Harrisonburg: Gen. Clark talks up Obama on national security

Chris Graham

Story by Chris Graham [email protected] The approach of the Bush administration to foreign policy is a solution looking for a problem. Wesley Clark learned that on a visit to the Pentagon in the days following the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. A former colleague who had worked with the retired general told him in late…

Virginia: Obama rallies Richmond as polls suggest lead in Va. widens

Chris Graham

Story by Chris Graham Photos by Crystal Graham [email protected] The ’08 presidential election isn’t about convincing with 13 days to go ’til Election Day. It’s about just not letting up even with another poll showing Democrat Barack Obama up by double digits in Virginia and more and more indication that the gap nationally is widening…

Virginia: Warner backs Obama, campaign manager says

Chris Graham

Column by Chris Graham [email protected] “We’ve been doing everything we possibly can to make sure that we’re coordinated with the Obama campaign,” Mark Warner’s campaign manager, Mike Henry, told me today, responding to a column in the AFP last week in which I noted how Warner seemed to me to be playing it kind of…

The Valley Blue Dog: The Manchurian Candidate and Eskimo Barbie

Steven Sisson

Column by Steven Sisson Is the McCain-Palin campaign fueling racism, hatred and divisiveness? Of course, the answers to the question are yes, yes, yes, but wait one cotton-picking minute, Blue Dog! Calling the Republican presidential nominee John McCain The Manchurian Candidate conjures images of a 1960s Vietnam prisoner of war being brainwashed and collaborating with…

White House ’08: The Obama Effect

Chris Graham

Column by Chris Graham [email protected] Not a day goes by that I don’t hear from an Obama-Biden supporter about the Wilder Effect – or what some folks call the Bradley Effect, the basics being a major-party candidate who is African-American whose support in pre- and post-election polling registers higher than actual performance in the polls….

Virginia: Not the day the McCain-Paliners were hoping for

Chris Graham

Column by Chris Graham [email protected] Twenty thousand people, give or take, showed up to hear Sarah Palin at the Richmond International Raceway today. Good news. She yelled at some of them who were trying to tell her to speak “Louder! Louder!” because they couldn’t hear her and called them protestors while making a snarky remark…