Michelle Obama declared "I love this country" Monday as she sought to reassure the nation that she and her husband Barack share Americans' bedrock values and belief in a dream of a better future.
..."On this January night, at this defining moment in history, you have said what the cynics said we couldn't do," Obama, his voice hoarse...
The Des Moines Register | January 04, 2008
By Thomas Beaumont
Illinois Sen. Barack Obama claimed an historic victory in Iowa's Democratic caucuses Thursday, opening the 2008 presidential nominating campaign by convincingly beating the party's national poll leader, Hillary Clinton, and onetime Iowa favorite John Edwards.
Overwhelming record turnout and an influx of first-time caucusgoers helped stamp Obama the party's national frontrunner and the first African American to win the caucuses.
..."On this January night, at this defining moment in history, you have said what the cynics said we couldn't do," Obama, his voice hoarse but emphatic, told cheering supporters at Hy-Vee Hall in Des Moines.
"In lines that stretched around schools and churches, in small towns and big cities, you came together as Democrats, Republicans and independents to stand up and say that we are one nation, one people and our time for change has come," he said.
Federal authorities are looking into reports that a man arrested with rifles, ammunition and drugs in his truck may have made threats against Barack Obama, officials said Monday.
WASHINGTON - Imagine, for just a minute, the pain of America's first black president. Not Barack Obama — Bill Clinton. That's about the only explanation for Clinton's lack of brotherly behavior lately: He's in pain.
You have a year to give a wedding gift or return shoes to Zappos.com, 90 days to pick up dry cleaning, and a week to return a DVD. But how long does a new mother get to lose the baby weight before people start, you know, talking?
A childhood friend of the alleged victim in the R. Kelly child pornography case testified Wednesday that she recognizes her longtime friend as the one in the explicit video at the center of the trial.
With Sen. Barack Obama poised to make history as the first African-American presidential nominee of a major political party, BET and TV One will significantly step up their coverage of the Democratic National Convention in August.
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RICHMOND, Va. (Dec. 10) - Michael Vick was sentenced to 23 months in prison Monday for his role in a dogfighting conspiracy that involved gambling and killing pit bulls.
Though you may now deny it, back around 1983, more than a few of us wore our sequined gloves with unabashed pride. December 1, 2007 will mark 25 years to the day that Michael Jackson released...
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