Presidential Campaign

At a presidential campaign stop at Boston University, Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) on Friday said he noticed the U.S. political landscape was changing

"We need a new kind of politics," Obama said. "This cyclical politics has created a situation where lobbyists and special interests - they determine the agenda. "Here's the good news, it's starting to change ... the American people are starting to pay attention in a way that they haven't paid attention in a very long time."

In this installment of his campaign's "Ask Mitt Anything" series, Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney (R) said the government can move closer towards solving the national debt by balancing the federal budget. Romney said the government can save over $300 billion a year by capping non-military and discretionary spending by one percent less than the rate of inflation.

"If Congress sends me appropriations bills that exceed that amount, I will veto them," Romney said. "I like vetoing."

In this new video that is making its way around the Internet, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) was asked a question regarding when it would be appropriate for the U.S. to send "an airmail message to Tehran."

McCain answered by playfully singing "Bomb, Bomb, Bomb, Bomb, Bomb Iran" to the tune of the Beach Boys hit "Barbara Ann."

Sen. Barack Obama's (D-Ill.) presidential campaign launched Women for Obama this week, the candidate's outreach group to target female voters. At the kickoff rally on April 16 in Chicago, Obama's wife Michelle said the federal government was neglecting working class mothers.

"We have essentially ignored the plight of women and families," Obama said. "We've told them, 'You figure out whose going to watch your children while you're at work without access to adequate affordable childcare.' So essentially, we've told women, 'Dream big, but after that, you're on your own.'"

In this exclusive to the Capitol Hill Broadcasting Network, presidential candidate Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) says oil explains why U.S. troops are still in Iraq and tensions between the United States and Iran are escalating.

"What's going on here? Think oil. Think Iraq, oil. Think Iran, oil. Because the reason why we're not leaving Iraq at this moment is because the United States wants to protect corporations access to the oil of the people of Iraq," he said.

"It's really time that we ended these corrupt politics that we have in this country where all these politicians are saying all options are on the table with respect to Iran, meaning even a nuclear attack," Kucinich added. "And yet, apparently, diplomacy's not one of those options."

Former Mass. Gov. Mitt Romney (R) voiced strong opposition to Rep. Nancy Pelosi's (D-Calif.) trip last week to Syria.

"The Speaker of the House helped dignify a state sponsor of terror," Romney said. "At this time of war, her action stands as one of the most partisan, divisive and ill-considered of any national leader in this decade."

Rep. Dennis Kucinich vocalized his disapproval of Congress recently passing a supplemental funding bill for the Iraq War.

"In the last two weeks, Congress passed legislation that would provide almost $300 billion to keep the war going past the end of President Bush's term and into the term of the next president," Kucinich said. "Now why would congress do that when the American people voted in 2006 for a new Congress and for a new direction in Iraq?"

In this recent campaign video, former Sen. Jim Talent (R-Mo.) says why he is supporting former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney (R) in the 2008 presidential race.

Talent, who is now working for Romney's campaign, says he admired what Romney accomplished in Massachusetts by "mak[ing] the government work on behalf of conservative principles for people."

"This is a man that can take the principles of our party and turn it into effective action in changing Washington," he adds, "and that's what we need right now."

This campaign video shows Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney's (R) address how his position on abortion has changed in his "Ask Mitt Anything" session on Wednesday.

"I have always been personally pro-life in my own life," he said, "In my view abortion is wrong except in the case of rape, incest, or when the life of the mother is threatened. But for me the question of what should government's role be was uncertain."

Romney goes on to say that his support for abortion rights changed when Massachusetts was debating embryonic stem cell research when he was governor. Now, he prefers leaving abortion up to the states.

Romney said he would prefer that "instead of having a one size fits all pronouncement for the entire nation as we currently have, that each state should be able to make their own choice in this regard."

New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson (D) discusses his solution to the situation in Iraq in this campaign video of his remarks at the Democratic National Committee's (DNC) Winter Meeting in February.

"We have a moral responsibility to bring the Sunni and Shia together in a national reconciliation conference," Richardson says. "And we have a strategic interest in organizing a regional conference with all of Iraq's neighbors: Saudi Arabia, Egypt, NATO. But also include Syria and Iran to help stabilize Iraq."