Sen. Obama will be interviewed on ABC World News with Charles Gibson tonight at 6:30pm Eastern.

ETA: Article here. They're doing a series on the candidates' biographies and family lives. Nice stuff. Extended video available through the Meet The Candidates link on the left ( Read more... )

Of all the stories I've heard about Michelle Obama, the most telling might be one about her mother, 70-year-old Marian Robinson, a tall woman with impeccable posture, a vivid smile, and excruciatingly high personal standards. On the far side of her 50th birthday, Robinson took up running. She was good, she had speed-she even competed in the ( Read more... )

Near the end of a stop here today, Senator Barack Obama was asked this question from a man seated in the crowd at the Washington County fairgrounds: “What would you say is the most painful and character-building experience of your life that puts you in a position to make important decisions of life and death and the well being of our country ( Read more... )

BRIAN WILLIAMS: Let's talk about the campaign which I understand you've been spending some of your free time doing.  To-- what's the surprise?  What is it, seven months into it?

BARACK OBAMA: You know, I am number one surprised by the extraordinary interest of the American people.  I think even early on, I mean, we were getting crowds of twenty ( Read more... )

In the piercing memoir “Dreams From My Father," Barack traces how his mother’s remarriage to fellow university student Lolo Soetoro took the family to Jakarta, Indonesia, where he recalls running through the streets with the children of farmers and servants, "hustling odd jobs, catching crickets, battling swift kites…." Concerned with the quality ( Read more... )

Their high school class was an in-between generation. The Beat generation had passed, and the 1960s era of protest was yet to begin. Classmates of Dunham -- Wall, Blake, Hunt -- felt they were on the cusp of societal change, the distant early warning of the '60s struggles over civil rights, women's rights and war.

"If you were concerned about ( Read more... )