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The Telegraph (Free subscription) | yesterday
By Toby Harnden and Alex Spillius in DenverLast Updated: 6:45AM BST 29 Aug 2008Barack Obama uses his acceptance speech at the Democratic Convention to attacks McCain as a supporter of failed Bush policies. ; On the 45th anniversary of Martin Luther King’s “I have a dream” speech, Mr Obama, 47, became the first black candidate of a major party in an American general election, marking the...
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The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 08/28/2008
Barack Obama's 'time has come' says father's first wifeThe first wife of Barack Obama's father has said she never dreamed that a black man could become President of the United States but now believes her stepson's "time has come". By Toby Harnden, US EditorLast Updated: 7:51PM BST 28 Aug 2008 Ian Manners, former brother-in-law of Barack Obama and Kezia Obama, Barack Obama's stepmother...
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The Telegraph (Free subscription) | yesterday
By Toby Harnden, Alex Spillius and Tim Shipman in Denver Last Updated: 1:22AM BST 29 Aug 2008On the 45th anniversary of Martin Luther King's "I have a dream" speech, Mr Obama, 47, was to become the first black candidate of a major party in an American general election. In remarks released three hours before his speech in Denver's Invesco Field stadium, he was to deliver a specific message...
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The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 08/28/2008
By Toby Harnden in DenverLast Updated: 4:57AM BST 28 Aug 2008 Former President Bill Clinton listen to his wife Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton address the Democratic National Convention in Denver Former President Bill Clinton has declared that “Barack Obama is ready to be president of the United States" in a loud public endorsement aimed at putting to rest tales of a rift between the two...
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The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 08/27/2008
By Toby Harnden in Denver Last Updated: 10:01PM BST 27 Aug 2008Their donations are shunned by Barack Obama, who treats them as pariahs.But lobbyists, an eternal fixture at party conventions, have not gone away. At the Democratic convention, their activities have been more discreet than in other years but they have flocked to Denver in their droves both to do business and to meet old friends.Bashing...
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Commentary - The Post Chronicle (Free subscription) | 08/27/2008
In an headlined, "Frank Marshall Davis, alleged Communist, was early influence on Barack Obama," writer Toby Harnden confirms everything Accuracy in Media has been reporting since February about the mysterious "Frank" in Obama's book being Communist Party USA (CPUSA) member Frank Marshall Davis. Harnden is the Daily Telegraph's U.S. Editor, based in Washington, D.C. The word "alleged"...
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Sweetness & Light (Free subscription) | 08/24/2008
From the UK’s Telegraph: Frank Marshall Davis, alleged Communist, was early influence on Barack Obama New details about a black poet in Hawaii who was a key early influence in Barack Obama’s life can be revealed by The Telegraph. By Toby Harnden in Washington24 Aug 2008 Although identified only as Frank in Mr Obama’s memoir Dreams from [...]
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The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 08/25/2008
By Toby Harnden in Denver Last Updated: 7:55PM BST 25 Aug 2008Barack Obama waits to speak during a campaign event at the Mississippi Valley Fairgrounds August 25Photo: GETTYThe results of a focus group held by Frank Luntz, the leading American pollster, on the eve of the Democratic convention should sound alarm bells for the Obama campaign after a month in which Mr McCain, the Republican,...
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New Zeal (Free subscription) | 08/24/2008
... the British Daily Telegraph has taken things to a new level.In a the Telegraph's US correspondent Toby Harnden has revealed several new facts about the relationship.Harnden reveals that Obama's grandfather introduced the boy to Davis in 1970, at the age of 10. This means that Davis was influencing Obama for eight or nine years until he left Hawaii for university at the age...
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The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 08/24/2008
By Toby Harnden in Denver Last Updated: 8:30PM BST 24 Aug 2008 Pundits say Joe Biden brings gravitas, deep foreign policy expertise and a willingness to attack John McCain to Barack Obama's campaign Photo: AP Determined to pour cold water on the celebrations and exploit resentment among Hillary Clinton supporters that she was Mr Obama's vice-presidential mate, former New York mayor Rudy...
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The Debatable Land (Free subscription) | 08/23/2008
I meant to blog about this earlier, but Toby Harnden's Telegraph magazine piece on Obama in Hawaii is well worth reading. There is, for example, this: In late January, on his campaign plane as we flew from Kansas after the El Dorado visit, I asked the senator about the wanderlust in his family that he had chosen to reject. ‘Part of me settling in Chicago and marrying Michelle was a conscious...
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Timothy Birdnow (Free subscription) | 08/22/2008
... that some of those close to the former First Lady are actively working against Barack Obama. By Toby Harnden in Washington Last Updated: 11:34PM BST 21 Aug 2008 Tony Rodham, who held a fundraising event for Mrs Clinton in Pennsylvania when she was battling against Mr Obama in the Democratic primaries, met Carly Fiorina, Mr McCain’s senior economic adviser, in the state. Miss Fiorina...
