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In the nearly three weeks since Barack Obama clinched the Democratic nomination, two things are clear: Obama's operation has some huge advantages over the opposition - and Team Obama makes a lot of unforced errors.
But the campaign has also made it share of strange, self-inflicted mistakes, suggesting that as Obama Central scales up its operation to prepare for the convention, pick a vice president and run a truly national campaign, it is developing some kinks in its once-smooth-functioning command and control...
"At our shelter, Utopia Ranch, we have a lot of large, black, indiscriminate-looking dogs," says Kinky Friedman, the Texas musician, author and onetime gubernatorial candidate. In the eight years since his South Texas rescue ranch has been operating, a majority of the dogs left at the gate or rescued...
One theory is that there are more unadopted black dogs because there are simply more of them than canines of other shades. "I have heard that black is the dominant gene and in general that's why there are so many of them," says singer/songwriter Emmylou Harris. Active in the...
But even as he spoke, he was worried about the impending end of Operation Jump Start. The two-year National Guard initiative expires on schedule this month, after Congress and the President turned down a request from the governors of California, Arizona and New Mexico to extend the program indefinitely...