Agents for Sen. Hillary Clinton, trying desperately to keep alive her presidential campaign, are privately telling Democrats she is so ''tight'' with a dollar she would not continue her contest against Sen. Barack Obama if she did not have a chance to win.
That was a reference to Clinton pulling $11 million out of her family's newfound personal fortune to maintain her candidacy. Saying she would not waste money on a futile effort, her supporters imply she will still find a path to the presidential nomination.
idential campaign will be made available to former GOP Rep. Bob Barr as the Libertarian Party candidate, but McCain strategists fear that will be the case.

by Charles Marowitz (Swans - May 19, 2008) Since the nation was misguided enough to elect fatally flawed presidents such as Herbert Hoover, Ronald Reagan,

Senator Barack Obama spoke to a crowd of more than 2500 in Indiana on Saturday and tried to defend remarks he made earlier Friday that has erupted into

Somewhere today George Bush and John McCain are wandering around like two punch-drunk fighters, trying to explain to their dwindling entourages how they got KOed in this week's big fight. "I t'ought I had 'im on the ropes wit' my big 'Appeasement' Punch!" "He shoulda been a sucka for the ol' 'Naive' One-Two!"
Barack Obama, that wily counterpuncher, just shook up their world with a dazzling combination.
e -- and who trusts the intelligence of the American people enough to do so.

(CNN) — Former senator and presidential candidate Gary Hart became the latest Democratic elder to denounce President Bush’s remarks from Israel on Thursday,

WASHINGTON - There's nothing quite like a happy ending - or at least what seems to pass for one.
Maybe that's why so many Democrats want to see a Barack Obama-Hillary Clinton ticket this fall.
mer governor of New York, and Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell.

Jeff Chiu, AP A Minnesota poll shows that Republican nominee Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., trails either Democrat in head-to-head matchups in the state.

PRINCETON, NJ - Gallup Poll Daily tracking of national Democratic voters from May 15-17 finds Barack Obama with an 11 percentage point lead over Hillary Clinton, 52% to 41%.
Obama's current advantage matches the high-water mark for national Democratic support for his candidacy, previously attained in Gallup Poll Daily tracking from April 12-14. (To view the complete trend since Jan. 3, 2008, click here.)
words between Obama and John McCain over aspects of the Bush administration's foreign policy.

By Peter Wong • Statesman Journal ROSEBURG - Democrat Barack Obama brought his presidential campaign to Republican-leaning Southern Oregon on Saturday and got a friendly reception from a crowd of more than 1,400.
Following on the heels of former President Bill Clinton, who stopped here earlier in the week on behalf of his wifes presidential candidacy, Obama signaled that whoever is the Democratic nominee will be prepared to challenge Republicans in their Oregon strongholds this fall.
hear Obama. He was the first major-party presidential candidate to visit this town in 40 years, since Robert F. Kennedy confronted a gun-rights supporter on the courthouse steps nine days before his assassination in 1968.

I can’t help but enjoy the fact that Barack Obama is successfully taking attacks from George W. Bush and John McCain, and turning them into a positive. He’s effectively taking GOP talking points, and throwing them back in their face.
Sen. Barack Obama went one step further today in his pushback against presumptive GOP presidential nominee Sen. John McCain and President Bush on appeasement, suggesting that both Republicans have a problem with presidents past who have engaged in direct diplomacy.
ling,” after Bush said in Israel at the Knesset that it was a mistake to talk about diplomacy with “terrorists and radicals.”

WASHINGTON (AP) - Making up for lost time, Barack Obama is dashing full-tilt into the general-election fight against Republican John McCain without waiting for the Democratic marathon to end.
He's running down McCain more often than the woman he's nominally still fighting for his own party's nomination. And he's running after white working-class voters, independents, Hispanics, Catholics and Jews — voting blocs that will be important in the November election and with whom he's had mixed successes.
nd not be prepared," said Obama campaign manager David Plouffe. Offering a campaign line Obama is already using, he said, "By November, every voter will know that McCain is offering a third Bush term."

Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton may or may not become the first female president of the United States, but if fate and voters deny her the role, another woman will surely see if the mantle fits.
That woman will come from the South, or west of the Mississippi. She will be a Democrat who has won in a red state, or a Republican who has emerged from the private sector to run for governor. She will have executive experience, and have served in a job like attorney general, where she will have proven herself to be “a fighter” (a caring one, of course).
inton’s campaign chairman, Terry McAuliffe, emphasized last week, this thing is not over. And these predictions may prove as false as any by the time the first woman takes the oath of office — whether in 7 months or 9 years or 90.