Campaign Trail 2008

  • Victory for Obama

    November 5, 2008 @ 7:49 am | by Denis Staunton

    Before a vast crowd in Chicago’s Grant Park, Barack Obama delivered a powerful victory speech after winning a remarkable election victory. Here it is in two parts:

     

     

     

  • Couric posts final Obama interview

    @ 1:27 am | by Denis Staunton

    CBS news anchor Katie Couric has just posted her final interview with Democratic candidate Senator Barack Obama on YouTube. It has some good moments.

  • A poignant moment

    November 4, 2008 @ 3:10 am | by Denis Staunton

    A day before the election and a week after Barack Obama interrupted his campaign to visit her in Hawaii, the Democratic candidate’s grandmother has died at 86. Madelyn Dunham was a central figure in Obama’s life, raising him during important childhood and teenage years when his mother was absent in Indonesia. On the night he secured the Democratic nomination in June, Obama paid an emotional tribute to his grandmother and he spoke movingly about her at a North Carolina rally on Monday night:

     

     

     

  • Rev Wright Returns

    November 3, 2008 @ 5:28 am | by Denis Staunton

    A few months ago, John McCain rebuked North Carolina Republicans for using controversial statements by Barack Obama’s former pastor Jeremiah Wright in an attack ad against the Democrat. Some conservatives believe McCain’s high-mindedness deprived his campaign of a useful weapon against Obama, who has renounced Wright after a relationship lasting 20 years.

    Now, Pennsylvania’s Republican Party has revived Wright as an election issue in this ad, which is airing in the state in the closing hours of the campaign:

     

     

     

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