AP - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said Monday he will never question others’ patriotism during the race and blames his own “carelessness” for some criticism of him so far.
Reuters - Democratic presidential
hopeful Barack Obama on Monday rejected questions about his
patriotism even as he drew fire for a supporter’s attack on
Republican rival John McCain’s military record.
AP - In a June 29 story about a meeting of the Democratic Leadership Council, The Associated Press erroneously reported Democratic Sen. Tom Carper’s home state. He is from Delaware, not Maryland.
AP - Obama to give speech Monday on patriotism in Independence, Missouri … McCain meets with evangelist Billy Graham and son, Franklin, at mountaintop retreat in NC … Clark says McCain military service does not automatically qualify him for commander in chief
Politico - One-third of Colorado registered voters are not affiliated with a political party. In New Mexico, Democrats outnumber Republicans by nearly 200,000, yet the state routinely votes for the GOP presidential candidate. Montana voters don’t even register with a party.
AP - Retired Gen. Wesley Clark, a former Democratic presidential candidate now supporting Barack Obama, said Sunday John McCain’s military service does not automatically qualify him to be commander in chief.
AP - Phil Griffin, the NBC News executive who oversees MSNBC, is a coiled mass of energy who needs little provocation to do battle. Now he’s got something to fight for.
AP - By rights, a group that helped elect Bill Clinton president and counts Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton as one of its leaders should be hostile territory for Barack Obama. But members of the Democratic Leadership Council seem ready to embrace Obama rather than risk squandering an opportunity for victory this fall.
Bloomberg - June 29 (Bloomberg) — Retired U.S. Army General Wesley
Clark, an adviser to Democratic presidential candidate Barack
Obama, said Republican contender John McCain has oversold his
military and national-security experience.
Bloomberg - June 29 (Bloomberg) — John McCain, in his sharpest attack
yet against rival Barack Obama, said the Democratic presidential
candidate’s word “cannot be trusted.”