Obama struggles to thread needle on Iraq

McCain campaign calls Obama's words into question (CNN) -- Sen. John McCain's campaign said Sunday that Barack Obama's remarks on Iraq "have left a significant question as to exactly what he intends." Sen. John McCain's campaign says Barack Obama ...

The Illinois senator expressed his surprise over how his words were taken out of context to give the impression that he has changed his position on Iraq. "I am surprised at how ... the press ... I'm not trying to dump on you guys, but I'm surprised ...

Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama says he will be “greedy” in his quest to break the Republican Party’s decades-long hold on the South. “I can’t guarantee we are going to win any Southern state,” Obama, a first-term Illinois ...

Likely Democratic U.S. presidential nominee Barack Obama says he's "puzzled" by the media frenzy surrounding statements he made about the Iraq war. Sen. Obama, D-Ill., told reporters Saturday while flying from Montana to St. Louis that he's been ...

Critics have accused Sen. Barack Obama of wavering on how he will bring U.S. troops back from Iraq and end the war if he were president. Following are some of the Obama campaign’s past comments on Iraq troop withdrawal: In November, he told the ...

Barack Obama says he doesn't think he said what the media thought he said about the Iraq war...While his comments unleashed criticism from both ends of the political spectrum, Obama said yesterday he has not changed his position on the war in the ...

After months vowing to get US troops home from Iraq, Barack Obama has succumbed to the war's political entanglements, struggling to explain his plan in the light of recent security gains. More than five years after the US invasion, the Iraq war is ...

Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said Saturday his plan to end the Iraq war was unchanged and he was puzzled by the sharp reaction to his statement this week that he might "refine" his timetable for withdrawing U.S. combat troops. "For ...

Sen. Barack Obama ended a week's focus on values by giving a conference of the African Methodist Episcopal Church a highly personal account of his spiritual journey and a promise that he will make "faith-based" social service "a moral center of my ...

Barack Obama, continuing with his theme this week of highlighting his faith and patriotism while visiting traditionally Republican states, called on a nearly all-black room of churchgoers in Missouri to help fix national and local problems. Speaking ...