Nigerian Times

Senator Barack Obama received the most important endorsement of his presidential campaign from his archrival, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton when she conceded the highly coveted presidential nomination of the United States Democratic Party to him on Saturday June 7, 2008. Then she called on her estimated 18 million voters and donors to support and vote for him in the 2008 U.S. Presidential election in November. “I endorse him and throw my full support behind him, and I ask of you to join me in working as hard for Barack Obama as you have for me," Senator Hillary Clinton said. Hillary Clinton said this was not the kind of finale she had hoped for when she began her presidential campaign in 2007, but she certainly loved the company of the mammoth crowd of her enthusiastic supporters and well-wishers who thronged the National Building Museum in Washington D.C, .to witness the suspension of her historic presidential campaign. She has proved that she is a formidable presidential ca...

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Most readers of the Huffington Post in support of Barack Obama are ignorant of the present realities. Most of the Republicans and Independents who were voting for him are now wiser and they are now returning to the GOP. The polls have shown that John McCain is now the most popular of the three presidential candidates. If Hillary Clinton is not the presidential nominee of the Democratic Party, the GOP will retain the presidency. The only way to defeat the GOP is the united front of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. Hillary Clinton should be the President and Barack Obama, the Vice President. Barack Obama boasting about his lead in pledged delegates, states and popular votes is schoolboy logic. That kind of political rationale cannot win the presidential election. Most of the supporters of Hillary Clinton will vote for John McCain if she is not the presidential nominee of the Democratic Party. John McCain knows that he would be favoured by the instability in the Democratic Party, becaus...

The Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright (left), pastor of Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, with Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama. (January 17, 2008) Credit: Jose M. Osorio/Chicago Tribune I have actually ignored the uproar over the so-called anti-American and unpatriotic sermon of Rev. Jeremiah Wright and I have been accused of been pro-Obama on my blog. Many of the supporters of Senator Barack Obama were really annoyed and disappointed by the lame excuses of Barack Obama. A poster said Barack Obama lied that he was not present on the day Jeremiah Wright preached the fiery sermon after the catastrophe of 9/11 . The misleading untternaces of Jeremiah Wright have made many Americans to doubt the personality of Senator Barack Obama and such erroneous utterances could harm the prospects of the Democratic Party in the presidential election in November. The burden is the crisis of faith in America and not about racism. The fact is, Barack Obama lacks sound judgment and from Pas...

6 Mar 2008 17:49 Africa/Lagos DNC: John McCain Doesn't Understand the Challenges America's Families Face WASHINGTON, March 6 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- With oil prices hitting a new record high today, people across the country are feeling the pinch. America's working families are struggling with skyrocketing health care, energy, and college costs, stagnant wages, and a foreclosure crisis that has many Americans struggling to pay their mortgages. But John McCain just doesn't understand the challenges working families face and is offering nothing more than a third Bush term on the economy that will leave America worse off. The candidate who himself admitted "[t]he issue of economics is not something I've understood as well as I should" and said that the economy is strong has shown time and time again he just doesn't understand the challenges confronting the American people. Asked this week what short-term relief he would offer, all he could come u...

Senator Hillary Clinton of the Democratic Party and Senator John McCain of the Republican Party have won the national endorsements of The New York Times for the 2008 US presidential election. Senator Hillary Clinton Mrs. Clinton sometimes overstates the importance of résumé. Hearing her talk about the presidency, her policies and answers for America’s big problems, we are hugely impressed by the depth of her knowledge, by the force of her intellect and by the breadth of, yes, her experience. It is unfair, especially after seven years of Mr. Bush’s inept leadership, but any Democrat will face tougher questioning about his or her fitness to be commander in chief. Mrs. Clinton has more than cleared that bar, using her years in the Senate well to immerse herself in national security issues, and has won the respect of world leaders and many in the American military. She would be a strong commander in chief. ~ The New York Times Senator John McCain Senator John McCain of Arizona is the on...