Both are tall lawyers who came from humble surroundings. Both began their political careers in the Illinois legislature. Lincoln, like Obama, also wrote his own speeches.
New York Times | Posted 04.01.2008 | Living
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Craig Newmark | Posted 03.27.2008 | Media
Looking at the numbers, people are turning to substantive speech in long-form online. Jon Stewart captured the gist: people are shocked that Obama's treating us like adults.
Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 03.26.2008 | Media
Remember last week when Barack Obama's race speech racked up millions of views on YouTube? Well, history is repeating itself this week for Hillary Cli...
Ali Eteraz | Posted 03.26.2008 | Politics
People who read Obama's books see in them a man who doesn't think of himself as a finished product, but as someone who views himself as a canvas upon which life is constantly drawing new lines.
Michael Smerconish | Posted 03.25.2008 | Politics
I exited Obama's speech last week thinking that if I ultimately do not vote for Obama, it will be for reasons other than his minister.
Conor Friedersdorf | Posted 03.24.2008 | Politics
It is weird that the people who do think Obama implies moral equivalence are outraged that he is comparing his grandmother to a bigot like Wright.
Buchanan | Pat Buchanan | Posted 03.24.2008 | Politics
How would he pull it off? I wondered. How would Barack explain to his press groupies why he sat silent in a pew for 20 years as the Rev. Jeremiah Wri...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.24.2008 | Politics
New York Times Bill Kristol says he "shuddered only once while watching Barack Obama's speech last Tuesday." It wasn't because Obama didn't answer th...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.23.2008 | Politics
The Politico highlights a snippet of transcript from a tomorrow's edition of Michael Smerconish's radio show, in which he interviews Senator Barack Ob...
Marc Cooper | Posted 03.21.2008 | Home
We O-boomers are, I fear, ready to be disappointed by a President Obama. It's a well-worn reflex with us. But we can sense at least the mathematical possibility of some refreshing change if he is elected.
Patricia DeGennaro | Posted 03.21.2008 | Politics
A true leader can supply us with the motivation and opportunities to save ourselves...by ourselves.
Rev. Peter Laarman | Posted 03.21.2008 | Politics
It took the firestorm over Rev. Wright's sermons to show just how real white fears and white naivete remain four full decades after the murder of Martin King.
Bob Ostertag | Posted 03.21.2008 | Politics
He is challenging some long-established boundaries in American politics, but American policy in regards to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is not one of them.
Howard A. Rodman | Posted 03.20.2008 | Politics
Obama reminded me that it is by a fierce and demanding honesty -- and perhaps only by such honesty -- that optimism can be earned.
Silicon Alley Insider | Peter Kafka | Posted 03.20.2008 | Media
A 38-minute clip of Barack Obama's speech on race has more than 2 million views on YouTube (GOOG) since it went up two days ago. How'd that happen? We...
Bob Ostertag | Posted 03.19.2008 | Politics
Obama does not condemn Rev. Wright for being extreme or for being angry, but for having a static view of society that ultimately doesn't lead to change.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.19.2008 | Politics
In the day following Barack Obama's speech on race, the overall critical response trends positive. There are exceptions, of course, but most pundits,...
Dave Winer | Posted 03.19.2008 | Politics
Obama is not Howard Dean, and the Wright videos are not the Dean Scream, because Obama has the delegate and popular vote lead, and we're deep into the primary season.
David Weinberger | Posted 03.19.2008 | Politics
We can, and should, express our strong disagreement with the particularities of Wright's sermons, but if we stop there, we will continue in our fantasy that there is a single culture and a single vision of the future.
Rep. John Conyers | Posted 03.19.2008 | Politics
I hope Obama's speech is, as Bobby Kennedy once said, the pebble in the water that starts a "ripple of hope" of honest discussions about race that will change and unite us for a better America.
Lanny Davis | Posted 03.19.2008 | Politics
Many people, including Obama supporters, may still have two questions that his speech did not sufficiently answer.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.19.2008 | Politics
Well, I don't think this is going to shock anyone: CNN's Glenn Beck was not a fan of Barack Obama's speech on race. Not enough repudiatin' of ol' Jer...
Robert Creamer | Posted 03.19.2008 | Politics
Obama showed America that he is the guy you want answering the red phone at 3AM. But he also talked to Americans as adults, showing he trusted the voters.
Cenk Uygur | Posted 03.19.2008 | Politics
If it's not racism that's causing the disparity in media treatment of these preachers, then what is it?
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Bob Burnett | Posted 04.03.2008 | Politics