Posted in Barack Obama on Oct 17th, 2007 No Comments »
For presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama, it’s all in the family. Lynn Cheney, the wife of Vice President Dick Cheney, said Tuesday she discovered Obama and her husband share a common ancestor. She made the discovery while researching her book “Blue Skies, No Fences.” Speaking about her book during an afternoon interview on MSNBC, Lynn [...]
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Posted in Barack Obama on Oct 9th, 2007 No Comments »
Presidential hopeful Barack Obama stopped by Mack’s Apples in Londonderry on Tuesday to talk about the environment, delivering a speech about his environmental goals before taking questions. “I want to … do a little speech making at the front-end,” Obama told the crowd, which his campaign estimated at about 350 people. As voters ate free [...]
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Posted in Barack Obama on Oct 3rd, 2007 No Comments »
Retired Air Force Gen. Scott Gration was campaigning today for presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama in Manchester and Rochester. “I’ve got to tell you, I am totally convinced, there is no question in my military mind that Barack Obama has the experience, the judgment, the insight … the understanding of our world and the global [...]
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Sen. Hillary Clinton outpaced her main Democratic rival, Sen. Barack Obama, in fundraising in the last quarter. Campaigns were required to file their third-quarter earnings with the Federal Election Commission by Oct. 1. Obama still holds the lead in money raised for the primary this year, although he trails in New Hampshire and national polls. [...]
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Posted in Barack Obama on Sep 27th, 2007 No Comments »
While presidential hopeful Barack Obama’s tax proposal has been met with a “too good to be true” reaction from many local seniors, a Brookings Institution economist thinks the plan is fairly sound. “There’s a lot of good stuff there, (although) it’s not perfect,” said Benjamin Harris, a senior research associate with the Washington think tank’s [...]
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