Joe Biden: Israel Has Right To Deal With Nuclear Iran
Israel has a sovereign right to decide what is in its best interest in dealing with Iran's nuclear ambitions whether the United States agrees or not, U.S. Vice President Joe Biden said in an interview on Sunday. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has signaled that he agrees with U.S. President Barack Obama's end-of-the-year deadline for progress in efforts to engage Iran diplomatically to resolve dispute over its nuclear program. In an interview on ABC's "This Week" program, Biden said...

Russia hints it could block nuclear arms deal with US President Barack Obama
Russia has hinted it could walk away from a proposed nuclear arms deal with US President Barack Obama unless Washington shows 'restraint' over its plans to erect a contentious missile defence shield in Central Europe.

Obama Russia Newspaper Interview: Strengthen Human Rights, Rule Of Law
MOSCOW — President Barack Obama said strengthening human rights and the rule of law in Russia should be a part of the much-heralded "reset" in U.S.-Russian relations, according to an interview with an embattled Russian opposition newspaper. Obama also said he applauded President Dmitry Medvedev's efforts to reform Russia's creaky judicial system, according excerpts released by Novaya Gazeta before Obama's arrival Monday in Moscow, when the full interview to be published. "I agree with...

Obama Faces Negotiations Test In Russia
U.S. President Barack Obama Sunday was preparing to leave on a trip to Russia for his first nuts-and-bolts negotiations with rival leaders, analysts say. Obama arrives in Moscow Monday after his administration had made it clear they want to "hit the reset button" on the United States' relationship with Russia in the fields of arms control, missile defense and nuclear non-proliferation, The Washington Post reported. Observers will be watching to see how well Obama does in what likely will be...

Obama travels to Russia seeking arms, Afghan deals
MOSCOW (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama and Russian leader Dmitry Medvedev expect to make progress on arms cuts and Afghanistan at a Kremlin summit on Monday but the rest of Obama's first visit as president may be more difficult.

Oprah Rallies Women For Obama Downtown
Sarah Palin may be the only woman on a presidential ticket this year, but that doesn't mean women ought to vote for her, her Democratic opponent Joe Biden told 1,000 women at a national conference/ fundraiser for Barack Obama. "Being a woman is not the same as being THERE for women -- they are...Full Article @ huffington post Comment Share Email Post Your Comment

Obama Notes McCain’s Effort To Temper GOP Anger
PHILADELPHIA — His backers feeling increasingly confident, Democrat Barack Obama made a slight nod to his Republican rival on Saturday and asked voters to have faith in him as the next president. Even as he criticized John McCain’s economic policies, Obama acknowledged that the GOP nominee has asked his supporters to temper their attacks on him. "I [...]

Obama's sweet talk is a tale of pie
Sen. Barack Obama likes pie. Over the last three days of campaigning, it's become clear that he's given a great deal of thought to pie. He's talked about the kinds of pie he likes, about having a pie contest where he'll be a judge, and how pie fits into the larger economic difficulties of our time. On Thursday afternoon, in Georgetown, Ohio, Obama and Gov. Ted Strickland stopped at a diner for pie. He's been talking about the visit ever since. He waxed on about his pie during a rally in Portsmouth, Ohio t

Clintons launch campaign swing for Obama in Pa.
AP - When Bill and Hillary Clinton take the stage Sunday at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania, it will be the launch of an active campaign for their former nemesis Barack Obama in the home stretch of the 2008 presidential race. The nation’s best known and most powerful Democrats for nearly two decades, the former first couple is getting used to a new role: cheerleaders for Obama, who vanquished Hillary Clinton last spring in a Democratic primary contest for the ages. Whatever recriminations the Clint

Barack Obama to pay big for primetime buy
Barack Obama will pay CBS and NBC almost $1 million each for a half-hour ad buy in primetime Wednesday, Oct. 29. Full election coverage

Obama Bemoans Golf Swing To Russian Reporter
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama says he doesn't like his golf swing and the ball never goes where he wants. Obama told Russian state-run Rossiya TV and ITAR-TASS news agency that he's been working on his golf game lately. However, he disclosed in the interview that he hasn't had much success. The president, who has been playing golf most weekends with aides, says he thinks he should be good at the game. Yet his shots never seem to go straight. Obama played a quick nine holes on...

