Let us say, one day that you take your kid to the circus.  A clown leads out a pony.  He says, “This pony can do tricks!  Count to five pony!”  The pony stamps his foot five times.  “Hooray!  Stand on your hind legs pony!”  The pony stamps his foot five times.  The clown rolls a […]

at the White House, September 1998. Courtesy of Politico’s Ben Smith who finds that, according to Hillary Clinton’s just released calendar, was present at the very same dinner.
Meanwhile Senator Clinton’s “advisers said they had spent recent days making the case to wavering superdelegates that Mr. Obama’s association with Mr. Wright would doom […]

I don’t have a link yet, but Obama just said that what his grandmother said was “typical of what white people say”. Wow. Why? Dude! Man! Say it ain’t so.

He said I could make a comment or two, but its implication speaks for itself.
But…. if Obama is the nominee, expect conservatives to pour habanero sauce on the open wound of African-American/Jewish relations.
And regardless of who the Democratic nominee is, and regardless who provokes it, expect a vicious little war between Hezbollah and Israel come […]

Lefty is concerned about ”everyone” being “seared” by the selected ranks of Obama’s pastor. It is true that these few sentences have been seen on YouTube over one million times. Now a bigger “searing” is underway: Barack’s speech has been seen by over 50 percent more people so far: 1.6 million and counting as of yesterday, the #1 […]

The pious will not inhert the earth or the White House. The Silent Saint on religion and politics, watching Obama twist in the wind, will now get her turn. A book characterized by Barbara Ehrenreich over at the Huffington Post as a “shocking expose” will be published in short order. The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at […]

While Obama took the Nation to new heights yesterday in terms of what is possible, Clinton is busy today taking us to old lows, groveling for revotes in Michigan and grousing about Obama wanting to disenfranchise voters. Make that only Democratic voters, not Republican voters who voted in the Michigan primary: they will not be able […]

As a student of the Civil War, I’m forever finding parallels between those times and our own. You can’t stretch the parallels too far or they’ll snap . . . but sometimes, the similarities are undeniable. Take Lincoln’s First Inaugural, a speech in which he tried to make clear that he had no intention of […]

Obama just gave what I think is one of the most important and profound political speeches of the past 40 years.  I don’t know if it will blunt the imagery that’s been seared into everyone’’s brains that past few days and that’s being cut into myriad attack ads by the guys on the right.  I […]

March has three perenial milestones for me: St. Patrick’s Day, March Madness and Spring. I like St. Patrick’s Day best because on that day “everyone is Irish”. In my case, I’m a wee bit Irish and my wife’s two grandfathers were Irish cops in Al Capone’s Chicago and both of their parents came from County […]