Archive for juillet, 2008

Barack Obama calls for new national energy policy

Jeudi, juillet 31st, 2008

Obama's campaign also asks Hillary Clinton to be keynote speaker at the Democratic National Convention, signaling that she is no longer under consideration for vice president. By Stephen Braun, Nicholas Riccardi and Peter Nicholas, Los Angeles Times Staff Writers 12:05 PM PDT, July 31, 2008

Obama slams McCain over oil company tax breaks

Jeudi, juillet 31st, 2008

By MIKE GLOVER – CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) — Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama seized on a record oil company profit to argue that rival John McCain offers only tax breaks for Big Oil and "short-term gimmicks" to consumers struggling with soaring gasoline prices.

McCain tries negative campaign against Obama

Jeudi, juillet 31st, 2008

WASHINGTON: John McCain's top aide and the Barack Obama campaign engaged in a bitter exchange Thursday over whether Obama had cynically raised the issue of race, culminating several days in which the McCain camp has started an all-out offensive aimed at defining Obama as negatively as possible in the eyes ...

Obama’s Reagan question

Jeudi, juillet 31st, 2008

By Chuck Raasch, GNS Political Writer WASHINGTON — There are obvious differences between Ronald Reagan and Barack Obama, but Obama faces the same fundamental question Reagan did in 1980: Amidst a sour economy, energy woes, an unpopular president and a crisis in the Middle East, is the new guy up for ...

TIME Magazine Preview: Barack Obama Listens to … Condi Rice

Jeudi, juillet 31st, 2008

NEW YORK This week's issue of TIME magazine, arriving on Friday, details the surprising respect and productive relationship between Barack Obama and Condoleezza Rice. Massimo Calabresi writes that Obama and Secretary of State Rice, "have come to have a certain respect for each other ... because both take an intellectual, sober ...