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Historic

My 90 year old father, a life-long Republican until 1992 and Obama supporter since day 1, called me excitedly tonight saying CNN just called the nomination for Obama. He said, “this is historic” and he’s right. An African-American man is…

Concession speech coming?

NPR just reported that Hillary Clinton will be giving a major speech Tuesday night in New York and quoted Obama as saying she’s run a superb campaign and he and she will be working together in November.

Clinton to drop out, say associates

NY Times reports unnamed Clinton associates say she’s resigned to losing and will drop out and endorse Obama next week. Which is no big surprise. All the current storm and fury signifies nothing except that she expects (and probably should…

All over but the shouting for Hillary

Top party officials want her to bow out soon, and campaign insiders are losing faith in her strategy. Obama nows leads Clinton among Democrats in California by 13% – and he lost the state by 9 points in Feb. Speaker…

Obama and the ruling class

From Larry Holmes at Workers World. The masses did not launch Obama’s presidential campaign—a section of the U.S. ruling class and its political operatives did. Some in the ruling class got behind Obama merely to advance their faction fight against…