Barack Obama Gives Time/Newsweek Best Sellers of the Year
Huffington Post’s Eat the Press

Media Industry Newsletter has the story: The results are in for the best-selling newsstand covers of 2006, with Barack Obama spelling high sales for news weeklies. Both Time and Newsweek featured cover shots of the Democratic candidate on their best-selling issues, with Time’s "extreme close-up" cover proving a hit and Newsweek striking gold with an arms-crossed Obama and smiling Hillary Clinton standing side by side.

Can Barack Obama Become President?
AlterNet - San Francisco,CA,USA
Nevertheless Barack Obama, the 45-year-old son of Kenya and Kansas, has penetrated the media’s foggy obsession with tabloid stars and has become, …

A sizable percentage of the progressive sector may not be happy with any candidate who does not agree with them on every issue. They have already shown a surprising lack of concern for the political and practical consequences of their inflexibility. The following that Dennis Kucinich, and Ralph Nader enjoyed are cases in point. Intractable liberal voters are like window shoppers who feel most comfortable going home empty-handed and later whining that they couldn’t find something they liked. They may have been as responsible for reelecting Bush as his hard-core conservative base.

Has America under George W. Bush dropped into an abyss of moral and economic bankruptcy? Sadly, this is what our nation now represents to the rest of the world. Perhaps the most groundbreaking aspect of an Obama presidency would be the message it sends globally: The post-Bush era of American governance has arrived.

If candidate Obama’s challenges are daunting, his overcoming those challenges would be all the more significant for many around the globe. An Obama presidency could vault him and all of us into a new era, where sane and compassionate policies are championed by a more united and rational citizenry. Still, world popularity doesn’t elect U.S. presidents. Will Americans be driven primarily by their fear or their hope? The possibility of a new president named Barack Hussein Obama hangs in the balance. [My emphasis]

Obama: "All the eyes in the nation are . . . on New Hampshire"
The Union Leader - Manchester,NH,USA
Barack Obama says a semi-national primary shaping up for the first week of February 2008, is unhealthy for the political process but will make New …

Q&A with Barack Obama
Muscatine Journal - Muscatine,IA,USA
MUSCATINE, Iowa — After his speech at West Middle School on Sunday, Barack Obama sat down with the Muscatine Journal for a one-on-one interview. …

Q: We always hear people talk about Midwestern values, as you did throughout your speech. What are Midwestern values, in your opinion?

A: I do think that Midwesterners are sort of no-nonsense, not a lot of hoopla. They don’t think in ideological terms, but think more in terms of how to solve problems. Now obviously these are huge generalizations, but I do think that there’s a certain sensibility that is healthy.

Obama’s ‘both-and’ mission defines candidacy
DetNews.com - Detroit,MI,USA
R egarding Barack Obama, it’s useful to start with the whole what-is-he thing. Not that there’s any question in his mind: "I’m clear about my own identity," …

He said his belief that American politics has seen enough "either-or" — and that he can shift the paradigm to "both-and" — is what led him to undertake "the risks and difficulties and challenges and silliness of a modern presidential campaign."

Thus on the question of inner-city poverty and dysfunction, Obama proposes a suite of orthodox solutions — early childhood education, after-school and mentoring programs, efforts to teach young parents how to be parents. But he also emphasizes personal responsibility: "The framework that tends to be set up in Washington — which is either the problem is not enough money and not enough government programs, or the problem is a culture of poverty and not enough emphasis on traditional values — presents a false choice."

That’s the way Obama talks, by the way, in sinuous but precise sentences that practically diagram themselves as they go along.

Sen. Barack Obama to Serve as SNHU’s 2007 Commencement Speaker
Southern New Hampshire University - Manchester,NH,USA
Barack Obama, D-Ill., will serve as speaker and will receive an honorary degree at Southern New Hampshire University’s 75th commencement. More. …

Will you leave Obama alone already?
Ha’aretz - Tel Aviv,Israel
The level of scrutiny every Barack Obama comment on Israel gets reached a point of silliness. Now it’s the "nobody is suffering more than the Palestinian …

Obama Profits from Bill’s Gay Baggage
New York Observer - New York,NY,USA
Two of Barack Obama’s key bundlers in Los Angeles were first approached by Hillary Clinton’s campaign, but turned her down in part because of what they said …

"Black Enough?" Who Is Obama Running Against?
Black College Wire - Washington,DC,USA
This hour, an unprecedented African American voter turnout for Barack Obama might give the United States its first black president. …