Barack Obama to pay big for primetime buy
Barack Obama will pay NBC and CBS almost $1 million each for the campaign’s half-hour ad buy in primetime Wednesday, Oct. 29, less than a week before the election. According to papers available at CBS’s headquarters in New York, the campaign agreed Monday to pay $961,000 for the entire 8-8:30 pm time period. It wasn’t clear whether that was in pattern, meaning it would run across all time zones at that period. NBC will sell Obama the half-hour time buy for $891,250 gross and $775,000 net

Obama's Military Minions Keep Mouthing Off on DADT. This Is Bad
A measured way. That's the latest advice given to President Obama about moving on Don't Ask Don't Tell, and it comes from a very big mouth: Adm. Mike

Obama says Honduran ouster was 'not legal'
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama says the weekend ouster of Honduran leader Manuel Zelaya was a "not legal" coup and that he remains the country's president. Obama spoke to reporters in the Oval Office on Monday after meetings with Colombian President Alvaro Uribe. Obama said he wanted to be very clear that President Zelaya is the democratically elected president. Obama pledged the U.S. to "stand on the side of democracy" and to work with other nations and international entities to...

In Moscow, Obama to Focus on Arms Control
MOSCOW, July 6 -- President Obama arrived in Moscow today for the start of a three-day summit with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev that aides were hopeful would yield a framework for an agreement to replace an expiring nuclear arms control treaty.

Obama's Russia visit to bring over $1.5 billion in deals
MOSCOW (Reuters) - U.S. corporate giants John Deere, PepsiCo and Boeing will announce more than $1.5 billion worth of deals in Russia during President Barack Obama 's visit, part of an effort to revive waning trade and investment between the two nations. Agricultural machinery maker John Deere will invest $500 million in the next six years in Russia , while soft drink giant PepsiCo will boost investment to $4 billion from $3 billion in the next three years.

Medvedev 'Optimistic' On Obama Moscow Trip
U.S. President Barack Obama's visit to Moscow could set the tone for improved bilateral relations, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev says. Obama is to arrive in Moscow Monday for talks on strategic arms reduction, a planned U.S. missile defense shield in Eastern Europe, the global economic crisis and the upcoming G8 summit. Medvedev said he is "cautiously optimistic" the Moscow meeting could set the stage for a better relationship between Russia and Washington, RIA Novosti reported. "At the...

Obama's diplomacy to be tested in Russia - Yahoo! News
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama 's diplomacy is about to get a stern test in Russia , home of a wary public, a two-headed leadership and a lingering bit of hard feelings. The president arrives in Moscow on Monday for a full-scale two-day summit, the first of its kind since the early part of the George W. Bush presidency . He is sure to emerge with tangible signs of progress — including another step toward the world's two largest nuclear powers reducing their arsenals —...

Obama faces economically delicate summer - Yahoo! News
WASHINGTON – Politically and economically, the next three months are critical for Barack Obama 's presidency. The pace of the economic recovery heading into the fall — electric smooth or diesel rough — will determine whether Obama can prod Congress on the key features of his agenda with momentum or from a defensive crouch. Steady economic improvement that is perceptible to the American public would boost his political standing and give him the thrust to get Congress to complete...

Obama, “Say It To My Face”. If You Do You are Covered Under Obama’s Plan
Obama attacked John McCain in a recent TV interview, saying “Say It To My Face”. What is amusing about Obama’s response is that it is, in and of itself, an attack. Obama has been running a negative attack on McCain from day one. For him to criticize the McCain camp for any negative comment is laughable. Obama has attacked every facet of the current administration and made every attempt to link McCain and the Bush Administration, no matter how different those policies are and no matter

Obama’s middle name - not in the talking points!
It’s a war of words.  Whether it is Sarah Palin’s overuse of the word “maverick,” John McCain’s anguish-inducing repetition of “my friends,” or the gaffe-laden potpourri emanating from Joe Biden, the words candidates say are always under the microscope. Surrogates and supporters do best when they act like parrots – mimicking talking points rather than expressing a thought of their own. And actually, that’s fair. You don’t vote for spokespeople. You v

Obama and McCain Focus on the Health Care Issues
WASHINGTON,DC(RUSHPRNEWS)10/09/2008--In this week’s debates, the candidates spent a lot of time talking about health care. Health care is on a lot of people’s minds this election, as health insurance rates keep rising and leave many families unable to afford much-needed health care. Barack Obama and Joe Biden have a health care plan that will make quality health care affordable and accessible for every American. It builds on the existing health care plan. So if you like you’re health in

McCain campaigns for Obama at McCain event?
At this late stage in the election, Republican nominee for President John McCain would undoubtedly prefer not to promote rival Barack Obama at one of his own campaign rallies. That’s what he had to do yesterday. More than once. State of the campaign There’s plenty of criticism that McCain brought this on himself because of his campaign’s tenor over the last two weeks. Then there are others who believe that questions about Obama’s past dealings with questionable characters are l