Michael Cottman
President Barack Obama showed true grit. Obama stood tall behind the podium at the White House Wednesday and defended U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice like a little sister who was being picked on by schoolyard bullies. The bullies, however, are Republicans. “If Senator McCain and Senator Graham and others want to go after somebody, they should […]
The racial hatred toward President Barack Obama never ends. It was bad enough that conservative blowhard Ann Coulter called Obama a “retard,” but now that Obama has soundly thrashed Mitt Romney to re-claim the White House, angry bigots are coming out of the shadows. Take Denise Helms, a 22-year-old California woman who was living in […]
CHICAGO – In the final days leading up to Election Day, a friend told me that God wasn’t finished with President Barack Obama because he has four more years of important work to do on behalf of the American people. I believe she was right. And I also believe that many African Americans feel the […]
After hundreds of political rallies and thousands of campaign speeches, Election Day has finally arrived and here’s my prediction: President Barack Obama will win re-election to the White House Tuesday – despite the superstitious so-called Washington Football Team Rule.” Since the NFL’s Washington Football Team moved to Washington in 1937, the rule has held true: […]
For President Barack Obama, good governance is also good politics. Four days before Election Day, Obama showed solid leadership during a national crisis. While Hurricane Sandy’s deadly storm devastated coastal towns and left much of New York City and Long Island, New York waterlogged and without power, Obama was the nation’s anchor in the storm. […]
Six days before Election Day, with President Barack Obama returning to the campaign trail after taking a break to oversee relief efforts from Hurricane Sandy, two new polls show that African Americans, young adults, and first-time Latino voters will be critical to Obama’s re-election to the White House. This week, in the final stretch of […]
Valerie Jarrett, a senior strategist for the Obama campaign, isn’t paying much attention to the bombardment of media polls seven days before Election Day. What she does care about, Jarrett explained, is voter turnout on Nov. 6 – and the momentum that’s building in the African-American community. “I believe we will surpass the African-American turnout […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. — I’m glad I voted on Sunday. Hurricane Sandy, a monster storm that is hammering the D.C. region with heavy rain and 90-mile-an-hour winds, forced the cancellation of early voting in D.C. and Maryland on Monday and Tuesday. “This is a serious, killer storm,” Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley (D) said in news conference. […]
Leave it to Sarah Palin to rally her Republican troops with a racial assault on President Barack Obama 12 days before Election Day. On Palin’s Facebook page Wednesday, she criticized the Obama administration for its handling of the Benghazi, Libya attack with a blog entitled: "Obama's Shuck and Jive Ends With Benghazi Lies." "Why the […]
President Barack Obama plans to vote on Thursday — and he’s not alone. Two weeks before Election Day, with Obama leading by example, millions of Americans are already taking advantage of early voting opportunities in 32 states including Ohio, North Carolina, California, Virginia, Wisconsin, Texas, Florida, Iowa and Washington, D.C.. With new polls showing the […]
Get ready for Round 3. The next slugfest between President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney is scheduled for Monday at Lynn University in Boca Raton, Florida when the candidates will spar about foreign policy issues. Monday’s debate, the final face-to-face debate before Election Day, will give Obama another chance to challenge Romney, dispel misconceptions about […]
The Obama swagger is back – and not a moment too soon. A feisty President Barack Obama seized control of a critical debate with Mitt Romney Tuesday, showing voters the grit, passion and leadership necessary to guide the nation through an unsteady economic recovery. In an overall contentious debate, Romney interrupted Obama on at least […]
