Rivalry with Clinton? What Rivalry?

(Illustration by Stanford Kay for Newsweek

• Dems deny Clinton-Obama rivalry (UPI)
• Senator Obama Offers Kind Worlds for Hillary Clinton (FOX)
• A day at the races (Guardian Unlimited

It's Cold in Chicago, Nothing To Do But Stay in and Write

• Maybe it's time for Obama to run... (Chicago-Sun Times)
  
• Three reasons Barack Obama should NOT run for president (Chicago Daily Southtown)
• Obama, Durbin encourage court security upgrades (CBS2 News)
  

Visiting Hallowed Ground (New Hampshire)

• Obama Making First Stop in New Hampshire (Washington Post)
• Obama says 'internal clock' kept him from NH, until now... (WQAD/AP)
  

Race Matters

• U.S. Senator Barack Obama and the One-Drop Rule (Chicago Sun-Times)
• Obama seeks to settle racial doubts (MSNBC)
  

Barack on Iraq

• Obama on Iraq: Setting the Record Straight (TMP Cafe)
  
• Barack Obama, Not Hillary, Real Anti-War Candidate (Human Events)
• Sen. Obama: Iraq withdrawal should begin in 2007 (CNN)
• Obama's Iraq manifesto (Lynn Sweet, Chicago Sun-Times)
• Obama's Iraq Plan, Trouble on the Border (NPR )
  

San Francisco Radio Host Calls Obama "Halfrican"

Audio clip and transcript from Media Matters:




(pic five fingered from 1010wins.com)

From the December 4 edition of KSFO's Sussman, Morgan & Vic:

MORGAN: Senator Obama, who is, as you call, a 'Halfrican' --

SUSSMAN: Halfrican and, again, his father was -- his father was from Kenya, his mother's white. OK, now, I have nothing with mixed -- nothing against mixed-race people but, my point is, when this guy stands in front of a black audience, pretending like he was born and raised in the hood, and he can identify with their problems, he doesn't allow -- he is not, in my opinion -- 'cause my opinion is your average white guy -- he is not allowed to wear the African-American badge because his family are not the descendants of slaves, OK? He can't identify with the discrimination and the slavery and all of that that's gone into these black families for generations; he's a kid who was raised with a silver spoon in his mouth in a white family in Hawaii, OK? You wanna call me names for saying this? Go right ahead. I'm just telling you what the guy is.

MORGAN: Well --

TOM BENNER (aka "Officer Vic," KSFO morning traffic reporter): And you're not making this up. I mean, it's documented, for goodness sake. You can look it up.

SUSSMAN: I'm not making this up, so I just -- I get offended and I know I have many black friends who get offended when he stands in front of that black audience talking like he's from the hood, born and raised, and I can -- can identify with all of their issues. He can't!

MORGAN: Well, and guess what? It's working. It's working big-time.

The Hussein Game

• Barack and News Media Hide His Middle Name (The Conservative Voice)
• Obama = Osama (Accidental Blogger)
• Obama/New Hampshire: On being Barack Hussein Obama. In his own words. (Chicago Sun-Times/Lynn Sweet)
• Let them mock his name...NOW (TMPCafe)
  

Stumping in Clinton's Back Yard

• Sen Barack Obama Speaks at NYC Hotel (1010 Wins)
• Barack Obama Comes Praises Sen. Clinton (Washington Post)
• Dreaming of Obama, (New York Magazine)
  

Barack Obama on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (1)

The Smoking Gun

• Did Obama Inhale? (North Carolina Votes Blog)
• Smoking with Barack Obama (Disarranging Mine)
• How Smoking Helps Obama: Where's the Smoke (The New Republic)
• Up in Smoke, Obama's Vice (Rolling Stone)
• Obama to take aids test but what about his smoking habit? (Christian Bloggers)
  

A Liberal Democrat Walks into an Evangelical Church...

• Barack Obama's Lake Forest stop (OCRegister)
• Obama Speaks From The Pulpit (AlexWhalen.com)
• Christianity morality can help stop AIDS, but not alone, Obama says (Associated Baptist Press)
• Now this by Barack Obama (speech at AIDS conf) Schenck Thoughts
• Trend Setters or Sell Outs: Obama, Warren, and Brownback (Town Hall)
• Obama converts evangelicals to Democratic cause (The Independent - London)