Heather Rosema of Grand Rapids, Michigan, is precisely the kind of Christian voter that Senator Barack Obama covets.
Rosema, 41, chose George W. Bush in 2000, when she put greater emphasis on issues like abortion and gay marriage. This year, she intends to vote for Obama.
n. He wonders about other Christian voters who look askance at McCain's conservative credentials. "Some people said they would sit it out. . . . But if you do not vote for McCain, then you are in effect putting Obama in," Langerak said.

Relax, Comrade Chertoff. The Case for Hanging Errant Public Officials is the title of a book by James Farrell who also wrote, The Judas Syndrome. The Case for Hanging Errant Public Officials was published in 1988, decades before a Nazi law called the 'The Patriot Act' was rammed down our throats. Today, only rich kids of famous people are allowed to exercise their First Amendment rights; see Indict Michael Reagan, Applaud Senator Karen Johnson. This talk radio gas bag got away with soliciting murder over the public airwaves because his father was Ronald Reagan. He was given a pass under "political hyperbole." Yours truly would already be in jail.
The title of Farrell's little

Some members of the Republican Party must have been asleep during their first Economics 101 class, or perhaps they even skipped it entirely. How else to explain their ludicrous energy policy of "find more, use less"? According to them and Republican presidential candidate John McCain, if America begins to drill in its Outer Continental Shelf, gas prices will drop in the immediate future and Americans will still be willing to consume less oil.
A quick history lesson shows otherwise. The last time that Americans curbed their driving habits was during the oil em bargo of 1973. The effects, however, were not long-lasting. As soon as the oil prices dropped, Americans went back

By BILLY HOUSE WASHINGTON - John McCain's positions on offshore drilling and same-sex couple adoptions are just the latest he's taken on sensitive issues by insisting states should make their own decisions.
Historically, that is a legitimate conservative-federalist position.
e a tactic to appease competing constituencies at once, even while using traditional conservative language that it is best for people on the state and local levels to hash out these tough questions, Heaney said.

Barack Obama and John McCain have narrowed their choices of running-mate to just a handful of names, with both candidates poised to announce their decisions possibly as early as next week.
Neither candidate wants one of the biggest decisions of their general election campaign to compete with the Beijing Olympics. The announcements may be made before the Olympics begin on August 8, or in the few days between the closing ceremony and the start of the Democratic and Republican nominating conventions in late August and early September.
in his selection process.

By Kenneth R. Conklin, Ph.D., 7/27/2008 12:06:07 PM Senator Obama delivered an inspirational speech in Berlin a few days ago, in the shadow of the Berlin

By Linda Feldmann | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor Washington - Now that Barack Obama is back on Terra Americana – after a whirlwind week of foreign travel and blanket news coverage – the probable Democratic presidential nominee knows he has to get back to the issue closest to voters' hearts: the US economy.
The Illinois senator said as much to reporters in London just before he flew home, noting that his poll numbers might even dip in the immediate future. "We have been out of the country for a week," he said. "People are worried about gas prices and home foreclosures."
mage abroad to be a major problem is on the rise – 56 percent, up from 43 percent four years ago, according to the Pew Research Center.

The pictures were beautiful, the words were elegantly cast and the reception inspiring. But watching Sen. Barack Obama's pilgrimage from terrorist-fraught Afghanistan to Iraq, Jerusalem, Berlin and Paris had an otherworldly quality for Americans back home wrestling with depressing economic problems, shoddy treatment of injured veterans, plunging home prices and iconic corporations suffering record losses.
There is no doubt the Democratic presidential candidate signaled inspirational change for many Europeans, just as he has for many Americans. But voters in this country have seen this show before, and they are ready for more down-to-earth answers to the serious challenges

By LARRY EICHEL Barack Obama has come home from overseas. There are still 100 days left to go. The polls remain close. And the contrast in political imagery

John Duricka/AP By PATRICK HEALY Lyndon Baines Johnson understood power on the atomic level. He knew what bills would fly in Congress,

The Electric Workers Local 655 was packed Saturday morning with Barack Obama supporters. According to the coordinators, Obama's lead over John McCain has slipped in recent polling, and while this rally is meant re-entergize the Senator's Presidential campaign in Mid-Michigan, Obama volunteers say the idea of voting, in general, needs some re-energizing too.
"If you don't vote you have no say in what's going on in politics or what's going on in the world, so it's important," Obama volunteer Ian Seeley says.
in democracy is.

By Andrea Hopkins CINCINNATI (Reuters) - Ohio sales manager Lucas Seltzer isn't thrilled that Barack Obama is overseas talking to foreigners instead of at home speaking to Americans, but he understands the politics behind the Democratic presidential candidate's high-profile international trip.
"I would rather see Obama running around this country talking about his issues than in Iraq talking to prime ministers about foreign policy," said Seltzer, 33.
t ... yesterday was 'How dare you?'" said Marcus Laubli, a Swiss-American who works in a coffee shop in Scottsdale, Arizona. Continued...