A top advisor to Barack Obama says, if elected president, the Democratic
candidate will look to appoint Supreme Court justices in the mold of Justices
Stephen Breyer and David Souter.
 
“Of course, he’s interested in people
of integrity and competence, that’s a given,” Pepperdine University law
professor Doug Kmiec told CNSNews.com. “He’s also indicated that he’s most
attracted to the kind of justice represented by Justice Breyer and Justice
Souter.”

Rashid Khalidi, the Columbia University professor whose friendship with Sen. Barack Obama is raising questions, says he was never a spokesman for the PLO, but his strong PLO leanings were evident at a time when Yasser Arafat’s group was mounting terror attacks in Israel and causing mayhem in Lebanon. And while Khalidi may not have been speaking on behalf of the PLO, during interviews he occasionally used the word “we” when speaking of the organization...

A 7-year-old radio interview in which Barack Obama discussed the failure of
the Supreme Court to rule on redistributing wealth in its civil rights rulings
has given fresh ammunition to critics who say the Democratic presidential
candidate has a socialist agenda.

The interview -- conducted by Chicago Public Radio in 2001, while Obama was
an Illinois state senator and a law professor at the University of Chicago --
delves into whether the civil rights movement should have gone further than it
did, so that when "dispossessed peoples" appealed to the high court on the right
to sit at the lunch counter, they should have also appealed for the right to
have someone else pay for the meal...

Barack Obama's presidential campaign is pressuring the Department of Justice to put off a probe of voter registration fraud allegations leveled against the now infamous liberal group ACORN. Lawyers for the Obama campaign have written U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey, asking him to delay any investigations of voter fraud until after the election.

The Obama campaign's general counsel, Robert Bauer, says the FBI should instead be investigating those who have lodged complaints of voter registration fraud against groups like ACORN. Bauer contends that concerns about voter registration fraud are "manufactured allegations" being used to intimidate and disenfranchise low-income voters...

The presidential race tightened after the
final debate, with John McCain gaining among whites and people earning
less than $50,000, according to an Associated Press-GfK poll that shows
McCain and Barack Obama essentially running even among likely voters in
the election homestretch.

The
poll, which found Obama at 44 percent and McCain at 43 percent,
supports what some Republicans and Democrats privately have said in
recent days: that the race narrowed after the third debate as
Republican-leaning voters drifted home to their party...

Sen. John McCain's criticism that Sen. Barack Obama isn't experienced enough to
be president got a boost when the Democrat's own running mate, Joe Biden, told
donors that he expected his boss to be tested, if elected, by a "generated
crisis" shortly after taking office.
 
"We don't want a president who
invites testing from the world at a time when our economy is in crisis and
Americans are already fighting in two wars," McCain, a 72-year-old Vietnam War
veteran, told a crowd Monday in Belton, Mo...

Denver Roman
Catholic Archbishop Charles Chaput labeled Barack Obama the "most
committed" abortion-rights candidate from a major party in 35 years
while accusing a Catholic Obama ally and other Democratic-friendly
Catholic groups of doing a "disservice to the church."

Chaput, one
of the nation's most politically outspoken Catholic prelates, delivered
the remarks Friday night at a dinner of a Catholic women's group...

A former member of the Federal Election Commission says the recent rash of voter registration fraud cases tied to the non-profit group ACORN warrants a Justice Department investigation and points to the need for state voter identification laws.

ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now) is being accused of submitting fraudulent voter registration forms across the country by registering people to vote multiple times under false names or even in the wrong jurisdictions. In Nevada, the group allegedly tried to collect phony registration forms for Dallas Cowboys players, and in Florida reportedly tried to register Mickey Mouse. A teenager in Cleveland, Ohio, says ACORN pestered him into signing 73 voter registration forms...

Three times over the last several days, Republican vice presidential candidate
Sarah Palin has focused her attention on what she described as Sen. Barack
Obama’s “appalling” and “absolutely atrocious” refusal to support legislation in
the Illinois State Senate that would have required medical care for a baby who
survived an abortion and would have defined such a baby—alive and fully outside
its mother’s womb—as a person...

Nevada authorities raided the offices of the Association of
Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) on Tuesday, as part of
an investigation into suspected voter-registration fraud.

The Republican National Committee (RNC) responded on Wednesday by
accusing ACORN of a “significant and blatant” effort to undermine this
year’s election...