Obama jokes about presidential run on TV
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Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger first announced his candidacy on "The Tonight Show With Jay Leno." Might Barack Obama, who is considering a run for president, do the same?
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Pigskin and politics. It's an audience Barack Obama couldn't ignore.
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Democrat Barack Obama said Thursday night he is running for president to help those who are working harder for less but don't think anyone is listening to them. Fresh from a presidential debate in Des Moines, Obama joked of his performance: "I thought I was perfect."
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President Bush, previewing a theme he is likely to use throughout his debate Thursday against Democrat John F. Kerry, joked to an audience
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Outspoken, strong-willed, funny, gutsy and sometimes sarcastic, Michelle Obama is playing a pivotal role in her husbandâs campaign as it builds on a series of successes.
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Senator Barack Obama is a wily player of pickup basketball, a game with unspoken rules and lots of elbows.
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Everybody wants a piece of Barack Obama. Ahead by a mile in his race for the US Senate from Illinois, the youthful state senator with huge ambitions is taking his show on the road
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Democrat Barack Obama says he won't just be a president for the American people, but the animals too.
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Using humor, attitude and the occasional put-down, some presidential candidates are filling the airwaves with ads to stir activists and create an early, positive brand for their campaign.
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Barack Obama launched ads for his campaign in New York this week, contesting Hillary Rodham Clinton in her home state.
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Since emerging from a coast-to-coast slate of presidential contests on Feb. 5, Democrat Barack Obama has significantly outspent rival Hillary Rodham Clinton on television commercials, providing a crucial edge that helped push him to a rapid succession of primary and caucus victories.
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Fresh off a spat with rival Hillary Clinton, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama says he'd like to see an end to the "tit-for-tat" that dominates politics.
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Hey, Barack Obama, just how insane is the process of running for president? "Every day it reveals itself in new ways," Obama told host Jon Stewart Wednesday night on Comedy Central's "The Daily Show."
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In a presidential race not lacking for pundits, at least one person is trying to keep his mouth shut: the president himself.
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SILVER SPRING, Md.  - Have you heard the one about  the presidential candidate who told such great jokes the  American people elected him?
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Illinois Sen. Barack Obama is heightening his flirtation with a White House run Sunday during his first trip to New Hampshire, where over 2,000 people had snatched up tickets to see him speak.
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SPRINGFIELD, Illinois  - Democratic Sen. Barack Obama opens his 2008 White House run on Saturday in a setting rife with symbolism and historic links to Abraham Lincoln's fight to end slavery.