Losing It on TV
Ruby Gettinger, a Sunday school teacher in Georgia who weighed 700 pounds, battles her obesity—and leans on God—on national television.
Interview by Rose Pacatte

Obama's Fascinating Interview with Cathleen Falsani

Steve Waldman

The most detailed and fascinating explication of Barack Obama's faith came in a 2004 interview he gave Chicago Sun-Times columnist Cathleen Falsani when he was running for U.S. Senate in Illinois. The column she wrote about the interview has been quoted and misquoted many times over, but she'd never before published the full transcript in a major publication...

http://blog.christianitytoday.com/ctpolitics/2008/11/obamas_fascinat.html

It is apparent that Barack Obama holds to a fairly liberal version of Christianity. But he seems to be very honest and transparent about his beliefs, and to have a sincere humility about his views. Hopefully he will be open to others, even to evangelicals, to reason with us.

"Neocons Plot to Co-Opt Obama"
The newly elected president is a foreign policy novice and will find himself under great pressure to follow Middle Eastern and China and Russia policies inherited from George Bush, even though these are what Barack Obama was elected to change or terminate. William Pfaff

How wrong they were
"He cannot win," and other chestnuts. Remembering an election season full of fabulously wrongheaded predictions.

'Change Has Come to America'

NATION ELECTS FIRST BLACK PRESIDENT
McCain & Palin fall short on big night for Democrats

• President-elect speaks to cheering crowd
• Video: 'We've come to the end,' McCain says
• Dems pick up multiple seats in Senate
• Republicans lose ground in House races

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Juan Williams Tears Up: "This Is America At Its Grandest" (VIDEO)

Obama Wins: Why All Americans Have a Reason to Celebrate

Chicago Tribune/Nuccio DiNuzzo

Arianna Huffington: Even if your candidate didn't win tonight, you have reason to celebrate. We all do. Barack Obama's impressive victory says a lot about America. Because tonight voters decided that they didn't want to look back. They wanted to step into the future. And they turned out in unprecedented numbers to make sure that no amount of scrubbed rolls, malfunctioning machines, endless lines, or polling places running out of ballots would block the way. The history of America is studded with great breakthroughs followed by decades of consolidation and occasional regression. Tonight's victory proclaims the end of the dark years of the Bush regression. It's time for another American breakthrough. Click here to read more.