London, Aug 6 : US presidential candidate Barak Obama celebrated his 47th birthday, yesterday, amid 850 friends and admirers in a fund rising bash in Boston.

New York, Aug 5: Former US president Bill Clinton, whose role in Democrat presidential hopeful Barack Obama's election campaign remains to be worked out, is still far away from saying that Obama was ready to don the mantle of US President.

He said that even if one holds the office of the country’s Vice-president for eight years, it’s not sure that he would be ready to take on the pressures of the Office of US President.

Washington - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama called on the United States to end its dependence on oil from the Middle East and Venezuela within
10 years as part of a broad speech laying out his energy plans on Monday.

Obama, who celebrated his 47th birthday Monday, said he would direct the "full resources" of government towards promoting renewable energy sources, investing 150 billion dollars over the 10-year period.

Washington  - Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama on Sunday urged the party's credentials committee to give a full vote to the defrocked state delegations from Florida and Michigan - a move that could heal the lingering, deep divisions with narrowly defeated rival Hillary Clinton.

In a letter to the panel released by his campaign, Obama said he believed "party unity calls for the delegates from Florida and Michigan to be able to participate fully alongside the delegates from the other states and territories."

New York, Aug. 4: Senator Barack Obama has described Republican rival John McCain''s campaign as cynical and negative, but not racist.

"Their team is good at creating distractions and engaging in negative attacks," the New York Daily News quoted Obama, as saying.

Speaking during a break from campaigning in Florida Saturday, Obama said that the McCain''s campaign isn''t trying to vilify him because he''s black.

Washington, Aug. 4 : One in six white workers in America continue to remain uncommitted to either Barack Obama or John McCain, as they don’t believe these two candidates have answers to improving their personal finances, the healthcare system, or the economy as a whole.

Democratic Senator Barack Obama holds a 2 to 1 edge over his Republican rival Senator John McCain among the nation''s low-wage workers, but many are still unconvinced that either presidential candidate would be better than the other.

More than disaffection drives these workers, according to the new national poll by the Washington Post, the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation and Harvard University.