AP Interview: Barack Obama is Potter fan
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Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama is the "Harry Potter parent" who has read all six books about the boy wizard's adventures with his older daughter, his wife said Wednesday.
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Democrat Barack Obama on Sunday confronted one of the persistent falsehoods circulating about him on the Internet.
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Barack Obama said his win in Iowa lived up to his dreams. His kindergarten dreams.
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Making his first campaign appearance in this state, Democrat Barack Obama on Tuesday tackled a question that's still on the minds of many voters: Is he experienced enough to be president?
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Bloomberg - Jan. 29 (Bloomberg) -- Barack Obama is making his mark on U.S. politics as the most memorable orator since Ronald Reagan, even if he doesn't win the Democratic presidential nomination.
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TOLEDO, Iowa  - While presidential hopefuls were trying to butter up supporters ahead of the January 3 Iowa caucus, one would-be voter was literally buttering up her favorite candidate, Democratic Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois.
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Demand is high for the books of presidential contender Barack Obama.
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Democrat Barack Obama told young voters Saturday his multicultural background lets him "see through the eyes of other people" abroad in ways another president could not. Closer to home Â and student pocketbooks Â rival Hillary Rodham Clinton spoke of aggressive steps to make college affordable.
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(InfoWorld) - U.S. Sen. Barack Obama launched a new Web 2.0 campaign effort Wednesday, using LinkedIn's professional networking site to solicit comments from the network's 14 million users about business topics. Obama is posting several questions to LinkedIn's Answers service, which was launched earlier this year to let members ask questions of, and receive quick answers from, fellow users of the site. Obama's first post this morning asked users how the next president can help small businesses and entrepreneurs thrive. The post had elicited more than 200 responses after three hours on the site. For example, LinkedIn user Jon Burke advised Obama to "get technology and have a curiosity about it. Recent U.S. presidents and national politicians in general don't seem to care or know much at all about technology. The Internet and Google have become punch lines. A president who follows technology can make more informed policy decisions." Scott Pickard added that the next president should "support the development of business incubators. These 'entrepreneurial ecosystems' are great starting homes for the entrepreneur and his new venture in years one to four. The incubator lowers hurdles, mitigates risk ... and while it offers no guarantees, it does improve the odds for a successful start and graduation to a sustainable business that creates high-quality jobs while introducing new technologies and products to the marketplace." "LinkedIn Answers provides an ideal forum for political candidates and campaigns to communicate with a high-level professional audience on key business issues," said Dan Nye, CEO of LinkedIn, in a statement. "We expect candidates from all backgrounds and all levels of government, from city council races to the presidential campaign, will take advantage of LinkedIn as a highly effective online tool for reaching the business audience." Obama, who has been actively using Web 2.0 technologies such as Facebook and MySpace, is leading the race for Web site visitors, according to statistics released last week by Nielsen/NetRatings. Obama had 717,000 visitors to his campaign site in July, the latest month for which numbers were available. The Obama site's total outpaced fellow Democratic candidates Sen. Hillary Clinton -- who had 437,000 visitors to her site -- and former Sen. John Edwards, who logged 348,000 unique visitors in July. Among Republicans, Fred Thompson's site ImWithFred drew the most unique visitors in July with 381,000, according to Nielsen. Since announcing his candidacy, Thompson's campaign now is redirecting traffic from ImWithFred to Fred08.com. Former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani ranked second among Republicans online, with 124,000 unique visitors, according to Nielsen.
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Illinois Sen. Barack ObamaÃ¢ÂÂs charismatic persona and status as perhaps the strongest-ever African-American contender for president has had him riding a wave of publicity in the early weeks of his bid for the 2008 Democratic nomination.
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Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said Sunday he does not think voters have a litmus test on religion, whether evangelical Christianity or his childhood years in a largely Muslim country.
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Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama launches a weekend "charm offensive" with a cast that includes TV talk show host Oprah Winfrey, and picked up support Saturday from the granddaughter of a former Republican president.
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Ask those who served with him in the Illinois Senate whether Barack Obama is ready to be president, and they will tell you he is a dogged consensus-builder known for his empathy, intellect and unbounded ambition.
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Sen. Barack Obama had a good first date in New Hampshire this week &#151; he was a little late, but wore a nice suit, had interesting things to say and used a little flattery. The state's Democrats say they're not bowled over by the Illinois senator and he's still got some courting to do. He'll have to get in line with the rest of the Democrats vying for their attention.
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Mike Jordan sells Barack Obama door to door.
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How does J.K. Rowling feel now that she has finished the seventh and final Harry Potter book? As the author herself confided Tuesday on her Web site, "Charles Dickens put it better than I ever could":
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Michelle Obama, wife of Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama, Friday called questions early in the campaign about whether her biracial husband was "black enough" to appeal to African-American voters "silly."