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Key quote: "Barack Obama's campaign has released its second television ad of the general election campaign, "Dignity." The 30-second spot, which will air in 18 states, opens with a focus on the Illinois senator's biography – and includes the sort of centrist rhetoric on welfare that Bill Clinton employed during his presidential run."
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Key quote: "Democratic candidate Barack Obama is unlikely to make any quick cuts in U.S. defense spending as president despite pledging to rely less on military power than George W. Bush, an adviser to the Illinois senator said on Monday."
Key quote: " Bill Gross, manager of the world's biggest bond fund at Pacific Investment Management Co., said a Barack Obama administration may have no other choice than to produce the first $1 trillion U.S. budget deficit."
Key quote: "U.S. presidential candidates, Republican John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama, have spent the past week articulating policy goals for shoring up and modernizing the nation's infrastructure."
Key quote: "Senator Barack Obama and former President Bill Clinton spoke by telephone today, their first conversation since the combative Democratic presidential primary season ended at the beginning of the month.
As Mr. Obama arrived here for a campaign stop this morning, he telephoned Mr. Clinton. Last week, Mr. Obama left Mr. Clinton messages, but they did not connect, because the former president was in Europe. The two talked for several minutes and covered a range of issues, aides said, including how Mr. Clinton could help in the fall campaign."
Key quote:"On a hot afternoon in this southern U.S. town, Tom Wolf, a field organizer for Barack Obama, delivered the fruits of hundreds of hours of staff effort -- 130 voter-registration applications -- to the Wake County Board of Elections office. They had been filled out by a handful of Republican-leaners, a few dozen young adults and scores of older African-Americans who stopped voting years ago."
Key quote: "Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama may be the most liberal senator by one group’s scorecard, and the Democratic Leadership Council may be a centrist organization trying to pull the Democratic party away from the left."
Key quote: "Dogged by persistent questions about his faith in God and country, Sen. Barack Obama today journeyed to Harry Truman's birthplace to lay out his vision of patriotism, conceding that he has learned in this campaign 'the question of who is -- or is not -- a patriot all too often poisons our political debate.'"
Key quote: "In downtown Orlando, 24 cars were vandalized yesterday
and the culprits left behind note cards with messages that supported
Hillary Clinton and insulted Barack Obama and John McCain."
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Key quote: "Goldman Sachs Group Inc. warned its clients last month that Barack Obama would be 'a negative for defense stocks'' if he became president, because he will cut weapons programs that generate the companies' biggest profits. Boeing Co., Lockheed Martin Corp. and other military contractors may not fare any better under John McCain."
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