Now You Can Say It, President-Elect Obama: "So What If I Am a Muslim?"
As a follower of Christ, Obama should set the record straight about the injustice that has been done to true Islam in this country.
As a follower of Christ, Obama should set the record straight about the injustice that has been done to true Islam in this country.
Matthew Filipowicz | Posted 12.05.2008 | Politics
My dad hates having political signs in his yard. But, this year he's so fed up with the way things have been going that he agreed put an Obama sign in his yard.
Christina Bellantoni | Posted 11.15.2008 | Politics
First published at WashingtonTimes.com Joe the Plumber came up in tonight's debate at least 23 times. So naturally, reporters who haven't alre...
Brad Mirman | Posted 11.13.2008 | Politics
The issue the McCain campaign feels is giving them the most traction is an ugly one, and not worthy of someone who wants to lead the most powerful nation on earth.
Marty Kaplan | Posted 09.25.2008 | Politics
I'm not shocked by Americans' ability to think untrue things. But to enough voters that it matters for the outcome of this election, Muslims are as other, if not more so, as blacks.
Patt Morrison | Posted 07.19.2008 | Politics
In an L.A. Times column today, one Coloradan told Ron Brownstein something we've been hearing across the country: "I can't vote for a guy whose middle name is Hussein.''
Lucy Carrigan | Posted 07.04.2008 | Politics
Up until now, the Obama campaign has been smarter in its dealings with controversy, but they feared what some right wing Republicans will do with a picture of Barack Obama and, god-forbid, a Muslim.
Scott Atran | Posted 07.03.2008 | Politics
Fear may be the oldest and strongest emotion in our species. The politics of hope plays to a less primitive emotion.
Boston Globe | Posted 07.02.2008 | Politics
Last week, two Muslim women in headscarves were moved from their seats behind Senator Barack Obama's stage where they would have been visible on video...
The Hill | Posted 07.01.2008 | Politics
When Barack Obama apologized in person last week to two women at a rally in Detroit wearing head scarves, he did it only after Rep. Keith Ellison (D-M...
Wall Street Journal | Posted 07.01.2008 | Politics
It is inaccurate to call Barack Obama a Muslim. Is it a slur? The Obama campaign suggests it is. A new campaign Web site designed to air and rebut p...
The Huffington Post | Posted 06.25.2008 | Politics
There is great concern -- both within and outside of Barack Obama's campaign -- that the smear attacks suggesting that the Senator is, in fact, a Musl...
Huffington Post | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
Via Ben Smith, Hillary gives a less than adamant answer to a question about Obama's religion on 60 Minutes. Hillary claims, "I take him on the basis ...
Politico | Jonathan Martin | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
So after dropping three "Barack Hussein Obama" bombs at a McCain event, Cincinnati talk show host Bill Cunningham appeared on "Hannity & Colmes" to ex...
The Atlantic | Marc Ambinder | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
No less an authority figure than Karl Rove has warned Republican operatives from demagoguing Barack Obama's middle name. At a closed door meeting of ...
Huffington Post | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
UPDATE: Bob Cunningham is now angry at McCain, and is questioning McCain's claim that he and Cunningham had never met: Mr. Cunningham later posted a ...
Politico.com | Ben Smith | Posted 06.25.2008 | Media
Carrie and I wrote today about the technical aspects of fighting a viral e-mail smear, and Tim Tagaris writes approvingly of an Obama campaign move we...
Politico.com | Ben Smith and Carrie Budoff Brown | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
For over a year, largely out of the media glare, Senator Barack Obama's presidential campaign has been fighting a determined, low-intensity conflict a...
AP | NEDRA PICKLER | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
COLUMBIA, S.C. — Barack Obama is stepping up his effort to correct the misconception that he's a Muslim now that the presidential campaign has h...
Time | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home
Pool Report: U.S. Sen. Barack Obama spent a half-hour Thursday afternoon greeting diners at a downtown Des Moines food court. People swarmed around ...
Miami Herald | BETH REINHARD | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
Max Holtzman, a Miami lawyer and fundraiser for Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, was in a downtown office building when he ran into a h...
Muhammad Sahimi | Posted 12.10.2008 | Politics