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Obama’s Invesco Speech Fuels Celebrity Label

Out of the Senate and into . . . the Parthenon?

Barack Obama has already invited a new wave of Republican criticism that the White House isn’t big enough for his ego with his plans to accept the Democratic nomination Thursday at Invesco Field at Mile High.

The field where the Denver Broncos play and where Obama will address a crowd of more than 70,000 people is now completely covered by a circular seating arrangement. And in the center, where Obama will be standing, is what appears to be a large structure that resembles the ancient Greek temple...

Rahm blames McCain for bringing up race

Paying Republicans a backhanded compliment, House Democratic Caucus Chairman Rahm Emanuel said on Wednesday that the McCain campaign had succeeded in making race a factor in this presidential election.

“They did a good job bringing up a topic they wanted brought up,” Emanuel said. By suggesting the Obama campaign had brought up race first, he added, Republicans had managed to raise the issue without provoking backlash.

On July 31, John McCain's campaign manager, Rick Davis, accused Barack Obama of playing “the race card,” after the Illino...

Obama camp learns from past Dem missteps

CHICAGO — When Barack Obama looks out at the Democrats assembled in Denver this week, he'll see a handful of party luminaries who sought the White House before him: Al Gore, John F. Kerry, Howard Dean, Bill Clinton and Hillary Rodham Clinton.

They'll be publicly lauded, of course, as revered elder statesmen and integral players in the party’s present. But Obama has run a campaign that views each in decidedly different terms: as cautionary tales, examples of an old politics to be avoided at all costs.

Obama’s campaign, staffed by veterans an...

Did Hillary heal the wounds?

DENVER — There is no second place in American politics. There is no silver medal, no shadow prime minister, no government in exile.

There is a winner, and there is a loser. Barack Obama won and Hillary Clinton lost, and Clinton’s supporters need to get their heads, if not their hearts, around that.

At her speech to the Democratic National Convention on Tuesday night, Hillary said the right things. Nobody could accuse her of going overboard, but she said the right things.

“Barack Obama is my candidate,” she said. “And he must be our presi...

Bill Clinton to Skip Obama Speech at Invesco Field

In another sign of lingering discord between the Clinton and Obama camps, FOX News confirmed Wednesday that former President Bill Clinton will not attend Barack Obama’s Democratic presidential nomination acceptance speech at Invesco Field in Denver Thursday night.

One senior Obama aide said the candidate is “not worried about it.  There’s places besides Denver where we need and will get his help winning this election.”

Clinton has continued to lob perceived bombs at the man who defeated his wife, Hillary Clinton, in the Democratic primar...