php
]]>Wednesday morning, the Clinton campaign sent reporters and bloggers covering the campaign a statement that consisted of questions and comments under the title of "Keystone Test: Obama Losing Ground." The Obama campaign's communications department decided to annotate those questions and comments with some comments of their own... and boy, they held nothing back.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/news/2008/03/obama_campaign_skewers_clinton.html
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