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"We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times ... and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK," Obama said. "That's not leadership. That's not going to happen," he added.

Note to Obama: Your mask is slipping. Barack Obama has tried his best to conceal the fact that underneath all the soothing rhetoric about "change" and being a new kind of politican, he is nothing but a 1960's style liberal with some incredibly naive views about American foreign policy. Yesterday in front of 75,000 adoring fans, Obama really let his inner liberal take over and made one of the most outrageously stupid comment of the campaign to date. If the GOP were smart, they would take this comment and run it from now until November. Jennifer Rubin at Commentary: This...

PORTLAND, Ore. -- Sen. Barack Obama has seen his share of large crowds over the last 15 months, but his campaign said they have not approached the numbers gathered along the waterfront here right now. The campaign, citing figures from Duane Bray, battalion chief of Portland Fire & Rescue, estimated that 75,000 people are watching him speak. The scene suggests this is not an exaggeration.

Record Obama Crowd, the Size of a City By Matthew Mosk PORTLAND, Ore. -- Sen. Barack Obama has seen his share of large crowds over the last 15 months, but his campaign said they have not approached the numbers gathered along the waterfront here right now. The campaign, citing figures from Duane Bray, battalion chief of Portland Fire & Rescue, estimated that 75,000 people are watching him speak. The scene suggests this is not an exaggeration. The sea of heads stretches for half a mile along the grassy embankment, while others watch from kayaks and power boats bobbing on the...

Democrat Barack Obama told seniors Sunday that Republican John McCain would threaten the Social Security that they and millions like them depend on because he supports privatizing the program.Obama turned to a bedrock, pocketbook issue as he spoke to about 130 people at an assisted living facility and sought to tie the GOP's presidential nominee-in-waiting to an unpopular President Bush on an issue that motivates seniors."Let me be clear, privatizing Social Security was a bad idea when George W. Bush proposed it, it's a bad idea today," Obama said. "That's why I stood up against this plan in the Senate...

"We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times ... and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK," Obama said. From this story: WASHINGTON (AFP) — Barack Obama set his sights on November's general election Saturday as he campaigned in Oregon, where he hopes to declare victory in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination.Obama has said Tuesday's primaries in Oregon and Kentucky could mark the end of his drawn-out battle with rival Hillary Clinton, and his campaign pressed home that message by...

Barack Obama's campaign hopes it will. They're putting out the word that they hope to announce on the night of May 20, after the results come in from the Kentucky and Oregon primaries, that their candidate has the 2,025 votes needed for the Democratic nomination. That would mean that the nomination would be settled before the May 31 rules committee meeting on the status of the disqualified Michigan and Florida delegations; this would deprive Clinton of a grievance but would not deprive Obama of the nomination. The June 1 primary in Puerto Rico, in which it seems possible Clinton could...

With mail ballots due Tuesday, U.S. Sen. Barack Obama returns to Oregon this weekend with campaign stops in Roseburg, Portland and Pendleton. The Democrat will appear for a town-hall meeting in Roseburg High School at 11:30 a.m. Saturday. On Sunday, he will hold a 12:30 p.m. rally in Portland's Waterfront Park and a 6:30 p.m. town-hall meeting at the Pendleton Convention Center. Obama's rival, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, will visit Friday. Full details of her schedule still had not been released Thursday afternoon.

The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone poll in Oregon shows Barack Obama leading John McCain 52% to 38%. That’s a significant improvement for Obama compared to a month ago when he led the presumptive Republican nominee by six percentage points. In three consecutive Oregon polls, McCain has never received more than 40% support when matched against Obama. In the current poll, McCain attracts just 68% support from Republican voters in the state. Obama leads McCain among voters under 50. With older voters in Oregon, the two candidates are essentially even. Nationally, McCain and Obama remain fairly evenly matched among all voters...

ROSEBURG - Former President Bill Clinton comes to Roseburg Tuesday morning in one of the rare visits of a president in this area. Roseburg High School is gearing up for a visit from the former president, and a rally Tuesday morning at 9:00 o'clock. The former president is trying to rally democrats to vote for Hillary Clinton in the Oregon primary. Roseburg High Vice-Principal Larry Rich said it's a historical event for Roseburg to have a president visit. "We found out this morning that he is coming to R.H.S. so he will be speaking in our gym. Every since we...

