PAULA NEAL MOONEY

by Paula Neal Mooney So Obama has thrown his hat into the presidential ring. I might've never thought I'd be alive to see the day that a black man would attempt a run for president and entertain a serious chance of winning. And now that the blessed day has finally come to pass, why am I so put upon? It's because I've been researching Barack Obama and his wife , Michelle , for a little while now and I don't like some of the ugly stuff I've read thus far . You may have caught my previous post praising Obama for his intelligence, wit and well-read demeanor. But more and more of the ugly politics are being uncovered, especially today. Barack Obama addressed and explained a bit of his pro-abortion stance in a prior Time article, but the charges being levied against Barack and Michelle Obama nowadays are worse than what Barack Obama has been quoted as saying to the press. I'm like Pontius Pilate, always asking: What is truth? Does anyone have a copy of the...

Just caught John Edwards on CBS saying he may run for president in 2008. Possible future president John Edwards was also hawking his new role as editor of an anthology titled Home: The Blueprints of Our Lives that includes a cross-section of America -- black and white, famous and not -- writing about their childhood lives. The very photogenic John Edwards did not discount a run for the presidency in 2008, and didn't hesistate to take potshots at Bush and Rumsfeld over the mess in Iraq, and who can blame him with that leaked memo Rumsfeld wrote (before he "stepped down") making the rounds yesterday saying that Bush's strategy in Iraq wasn't working. Pro-life folks like me (yes, all life, including the soldiers dying for my safety today) that voted for W must not scrape the Ws off cars, but keep repeating: Roberts and Alito sit on the Supreme Court. Roberts and Alito sit on the Supreme Court... John Edwards was a little more tight-lipped about his reported wan...