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L.A. Times - Politics
Sarah Palin introduced as McCain's choice for VP
Fri, 29 Aug 2008 11:55:00 -0700
'We can shatter that glass ceiling once and for all,' Alaska's governor says at a rally with McCain. Palin, 44, is anti-abortion, but has bucked her party at times and could appeal to Clinton fans. DAYTON, Ohio -- Republican John McCain today introduced Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate -- a move that could shake up the presidential race with a social conservative who will appeal to the party's base and a woman who may attract disaffected Democrats who backed New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton instead of Barack Obama.
Barack Obama sharply attacks John McCain, GOP while accepting historic nomination
Fri, 29 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700
'We are a better country than this,' Obama tells an exuberant crowd of more than 84,000 at Denver's football stadium. Barack Obama accepted the Democratic presidential nomination Thursday night with a scathing assessment of John McCain and a blunt indictment of the Bush administration, promising to repair "the broken politics of Washington" and preside over a more prosperous and equitable America.
Texas delegate waited a lifetime for Obama's moment
Fri, 29 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700
Bertha Means, 88, has long stood up for civil rights. This week in Denver she sat down and cried. Who can say for certain where the tears came from? There were the days picking cotton as a girl, her legs scratched and bleeding from the plants' sharp spurs. There were the restaurants that wouldn't take her order, the credit union that wouldn't accept her application and, later, the swimming hole where her kids weren't allowed to swim with the white children.
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Hendrik Hertzberg: What Barack Obama is up against.
Hendrik Hertzberg Mon, 25 Aug 2008 04:00:00 -0000
The week before the week before this week’s scheduled gathering of the delegates and their media camp followers in Denver, the nominee-presumptive of the Democratic Party did something that is strongly recommended, and ought to be mandatory, for anyone who has just logged a year and a half’s worth . . .
David Remnick: What Putin is doing in Georgia.
David Remnick Fri, 15 Aug 2008 04:00:00 -0000
On a bright September day in 1993, not long before he ended his two decades in exile, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn delivered a rare public address in Vaduz, the capital of Liechtenstein. Although Solzhenitsyn was energetic at the lectern, he was all but finished with his epic work as the chronicler of . . .
Strokes of Genius?
The New Yorker Wed, 06 Aug 2008 04:00:00 -0000
Steve Brodner draws Obama the pragmatist and an idealistic supporter.
washingtonpost.com - Politics
McCain Chooses Ala. Governor Palin as Running Mate
Robert Barnes and Michael D. Shear Fri, 29 Aug 2008 10:56:57 -0400
DAYTON, Ohio -- Republican presumptive presidential nominee John
washingtonpost.com Fri, 29 Aug 2008 09:11:52 -0400
Obama, Accepting Nomination, Draws Sharp Contrast With McCain
Jonathan Weisman and Shailagh Murray Fri, 29 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0400
DENVER, Aug. 28 -- Sen. Barack Obama, the first African American to lead a major-party ticket, accepted the Democratic nomination for president Thursday night, sharply criticizing Republican John McCain and casting the election as "our chance to keep, in the 21st century, the American promise ali...