....... In Beaverton, outside Portland, where Obama visited a small software firm, employee Jack Randall, a chemist, said he was an independent who had voted for Republicans in the past -- including Bush in 2000 -- but that he would vote for Obama this fall. "He's very personable, intelligent and thoughtful. There was a lot of intensity of data about what he's going to do, it wasn't just the fluff that we've been hearing about," said Randall, 56, whose Republican wife is also backing Obama. For him and his colleagues at the firm, he said, a key issue setting Obama...

DEMOCRATIC White House hopeful Barack Obama said today he could declare victory over Hillary Clinton on May 20, when Kentucky and Oregon may put him over the top in terms of elected delegates. "If at that point we have the majority of pledged delegates, which is possible, then I think we can make a pretty strong claim that we have got the most runs and it's the ninth inning and we have won," he told NBC television, referring to the final inning of a baseball game. "But, you know, I think it is also important for us to, if we...

Now it's Oregon's turn. With the Indiana and North Carolina primaries concluding Tuesday, presidential hopefuls Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton will turn much their attention toward Oregon, allowing the state's more than 870,000 Democrats their moment in the primary spotlight.Oregon is one of only a handful of contests remaining, and is perhaps the most competitive of the states that have yet to vote. Clinton is predicted to prevail in Kentucky, which also votes on May 20, while Obama is expected to win upcoming caucuses in South Dakota and Montana. Most political analysts think Obama has the edge in Oregon, but...

"Here's Chelsea Clinton listening intently last night to her mother debating Barak. And here's Chelsea Clinton hanging out with some 2,000 cross-dressers over the weekend. These shots of the former First Daughter at the 'Red Dress' Party in Portland are burning up the Internet from www.JustOut.com. No word on whether or not Hillary's camp considers this to be a truly 'hairy situation.'" Video: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-9102992554670833423&pr=goog-sl Background and photos: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2002759/posts

I was supposed to ask her questions like "where are you most likely to disagree with your mom or your dad?" or "did you ever call your mom at 3 am and how did she react?" But all I could think of was that: "I am...standing in front of Hill and Bill's kid...in a red Mary Kay Cosmetics Collection dress...I'd just bought that day at the Goodwill...how weird is that?" Yes, Chelsea Clinton made it to the infamous "Red Dress" Party. Not to be confused with that other annual "Red Dress" fundraiser, this is the "Red Dress Party," a mondo-alcohol-fueled...

In Eugene, Oregon, Saturday. Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-NY, attempted to change the measure by which anyone might assess who criticized the Iraq war first, her or Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, by saying those keeping records should start in January 2005, when Obama joined the Senate. (A measure that conveniently avoids her October 2002 vote to authorize use of force against Iraq at a time that Obama was speaking out against the war.) She claimed that using that measure she criticized the war in Iraq before Obama did. But Clinton's claim was false. Clinton on Saturday told Oregonians, "when Senator Obama...

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Matthew Buckingham, a stay-at-home father in Portland's suburbs and lifelong Republican, is fired up about voting for Sen. John McCain in November. But on May 20, the date of Oregon's unexpectedly consequential presidential primary, Buckingham's choice for the primary is still up in the air: Should it be Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, or Sen. Barack Obama? Like nearly 10,000 Oregonians — and thousands more voters in other late-primary states — Buckingham has temporarily switched his party affiliation in order to be able to vote in the red-hot Democratic primary. "The bottom line is, this is the...

MEDFORD, Ore. -- Former President Bill Clinton warmed up Oregon for a future visit from his wife, starting a two-day sweep through the state whose May primary has taken on new significance with the tightness of the race for the Democratic presidential nomination. "I think she's the best change-maker I ever knew," Clinton told the crowd of about 2,500 people at North Medford High School. He was to make further appearances Monday in Portland, Salem and Bend. Sen. Hillary Clinton's campaign said she is likely to be in Oregon the week of April 6. Clinton noted his wife's work as...

The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone poll in Oregon shows Barack Obama leading John McCain 48% to 42%. However, McCain leads Hillary Clinton 46% to 40%. Those results are broadly similar to last month’s poll in Oregon. Last August, McCain also led Clinton by three percentage points. Obama was not included in that round of polling.