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Will She Go The Distance, Or Is This The Final Round?

By Bald Truth Staff, (c), www.artharris.com, all rights reserved

He was the comeback kid Tuesday, Barack Obama roaring back to win big in a state where he was favored after a full frontal assault, but also scoring big in the politics of expectations, as he fended off Hillary Clinton’s gas tax attack and knocked his firebrand pastor’s spit balls out of the park.

CNN was predicting Clinton would take Indiana, but just barely, its pundits noting senior citizens, over 65 years old, saved the day for Hillary by turning out en mass.

Hillary appeared composed if anguished; her husband hung back, looking puffy around the eyes as if he’d been fighting back tears, or anger that the wave had not broken as they expected. Read the rest of this entry »

By Bald Truth Staff, (c) www.artharris.com, all rights reserved

“Let me respond in a non-bombastic way,” Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Jr. said, mocking himself and critics with a wink and a grin to applause and hoots at the National Press Club.

Some got it, some didn’t, but Obama’s pastor was serving up a caustic primer on how black preachers and their flocks relate to each other, and how it can be so easily misunderstood and exploited by the media–and rival candidates sparking America to recoil in ignorance.

To defuse The Rev, we’d like to see an invite to host SNL, where a diet of his brand of wit, would desensitize viewers and perhaps defuse brewing hostilty, much as James Brown did in Boston the night after Martin Luther King., Jr. was assassinated. Read the rest of this entry »

CNN’s John King Talks About Hillary-Obama Collision Course

Art Harris Talks Obama – Clinton Rift With CNN’s Saavy John King

By Art Harris, © www.artharris.com, all rights reserved

With Sen. Hillary Clinton blasting away at Sen. Barrack Obama on the eve of the crucial Pennsylvannia primary to rescue what she considered, once, hers  for the asking –the Democratic party nod for President—we had to ask maybe the top political correspondent in the country, CNN’s John King, do they actually hate each other? 

“While they publically say they’re friends when this started, the question is will they be friends when this is over,” the veteran politico told The Bald Truth in an exclusive interview in Las Vegas, where we caught up with him at a National Association of Broadcasters campaign roundtable. Read the rest of this entry »

Barack’s Take On Why Small Town Pa. May Be Anti-Obama

From Bald Truth Staff (c) www.artharris.com. all rights reserved

Maybe they’re just not into him? And some rejection doesn’t mean what he thinks, or does it?

Listen to the speech that some pundits rail could derail Barack Obama and provoke small town white backlash when the candidate needs it most to maintain his lead over Hillary. Read the rest of this entry »