Barack Obama wowed attendees at the Iowa Democratic Party’s Jefferson-Jackson dinner last Saturday night. “If we are really serious about winning this election, Democrats, then we can’t live in fear of losing,” Obama said. “This party, the party of Jefferson and Jackson and Roosevelt and Kennedy, has always made the biggest difference in the lives of the American people when we led not by polls but by principle, not by calculation but by conviction, when we summoned the entire nation to… a higher purpose.”

Barack Obama surprised national viewers Saturday night when the presidential hopeful appeared on the long running comedy show Saturday Night Live. The opening sketch involved a Halloween party featuring a bored Hillary (played by Amy Poehler) and an outrageous Bill Clinton (Darrell Hammond) speaking with the other Democratic candidates in their Halloween costumes.

Our country is in the final stages of rule by the only man to not learn the lessons of Vietnam. Are we really ready for more? Mitt Romney, one of the leading Republican primary candidates, recently commented that he is in favor of "bombardment of some kind" against Iran. We here at LookingLeft feel there are far more appropriate measures to be taken before bombardment even gets on the table.

Rest assured, if Bush doesn't mire our nation in another war, Romney will.

A poll by the University of Iowa released on Monday shows Hillary as the Democratic frontrunner. Clinton rang in with 28.9% of likely Democratic voters, followed closely by Barack Obama with 26.6%. 2004 Vice-Presidential candidate John Edwards came in third with 20%. Voters were asked who they would vote for if the primary election were held that day.

Presidential hopeful and Lookingleft.com favorite Hillary Clinton celebrated her 60th birthday on Oct. 26 in style. According to CNN.com the birthday party/$1 million fundraiser attracted such celebrities as Billy Crystal, Elvis Costello, and The Wallflowers, as well as a host of high profile political names.

In typical Bush fashion our beloved Commander-in-Chief visited Southern California this week, saying and doing all the right things to make the PR people happy. That’s right; he even managed to look mildly concerned as he put an arm around a California woman who lost her home.

“We want people to know that there is a better day ahead,” said Bush, “…today your life may look dismal, but tomorrow life’s going to be better.” Profound, Mr. Bush. Profound.

It's a statement of fact that Bush has grabbed a large and unprecedented and unconstitutional amount of power for the executive branch during his two terms in office. So it was a breath of fresh air to hear Hillary defend the constitution and the American people. In a remarkable and noteworthy statement to Michael Tomasky, Hillary mentioned that she will review and release some of the powers that Bush has claimed.

It was announced today that former Vice President and Environmental Champion Al Gore has, along with United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for their work on educating the world about the dangers to planet Earth.

Barack Hussein Obama was born in Honolulu, Hawaii on August 4, 1961 to a Kenyan father and a mother from Kansas. As a boy he was raised in Hawaii and Jakarta. He attended Occidental College and Columbia University, where he earned a BA in political science. He received a law degree from Harvard in 1991 and moved to Chicago to become an attorney. In 1992 Obama married Michelle Robinson. The couple has two daughters. He is a member of the United Church of Christ.

Maurice Robert “Mike” Gravel was born in Springfield, Massachusetts on May 13, 1930. Gravel studied for one year at American International College in Springfield before joining the army in 1951. He served in West Germany as an intelligence and counter-intelligence specialist until he left the service in 1954. He received a degree in economics from Columbia University in 1956. That same year he moved to Alaska and worked in real estate and railroads. In 1959 he married Rita Jeanette Martin and together they have two children. Gravel is a Unitarian.