Obama’s Community Roots
The Nation. - New York,NY,USA
In 1985, freshly graduated from Columbia University and working for a New York business consultant, Barack Obama decided to become a community organizer. …

Obama’s organizing history may give few clues about what policies he would pursue as President, but Obama the presidential candidate still shows his roots–a faith in ordinary citizens, a quest for common ground and a pragmatic inclination toward defining issues in winnable ways. Even when Obama was an organizer, Augustine-Herron told him he would be the nation’s first black President. Now the Rev. Alvin Love, whom Obama recruited to DCP, looks at his candidacy and says, "Everything I see reflects that community organizing experience. I see the consensus-building, his connection to people and listening to their needs and trying to find common ground. I think at his heart Barack is a community organizer. I think what he’s doing now is that. It’s just a larger community to be organized."

Obama hits Chicago during ‘Council Wars’
Chicago Tribune

The path to his party’s nomination, though, runs through Democratic primary voters still chafing from years of conservative Republican rule. And what Obama highlights as an eagerness to plow common ground with political opposites, some voters may view as a sign that he lacks firm principles or an ability to stake and hold his ground.

Obama firmly rejected that notion. "There are a set of principles that I care about. And there are people I’m fighting for in this campaign," he said in a recent interview. If any Republican, or Democrat for that matter, opposes those principles, Obama vowed to "go after them with everything that I’ve got."

Obama’s heritage a boon to blackness
Yahoo! News - USA
Barack Obama (news, bio, voting record), D-Ill., black enough to earn the support of African-Americans in his quest to become president of the United States …

Jesse Jackson Endorses Barack Obama
CBS News - New York City,NY,USA
(AP) Civil rights leader Jesse Jackson said Thursday he’s backing Democrat Barack Obama in his presidential bid, giving his support to a new generation of …

Barack Obama Talks About Gay Marriage and Immorality
Bgay.com - Fort Lauderdale,FL,USA
Barack Obama appeared on CNN’s Situation Room yesterday where he talked to Wolf Blitzer about his view on gay marriage and about what happened following the …

Obama’s Hawai’i supporters open homes for meetings
Honolulu Advertiser - Honolulu,HI,USA
"Barack Obama believes this campaign is about everyday Americans and the discussions that take place in living rooms, coffee shops and community centers," …

Spanish edition of Obama’s ‘Audacity of Hope’ to come out in June
WQAD - Moline,IL,USA
NEW YORK US Senator Barack Obama’s (ber-AHK’ oh-BAH’-muhz) book "The Audacity of Hope" is already a million seller in English, and now it will be coming out …

Barack Obama attempts to sell his 2008 presidential campaign
University of Central Oklahoma Vista - Edmond,OK,USA
If Illinois senator Barack Obama isn’t sworn in as President come January 2009, it won’t be because of his public speaking abilities, which were prominently …

Fox Goes After Barack Obama Again
News Hounds - Newport Beach,CA,USA
Scott then gave Malek an example where Barack Obama had said his parents had gotten together because of what happened in Selma, Alabama. …