Kyle Bell

President Barack Obama (oops, Freudian slip!) was officially nominated today as the first African-American nominee to a major party. Hillary Clinton led on the convention floor to declare that Obama was the nominee of the party to defeat John McCain and the Republicans in November. It’s something that could only happen in the Democratic Party: [...]

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Hillary Clinton delivered perhaps her best speech of her political career tonight. I’m an Obama supporter and while I was disgusted by the tactics that the Clintons used against him in the primaries, Hillary gave a rousing speech tonight and deserves much credit for the effort she put forth. As the first woman to have [...]

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Always the party poopers, a good deal of Republicans from across the country have converged on Denver for the Democratic National Convention. One of them, a supposed former Hillary Clinton supporter, invoked on Hardball with Chris Matthews that Barack Obama was a Muslim who went to a madrassa. Even though CNN and other news organizations [...]

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It’s August 4, 2008, nearly four years and a month to the day that John Kerry picked John Edwards as his running mate for vice president in 2004. What does that mean to the race in 2008? That it’s nearing time (actually, past due) for Obama to pick his VP choice. Word has it that [...]

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The race for the Democratic nomination is coming to a close. As the likely nominee, Barack Obama leads in every possible metric: popular vote, delegate count, number of states won, number of primaries won, and number of caucuses won. World War I was dubbed “The War to End All Wars”. Indiana is shaping up to [...]

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There has been a lot of talk about how the media fell in love with Barack Obama. Forget that they loved George Bush in 2000 and 2004 (and hated both Al Gore and John Kerry). Forget that they continue to love John McCain and even in mainstream reporting from respected organizations frequently call him a [...]

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The results were not clear the night of Super Tuesday as to what it all meant. Now that nearly all of the votes have been counted, the delegates have been allocated and the dust has settled, there is no doubt that Barack Obama had a big night last night. He won the most states, he [...]

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Thanks to every American for going to vote today. Barack Obama went up against the Clinton machine, a former two term president with a clear advantage in many states, and Obama came out ahead. He won a majority of the 22 states and looks to win a majority of the delegates. His wins include many [...]

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