Now it’s her turn. After a quarter century of standing by Bill Clinton—and rising to power with him—the First Lady is ready for a run of her own. Where will she make her mark? In the Senate or on the world stage? The road ahead is risky, but at the moment Mrs. Clinton is the [...]
It’s just after 11 a.m. on a hazy Memorial Day in the Fort Greene section of Brooklyn. Outside Tillie’s of Brooklyn, a trendy café near the corner of DeKalb and Vanderbilt avenues, a multiracial group of a dozen young men and women arrange themselves in a semicircle to be briefed on their itinerary for the [...]
Brooklyn’s 10th Congressional District, home to more African-Americans than any other in New York, gave Senator Barack Obama his highest margin of victory in the state. But the district’s longtime congressman, Edolphus Towns, did not share his constituency’s preference for Mr. Obama. Now some of those voters are pushing to oust him.
Harlem For Obama (H4O) is inviting you to “Each One Bring One” a Unite for Change event in central Harlem. All supporters are asked to bring a friend…
Rivals turned allies, Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton are making their first public appearance together since the divisive Democratic primary race ended.
They are making their show of unity in a hamlet named for it.
State Senator Bill Perkins of Harlem, an early, vocal Obama backer, told me yesterday that Clinton’s exit speech was a “giant step” toward winning back the affections of the Obama supporters who were offended by her pre-concession tactics, but that it should be seen as a “beginning.”
Hillary Clinton ended her historic campaign for the presidency on Saturday and told supporters to unite behind rival Barack Obama, closing out a race that was as grueling as it was groundbreaking.
President Bush’s motorcade will speed through European capitals next week, but for many Europeans, the Bush presidency already is in their rearview mirrors.
Hillary Clinton will declare her strong support for Barack Obama’s White House bid and rally supporters around him, she said in a letter on Thursday, ending her grueling 16-month nominating fight that badly split the Democratic Party….
Bubba Trouble - Old friends and longtime aides are wringing their hands over Bill Clinton’s post–White House escapades, from the dubious (and secretive) business associations to the media blowups that have bruised his wife’s campaign, to the private-jetting around with a skirt-chasing, scandal-tinged posse. Some point to Clinton’s medical traumas; others blame sheer selfishness, and [...]
(I love this photo, the little girl is pointing and explaining the caption on the wall, while Barack’s arms are crossed, as he stares at the Dixie flag at eye level).
Hillary Rodham-Clinton won most of the delegates in Puerto Rico’s primary Sunday, but Barack Obama crept closer to clinching the Democratic nomination for president.
Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton, newly defiant against her own party leaders, sought a victory Sunday in Puerto Rico’s presidential primary that would give her a toehold on an increasingly slippery path to the nomination.
Unlike Hillary Rodham Clinton, rival Barack Obama planned for the long haul. Clinton hinged her whole campaign on an early knockout blow on Super Tuesday, while Obama’s staff researched congressional districts in states with primaries that were months away. What they found were opportunities to win delegates, even in states they would eventually lose.
Cool it with the assassination talk, the Rev. Al Sharpton warned Saturday…
Rep. Anthony Weiner, a likely 2009 mayoral candidate, is pouring his heart into Hillary Clinton’s White House bid - literally…
Harlem was once the only place in the nation where Hillary Rodham Clinton could count on black support. Now it’s hard to find any Clinton backers there, even in the shadow of her husband’s 125th Street office.
Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., laughs as she is introduced by her daughter, Chelsea, far left, at a Mothers Day fundraiser in New York Saturday, May 10, 2008. Applauding at right is Harlem Rep. Charles Rangel, D-NY, and Rep. Nita Lowery, D-NY.
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For all her talk about “full speed on to the White House,” there was an unmistakably elegiac tone to Hillary Clinton’s primary-night speech in Indianapolis.
Democratic rivals Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton turned up the rhetoric Saturday in their increasingly heated primary battle as she issued a new debate challenge…
“This election,” Harlem resident Bill Clinton said in the hours before the Pennsylvania primary, “is too big to be small.”…
“You don’t choose your family, but you choose what church you want to attend.” said Hillary Clinton, to reporters and editors of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review on Tuesday the 25th.
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