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Friday, August 22
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Relax everybody, former Senator Sam Nunn will not be Senator Barack Obama's running mate. He is scheduled to be out of the country through Monday and Obama is scheduled to appear with his chosen running mate in Springfield, Illinois on... Read...
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Saturday, August 16
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The Republicans will converge on Minneapolis barely a breath and a half after Barack Obama's stadium acceptance speech in Denver. But the event beginning on September 1 will probably -and sadly- be predictable. As with the Democrats, the Republican...
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Wednesday, August 13
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The Democratic National Convention will convene in Denver on August 25th to nominate Barack Obama as their presidential standard-bearer in the fall election. However, the concept of standard-bearer has morphed, in reality, to be the opposite. In...
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Monday, August 11
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"I cannot imagine America electing a president during a time of war who is not at his center fundamentally American in his thinking and in his values." What the fuck? This is an email from Mark Penn, Hillary Clinton's chief... Read...
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Friday, July 04
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Regarding the timely announcement that Florida Governor Charlie Crist (R) is getting married, Andrew Sullivan gets it right. I, too, am a Crist fan on many issues (not on his waffling on the marriage amendment ballot measure). I have no... Read...
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Tuesday, July 01
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Two articles I read while flying back and forth to my grandma’s 90th birthday party in Michigan bolster my gut feeling that McCain might be strongly considering a woman as his veep. First, in Condé Nast Portfolio, ousted Hewlett-Packard CEO... Read...
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Friday, June 20
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It seems like left-leaning readers of this blog love to comment up a storm, while the right-leaning ones tend to send emails. I've gotten more than a few lately about whether it's time for me to attack the mother ship... Read more...
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Sunday, June 15
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Today’s “Meet the Press” was devoted to remembering Tim Russert, NBC’s Washington Bureau Chief and host of the show since 1991, who died Friday. Over the years, one of Tim’s favorite questions was to ask aspiring politicians who came on... Read...
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Saturday, June 14
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As I've noted before, voters, including myself, tend to vote their values over their economic interests. It takes really bad times to break this pattern. In order to ascertain that the Democrats wrestle control of the White House from the.....
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Thursday, May 08
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The festering Clinton boil is finally being lanced within the Democratic Party, at least for this election cycle. It's a tremendous bit of luck not only for the party -- despite its idiotic blindness to this fact. It's a relief... Read more...
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Tuesday, May 06
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I'm behind the curve commenting on the recent decision by our blinded-by-the-Beltway friends at the Human Rights Campaign not to endorse any candidate in the North Carolina Democratic Senate primary. Controversial endorsement calls have actually...
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Friday, May 02
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Does America get its great presidents because the voters have a good eye for choosing those who eventually become great? Or do we get great presidents because the well-oiled machines in our political parties offer up great candidates who then.....
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