Based on early results, Obama takes NC by double-digits and pulls away from Hillary at least on the delegate count. Hilla takes Obama by potentially the same margin in Indiana, although the media seems reluctant to call the race with 35% of the vote in. A couple of things leap out: Rush’s […]

For the past couple of weeks, I’ve watched the McCain Misdirection America Tour take flight and have been really frustrated that neither of our “dream” candidates have taken the obvious opportunity to define McCain before he gets up and running. After all, this guy is as much bait and switch as Bush’s compassionate conservative […]

I just read the interview with Keith Olberman that occurred just before the Pennsylvania primary. Hillary’s attack ad tells us she is the one who should answer the phone at three in the morning. But she has very different memories of going to Tuzla than every one else there. There was no […]

Headline this morning: “AP-Yahoo poll shows McCain winning back unhappy Republicans.” It’s a juicy headline that doesn’t accurately describe the story it’s attached to, which is largely about the way McCain is attracting swing voters and disgruntled Democrats. But if the Repug base is starting to feel better about McCain, the only surprise is that […]

In Brazil for a couple of weeks, a nation where religion does not infiltrate retail politics. I am watching CNN, where Hillary is getting the Torquemada treatment from a crew of media trained whitebread fundamentalist Christian cuthroats. An event billed as the Compassion Forum… While I am no fan of the former co-president Mrs. Clinton, […]

Given that the Republican Party intended to exploit 9/11 to reelect Bush in 2004, it made perverse sense for them to hold their national convention as close to September 11 as they could, and in New York City at that. No convention had ever been held so late—from their beginnings in the 19th century, the […]

Once we had a President who told us that, “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” Now we have one campaign that echoes that message of hope, while the other plays on our fears, trying to persuade us that we need an all-powerful Mommy to take care of us.
The sad thing […]

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 wanted to let the Jeremiah Wright issue ferment for a while before posting on it and on the campaign again (Sorry Groom, the coming global depression is going to be big news tomorrow ushered in by the fire sale of Bear Stearns to JP Morgan for (gasp!) $2/share. But it’s too, well, depressing.) […]

Keith Olbermann in his inimitable style let it fly regarding the Clinton campaign. And as a (former) Clinton supporter, I share his outrage and can’t disagree with a word he said. For those who have read my posts over the years, one of the common threads is my absolute contempt for the Democratic […]