Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is jumping into the fray over FOX News talk show host Glenn Beck, whose assertion last month that President Barack Obama is "a racist" led to a boycott of the companies advertising on his show, and ultimately, led some to drop their sponsorship of his show. (Although many have simply shifted advertising to other time slots on Fox, Politico reports.)
An aide woke the president at 2 a.m. to tell him Sen. Ted Kennedy was dead, and, according to a spokesman, the president spoke with Kennedy's widow about 25 minutes later.
A group opposing President Obama’s health care proposals on Wednesday suspended a TV ad campaign it was running in Boston and on Martha’s Vineyard, out of deference to the death of Sen. Edward Kennedy.
They were the most prominent political family of a half century, the family of the late Sen. Edward Kennedy. They also were the most prominent Roman Catholic family in the country, with John F. Kennedy the first and only Catholic ever elected to the presidency.
Michelle and I were heartbroken to learn this morning of the death of our dear friend, Senator Ted Kennedy.
News reports say that former Cuban president Fidel Castro is expressing sympathy for President Barack Obama, quoting Castro as writing that "the racist right" will do everything it can to defeat Obama.