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DENVER -- I have to say I really felt sorry for Chicago City Clerk Miguel del Valle when I saw the speaker schedule for the first night of the Democratic National Convention here.
DENVER -- John McCain's campaign released a wicked ad Sunday designed to divide and conquer sulking Hillary Clinton supporters by sticking it to Barack Obama for not tapping her to be his running mate, just as Obama's team is trying to patch everything up at the convention.
Lynn Sweet: Barack Obama's Democratic convention stage was unveiled Friday at the Pepsi Center here, and like the presidential candidate, it is hip --dressed with giant plasma HDTVs -- and larger than life -- about 8,000 square feet of projection space.
DENVER -- At 2 a.m. Chicago time, from a laptop in the "new media" office of Barack Obama's Michigan Avenue national campaign headquarters, the text message went out: Obama is tapping Sen. Joe Biden to be his running mate. "Spread the Word," the dispatch concluded.
Lynn Sweet: John McCain's campaign socked Barack Obama with Tony Rezko on Thursday, convinced they can tie Obama to his former political patron -- now convicted of political corruption -- even though Hillary Rodham Clinton could not get any bounce from Rezko.
In the run-up to the Democratic convention, Sen. Barack Obama will showcase his new running mate Saturday at the Old State Capitol in Springfield, where he kicked off his campaign Feb. 10, 2007.
WASHINGTON -- When Alexi Giannoulias was an undergraduate at the University of Chicago in the mid-1990s, one of the guys he would play pick-up basketball games with in Hyde Park was Barack Obama, who taught at the U. of C. law school.
In their first back-to-back appearance as presidential nominees -- at a forum aimed at evangelicals -- Barack Obama said Saturday his greatest moral failure was his selfishness, while John McCain said it was his first marriage.
Illinois delegates will have the best seats when the Democrats meet later this month at the Pepsi Center in Denver to make Barack Obama the party nominee. It's traditional for home state delegates to get prime position on the floor.
WASHINGTON -- The swelling conflict between Russia and Georgia over South Ossetia and Abkhazia is the first major real-time foreign-policy crisis faced by Barack Obama. He could not afford to be perceived as AWOL on this just because he is vacationing in his native Hawaii.
Barack Obama, heavily reliant on major donors and celebrities despite his public emphasis on small contributors, upped the ante this week to enter his VIP donor world. A new high was set Monday for hosting or chairing an Obama event; chairs of his birthday fund-raiser in Boston had to raise $285,000; co-chairs needed to collect $142,500.
Lynn Sweet: Fast food out. Slow food in. Famed chef Alice Waters, whose Chez Panisse in Berkeley, Calif., is one of the nations' most acclaimed restaurants, introduced keynoter Michelle Obama -- and designed the menu -- for a fund-raising lunch Monday at the Palmer House that collected more than $1 million to help elect Barack Obama president.