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

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!!!!!!!

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

biddr6 10:58:03 AM May 17 2008

WHAT IS OBAMA PARANOID ABOUT?
DOES THE SHOE FIT?
LET HIM WEAR IT
BUSH NEVER CALLED HIS NAME.
I WAS THINKING CARTER THE FIRST TIME I HEARD IT...
THIS GUY CONSTANTLY ATTACKS LEFT AND RIGHT TO PROVE HE IS TOUGH.
HOW CAN HE BE TOUGH AND SAY HE'S GONNA BE NEGOTIATING WITH OUR ENEMIES, UNCONDITIONALLY..
TOMORROW HE WILL CHANGE POSITIONS AND WEAR A LAPEL PIN AND THROW THE PASROR UNDER THE BUS.
POLITICS OF OLD IN A NEW WINE SKIN
PARANOID OBAMA

TJ, THE AVID CLINTONITE.

davismancusi 10:22:45 AM May 17 2008

Why would anyone care what Bush says or thinks? He has proven himself repeatedly to be the worst type of fool and always on the wrong side of every issue.

d1musicinfo 10:21:21 AM May 17 2008

The republicans are attacking Obama because they know he is gaining ground rapidly and closing in on the nomination.

I have no respect for the way Bush is trying to camouflage his attack on a fellow American from foreign soil. He should be impeached for that kind of conduct.

As for NO agenda McSame he is too old and has no clear vision of his own. He is a party "puppet". His wife has been doing business with Sudan so all of a sudden she decides to sell off her over 2 million dollars in holdings, why? Naturally because their is some conflict that will come up during his run for the presidency. I want to see her tax records, because I believe there is evidence that McCain's flag pin has a price tag on it. He hasn't been wearing his flag pin lately.

While he is busy slandering a fellow American I believe he has some explaining to do to the American people. What a flip flop piece of work he is. Cindy skit: "John's running for president sell all our investments that show a profit from